Mayweather: dysfunctional family life gives me motivation

FLOYD MAYWEATHER says his desire to rise out of the wreckage of a dysfunctional family life has given him the extra hunger required to continue to reign as the greatest boxer in the world.

Behind all his trash-talking tirades and the expletive-ridden rants of his uncle and trainer, Roger, there is a warmer side to Mayweather which suggests his status as boxing’s bad boy is largely promotional pantomime.

But as he happily holds court at length with the world’s media, he leaves little room for doubt that he is still deeply affected by an upbringing which involved a drug addict mother and a father jailed for five years for narcotics offences.