Mayweather: dysfunctional family life gives me motivation
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.