Money : the life and fast times of Floyd Mayweather / Tris Dixon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dixon, Tris, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayweather, Floyd, 1977-.

Mayweather, Floyd.

Boxers (Sports)--United States--Biography.

Boxers (Sports).

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Arena Sport, 2015.

Summary:

Floyd Mayweather Jr's father was a boxer, as were his two uncles. His dad also dealt drugs and one day brought his work home with him, when he used his son as a human shield to stop a rival dealer from shooting him. The gunman instead shot his father in the leg, curtailing his own ring career. Floyd Mayweather Jr has never married, has four children by two women, and is a habitual gambler, known to win and lose millions on a single half of US football or basketball. He is obsessed with money, almost as obsessed as he is about protecting his unbeaten record and his staggering aim to go 50 professional bouts without defeat, a goal that he intends to achieve in late 2015, just shy of his 40th birthday. Tris Dixon explores his extraordinary life story in this searing, insightful and often brutal expose of one of the greatest athletes the world has ever seen.

Contents:

1 Human Shield 5

2 Dreams and Nightmare Decisions 19

3 Investing Stock 41

4 Angels and Demons 67

5 Slave 91

6 Battered Women, Battered Men 109

7 Winners and Losers 133

8 Blood, Guts and the $600,000 Skirmish 159

9 Good Versus Bad 191

10 Dancing with the Hitman 207

11 The Money Era 223

12 Imprisoned 241

13 Deals, Domestics and The One 259

14 Pacquiao 279

15 For the Record 299.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781909715356

1909715271

9781909715271

1909715352

OCLC:

940513675

Publisher Number:

99972003983