Money : the life and fast times of Floyd Mayweather
Dixon, Tris, 1979-2017
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Floyd 'Money' Mayweather is one of the most successful professional boxers of all time, with 50 professional victories in a glittering unbeaten ring career that has spanned two decades. Mayweather was born into a boxing family that was barely surviving on the poverty line. His father had enjoyed a modestly successful career in the ring but had to make ends meet on the street. When a rival drug dealer arrived at the house and threatened to shoot him, Floyd Mayweather, Sr. picked up his son and used him as a human shield. Such were the ashes from which Floyd was to rise. This is the remarkable story of Floyd Mayweather's ascent from these bleak origins to become the highest-paid sportsman on the planet. It is a story of greed, arrogance, abuse, extraordinary boxing ability and unrivalled ambition.
Main title:
Money : the life and fast times of Floyd Mayweather / Tris Dixon.
Author:
Dixon, Tris, 1979-, author
Edition:
Revised and updated edition.
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Arena Sport, 2017.
Collation:
vii, 439 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: 2015.
ISBN:
9781909715578 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
796.83092796.83 DIXO
Language:
English
BRN:
1881265
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