Jeff Mayweather talks about his split with Floyd Jr.

29/04/2008

Jeff Mayweather talks about his split with Floyd Jr.

Press Release: Jeff Mayweather, who is training Steve Forbes for his big fight against Oscar De La Hoya this weekend, had this to say about his fractured relationship with his nephew, Floyd Mayweather, Jr.: "I have a good relationship with both of my brothers [Roger and Floyd Sr.], but my nephew – It's one of those situations where at some point in time either him or myself will have to make a decision on being the bigger person and squashing all that happened in the past and just let it be and let it go. But actually, I have no problem with him either. And it's just a situation that happened a long time ago when there was the rival with James Prince at that point in time. It was me and Floyd, my older brother, and we both were working with his son and all of the sudden he just – I was doing all of the things that a manager does,  getting all of the contacts and doing all of the things that needed to be done,  with Top Rank and everything.  And for some reason he got a manager, and I never even knew this guy.  It just came out of nowhere. And it was kind of like, to me, a slap in the face and I felt like there was no need for me to be there. I was basically doing the things that a manager does, even though I wasn't making the manager's fee. But I love him doing these things, and plus I want to see the best for you. Once he brought in James Prince there was no need for me to be there.  And I'm one of those people that, once I know that I'm not needed or not wanted I'm not going to stay around and belittle myself and try to hang around to try to get a handout or whatever the case may be. And I already knew my nephew, I know him and know that that he's never going to be man enough to come out and say that he didn't want me there, but his actions showed that he didn't want me there, so I left."