Floyd Joy Mayweather Research Paper

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We assigned this site to Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. beacuse we look up to him , hes the best fighter in the world. We want to give you some more information about this legendary boxer heres a little bit of his background story: Floyd was born in Grand Raoids, Michigan on 24 February 1977 in to a family of boxers
(He started boxing because of his dad.)

His full name is Floyd Joy Maywheather Jr.
Nick name: Pretty boy

It was common for the young mayweather to come home from school and find used herion needels in his front yard.
His mother was addicted to drugs , and he had an aunt who died from AIDS because of her drug use.

He won a lot of prices e.g. three times The Golden Gloves and a bronze medal in the feathingweight

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