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Money: The Life and Fast Times of Floyd Mayweather
This edition is fully updated to include Mayweather's battle with UFC star Conor McGregor.
Floyd 'Money' Mayweather is one of the most successful professional boxers of all time, with fifty 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. In Money, Tris Dixon explores it all in a searing, insightful and often brutal exposé of one of the greatest athletes the world has ever seen.
Floyd 'Money' Mayweather is one of the most successful professional boxers of all time, with fifty 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. In Money, Tris Dixon explores it all in a searing, insightful and often brutal exposé of one of the greatest athletes the world has ever seen.
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First published November 19, 2015
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May 8, 2017
It's too early for the definitive biography of the world-champion boxer Floyd Mayweather Junior to be written. He's only forty years old, and for all anyone knows. he has only reached the midpoint of his life. Boxing is filled with tragic stories (Carlos Monzon, Arturo Gatti) and peppered with successes and redemptive second acts (George Foreman). We'll have to wait and see how things shake out for Floyd.
Having said that, Tris Dixon does an able job of laying the groundwork for whoever comes after him to finish telling the story he has started telling here. Dixon didn't have unprecedented access to Mayweather, but he has done his homework, he understands the sport of boxing, and his writing is crisp and effective (his previous offering "The Road to Nowhere" is a brilliant travelogue into the lives of boxing's forgotten fighters and to the heart of the sport's darkest corners, so I already had some familiarity with him).
In "Money" Dixon uses interviews, quotes articles, and provides his own color commentary on the key fights in Mayweather's life to create an immensely readable book about the highest-paid athlete in the sport, a man worshiped for his boxing skills, and reviled for the uglier elements of his personal life, as well as the heel personality he has cultivated over the years to make himself a bankable commodity to both lovers and haters.
Dixon is fair to his subject, though those who despise Mayweather or count themselves among the legions of his die-hard fans will complain the author is being unfair, that he either used kid gloves when handling his superstar subject or that he dragged "Money's" name through the mud in order to cash in on controversy surrounding the boxer.
Putting aside the aggrieved partisans, though, the book is the first, serious book-length look at a man who, love him or hate him, dominated boxing for a decade and left the sport with his wits and his earnings to show for it, which not a lot of fighters can say. All of the contradictions are addressed in the book, the kindness and cruelty, the generous streak and the stories of burning Benjamins in the strip club. The heady family drama is also tackled head-on, starting with Floyd Mayweather Sr. using his son as a human shield to protect himself from bullets, and ending with Jr.'s uncle staggering down the Vegas Strip barely knowing his own name, after absorbing a lifetime of blows in the ring. Recommended.
Having said that, Tris Dixon does an able job of laying the groundwork for whoever comes after him to finish telling the story he has started telling here. Dixon didn't have unprecedented access to Mayweather, but he has done his homework, he understands the sport of boxing, and his writing is crisp and effective (his previous offering "The Road to Nowhere" is a brilliant travelogue into the lives of boxing's forgotten fighters and to the heart of the sport's darkest corners, so I already had some familiarity with him).
In "Money" Dixon uses interviews, quotes articles, and provides his own color commentary on the key fights in Mayweather's life to create an immensely readable book about the highest-paid athlete in the sport, a man worshiped for his boxing skills, and reviled for the uglier elements of his personal life, as well as the heel personality he has cultivated over the years to make himself a bankable commodity to both lovers and haters.
Dixon is fair to his subject, though those who despise Mayweather or count themselves among the legions of his die-hard fans will complain the author is being unfair, that he either used kid gloves when handling his superstar subject or that he dragged "Money's" name through the mud in order to cash in on controversy surrounding the boxer.
Putting aside the aggrieved partisans, though, the book is the first, serious book-length look at a man who, love him or hate him, dominated boxing for a decade and left the sport with his wits and his earnings to show for it, which not a lot of fighters can say. All of the contradictions are addressed in the book, the kindness and cruelty, the generous streak and the stories of burning Benjamins in the strip club. The heady family drama is also tackled head-on, starting with Floyd Mayweather Sr. using his son as a human shield to protect himself from bullets, and ending with Jr.'s uncle staggering down the Vegas Strip barely knowing his own name, after absorbing a lifetime of blows in the ring. Recommended.
October 31, 2020
I’ve been wanting to read about Floyd Mayweather for some time and so finally got this book. It had the added bonus of also covering the Mayweather-McGregor fight which was pretty cool.
The book read more as a verbal documentary about Mayweather’s life and fights. It got in to as much of his life as could be read about from stories and various interviews. It went over most of the fights in ok detail and included stories about the allegations of spousal abuse and other crimes he is alleged to have committed and ended up doing time for. There are also good blurbs about the fighters he fought, showcasing their past, present and where they are now.
I was hoping it might get more in to the business side of his empire and it did. Basically he wasn’t much of a draw despite his record until fighting the Golden Boy de la Hoya. After that it takes off for him. It doesn’t reveal too much of any of the business interests he has or the inner workings of it. Still, it’s not too bad.
If you are a fan of boxing and want to know more about Mayweather I definitely recommend this book. Overall very good!
The book read more as a verbal documentary about Mayweather’s life and fights. It got in to as much of his life as could be read about from stories and various interviews. It went over most of the fights in ok detail and included stories about the allegations of spousal abuse and other crimes he is alleged to have committed and ended up doing time for. There are also good blurbs about the fighters he fought, showcasing their past, present and where they are now.
I was hoping it might get more in to the business side of his empire and it did. Basically he wasn’t much of a draw despite his record until fighting the Golden Boy de la Hoya. After that it takes off for him. It doesn’t reveal too much of any of the business interests he has or the inner workings of it. Still, it’s not too bad.
If you are a fan of boxing and want to know more about Mayweather I definitely recommend this book. Overall very good!
May 23, 2019
In 1978, Floyd MAyweather Jr. was used as a human sheild when his dad Floyd Mayweather Sr. hoisted him infront of him so he wouldn't get shot from his brother in law. But Floyd Mayweather Jr. turned out to be one of the best boxers to ever live, and a very succesful buissness man.
May 8, 2021
This novel written by Tris Dixon was a very imsigtful book about Floyd Maywether. It talks about his child hood, how he got into boxing, and his carrer. Floyd “Money” Maywether has always been at the top of the boxing game and is the undisputed G.O.A.T of boxing. He is 50-0 and if you want to know some of his controversial or dominant fights that led him to this record you should definantly read this book.
I wanted to read this book because Floyd is having a boxing match in the summer against a youtuber named logan paul. Floyd Maywether is 44 years old now and is 30 pounds lighter and is about 4 inches shorter. I wanted to learn more about him before this fight, and after reading this book I am confident he will win. All the blood, sweat, and grind that Floyd Maywether has put in is way more than what Logan Paul has done. Overall, if you want to learn more about Floyd Maywether I would most definantly reccomend you read this book.
I wanted to read this book because Floyd is having a boxing match in the summer against a youtuber named logan paul. Floyd Maywether is 44 years old now and is 30 pounds lighter and is about 4 inches shorter. I wanted to learn more about him before this fight, and after reading this book I am confident he will win. All the blood, sweat, and grind that Floyd Maywether has put in is way more than what Logan Paul has done. Overall, if you want to learn more about Floyd Maywether I would most definantly reccomend you read this book.
April 7, 2020
Better then expected. Think author really tried to be fair to Floyd. Pleasant surprise
April 23, 2020
jdekked
November 23, 2021
did a pretty good job of talking about his life and backstory
May 21, 2022
Fascinating subject, not a great book. Reads like a 400 page surface level magazine article.
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