30 little-known facts about Floyd Mayweather Jr.

22. Mayweather finally ended a bitter feud with his father in 2013

Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s relationship with his father hit a new low during the buildup to his fight against Victor Ortiz. The above clip from HBO’s 24/7 series includes narration about how a combatant nature is the norm and “hostility is expected” in the Mayweather family and at their gym. But while the Mayweather clan has always thrived, to a certain extent, in a volatile environment, Junior and Senior took it to whole new level in 2011.

In the clip, both Junior and Senior threaten violence, and Floyd loudly discredits his father’s credentials as a fighter and trainer. Toward the end of the video, Mayweather Jr.’s cohort of Money Team members gaze at him with a mixture of shock and awe after uncle Roger finally defused the situation, following Floyd Sr. being escorted out of the gym.

A 2015 piece in the Las Vegas Sun detailed the nature of Junior and Senior’s reconciliation and their renewed boxing partnership, which resumed when Floyd Sr. worked his son’s corner for his 2013 bout against Robert Guerrero:

"Only in a relationship this notoriously fragmented could the force that ultimately brought father and son together be one that initially tore them apart — jail sentences. Mayweather Jr. decided to reconcile with Mayweather Sr. while serving two months in the Clark County Detention Center in 2012 for a domestic violence misdemeanor when reflection left him upset that his children had no relationship with their grandfather."

Floyd Mayweather Jr. seems to have found at least a modicum of stability with his father. What’s remarkable, however, is that even the lowest points of Mayweather’s personal life — and there have been some dark chasms — haven’t affected his in-ring performances in the slightest.