Floyd Mayweather Sr., father and head trainer of Floyd Mayweather Jr., is hoping that his son remains in retirement and makes no attempts at another comeback.
Last month at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Mayweather snapped a two year retirement by stepping back in the ring against UFC superstar Conor McGregor, who was ** his professional debut in boxing. Mayweather had retired back in September of 2015 after dominating Andre Berto over twelve rounds.
It took Mayweather ten rounds to break McGregor down and stop him, raising his record to a perfect 50-0 with 27 knockouts.
The fight was nothing more than a big financial opportunity and it paid off. The event is reportedly tracking to do over 4 million pay-per-view buys and broke the pay-per-view buy record in the UK with well over a million purchases. Mayweather stands to make as much as $300 million when all of the revenue is accounted for.
But there could be other financial opportunities thrown on the table.
Mayweather has retired on more than occasion in the past and returned every time after. This time around Mayweather is 40 years old, and it was obvious against McGregor that he wasn't the same Mayweather - even when compared to the boxer who beat Berto two years ago.
Floyd Sr. is crossing his fingers that his son stays retired.
"I hope so, but I don’t care. He doesn’t have to do anything more anyway to tell you the truth. I hope it’s the last one but you can’t tell a grown man what to do when they get to be grown. He was a kid when I was raising him, but he’s a grown man now and he’s ** his own decision. You have to let them make their own decisions and do it their own way and let it pan out their way," Mayweather Sr. told On The Ropes Boxing Radio.
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