Floyd Mayweather’s brother Justin Mayweather has parked his profession in a ditch at 7-0 regardless of his undefeated run.
Little-talked-about Justin Jones, who goes by the identify of ‘Justin Mayweather Jones’, is the son of Floyd Mayweather Sr. and half-brother of Floyd Jr.
Jones is certainly one of six identified youngsters fathered by Floyd Sr., together with a child lady born in 2017 to the 72-year-old former boxer.
The others are Fatimah, Detricia, Fannie, and the now eight-year-old, Nalai Mayweather, born to mom Purisa Farris, who efficiently sued Mayweather Sr. for little one help in 2018.
Mayweather Sr. has his palms full, and perhaps the rationale why he stopped coaching Justin, the one different identified son, after Floyd Jr.
The 38-year-old has fought solely seven occasions in 9 years, however arguably by no means misplaced a spherical throughout that point, maintaining the household identify.
Mayweather’s lookalike made his debut in 2013 at dwelling in Grand Rapids and final fought in 2022. Most of his bouts occurred in Mexico, as Jones defeated a bunch of also-ran opponents.
He beat Rick Ogden at tremendous welterweight on his debut on the Fifth Third Ballpark to get his profession off and working. Jones stopped Ogden, 0-2 on the time, within the second spherical. Ogden went on to lose 13 out of 13 bouts, so the preliminary win was nothing to put in writing dwelling about.
Subsequent up got here Albert Lee the third, making his debut towards Jones in 2016. By now, Jones had moved his profession to Mexico following a two-and-a-half-year absence from the ring. Lee lasted solely 128 seconds with Mayweather, who started to extend his exercise.
The actual fact Lee by no means fought once more grew to become one thing of a theme, as six days later, Jones stopped debutant Alfred Tisdale Jr. within the Fresno man’s solely effort.
Jones took one other two years off earlier than returning at welterweight to face 2-5 Luis Gonzalez. Profitable each spherical, Jones moved to 4-0 in August 2018.
By this time, Jones was a Mayweather Health club common and rubbing shoulders with among the high names within the enterprise.
Regardless of the work, it was one other 19 months earlier than Jones received again within the ring in November 2019, once more on Mexican soil. Beating the 3-10, Antonio Gonzalez by way of early knockout led to a different small exercise spurt.

Three months later, a fourth profession first-round stoppage happened as Jones confronted Christian Foster in Jamaica. Like Gonzalez, Tisdale, and Lee, Foster by no means fought once more after Jones defeated him.
One other enormous hole adopted for Jones, who returned in Could 2022 for what has turned out to be his ultimate bout. He received each spherical of 4 towards Luis Acevedo Sosa in Tijuana to push his report to 7-0.
Floyd Mayweather’s brother
Regardless of his identify and apparent expertise, Mayweather Jones by no means went previous six rounds. It’s a thriller why somebody along with his genes wouldn’t check themselves extra to see if that they had a fraction of what his sibling had in his locker.
Mayweather Jr. completed on 50-0 and fought everybody who was anyone throughout his tenure. Floyd Jr. has one of the crucial revered resumes within the sport and banked over a billion {dollars} in purses and contract charges.
For Jones, it may have been a case of being pushed right into a profession he wasn’t proud of just because he’s Floyd Mayweather’s brother, leading to solely seven sporadic fights.
Regardless of the case could also be, Jones hasn’t fought in three years and appears unlikely to be again as he approaches his forties.
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