Ringnews24.com: How did you get into boxing and at what age?
Jeff Mayweather: I started boxing because I was my brother Roger’s shadow so whatever he would do I would follow so at the tender age of 10 I followed him into a boxing gym.
Ringnews24.com: What was your amateur background and record?
Jeff Mayweather: 42-5.
Ringnews24.com: Which fighters were been the biggest influence on your career?
Jeff Mayweather: My two older brothers Floyd Sr and Roger because they were the only fighters I looked up too because I was always around them both.
Ringnews24.com: As a professional you fought a lot of great boxers, who would you say was the toughest guy you fought?
Jeff Mayweather: The toughest guy I fought in terms of namesake and accomplishments was Oscar Dela Hoya but my actual toughest fight in terms of me being a little swollen up and had some wounds from the fight was against a guy named Jesus Rodriguez he was an undefeated Mexican champion.
Ringnews24.com: Did you ever enter the ring badly prepared or as a late substitute and against Who?
Jeff Mayweather: Yes against Joey Gamache I took that fight on a two day notice back then it was U.S.A Tuesday Night Fights. My manager knocked on my door on a Sunday – I had just got through making love to my woman at that time and he asked me would if I like to fight Tuesday night against Joey Gamache because the guy that was supposed to fight him got into a bad motorcycle accident. I only asked one question “how much?” he said “$10.000.00”. I said “I’m in”. I lost a decision to him in his hometown, did pretty well in the fight – Considering.
Ringnews24.com: Who trained you during your professional career and how much of an influence did they have on how you train fighters today?
Jeff Mayweather: Miguel Diaz for most of my career. Occasionally my brothers Roger and Floyd and near the end of my career Tyrone Boone. Well, with Miguel he taught me to respect a fighter. Floyd and Roger influenced my style of training. Tyrone taught me confidence belief and class
and that you don’t have to speak loud to make yourself heard – but show and prove and people will find and seek you out.
Ringnews24.com: As a trainer, what side of a fighter’s game do you prefer to concentrate on?
Jeff Mayweather: I consider myself a defensive specialist and mostly because I’m concerned about my fighters welfare and I don’t want no one getting hurt on my watch so I give my fighter every ounce of knowledge I have on defending themselves.
Ringnews24.com: Which fighter has been the best to train in terms of their effort and commitment?
Jeff Mayweather: Sultan Ibragimov whom became Heavyweight Champion under my tutor-ledge I took a complete banger and turned him into a master boxer he went on to capture the Title from one of my former fighters Shannon Briggs.
Ringnews24.com: Which other trainers, in the game today, do you rate as the best in the field?
Jeff Mayweather: I don’t rate trainers. I don’t compare myself to anyone else, I know there are a lot of good trainers out there and also a lot of bad ones too but a trainer sometimes is only as good as the commodity he’s working with but I think any trainer that can take a fighter to a World Championship is a damn good trainer but I never rate trainers that’s for the fans to judge or fighters to judge. You never here me proclaim I’m the best at anything that doesn’t mean I don’t believe that I am – That’s just not my thing.
Ringnews24.com: How would a typical day of training, your fighters, pan out?
Jeff Mayweather: Well I like to do a very intense mitt session with my fighters partly fun and also working on technique especially defense fighter start out with either jumping rope or shadow-boxing then mitt-work then bag work, then on to exercise stretching.
Ringnews24.com: What do you see as the next step for the fighters you train?
Jeff Mayweather: Celestino is hoping to a unification bout with the winner of Jhonny Gonzales and Elio Rojas hoping to fight for the W.B.C version of the Featherweight Title.
DeAndre Latimore were hoping to either fight on Mayweather -Cotto undercard or fight the day before it on May 4th either on Showtime or ESPN.
Dewey Cooper – March 31 in North Dakota, Chase Corbin – May 7th in Philly.
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