PROFILE-Boxing-Mayweather Sr. looks for poetic victory (Reuters)
By Steve Keating LAS VEGAS, April 30 (Reuters) – When Floyd Mayweather Jr. steps into the ring to face Manny Pacquiao in what has been dubbed the ‘Fight of the Century’, in his corner will be his father Floyd Sr., who once used his young son as a human shield against an angry gunman. It would seem almost certain Mayweather Sr. will never win father of the year honours but with victory on Saturday his son could cement his legacy as one of the greatest fighters of all time with the man who sparked that dream looking on with pride. There have been few such tender family moments in a turbulent Mayweather household, where father and son can share prison experiences as well as successes in the ring. Mayweather Jr. was born into a boxing obsessed family to a drug addict mother and had boxing gloves slipped onto him by his father before he was a year old, setting him on the path to becoming the greatest fighter of his generation.