This touches my heart again God bless you Mr D'Amato you did what God sent you here to do help young black men be somebody again God bless you rest in peace

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Floyd loved his own father very much and he would never have said things like that. He had only one mentor in his life and it was God, not another human being. You need to give credit to Miss Vivian Costen and Mr. Frank Lavelle before Cus D'Amato. He had 4 biological daughters, 2 biological sons and 2 adopted sons. Seneca, Trina, Floyd Jr, Eric, Janene, Jeniffer, Tracy and the other one. Floyd and Mike never had such conversation between them. Floyd fought Tommy Jackson twice and he stopped Tommy in his first title defense. He stopped Jimmy Slade too. These two were very good friends to Floyd and they never spoke to him again after the fights and that hurt him. Tommy had a fatal car accident on his job in 1982 and Floyd was the first one to went to see him in hospital. They were finally friends again and soon after Tommy passed away. Floyd never took one single day off for himself after he retired from boxing. He visited psycho wards and nursing homes as often as he could just to be with them because they had nobody for them. There are so many people suffering in this world at this very moment and who am I to lay back and take vacations? Floyd used to say. That was the kind of person he was.

Cus was only Floyd's manager, never a trainer. It was a man named by Frank Lavelle who trained him. Frank was the only man who trained/taught about boxing. Frank was a good fighter himself and he believed in bobbin and weaving. That became the basic of Floyd's fighting style. Frank used to make Floyd touch him own ear tabs by his thumbs to make sure his hands were always in place to protect his head from punches he couldn't slip. It looked like he was playing peekaboo. It was the birth of his famous peekaboo style. Cus had nothing to do with it. Cus was inspired by Maxie Rosenbloom's style and stuff were all made up BS to make up a storty. Cus doubble crossed Frank since they never had any contract wrirten and fired him. Floyd self thought himself and trained himself ever since. Floyd fired Cus the same way Cus fired Frank. The person who gave Floyd confidence and taught him to believe in himself was a teacher at his reform school at Wiltwyck NY. Her name was Miss Vivian something. Floyd was not the youngest child of 11. He had 2 older brothers before him and I think he had 2 older sisters, but that makes him 5th child of 12. 12 siblings, not 11. You need to research much carefully than this. You check out Floyd's early fighting films and you see Floyd's hands weren't very high. It came higher and higher a little by a little as years went by. The Peekaboo was the result of the many years of Floyd's own experience in the ring and the very hard work between Floyd and Frank. I was with Floyd for 25 years and I was taught and trained by him. No one knows him like I do. If you want to hear me more,then read my comments here. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gKxdaJCgvdjJfaM.html

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