Melissa Brim Biography

In the late 1990s, Melissa Brim had a chance encounter with Floyd Mayweather Jr. at the lounge of a Las Vegas casino, a place she was too young to be in. One of her friends had told her that a man with a lot of money wanted to meet her. While she was cautious about his intentions, she decided to meet him after all and gave him her number following a little chat. He had introduced himself as Shaheed, but after a few days, he called her and reintroduced himself as Floyd, a new boxer from Grand Rapids with a 1-0 record. The two began hanging out together and she often watched him train at the gym for hours. She already had a son named Devion Cromwell who was only eight months old at the time. Soon after meeting Floyd, she became pregnant with his child, and gave birth to a daughter named Iyanna Mayweather in 2000. While she had stopped talking to Floyd due to an issue with his former girlfriend Josie Harris, he continued to support his daughter in the following years. Melissa became involved with another man in the meantime, but as that relationship ended, Floyd got in touch with her after five years and apologized for certain unpleasant things he had done. The two again became close friends and began co-parenting their child. He not only bought a house for her, but also gifted her one of his cars. Eventually in 2009, he asked her what she wanted to do and helped her set up her boutique shop in Las Vegas. She joined the names of her two children, Devion and Iyanna, and named it Devanna Love Boutique.