A bodyguard for the US boxer, Floyd Mayweather Jr, has been wounded after a gunman opened fire on the boxer's motorcade in the city of Atlanta.

Gregory La Rosa was shot in the leg but released from hospital three hours later, police said.

Mayweather was believed to be in a separate vehicle and was unharmed.

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