A man claiming to be one of Floyd Mayweather's bodyguards was shot outside of an upscale hotel in Atlanta Monday morning ... the Atlanta Police Dept. tells TMZ Sports.
Unclear if Floyd was with the man at the time of the shooting.
Cops tell us ... it all went down at 3 AM on Monday morning outside of the InterContinental hotel in Buckhead.
We're told three vehicles were returning from the hotel from a nearby nightclub.
Cops says, "Another vehicle pulled up beside them at the intersection of Peachtree Road and Highland Drive and fired several times at one of the vehicles.