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35 year old Floyd Mayweather interviewed with Bob Costas on NBC. The 46-0 boxer appeared to make an effort to choose his words carefully. But somehow he still ended up admitting that he feared getting hurt in a fight with Pacquiao. But the most interesting thing about this interview is the way Floyd speaks about his father. He says Mayweather Sr. is jealous of him because he is everything he wanted to be.. Floyd even goes to the point to say his dad mistreated his mom and his mom was nothing but kind to him..
Now I will be honest like I always am and tell you that I don’t watch much sports, but I attended a good majority of Floyd’s bouts.. From my perspective Floyd is solidly making a wise decision because at the end of the day it’s all about winning.. When everything is done and over with it’s about winning or losing and how much money you have in the bank..
Muhammad Ali was a great fighter. He is held in the highest regard. BUT true to what Floyd stated Ali is without his health and would definitely give all the money back in exchange.. So after reading this article on Boxing Insider I’m not understanding how the writer can dare call Floyd a coward just because he is not doing what he wants him to do.. You know they say pressure will burst a pipe. But Floyd is refusing to burst by falling under such pressure.
Boxing Insider Had This To say:
Now the truth has finally been confirmed by Floyd Mayweather himself: He’s afraid of getting pounded on like a punching bag by Manny Pacquiao.
Mayweather admitted this to Bob Costas in an NBC show interview about why he doesn’t want to fight Pacquiao. “I am in the game to win, not just inside the ring, but outside the ring,” stated Mayweather. “My health is more important than anything.”
Costas then countered with, “Are you implying there is something to fear in Manny Pacquiao?”
Floyd: “I don’t fear no one. If you’re insinuating that I’m a scared fighter, why would you want to watch a scared fighter?”
Earlier in the interview, Mayweather mentioned Muhammad Ali’s health. “With or without Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather is okay. Floyd Mayweather fights for Floyd Mayweather. At the end of the day, Floyd Mayweather has to be happy and comfortable…Look at the Ali situation. Fans pushed him to get into fights at the end of his career that he didn’t want to get in…If Ali could trade it all in for his health, he would.”
(Note: Let me correct Floyd. Ali was not forced by fans to get in the ring with Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes or Trevor Berbick. Money, pride and a fearless belief in his skills were the motivation for Ali to take those fights.)
Floyd also said: “One shot can end your whole career. Boxing is a very deadly sport.”
Costas said Floyd has to fight Pacquiao, to see who is the best, to give the fans what they want and to pump up the sport with a much-needed big, exciting, Super Bowl event: “I come first. Self preservation. I gotta worry about my family. If the fight don’t happen, so be it.”
There you go: “Self preservation.” So the reasons Mayweather gave us for two years of ducking and dodging Pacquiao – drug tests, fake retirements, Manny has to leave Arum and be his own boss, no 50-50 split, he doesn’t need Manny, it’s all Bob Arum’s fault, etc. – were indeed mere smokescreens, bluffs and lies. Cleverly but dishonestly used to cover up the real secret truth – Mayweather fears for his health because he knows Pacquiao would simply beat the hell out of him.
Mayweather knows his skills that pay the bills wouldn’t work against Manny Pacquiao.
This surprising admission by Mayweather now puts heavy pressure on HBO. The sport of boxing is supposed to be about the best gladiators testing their courage and talents against the best of the best. Now HBO must fully recognize, if they paid attention to what Floyd Mayweather told NBC’s Bob Costas, that Floyd Mayweather is a manufactured fraud, a coward who is unworthy of being marketed and promoted as a premium sports attraction. Mayweather is a pretender who would be better suited for the world of professional wrestling.
It would be counterproductive for the most powerful television network in American boxing to promote and market, with maximum resources, a cowardly fraud who doesn’t care about the sport or it’s fans, only about perserving his own career with safe, low-risk, set up opponents.
“I’m in a great position, a very lucrative position,” Mayweather told Costas, who was pressuring him to accept the 50-50 split with Pacquiao. “I’m NOT giving up the split. I can’t. I can’t afford to.”
Of course he can’t and won’t. Mayweather and his advisor Al Haymon manipulate HBO and the public like subordinates. With HBO’s promotional machine at their beck and call, Mayweather and Haymon think they can keep on going for as long as they wish, making easy money safe “fights” via their stooges at HBO and most of the American media.
Don’t forget, Mayweather already told us that he doesn’t love boxing anymore like he used to because “it’s not real anymore.”
With that in mind, can we really expect Mayweather vs. Cotto to be fought at full intensity on May 5, since Mayweather said his “self preservation” is top priority? If Mayweather is, as he says, so concerned about his health, which is “more important than anything”, how do we know for sure he and Cotto won’t make one of those Teddy Atlas silent agreements? Like Floyd told us at Fight hype, “Boxing isn’t real anymore.”
I mean, how much longer can this great deception be allowed to contaminate the sport of boxing?
And you have to wonder if, after this Mayweather revelation to Costas, the powers that be at HBO continue to permit Mayweather’s advisor Al Haymon to use and manipulate the network like his own personal broadcasting service, like he has done for the last five years with Mayweather, Broner, Arreola, Williams, Jacobs, Berto, Mitchell, etc. How many more super fights will be canceled because one fighter and his advisor fear coming out on the loser’s end, which would destroy their “great position” and leverage?
I’m curious as to what you make of the interview. Does this interview put pressure on HBO? Is Mayweather being a coward?
Via: Boxing Insider
42 Comments
OPEN DISCUSSION: Is FLOYD MAYWEATHER a WISE MAN or a COWARD?
Mayweather knows… his ass is going to be handed to him he uses money to shield himself and that stupid drug test to give to pacman
He is an asshole
He's a coward!!! That's why UFC is getting all the money now!!! And the way he blowing his money, he should take that fight quick!! But he scurd!!!
He said the same things before any of the Pacquiao bandwagoneers ever heard of him though. He has always said this. Boxing fans are dumb as hell I swear. Pacquiao couldn't hit and hurt Marquez, he hasn't beat Marquez, he's been given two of those fights. If he can't hit and hurt him how will he hurt the bigger, stronger, faster guy. Dumb ass boxing fans will disagree.
he wins
He's a wise coward.
My money is on Pacquiao.
For these dummies who believe Pacquiao would win, explain to us this, once Mayweather neutralizes his aggression, what is he going to do to win, because he can't box lol
Wow.. I did not realize that Floyd was the highest paid ATHLETE PERIOD.
Highest paid? Wow!
Pacquiao needs the money though, Arum took all his money from him lol
ok pac man fans yall call money a coward or a punk for not calling out manny but i havent heard from pac that he wanted to fight floyd. yall do know that floyd tried to get the fight done, even callling pacman direct via phone. and pac said no. then his promoter bob arum statrs some shit saying that 45 million isnt enough he wants 50-50 split. the reason why the fight hasnt happened because of bob arum. thats why floyd left him.
The UFC and MMA is taken over… its the next step in evolution…. in fighting and the last fight is needed to close boxing history his duckme scared may weather and pac man…
when it comes to them fighting. pacquiao has no defense. he is pure offense. and all mayweather will do like he always does his let them punch themselves out and counter punch. something that juan manuel marquez did to pacquiao and he is slower than mayweather. and money beat the shit out of maunel marquez
Pacquiao isn't getting a 50-50 split, the same way Floyd didn't get one when he fought Oscar, the same way no one did when they fought Sugar Ray. Boxing fans are crazy. Pacquiao doesn't deserve a 50-50 split and he knows it. If he was that type of draw u would hear the buzz about him and Tim Bradley. They built Pacquiao's name up off of Floyd's. Pacquiao didn't want to fight Cotto at his natural weight because he wouldn't have an advantage. He got his ass kicked back in November by a dude Mayweather figured out in 2rounds, this dummy has been in the ring with him 36rounds and still can't figure him out. Lol
Pacquiao got knocked out twice by two dudes who were cleaning toilets the week before they fought him lmao he's a dumb boxer that doesn't know how to move when a counter punch is coming. He should have 6 losses on his record. He can't box, he just throws punches. That's why he fights the same types of dudes.
Floyd is not only a boxer he owns his own promotional company so he fights when he wants. Some call it smart some call it scared He never fights boxers in their prime. Pac man had the right combination of power and speed to compete but I guess floyd didn't want to take the risk
That's a lie that he's never fought boxers in their prime. Shane ran and ducked him from 99-2006, Arum wouldn't do business with Oscar so they didn't fight until Mayweather left him, Arum wouldn't let Floyd and Cotto fight, as soon as Cotto left Arum the fight got made. Kostya Tszyu had too many health issues so they never got to fight. He was the first to beat Diego Corrales, the first to figure out Ricky Hatton who Pacquiao and everyone else ducked. He was the only other man to beat Genaro Hernandez, he stopped Carlos Hernandez with two broken hands, he beat Philip Ndou who was knocking everyone out. I could go on. what was Pac doing back then, ummm getting knocked out by no names, fighting no names and losing to a washed up Erik Morales because he can't box. As of late he's used the tactic of weight draining fighters and if you won't do that, he won't fight you. He couldn't handle Marquez stop it with the nonsense in believing that his power and speed is a match for Floyd's. Freddie Roach is telling you folks that he can't handle Floyd each time he says that Manny has to get ready for him when he doesn't look impressive against a guy, yet before those fights they claim he could beat Floyd. Folks are so silly they believe anything lmao He's too easy to hit for one and he's too dumb to figure out how to counter punch. Before the Marquez fight on 24/7 they asked him what to do when Marquez counters and he didn't even know how to move his feet despite Max Kellerman showing him how hahahaha
If the bitch scared he need to go to church
Mayweather is wack and disrespectful…
G Dot Williams where was this speed and power against marquez ? becuase marquez( a 38 year old lightweight) gave pacquiao a boxing lesson
Levon Wilson lol explain how pacquiao going to beat mayweather ?
He can't.
Tywon Harzeez exactly, its obvious to real boxing fans that pacquiao is tailor made for mayweather. people call mayweather a coward but fail to realise pacquiao was the one afraid to take a simple test, they also fail to realise since negotiations in 2010 mayweather has taken on the tougher fights.
I can name 5 fighters Pacquiao ran from that are good counter punchers and defensive fighters. These new Pac fans wouldn't have a clue and would dispute it.
Tywon Harzeez most of pactards and floyd haters havent had to guts to step in the ring. no pacquiao fan has been able to give me strategic breakdown of how pacquiao would beat floyd
They can't.
he's a wise man & a coward.. Wise enough to duck pac, & a coward to make bottomless excuses for him not to get beaten inside the ring… Floyd is just promoting boxing WWE style…
Man boxing fans are stupid lmao
Why is it that no one can answer me this simple question. Once Mayweather neutralizes Pacquiao's aggression what is he going to do to win? He can't box lol
your pathetic. What happens if you remove mayweathers hands? what’s he going to do to win? the whole reason people believe pacquiao will win is because we assume mayweather will have a hard time neutralizing 12 rounds of constant aggression.
some people just not smart enough to be scared so good for him
David Smith Did you hear the part where the pay-per-view cash could be 150 mill for the fighters? UFC's getting "all the money?" Nah
hes a wise man and if people cant understand whats hes implying then maybe they shouldnt be following floyd mayweather
OPEN DISCUSSION: Is FLOYD MAYWEATHER a WISE MAN or a COWARD?
why is the question always directed at floyd about being scared pac should be asked why he scared to fight floyd pac punk a** need to give him the test then its go time. hate floyd all you want his record do alot of talking for him UNDEFEATED….
ok, his health comes first, but this is simply admission that he is a coward.
gayweather will always be the undisputed coward…. making lots of excuses to avoid pacquiao…
He didn't avoid an undefeated Diego Corrales. He didn't avoid an undefeated Ricky Hatton. He didn't avoid Jose Luis Castillo 10 years ago. He didn't avoid Arturo Gatti, Oscar De La Hoya, Zab Judah, Juan Manuel Marquez, Shane Mosley, or Victor Ortiz. I agree he's being childish with this Manny garbage he's pulling, but I think "coward" is the wrong word to use.
What he was saying was that to risk taking a fight against a fighter he knows is going to hit him a bunch of times, he wants to get paid more than ever before because it would be his biggest challenge. But don't make it out like Floyd is a coward. He's fighting Miguel Cotto! Miguel Cotto is going to pop him hard many times also. Don't just overlook Cotto. Cotto is one of the best fights out there. People ripping Floyd are acting like Cotto is nothing. Cotto is one tough son of a gun.
If you take everything into consideration then you would understand why Floyd is standing his ground on not accepting the 50-50 split. Floyd has proven to be the best pound for pound fighter in our time. Floyd has proven to be the moneymaker he claims to be by the dollars he has made. He has fought the best many times and proved his defense is near perfect. One must understand the concepts of marketing oneself to truly understand his motives. If he fights Pacquio their fight will be the biggest fight in 50 years. He feels he has earned the right to demand what he wants, and he should be able to! Call him a coward all you want but understand that Floyd has never looked like a coward in the ring and that’s why he is paid what he is paid. He just wants his fair shake for giving boxing what it needed all these years. Probably being his last fight of his illustrious career, Floyd would be a bad businessman if he didn’t demand the money he deserves. If Manny wanted the fight then he would allow the split that Floyd has asked for since it would be the most money Manny has ever made. Floyd’s PPV numbers prove themselves and he would be a stupid businessman to not make a deal that would pay him what he’s worth and if he lost and didn’t earn the mony he desired then he would look at himself as a failure on more than just one level. Coward Floyd is not. Just a smart businessman!