Thursday, September 17, 2009

Actually, Floyd, I look at you as a putz


Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn’t like that journalists have reported on a few of the alleged “whoopsies” in his life. Such as:

* His being sued for $167,000 unpaid on a loan for a half-million dollar luxury car.

* His owing the IRS $6.17 million in unpaid taxes.

* The seizing of handguns, ammunition and bulletproof vests from his home — along with two cars — in the investigation of a Las Vegas, Nev., shooting.

Mayweather has a theory on his press coverage:

In America, he said, “If you're rich, you're a rich [n-word]," he said. "If you're poor, you're a poor [n-word]. If you're smart, you're a smart [n-word]. At the end of the day, they still look at me as a [n-word]."

Mayweather went on:

"The fans in the UK showed me more love than in my own country. That's crazy ... Sometimes I'll sit back, I'll be in my theater sometimes, and I'll think: 'Imagine if I was the same fighter that I am, and I was the same person that I am, and I was from another country. Can you just imagine how big I'd be?'"

Yeah, I have funny thoughts when I’m sitting in my theater, too.

Floyd, there are 194 other nations in the world, and 131 of them have never had a world boxing champion in any division — Burkina Faso, Myanmar and Slovenia, just to name three. You could be big, soooo big.

The airport is that-a-way.

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