In a video from Gareth A. Davies over at The Telegraph, he conducts an interview with Floyd Mayweather and it can be seen at the top of this article. A couple of interesting points come from Floyd in this short video. First is the apparent haterade that Floyd has for Amir Khan. Floyd lashes out against Khan's perceived run and hold style. This criticism is somewhat ironic because there are some people who will criticize Floyd for the exact same thing. Floyd says that he saw the fight between Khan and Lamont Peterson and that Khan should have been disqualified in the fight. Say what you will about Floyd's personality, but the man knows the rules inside the ring. This fact was on display when he destroyed Victor Ortiz's face with his fists after Joe Cortez called time in. Floyd having such ire for Amir Khan is a little strange considering most people thought Khan was going to be Mayweather's next opponent. Khan has called out Mayweather several times and it seemed to be a logical fight since Golden Boy promotes Khan.
Floyd moves on to talking quite frankly about "Money" Mayweather. He admits that "Money" Mayweather is just an act that he uses for entertainment purposes. It's not his real personality, which he displays when the cameras are off. When he is not on 24/7 or promoting a fight, he is just Floyd Mayweather. He tries to give back to the community and he seems to be trying to be a decent dude. This is not to say that Floyd is a saint or anything, I mean he is going to jail for a reason, but it is interesting to see Floyd admit to his "Money" personality. Floyd does such an excellent job of playing the heel that it is hard for people to accept the fact that "Money" is an act. However, all good acts are based on a little bit of truth. Do you think Floyd is more of a Good Samaritan or more of his "Money" personality?
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Show me a good man who beats the mother of his children. You can’t. Period.
pakinpower - February 3, 2012
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
Brandon Rico - February 3, 2012
Blah blah blah… but the right way to wrong a right is to do it right there! Right?
cylee1180 - February 3, 2012
Congratulations for understanding what B.R. was trying to say… I still don’t get it.
Apprentice - February 3, 2012
I think he's neither...
No one is really 100% good or 100% evil. No one can really say who Floyd is on a day-to-day basis. Especially no one from this site or any other form of media.
Clove_art - February 3, 2012
Why “especially”? What makes me any less qualified to say who he is on a day-to-day basis than someone who works at Target and doesn’t visit this site?
Scott Christ - February 3, 2012
I didn’t mean that as a shot at this site, but I think it’s foolish to determine who is good or bad? Yeah the guy fucked up, but who hasn’t ? It’s easy to demonize people who are in the public eye when the rest of us regular folk get to live down our own dirt away from TMZ.
Clove_art - February 3, 2012
I was just bullshittin’.
Scott Christ - February 3, 2012
Floyd is notorious for being friends with people who work at Target
erod - February 3, 2012
You’re completely unfair Scott. I’ve been a Maintenance Technician at Target for over 5 years now, and your comment makes me mad.
Brandon Rico - February 3, 2012
BR Troll Comment #2!
cylee1180 - February 3, 2012
Well you visit this site apparently!
Scott Christ - February 3, 2012
@clove art: I agree that May is neither one or the other. Or if anything, maybe his alter ego that he created has become a part of him? Who knows?
cylee1180 - February 3, 2012
I dunno either, but I feel Tyson, by comparison, did a lot more disturbing things than Floyd. And he’s pretty much synomous with George Foreman as of right now. Floyd can do his PR repair in retirement. Maybe there’s something in boxing that brings the worst out of some fighters… Maybe not.
Clove_art - February 3, 2012
How come Mayweather is the only guy you rip for domestic violence?
Mike Tyson
Evander Holyfield
Riddick Bowe
Yuriokis Gamboa
Tito Ortiz
Larry Fitzgerald
James Harrison
Jason Kidd
Shawne Merriman
Francisco Rodriguez
Manny Ramirez
Nicholas Cage
Lou Diamond Phillips
thats just to name a few. Oh, and I cant leave out your buddy Diego “Chico” Corrales. First of all, let me say, RIP. But everytime I hear you talk about Corrales, it is with the utmost respect. You talk about how great the guy was. How much you love him. He’s a warrior. And he’s one of your favorite guys……But do you know that he was also charged with domestic violence? And served time in prison for beating up his PREGNANT girlfriend? Now that was terrible. But I’m not going to hold that to him forever. Everyone makes bad decisions in life. Life isn’t perfect. And I’m sure that he learned from that. But I’ve never heard you criticize him or one guy on this list. But whenever you hear Mayweather’s name you start screaming domestic violence. I mean, just be fair. You seem a little bias.
Zfan - February 3, 2012
and the list of athletes go on and on and on
Vicmatic1 - February 3, 2012
Good point Zfan. You couldn’t have written it any better.
Brandon Rico - February 3, 2012
So the nullifies what Money May has done?
cylee1180 - February 3, 2012
Edwin Valero was a first class woman beater too.
cylee1180 - February 3, 2012
Money may is the most visible, vocal, and one of the most popular athletes in boxing, and this is a boxing website, of COURSE he’ll be scrutinized more than other athletes in the sport for that reason! For every superstar like May or Valero or Corrales that beats their woman, there’s about 100’s of prospects and debuters and all (sadly) that do the same thing. We just know about May’s. It doesn’t excuse the behavior, unless when May does it, though deplorable is “no major sin or crime.”
cylee1180 - February 3, 2012
I didn’t say it nullifies it. What I’m saying is everytime you or Pakin for that matter talk about these other guys on the list or any other person for that matter, who has some kind of past it gets ignored like it never happened. So I’m just trying to figure out why is it only a topic of discussion with Mayweather……. The next time Yuriokis Gamboa fights I want to see how many times his domestic violence is brought up
Zfan - February 3, 2012
But floyd makes outrageous claims, calls out pple, says pple duck him, accuse pple of stuff including PED’s (with no evidence, and something that can smear an athlete’s name), so calling his character into light is VERY relevant b/c pple actually believe his SH*T. You’re right in the moment tho, that it shouldn’t be a big deal in this video b/c what he is saying makes sense and displays his true knowledge of boxing.
cylee1180 - February 3, 2012
At least two of the names on this list don't belong there
All charges were dropped against Yuriorkis Gamboa:
:
— Boxing Scene, June 23, 2011
Similarly, no action was brought against Nicholas Cage:
—New York Daily News, May 6, 2011
Not sure on all the others, no time for further research.
BoxAnne - February 3, 2012
obvious reason? mays legs are slowing and khan has plenty of energy in his .. and so the mind games begin!
I love how boxing is all about opposites.
properdave - February 3, 2012
Probably somewhere inbetween
Of course, that’s just a guess. And everybody is really guessing because nobody knows this man personally.
erod - February 3, 2012
i can agree with that, even when the lights are off, he still holds a chip on his shoulder…
cylee1180 - February 3, 2012
Lol @ the title “Floyd Mayweather Hates On Amir Khan.” Hey Waldo, why don’t you stop “Hating” on Floyd Mayweather
Brandon Rico - February 3, 2012
Yeah I didn’t think there was much hate there. He said Amir Khan needs to quit running and holding so much (true) and that the ref should have been disqualified for it (debatable) but I would hardly call the way he spoke either phrase “lashing out” and it didn’t seem he was filled with much “ire” either.
theninthlayer - February 3, 2012
FMJr said that Khan should have been disqualified, not the referee.
BoxAnne - February 3, 2012
Whoops. Yeah that’s what I meant to say and I don’t know how the ref got in there.
theninthlayer - February 3, 2012
Dude! This was the 3rd non boxing related comment on this thread. You should be Troll of the Month!
cylee1180 - February 3, 2012
He's human like the rest of us
I don’t think he’s the guy we see on TV. He does a lot of things like donating his money. Sure he can be a d!ck at times but so can everyone else.
Frank Lee - February 3, 2012
Yeah, b/c the rest of us ask 5 bodyguards to jump one bodyguard, or try to run over women outside of the club, get caught in drive by shootings, or burn $100’s… he’s “everyman’s man!”
cylee1180 - February 3, 2012
It's so easy to scrutinize...
How about you openly devulge all of your wrong doings that you have done, along with your real name. And not only that, but pretty much re-report those wrong doings in almost every other post here. That would only equal to a fraction of the judgement that Floyd is subject to.
What he’s done isn’t good, but lets get off our high horses, because many of us probably couldn’t handle that kind of judgement, we all have dirt.
Clove_art - February 3, 2012
Buahaha… so now I have to submit to you in a court of Bad-Left-Hook b/c I’m critical of a mainstream athlete as a fan? So if I say Jeff Lacy has a lousy left hook, do I have to post my address, social security number, and a clear HD video of my OWN left hook to have the authority to comment? Oh yeah, and my dating history too?
cylee1180 - February 3, 2012
Totally missed the point.
This topic isn’t about Floyd’s boxing ability. Floyd actually boxes for the public. This is about who Floyd is as a person. Floyd isn’t on the Truman Show (his life is still essentially his life). All I’m saying, its easy call him out, because he is a public figure and I sure you would think differently if all of your dirty laundry was made public like his. No one is a true Saint, and Floyd never claimed to be one.
Now if you have a problem with his sentencing that’s a different issue, but this is just rhetoric that isn’t going to amount to anything,
Clove_art - February 3, 2012
We can agree to disagree.
cylee1180 - February 3, 2012
Khan doesn’t impress me. He won a fight where he should have been DQ’d (Judah) and then pushed and held the head down of Peterson. He has Golden Boy on his side to act like hypocrites and respect the referee when it works for them, and then dispute the referee when it doesn’t.
Khan has talent, but I think he’d get ruined by a lot of more legitimate fighters. Ortiz, Berto, Pacquiao, Bradley, Mayweather, JMM, etc. would all likely destroy Khan. Yeah, some of those guys are the best of the best, but by no means leaps and bounds above how Khan is treated as a superstar. Personally I think Khan wants to get in with the big boys, but he has to prove himself at a more modest American level.
RyanSexton - February 3, 2012
Khan destroyed Judah every minute of the fight. That “low blow” was not even on the cup. Judah just found a way to lose like usual. He fought like crap agst Peterson (and Maidana) only b/c they forced him to fight on his back foot which he is not very effective in doing.
I personally think Khan could beat Ortiz (chinny & crazy), Berto (chinny & reckless), and JMM (smaller and slower and stylistically favored). I don’t think that b/c Peterson beat Khan that it nullifies what Khan has accomplished and will accomplish (he just acted like an A$$ afterward that’s all). And when has Ortiz and Berto been considered “the best” in boxing? I disagree with that. See ya!
cylee1180 - February 3, 2012
I said that ‘some’ were the best of the best. Ortiz, Berto, Bradley, etc. are ‘second level’ guys. Good fighters, but not ‘great.’ I don’t think Khan could survive 6 rounds with a guy like Ortiz who is willing to go to war. Albeit crazy and stupid, Ortiz is one of the biggest punchers in the game, and definitely could use ‘Effective Aggression’ to neutralize Khan’s speed.
He has skills and a good trainer, but the man has to spend more time at 140 before he starts calling out big names like Mayweather.
RyanSexton - February 3, 2012
I actually believe Bradley and Khan are a step or a half step ABOVE ortiz and berto. I wouldn’t lump them together or say all below pacquiao/mayweather are in the same boat… b/c they’re not. Khan and Bradley were both unified champions, and have been taking out top class competition (Kotelnik, maidana, Judah, witter, holt, alexander, peterson)… Berto’s been fighting jr. welters (hernandez, urango) and ortiz got beat real bad by maidana and may and has ONE breakout performance and held a belt for 3 months.
cylee1180 - February 3, 2012
So what? Khan won one of those belts from Zab Judah, who got it by beating Kaizer Mabuza, after getting half a gift against Lucas Matthysse just to get there, and he’s Zab Judah if none of that is convincing enough.
Kind of. He quit. But that was a great fight and he was in it.
He could’ve held it a lot longer if he chose to not fight the best fighter in the world.
Scott Christ - February 3, 2012
Khan would virtually have no chance to beat Ortiz. It’s kind of funny that you say that Ortiz is chinny when he was tko’ed by a man with huge KO ratio, dropped by a pretty big puncher in Berto who is naturally bigger, and legally sucker punched by Maweather.
36_chambers_ofdeatH - February 3, 2012
Ortiz would wipe Khan out. I really see no way Khan handles his power or avoids him long enough.
Scott Christ - February 3, 2012
Floyd wants to fight him
He’s looking for another weak opponent, big name to cash in on!!!
Aint it obvious? 2013, he’ll get old man Pacquiao with bad legs for a huge payday.
late 2013 or early 2014- Amir Khan (whos recovered with good matchmaking) for a huge fight in England
dasilversurfer - February 3, 2012
Yeah and I guess while all of this is going on Floyd will be spending his cash on Hyperventilated Chambers, and a Time Machine to keep him young and fresh…. Yeah. That’s what he’s gonna do.
Zfan - February 3, 2012
Well, Floyd can sort of “Jordan” it, change his game to adjust to his aging, honestly he can prolly just woddle around and just move his upperbody and win most fights. Pacquiao’s style and fights depend more on reflexes, fast foot work, and weird angles at incredible speed, with high volume and explosiveness… you combine that with his full time celebrity/political schedule, he’ll fade and has faded faster than Mayweather. May’s style simply doens’t depend on athelticism.
cylee1180 - February 3, 2012
Plus Mayweather has barely been touched in the ring, which gives him a big aging advantage over other guys that have been worn out in wars. It’s kinda the same reason Bernard Hopkins has stayed so fresh into his old age; he spent most of his career avoiding those big shots that shorten the ring life of fighters.
theninthlayer - February 3, 2012
"First is the apparent haterade that Floyd has for Amir Khan. Floyd lashes out against Khan's perceived run and hold style."
Umm. I think your going a bit over the top saying Floyd “hates” Khan, and that he “lashed” out at him. He was quite calm about it all to be honest. Sounding like a tabloid journo trying to make something out of nothing Scott!
APG1 - February 3, 2012
Apologies, I meant Waldo, not Scott
APG1 - February 3, 2012
Yeah don’t drag me into this. I’d never say “haterade.”
Scott Christ - February 3, 2012
ha, yeah. I didn’t even notice at first he wrote “haterade”- just ‘hate". I’m glad my brain screens out silly words.
APG1 - February 3, 2012
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