Floyd Mayweather Jr. loses mind, calls Manny Steward an Uncle Tom
by SC on Sep 16, 2009 9:01 PM EDT
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The closer it gets to fight night, the more Floyd Mayweather Jr. seems to get jumpy. Speaking with Kieran Mulvaney of ESPN.com, Mayweather had some observations on the American public being too negative, Emanuel Steward being an "Uncle Tom," and for the hundredth time, why race is a big deal in his career.
"If you're rich, you're a rich n-----," he said. "If you're poor, you're a poor n----. If you're smart, you're a smart n-----. At the end of the day, they still look at me as a n-----."
And let's move on.
"This country needs to be more positive," he said. "We're already at war. We're in a recession, we're at war and we continue to be negative. 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?'
We are in a recession, with people struggling, but let's be positive: For just $49.99, you can sit back in your home (if you have satellite or digital cable or something) and order the Floyd Mayweather fight. It's like, jeez, does it get any better than that? Loosen up, people. Maybe if you had a home theater to relax in, you'd get it.
"One thing you never hear. You never hear anything negative about Oscar De La Hoya," he said. "Anything he do negative, it gets swept under the rug."
Yeah, well, agreed. Point: Floyd.
He continued by complaining about two of HBO's broadcasters, who will be calling Saturday's fight.
"Larry Merchant don't know nothing about boxing," Mayweather said. "What's that other guy's name [at HBO]? [Emanuel Steward]. He's an Uncle Tom.
"One thing you can't knock. You cannot knock my talent."
No, you can't. But just about everything else about his public persona you can knock. Floyd does not get enough credit for being flat-out weird. He and Kanye West have a lot in common.
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It's like i've been saying for a long time....
Floyd would be much more well liked if he weren’t such an a-hole. His tired act has worn thin; throwing money in the air, his whole persona has many boxing fans (myself included) turned off. I give Floyd all the credit in the world for working hard and becoming one of the pound for pound best but I can’t cheer for him.
When you look at today’s economy and how many folks are struggling to put food on the table, I’d wager that Floyd has many folks wanting to see someone take his head off in the ring.
by SmittytheCutman on Sep 16, 2009 9:25 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I can't stand it when athletes play the race card
The most popular and richest athletes in the world are disproportionately black. Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, LeBron James, etc. etc. etc.
Note to Floyd: People don’t dislike you because you’re black, people dislike you because you’re a jackass.
And it wouldn’t matter if Floyd was green with yellow polka dots – he still wouldn’t be the most popular athlete in the world. He plays a relatively fringe sport at this point. Only twice in the past 50 years or so could a boxer even claim to be the most popular athlete in the world, and Tyson still probably wasn’t as popular as Jordan.
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by Brickhaus on Sep 16, 2009 9:27 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
America != World
Only twice in the past 50 years or so could a boxer even claim to be the most popular athlete in the world, and Tyson still probably wasn’t as popular as Jordan.
Hate to be picky, but this if you’re talking World Wide Tyson was ridiculously bigger than Jordan. Basketball has zero (and I mean zero) popularity in the UK and Europe (I can’t speak for South American/Asian countries, but I’d presume similar) whereas Tyson would have been mobbed where ever he went.
Tyson may (imho) be a huge underachiever for his ridiculous talent, but there’s no doubting he was the biggest thing since Ali, and in his day, THE most popular sportsman in the world.
"Chris Eubank lost his recent comeback fight on points ... the main one being that he's a total git."
by bazzlad on Sep 17, 2009 3:54 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
(I can’t speak for South American/Asian countries, but I’d presume similar)
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by SC on Sep 17, 2009 4:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
A word in edgewise from an European – basketball is rather popular over here. Several European countries have what are basically professional leagues and more and more American basketball players make the trip across the Atlantic every season. For crying out loud, NBA teams send the draft picks over here to get experience.
Pau Gasol. Toni Kukoc. Dino Radja. Tony Parker. Dirk Nowitzki. Detlef Schrempf. Peja Stojakovic. Arvydas Sabonis. All of these guys are Europeans – all of them and quite a few more. Not bad for a continent where basketball has “zero” popularity.
Btw, Michael Jordan was HUGE over here.
by lhasafi on Sep 17, 2009 10:37 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I knew the leagues existed and they produced fine players, but I’ve never quite gotten a grasp on how popular the leagues are, how well they draw, what kind of money they generate, etc.
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by SC on Sep 17, 2009 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Could have sworn Mr. Eva Longoria was from the Virgin Islands…anyway, it never ceases to amuse me how presumptious we can be on-line. I don’t know where bazzlad is from, but he sounded very A-mur-ican by trying to speak for an entire continent that (and here I am being presumptious myself) has probably never been to. It’s just funny how we on the internet equate how popular something is based on what we think we know as opposed to what data/research/etc. shows.
by black dragon on Sep 18, 2009 10:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Think after paying off the IRS he'll buy himself a muzzle?
Dude needs to just shut up and fight
by FunnyBigHat on Sep 16, 2009 9:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I love Floyd. I really do.
http://twitter.com/FlyByKnite
by FlyByKnight on Sep 16, 2009 9:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Let me rephrase, I love Money.
http://twitter.com/FlyByKnite
by FlyByKnight on Sep 16, 2009 9:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I love New York
Now gimme a real chance at love
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by Brickhaus on Sep 16, 2009 9:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Had a friend that went to high school with her. Apparently no one liked her in high school and she only got popular once she got the implants. Kinda funny.
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by FlyByKnight on Sep 16, 2009 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bizarre
yea he’s a strange dude. He’s always got to drop ‘I got money’ into every conversation: “I was sitting in my theater, and I thought”, shut up.
When he talks like that I can’t help but think he’s going to die broke. Totally broke. All he needs is to find some crack and we can say like father like son.
"I swear to God, I'll take this ******* ball and shove it down your ******* throat" - Serena Williams
by lcollins1 on Sep 16, 2009 10:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Harsh
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"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
by Brickhaus on Sep 16, 2009 10:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
yeah maybe. I don’t have ill will towards Floyd. I hope he lives a happy, joyous life.
Just his behavior evinces irrationality, which leads me to believe it’s going to snowball and lead to poverty and, honestly, perhaps drug addiction.
Who buys a Maybach and pays 14% interest on the payments? I don’t care how much money you have, that’s not stupid, it’s psychiatric.
"I swear to God, I'll take this ******* ball and shove it down your ******* throat" - Serena Williams
by lcollins1 on Sep 16, 2009 11:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think a lot of it is that even though he makes a lot of money when he fights, it’s becoming quite obvious that — like many other great fighters — he doesn’t know what to do with that money. Oscar’s a businessman. Floyd often seems like a kid in a candy store to me.
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by SC on Sep 17, 2009 12:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Off topic, but I’m pretty sure I just saw Evander Holyfield in a Taco Bell commercial.
I’d rather see him doing that than taking more damage in the ring I guess.
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by Matt Miller on Sep 17, 2009 12:06 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah. I love how they make him out to be a giant of a man.
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by SC on Sep 17, 2009 12:27 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He ain't small
But Larry Johnson called and wants his schtick back.
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by Brickhaus on Sep 17, 2009 12:35 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He’s not small, but how many times do you go out in the real world and peer up at the mountain of a 6’2" guy? They’ve got him on there like he’s Andre the Giant.
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by SC on Sep 17, 2009 1:32 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
(anybody want a peanut?)
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by SC on Sep 17, 2009 1:32 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He actually makes an interesting point...
Well I’m no Floyd point but I do think he makes an interesting point here when he talks about the English fans.
We only got introduced to Floyd Mayweather here properly when he fought Ricky Hatton(I knew who he was before that and so did most British boxing fans but the public didn’t).
After he knocked out Hatton you would think he’d never be be welcome here but after that fight a lot of Brits picked up that name and ran with it. If he came out to the UK he’d probably be quite popular and sell out any arena in the country.
The fact that Brits treat him so different to Americans is curious(considering me and a few of my fellow British boxing fans feel the same as you guys do) but maybe it has to do with the fact that we get very little exposure of his personal life and only know the side that steps into the ring to fight.
by MannyPacquiao on Sep 17, 2009 12:19 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
That first line should say Floyd fan.
by MannyPacquiao on Sep 17, 2009 12:19 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Floyd was really classy to Hatton after the fight, and to the British fans as well. And from what I’ve read, he just acts differently to the UK press than he does the US press.
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by SC on Sep 17, 2009 12:28 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
yeah that definitely seemed to be the case from what I read also
We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people. (Sugar Ray Leonard)
by BrianBrock on Sep 17, 2009 2:42 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I read American press Floyd stories, and it’s all BLING LAMBOS MANSION MY SHIT’S PAID FOR 50 CENT, and then I read UK press Floyd stories, and it’s about boxing and things of that nature. It’s night and day.
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by SC on Sep 17, 2009 2:49 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It’s wednesday, when nothing happens, and we are talking about Floyd…Point: Mayweather. What Floyd is talking about when he mentions race is not that its impossible to be popular and black, but that its comparatively easy to be popular and white. Example: Kelly Pavlik. The man has beaten no one except Miranda and Taylor (and seriously who has beaten Miranda at this point…), yet he still is going to get a bigger share than P-Will. The only reason Pavlik is popular is pretty much because he is white, not really because of his boxing skill. (It could be argued that KP is popular because he was heavily promoted. However, the only reason he was promoted was because he was white…).
by waldo47 on Sep 17, 2009 1:44 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Kelly Pavlik is getting a bigger share than Williams because he was promoted properly, built a local fanbase so he could say, “Hey, I can draw here,” and wasn’t screwed up from a business aspect like Williams has been. Race has basically nothing to do with it; Pavlik also wouldn’t have become the star he is today or be fighting Williams if he hadn’t knocked out a whole lot of guys, namely Miranda and Taylor on big HBO cards, both in thrilling fights. And furthermore, Taylor was supposed to be HBO’s next golden child, but he just wasn’t.
Paul Williams has been promoted horribly and isn’t a draw anywhere, plus he’s not the legit middleweight champ or a two-body titleholder like Pavlik is. He gets a smaller share because he isn’t bankable and is the challenger, and the only people that know anything about Paul Williams, really, are diehards.
It’s just — no offense, really — a crock of shit to say that KP was ONLY promoted because he was white. Did it help? Yes, of course it helped. Anyone that says otherwise is either naive or lying to themselves. But he DID have to beat Taylor, who was the undefeated world middleweight champion at the time, in order to keep moving up, and not only did he beat him, but he beat him with an off-the-mat performance in an instant classic of a fight. It’s not just “He’s white, so people like him.” If it was that simple, there might be another white American boxing star out there, but there really isn’t.
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by SC on Sep 17, 2009 2:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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