Mayweather Jr. “My Uncle Started (UFC President) Dana White Off”
During the USA Today round table for the May 1st, Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Sugar Shane Mosley fight, Floyd Mayweather Jr. was asked by USA Today Sports Business Columnist, Michael Hiestand, if Mixed Martial Arts would cut into boxing’s business.
Floyd answered back, by revealing that the Mayweather family were the ones who started the UFC President Dana White off in the fight business. This comes as somewhat surprising news, since Dana White and Floyd Mayweather Jr. have both taken verbal shots at each other over the years, and seemed like they hardly even knew each other beforehand.
In 1996, Dana White met Floyd’s Uncle, Jeff Mayweather, and wanted to learn about boxing and the fight business, at the time Dana White didn’t know much about contact sports and wanted to learn the ropes from Jeff Mayweather. During this time, Dana White was just starting up a boxing aerobics company and wanted Floyd Mayweather Jr. to wear his sponsorship logo in one of his fights. This was all before Dana White got involved with the UFC.
Hear what Floyd Mayweather Jr. had to say about UFC’s Dana White and MMA/Boxing concerns:
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how did a monkey learn to talk like that. he should be kept in zoo like his peers. gorrilla face
Arian, you are a racist fag. Go have sex with dogs and your cousins like the rest of you racist pigs.
Indeed a very rare species believed to be extinct hundreds of thousand
years ago. He probably is the missing link…bipedal humanoid
Americans surprise me a lot. Why do they hate money so much. Is it because he refuses to be a white ass kisser?
its because this guy use his bigmouth often than his brain.
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@Tim
Because he’s an arrogant, racist, douchebag.
amen
floyd is delusional, boxing was there first its true. and it will continue to thrive without him. so he shouldn’t be arrogant of saying boxing is the face of him. as far as i know this guy is the king of duck.
People don’t hate Floyd Mayweather because he racist, because there is no basis to claim that.
People don’t hate Floyd Mayweather because he uses his mouth more than his brain either. If that were so, he wouldn’t be paid $40 million to fight because he’d ruin the deal before its finalized with his mouth.
No … people hate Floyd “Money” Mayweather because Floyd has you all fooled.
He is a man who has decided to play the “heel”; a character in which people hate in order to create controversy and rivalry. There always has to be one, or the drama wouldn’t seem as authentic as it always does on his 24/7 program.
This strategy has been used for years, especially in wrestling entertainment. One guy is the “all american” apple pie good guy. While the other guy is a villain, usually characterized as a foul mouthed, bad tempered bully who everyone just wants to see get beaten.
For all the talk Floyd does and all the hate he receives because of it, his marketing team is brilliant. Simply genius. Mayweather has established himself and his family as a fixture in boxing just by saying things that they know will infuriate those who consider themselves a part of “polite society”.
Think about it: When Floyd was simply “Pretty Boy” I remember one cameo. That was in Arliss if anyone can remember that far back. Since Floyd became “Money Mayweather”, he’s done Carson Daley, he’s gotten 24/7, been on Entertainment Tonight, Dancing With The Stars, Larry King Live, he’s fought in Wrestle-mania and has a recurring role in the WWE, Chelsea Lately and the list goes on.
What does that tell you?
It should tell you that people don’t care about watching and learning more about quiet, polite fighters. The lesson of Larry Holmes should have taught you all that. He was every bit as good as Ali(some say maybe even better) but he was about as interesting as pocket lint. Everyone, even non-boxing fans, fondly remembers Ali 50 years later. While most younger than 21 don’t even know who Larry Holmes is and how great he was.
Maybe “Money Mayweather” remembers that lesson? Maybe he knows that fans are more vicious than any boxing opponent that has ever lived, and if he predicates his happiness and confidence on their conditional acceptance and praise he will always be fighting his way out of a hole.
Ali knew this from the start. And while most of you remember Ali as “the greatest”, let me assure that most Americans did not feel that way about him when he was Cassius Clay: a big mouth kid who could box and beat some big names but spoke his mind when it wasn’t fashionable for a black man to do so.
Ali received death threats. He was stripped of his title for political reasons. He was blackballed from earning a living through boxing in the USA. He was called a “loud mouth” just like Mayweather is called a loudmouth. He was called arrogant and a racist just like Mayweather is being called today.
When Ali was actively competing, he was NOT well loved or respected. In fact, most people tuned in to watch him get knocked out. It wasn’t until the tail end of his career that Ali was looked upon with any real fondness.
But the point I’m making boils down to the fact that had Ali allowed himself to fade and be forgotten he would never have been able to recapture the world’s attention and imaginations. He had to keep his voice ringing in every ear … especially the ears belonging to fans that disliked him.
Floyd Mayweather had a boy scout image in 1997. He was polite, clean cut and virtually unknown. Even after his virtuoso performance against the late Diego Corrales, who was undefeated and billed as the next big thing, Floyd went basically unnoticed by all except loyal boxing fans.
Now that he’s become Money Mayweather, he’s getting paid $40 million dollars, is in demand to play the heel in the WWE franchise, is being courted by MMA, and is a guaranteed Hall of Famer at this point no matter what happens at this point. He’s got everyone from 134 to 154 wanting a fight with him because now HE IS THE MAN.
So yeah … maybe he is arrogant and a loud mouth, but he’s the best at what he does. He has a much more solid legacy than Pacquiao as Pacquiao has only fought men once they have been beaten by Mayweather and Margarito. If Mosley loses and Pacquiao seeks a match with him that will be the 5th boxer in a row that was coming off a huge loss that Pacquiao has sought a fight with.
Instead of demonizing Mayweather, why not ask Pacquiao why he only fights men who have recently been defeated or knocked out? Why won’t he fight a fighter who is at the top of their game? If he really wanted to a fight wouldn’t be hard to secure as Floyd Mayweather, Paul Williams and Shane Mosley would all love to make $40 million. Why is he fighting Clottey instead of the top 3? Didn’t Clottey just lose to Cotto?
Seems to me every one’s hate for Floyd Mayweather has made them blind to double standards and to the exaggeration of Manny Pacquiao has truly achieved as a boxer.
Mayweather/Mosley does more for Floyd’s legacy that Mayweather/Pacquiao. If Floyd beats Pacquiao people will say that Pacquiao was too small, or the random PED test weakened him and that’s why he lost. Manny Pacquiao actually used that excuse when he lost to Erik Morales!
Very few aside from die-hard Pacquiao fans and the Filipino community will actually pay for the Pacquiao/Clottey fight. Its boring in theory, and its always the perception that sells PPVs and tickets.
Lastly, saying that Floyd has ducked people in his career is nonsense. Who has he ducked? To make a statement like that without qualifying it makes you a duck!
Quack quack.
I have to agree. Mayweather is trying to give the impression that he is a thug/hiphop businessman in boxing shorts. He is comfortable playing the villian. He likes to wear the black hat and break the hearts of the good guy fans. He enjoys taking down the so-called good guys in boxing. He is Part of the hiphop generation and you can tell he is trying to act like a person he is not. It is all show. Some people take these fighters too seriously. If Mayweather was a soft spoken guy like Floyd Patterson, no one would have a problem with his fighting style or selection of opponents. They hate to see him talk shit and win. Oh yeah, same thing with Ali.
Its a shame the Maywather’s now are stutering and obviuosly confused. After commiting the “Greatest Mistake of His Life”, demeaning his legacy. Other people(then i was one of FMJr. fans) may only see the good old Pretty Boy Floyd still. There are some if not most of the boxing fans sees beyond his—-” Lust for Money”, that is. What would you think Bert Sugar will be talking? Say after FMJr’s 2nd retirement, if especially Pacquiao fight cant Happen vice versa. People like Dana White, Sionie Carter, Randy Couture, Chuck Lidell, Dan Rafael, Brian Kenny, Jerry Jones,Bernard Hopkins,Sugar Shane Mosley and the NSAC people. This is just to name a few and is nothing compared to a roaring ready to devour hungry and angry 90 million poor Filipino’s. Boys and Girls true the sports and themselves respectively.
@ blacksmith…if he was all act they why does he gets in trouble with the law in real life
What trouble? I heard of one incident involving someone shooting a gun or something that was never proven to be Mayweather. Sooooooo what other trouble are you speaking of?
lol People is fond or even love Ali. Why? Cuz Ali is not/never like some thug or a clown acting as a Noble, Martin-Luther-King guy who wants to clean up the sports. He simply was true to himself to boxing and most of all to You and me. God Bless the Boys and Girls who loves the Sweetscience.
@ The blacksmith
You honestly need to start your own blog. That was great and very detailed. I couldn’t agree with you more. Honestly u should really look into doing something. I love to read about boxing by true boxing fans, not by bias spectators that are one sided. i am a true Mayweather fan and also a Pacquiao fan but it is shown that Pacquiao is a great fighter, he has alot of heart, great offense with suprising power, but is one dimensional.
FLoyd is ducking pacquiao.
Pigs worried.
You can take the people out of the ghetto but you will never take the ghetto out of the people. I love KFC!!!
Mayweather is smoking some wacky tobacci. They should test him randomly for the mary jane.
@ The Blacksmith… Sounds like you on Chicken Floyd’s cock!
KFC equals monkey. Monkey brain with a chickens heart. Who did the monkey duck someone asked. He ducked cotto ( who pacquiao beat), Margarito ( who mosley beat), mosley (until now that he’s tooo OLD and who Cotto beat). Everybody fought everybody except I don’t see monkey may’s name in the mix. Monkey May’s fans are no less than monkeys themselves. Low intellectual capacity!
THIS GOES TO YOU DOCART…
mUthafaka, hav u ever seen ur mother getting fucked by a 26 six inch dick… U betta shut ur muthafakin mouth before ur ass get’s ripped like it ain’t nun… Watch ur self nd stop been an ignorant son of a bitch. Jst becuz u hate mayweather doesn’t mean u hav to insult his fans bitch. GET UR SHIT STRAIGHT.
You sound like a dog dick sucker. Racist faggot.
How the fuck do know what Dana White knows. Shut the fuck up hoe.
We protest the evident racism of Floyd Jr, FMSr & uncle Roger who repeatedly make disrespectful & insulting remarks on others, ethnic groups & non-black Americans, which offended already millions of people. As our protest we shouldn’t support nor buy Floyd’s future fights & PPVs. They’re not deserving of our money.
These trio with Richard Schaefer out of the blue, accuse another boxer of steroid use lacking proof which is baseless & defamatory. Slandering! Their ridiculous drug test demands aren’t required & never done by the commission b4. Why on earth should d protocols be changed so suddenly? People around the globe against racism, prejudice & discrimination, boycotting FMJr & GBP is necessary. Hype or head game, there’s no excuse 4 their committed wrongdoings. Never buy Floyd’s PPVs.