By Mark Vester
The fight is just days away, May 5 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. tells the Las Vegas Review Journal that he can't wait to get Oscar De La Hoya in the ring.
Mayweather spoke to the paper during a break in training, blasting De La Hoya on every level possible during the conversation.
"Oscar has no personality. His personality is just dry and dead. When you watch 24/7, the show is basically based upon me," Mayweather said. "When people watch me, they're on the edge of their seat because they don't know what's going to happen.
"Oscar is really a fan of mine. He wanted my daddy to show him how to fight like me. He sees (rapper) 50 Cent was on 24/7 with me, so he called up a couple of his celebrity fans. Oscar De La Hoya is a Floyd Mayweather groupie, that's all, a male groupie."
"Oscar, this dude is just so fake. They don't talk about how he's having kids out of wedlock or how he's a party animal. He loves to go to strip clubs, all that stuff. He can fool everybody else, but he can't fool me. I know the truth."
Leonard Ellerbe, close adviser to Mayweather, took his own parting jab at De La Hoya.
"Floyd busts his ass day in and day out. This is what Floyd does, and this is what Oscar does part time," Ellerbe said. "Oscar is not on Floyd's level."