Mayweather: "I Beat Fighters, Turn Them Into B*tches"
By Mark Vester
There is still no love between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya. During the Saturday press conference to announce his fight on July 18 with Juan Manuel Marquez, Mayweather showed that even though he has been off since December 2007, he is just as cocky as ever.
In telling reporters just how terrific he is, he had this to say: “I beat fighters and turn them into bitches and they go out and put on fish-nets. That's what I do.”
That was a direct shot at De La Hoya, whose photos of him wearing fish-net stockings were all over the Internet in 2008. The photos were a huge scandal for the fighter when a New York stripper claimed they were real. An expert later testified that those photos were the result of clever photo-shop work.
De La Hoya and Mayweather are the co-promoters of the July fight with Marquez. Mayweather's company, Mayweather Promotions, is the lead promoter of the event. The press tour and the pre-fight hype should prove to be just as wild as some of the past events that involved Mayweather.
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