By Edward Chaykovsky

According to retired pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr., a lot of fighters is the sport are being ignored or under-appreciated due to an uneven playing field when it comes to black fighters, Al Haymon managed fighters or fighters promoted by Mayweather Promotions.

Since his retirement on September 12th, Mayweather has openly voiced his concerns over what he believes is an ongoing problem racism in boxing.  

Specifically, Mayweather feels former super middleweight champion Andre Ward is being positioned to lose by HBO, because the network is trying to protect their investment in Gennady Golovkin.  He claims HBO forced Ward into a three-fight agreement on basis of moving up to light heavyweight for a fight with Sergey Kovalev in the fall of this year. Ward had been pushing for a super middleweight fight with Golovkin, who resides with three world titles at 160-pounds.

HBO never involved in the Ward-Golovkin discussions. Mayweather believes Ward would have be treated like royalty by the network and the media - if he was a white fighter.  

Ward is not alone in his eyes. He lists an entire army of fighter who he believes are being ignored or under-appreciated due to their skin color or management/promotional affiliation.

"When I sit back and think, it's so many good fighters out there that they don't talk about. They don't talk about Terence Crawford, Nicholas Walters, Gary Russell, Leo Santa Cruz, Sharif Bogere, Richard Commey, Kell Brook, Keith Thurman, Erislandy Lara, Jermell Charlo, Jermall Charlo, Badou Jack, Andrew Tabiti, Danny Jacobs, Danny Garcia, Shawn Porter, Errol Spence, Timothy Bradley, Andre Ward, Adrien Broner, I mean, he's still a fighter with a lot of personality, Demetrius Andrade, James DeGale, Adonis Stevenson, Deontay Wilder, but you know what? I know why they not talking about these fighters," Mayweather told Fighthype.com.

"Because the majority of these fighters are black or affiliated with me and Al Haymon. Al Haymon, we couldn't choose a better guy for boxing. Al Haymon should've been around from the beginning. Al Haymon is a manager, not a boxing promoter. Al Haymon cares about a fighter's well-being. He genuinely cares about fighters. You know, we sit down and we talk about different fighters and how we want the best for them always. Me and Al Haymon working together, communicating, that's the reason why the money is like it is in the sport of boxing, because of me and Haymon working together."