Floyd Mayweather Sr: I’m concerned about my so

by Geoffrey Ciani - This week’s 100th edition of On the Ropes Boxing Radio featured an exclusive interview with Floyd Mayweather Senior. His son, Floyd Mayweather Junior, is widely regarded as the best all around boxer in the world today. Mayweather Senior provided his thoughts on his son’s future and the prospect of a fight between him and Manny Pacquiao. He also gave his thoughts on Pacquiao’s victory over Antonio Margarito last weekend. Here is a complete transcript of that interview. JENNA J: I think it’s actually time for our final guest of this week’s epic historic milestone show. He is an OTR favorite having appeared in episodes 30, 70, 71, 78, 82, and episode 90. We are once again joined by the one and only Floyd ‘Joy’ Mayweather Senior. How is everything going today, Floyd? FLOYD MAYWEATHER SENIOR: Everything is going great. JENNA: That’s good to hear, Floyd. We’re happy to be talking to you on this, our 100th episode. What are your thoughts on this past weekend’s bout between Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito? MAYWEATHER: I think well you know, both of them are with Bob Arum and I think that he didn’t care about one as much as he cared about the other one. That’s what I believe, and I believe that he didn’t care about one as much as the other one. I believe that Pacquiao, to me there was no doubt anyway. I told everybody that Pacquiao is going to beat him up real bad or stop him, and that’s what he did. Pacquiao caught myself I believed, when the guy hit him to the body, I can’t say who told Pacquiao to act like he did, like he was hurt. Man, he wasn’t hurt. Believe me. He might have been hurt before when he got his ass whopped by one of them little bitty fighters when he was fighting in a smaller weight class when he got stopped when a guy hit him to the body. But now, when he got hit this time by a much, much, much bigger man, he got hit solid. If another smaller guy hit him like that and he put him on the ground and he couldn’t even get up, how is a big old man this big, way, way bigger than him with way, way more weight and hit him to the body and then he just comes out of it. He was hit to the head a few times by some good straight right hands. It never moved him. So I don’t know. If somebody don’t see what’s going on, I don’t know what. What’s in my mind stays with me and there it is. JENNA: Alright, so you don’t believe he was at all hurt in the bout? MAYWEATHER:No, I don’t believe it. Hell no, there was nothing wrong with him. He was fighting too strong and stuff on the end. When a big guy hits you with a shot, a big guy that big, he will at least shake you up or pummel you or something or you know. A guy hits you to the body like that when he’s that big, usually a man his size would go out or fold over or something. Pacquiao folded over, yeah he folded over but he came back with all kind of punches and hard punches. It didn’t take nothing out of him, so it lets me know that something ain’t right. That’s all I can say to you. Something don’t fit right with me. That’s all I can tell you. JENNA: Were you at all surprised that Pacquiao came in so light for the bout? He was outweighed by seventeen pounds. MAYWEATHER: There is nothing that man can do that surprises me, because right now the world is behind him and whatever he’s doing, the world is behind him. Whether it’s right or wrong the world is behind him, and that’s the way it is and even the people of boxing now days, if there is anybody not doing something like they were checking Margarito for drinking the coffee. All that was, was a big scam for people to look at on TV. Oh, he’s concerned that Margarito is taking some kind of enhancement, this or that. They’re looking at Margarito doing that. You know what? You do that to keep people on view. That’s what you do, and then I honestly believe to make the fight look good, when he hit Pacquiao to the stomach and Pacquiao portrayed to be hurt—and I don’t ever believe he was hurt, at all, in the fight period. I just think it’s a bunch of sham that’s going around. It ain’t what it looks to be. It looked like it was supposed to be against a secondary person and that was Margarito getting beat like he was, and that was no surprise to me, anyway. I have never seen a man that small beating all these big men. It has never happened in boxing and it probably never will and my suspicion with what’s going on, hey! It’s so plain to see a blind man could see it. That’s all I can say. JENNA: Now Floyd, so you don’t think it had anything to do without Margarito maybe not having the snap on his punches without the loaded gloves that some people have accused? MAYWEATHER: Margarito has got a better snap than him. Margarito really punches harder. Do you think a man that small can hit harder than a man that big? All of them do the same thing when they’re working out, unless something is outweighing something over there. That’s all I can tell you. Something just, something is going on. That’s all I can tell you. I believe that. JENNA:Well after the bout the fight that they all talked about, and you hear it a million times a day, is a fight between Pacquiao and your son. Do you believe that Floyd looked at that fight and saw how many times Pacquiao was landed on? MAYWEATHER: Well he ain’t going to hit him like that. Floyd ain’t no stand up fighter like this guy. That guy was there to be hit. He was there to be hit. You can’t miss it. You can’t miss it. Not that many months ago, Shane stopped him. Every punch Shane had thrown hit him. Me myself personally, if they had the fight I’d tell my son not to fight him! Not because my son can’t beat him, because my son could beat him easy. He’s nothing big. He’s nothing hard to find. He can be found, and even Margarito showed you can hit him when you want to hit him. How in the hell is Margarito hitting somebody as big and slow as he is? He couldn’t hit me in my sleep. So how in the world is he hitting this man now? I know my son is different. He’d tear him apart, but the whole thing is I’m like this right here. If I was my son, I have my reasons why I would not fight that man. I would have my reasons for not fighting that little bitty man. I got my reasons why, and I ain’t got to tell nobody nothing. Everybody knows what time it is. JENNA: Now Floyd, when you looked at Pacquiao do you think he looked more vulnerable than he has in previous fights due to the fact that somebody as slow as Margarito was able to hit him? MAYWEATHER: Well that’s what I just told you. I said how could my son not him all day. If Margarito can hit him once my son can hit him four or five times and that’s just obvious. I mean if, I don’t see no reason why. I’m just saying this right here, my concern is for my son’s protection. My concern is for my son’s life, that’s why. If my son’s fighting that little man, I’m concerned about my son’s life. That’s what I’m telling you. JENNA: Let’s say that Pacquiao does finally agree to everything that your son wants testing-wise. Do you think you’d be more apt to want to see that fight happen if Pacquiao does that? MAYWEATHER: I would agree to that fight if they had people from Little Floyd’s Camp in Pacquiao’s Camp for random, any time they desired, to check him out. Check him out. Give him a thorough check every time you go. Pacquiao has the same choice to do that with my son and there ain’t no doubts, no questions in my mind that the fight would take place tomorrow.