Floyd Mayweather Sr: “I think Bob Arum is doing the right thing by...........

Floyd Mayweather Senior: “I think Bob Arum is doing the right thing by keeping Pacquiao away from little Floyd before he gets his head tore off!” JENNA J: Alright well Floyd, the first thing first thing I got to ask you, it recently came out that your son will no longer be going to jail as originally planned on January 6. He now will be going to jail in June, which makes him open to fight on May 5. What were your thoughts when you heard this news? FLOYD MAYWEATHER SENIOR: That was good. I mean you know, he’s doing just like a good American with what he’s doing, because hey! All it is, he’s going to pay his debt still. Whatever debt they got for him, he’s still going to pay the debt but he’s also distributing something to the state of Las Vegas. He’s doing a lot for the economy. JENNA: Yeah there’s been a lot of talk now about who your son’s going to fight now on May 5, and one thing that seems to be very clear is— MAYWEATHER: It’s very clear that Pacquiao is scared and is not going to fight my son! So that right there is already laid to the side. He’s not going to fight Pacquiao on the 5th—trust me! JENNA: Now that’s a question I have for you. It seems Bob Arum actually had May 5 open as a possibility if it was Marquez, but all of a sudden when your son became available for that date it became— MAYWEATHER: He doesn’t want it! He don’t want it! They already know that Pacquiao’s going to get his ass whopped! They already know that. It’s so plain to see a blind man can see it. JENNA: But Floyd, do you think maybe that’s the promoter doesn’t want the fight more so than the fighter? MAYWEATHER: The fighter don’t want the fight either! If you ever heard Pacquiao, he might say he’s going to beat somebody but you never heard him say one word about fighting Floyd. You never heard him say one thing that was anything negative about Floyd, because that’s a fight he doesn’t want anyway. He don’t want that. So nobody is even talking about it. I mean everybody is talking about it, but as far as him promoting it by saying hey, I’ll whop it! I’ll knock him out in this kind of round. Little Floyd has said one thing: take the test! That’s it! Take the test. He will never take the test, because if he takes the test Floyd will put him to rest. That’s it. JENNA: Flolyd the reason why I asked you whether it was the promoter or the fighter was because just the other day Manny Pacquiao actually came out in the press and said that the fight he wants is actually a fight with your son. He said he’ll actually take less money and do whatever drug testing it is. When Bob Arum goes to him, he said he’ll tell Bob that that’s the fight he wants. Do you believe him? MAYWEATHER: Well good! Good! If he said that, that’s good! But you know what? Bob Arum ain’t going to let that happen. Bob Arum is going to stop him. You know Pacquiao, I never heard that he said that yet but somebody else did say to me that he said something similar to that. If he said that, that’s what the whole world would want to see anyway! The whole world wants to see that, so that’s why Bob Arum will never let that happen. I think that’s the fight that Floyd needs to close everybody’s mouth and shut everybody up! Then he can walk off because he beat everybody and there will be no one else to beat now. So I think that’s how he should do it, but at the end of the day Bob Arum got himself in a financial situation so I’m pretty sure that he ain’t going to let Pacquiao fight Floyd right now. Bob Arum knows Pacquiao can’t whop Floyd just like Pacquiao knows he can’t whop Floyd. As a matter of fact, the world knows he can’t whop little Floyd now after that fight that he fought with Marquez. The way he got his ass whopped with Marquez, no way he whops little Floyd. Little Floyd whopped Marquez every round. Marquez destroyed him! So what do you think is going to happen? I mean be real! JENNA: Oh yeah! It is definitely a fight where I favor your son without a doubt! But I have to ask you now, if it’s not Manny Pacquiao the big option that people are talking about is that Saul Alvarez. I’m curious if you see your son going to 154 for that? MAYWEATHER: I think that fight would be good. Alvarez right now does not have enough experience to whop little Floyd right now. Don’t get me wrong! He’s a big puncher, and you know you can hit anybody and get anybody out. But overall, I can’t see him doing nothing to win. Because you know what? He just doesn’t have enough experience right now to be fighting little Floyd. I mean little Floyd would beat him up and make him look like a fool. He’s 21 years old with no experience and he’s just now beginning to feel the life of all this big action and how it comes. All little Floyd would do is set him like he did with Victor Ortiz, and there it is! That’s all that’s going to happen. I’m just telling you right now. I think that’s a bad fight for Alvarez, and I talked to my son the other day, I talked to him Friday and he was telling me that he had Cotto in mind. JENNA: Really? So if it was not Alvarez and it was actually Miguel Cotto, how would that fight be different? I mean how would that be different from taking on Alvarez, and taking on a Miguel Cotto? MAYWEATHER: I think little Floyd can whop Cotto too, but I think Cotto would be a more credited type of fighter than someone like Alvarez. He’s got experience, he knows about the championship rounds, and you know he’s even fought in big fights. I think he can give Floyd a little more of a problem than Alvarez. I think little Floyd would just pick Alvarez apart. I’m being honest with you with that. I don’t see him as having a chance. Anybody’s got a chance! I’m not going to say he don’t have a chance. He’s got a puncher’s chance if he’s got anything, but with him punching it don’t mean nothing if you can’t find nothing to hit. So I still think he’s going to be in limbo when it comes to beating Floyd. JENNA: Alright now Floyd, honestly in your opinion, if you had to pick between one of those three guys—Alvarez, Pacquiao, or Cotto—what fight would you want to see next for your son? MAYWEATHER: To be honest, I would want to see Pacquiao if he do it like my son says and takes the test. That’s the fight I want to see. I want to see the fight. I really don’t care to see the fight, because I already know what’s going to happen with the fight, but the whole thing is I want the fight to happen just for the people. So they can see for their own selves. They even got t-shirts out about, “Run Floyd, Run Floyd” from Pacquiao. Hey! They got them t-shirts out! Let’s see if he can do what the t-shirts say, because the whole thing is Pacquiao—I ain’t even got to tell you! Pacquiao ain’t got a prayer. That’s all I got to tell you. He did all that praying when he was fighting against Marquez when he was getting his ass beat every round. He came back and got on his knees and prayed. He might well step up for this, because he ain’t going to have any need to bend down because if he bends down one time he won’t be getting up. GEOFFREY CIANI: Floyd going back to Bob Arum, it seems like he doesn’t want to put Pacquiao in the ring with Floyd, but in your— MAYWEATHER: That’s been obvious! CIANI: In your opinion, though, who do you think Arum is protecting? Do you think Arum is protecting himself? Or do you think he’s protecting Pacquiao? MAYWEATHER: Whoever he’s protecting! He’s protecting his pockets and he’s protecting Pacquiao! He’s protecting his pockets! I mean don’t get me wrong! He ain’t doing nothing wrong by protecting his pockets! I mean who in the hell wants to just throw money out of their pockets and not have no gain behind it? My thing is I think Bob Arum is doing the right thing by keeping Pacquiao away from little Floyd before he gets his head tore off! That’s all that’s going to happen anyway! He’s going to smash it! He don’t have a prayer. You know what I mean? I’m just telling you. It would be funny just to see little Floyd the way he’ll play with Pacquiao—dancing around him, feinting, timing, and hitting him whenever he wants to hit him. That’s the kind of fight you’re going to see. It ain’t no fight to me to see, because I already know what time it is. I’ve been telling everybody for the longest what time it is. To me, I can care if I see it or didn’t see it. It ain’t going to make no difference. It’s going to be the same result. The result is going to be the same. CIANI: Well Floyd, going back to your son, you mentioned before Saul Alvarez and Miguel Cotto. Does this mean you think that your son will go back to 154 for the first time since he fought Oscar? MAYWEATHER: At this pace with what’s going on, with what’s going on right now he can go back to 154 and fight someone like Alvarez. He can go right to 154 and fight Alvarez. He didn’t look real big to me on TV to me. Alvarez, I never seen Alvarez person to person, but when I had seen how short Alvarez was, I don’t see him having too much of a chance of doing nothing! I mean he’s got power. You know he’s got power, because he’s strong and he’s built stocky from the ground. But hey! He ain’t got the Q’s that it takes to get the job done. So you know right there, if he wants it on the same platform that Bob Arum is standing on, De La Hoya is standing on it too. He needs to get off that platform and give Alvarez more schooling, because I’m just saying from the standpoint he’s out of his league. He just now got into the elite championship rounds to see what’s going on. He ain’t like that right now.