JENNA: Floyd, we’re also joined by my co-host Geoff.
GEOFFREY CIANI: Hey Floyd! It’s a pleasure to have you back on the show.
MAYWEATHER: How are you doing?
CIANI: I’m doing very well, thank you. Now I wanted to ask you, you mentioned Mosley before. Now Mosley knocked Margarito out. He had your son hurt at one point in the second round. Now Pacquiao was unable to knock Margarito out or knock him down—
MAYWEATHER: See that stuff don’t mean nothing. That kind of stuff don’t mean nothing. This little man that we’re talking about—the littlest man in boxing today—that little man right there had enough ammunition in his hands to take Ricky Hatton out in two rounds. Floyd took Ricky Hatton out in the tenth round, and he’s doing it with everybody. He’s doing it with all the big names and stuff. Come on, man! People got to realize man, people got families man. That’s all that it’s going to take to divide up a lot of people’s lives and cause a lot of people to be going to funeral homes. That’s what it’s going to cause. Something ain’t right, that’s all I can tell you. Something ain’t right, that’s all I could say.
CIANI: Well going into this fight did you think there was a good chance that Pacquiao would stop Margarito?
MAYWEATHER:Oh yeah, easily! I knew he was going to beat him, anyway! That was nothing big to me. He’s going to beat the next man he fights, and the next man he fights. Whatever it takes to get him and my son’s fight going, hey! All he has to do is get it going. Everybody needs to do the right thing, get it going, and let it happen.
CIANI: Okay, now Shane Mosley, he faced your son and aside from a couple of moments early in the fight, he got dominated by little Floyd. A lot of people think that Pacquiao was reluctant to fight Shane. Do you think Shane would have any chance of beating Pacquiao, or do you think that’s another fight that Pacquiao wins?
MAYWEATHER: Let me tell you this. Shane Mosley, let me tell you this right here. Whatever Shane Mosley has been doing over the years, it finally caught up to him and right now, even though Shane beat Margarito, whatever happens Shane Mosley really has no chance of whopping Pacquiao. Right now to tell you the truth, there is a lot things he don’t have. Even after the whopping he took from my son, but he ain’t going to take no whopping like he’s going to take from Pacquiao because Pacquiao is going to have bombs in his hands, man. He’s going to have missiles in his hands man, and when he hits you with them, my goodness! Let’s go. That’s all I can tell you. When Pacquiao hits him, oh my God the smallest man in boxing, when he hits when of these big guys they’re going down—I’m telling you, they’re going down. He’s the hardest hitting man, the most fastest man, he throws more punches, thousands and thousands of punches a round. This guy man, he’s incredible. He’s got the greatest footwork, and he’s greater than Muhammad Ali, and of man this guy is a bunch of bull****. It’s the real deal, that’s what it is.
CIANI: Now Floyd, when we had Freddie Roach on our show last week—
ROACH: Who? Freddie ‘The Joke Coach’ Roach!
CIANI: Yeah, we had him on our show—
ROACH: Or is it Freddie ‘The Dope Coach’ Roach? Which one are you going to talk about?
CIANI: Well Freddie said that if your son doesn’t come around, he said they might look for the winner of the Williams-Martinez rematch and have Pacquiao move up to fight for the middleweight title against the winner of that. Do you think that Pacquiao, as small as he is, would you think that he could move up to middleweight and win a portion of the middleweight title?
MAYWEATHER:Look here man, you’re asking me questions that you can’t even put an answer to it because you know how it is. You know how it is. You know exactly what I’m talking about. You know what it is. You know what’s going on just like everyone else knows. That’s all I got to tell you.
CIANI: So you do think he could win a portion of the middleweight championship, though? That’s what you’re saying?
MAYWEATHER: Hey! Pacquiao? Oh hell yeah. He can win the heavyweight title! ****! You better put him in there with somebody where he might win but it would be tight. Let’s put him in there with the Klitschkos. That’s going to be the only person that can kind of halfway slow him down a little bit. These other big guys you’re talking about, bigger than him, you got to go higher. You got to go to the heavyweights. That’s what it is right now. This guy right here is impeccable, exceptional, excellent, truly second to none. That’s what he is right now. Somebody has got to stop him. You know what, to tell you the truth they say what they want to say but if I was my son, I wouldn’t do anything until Floyd’s people in his camp go with whatever Pacquiao wants to get whatever done, and Floyd’s people should be there. And it should be likewise with Pacquiao. All their people can come and watch little Floyd when he’s randomly checked. That’s just the way it should be at all times. If it don’t be that way there shouldn’t be no fight anyway. Everybody needs to know what’s going on. That’s all I got to say.
CIANI: Okay, going back to your son for a minute and going back to Margarito for a minute. For a long time, rightly or wrongly, a lot of fans thought that your son was afraid of Margarito—
MAYWEATHER: You, you think that, everybody thought that—
CIANI: I didn’t say I thought that. I said a lot of fans did think that—
MAYWEATHER: Yeah, they did but you know what? People can think what they want to think, but see, after Shane beat his ass and he beat Shane that just showed them right there what time it is. Don’t get me wrong, styles make fights, and definitely for sure Floyd’s got the right fight to beat Margarito. Really that’s not a problem whatsoever. Margarito takes about three minutes to throw a punch. So who in the hell is he going to hit?
CIANI: So what do you think would have happened if your son was in there against Margarito instead of Pacquiao?
MAYWEATHER: My son would have beat Margarito, man. He’ll beat Pacquiao! Look man, it’s the craziest thing in the world that I’m even on the phone talking to you about a dwarf, a midget—about a midget knocking out giants. It’s ridiculous, man! Is this what’s news today? A midget knocking out a giant? It was Goliath and Sampson or something like that, whatever it is.”
JENNA: Alright now Floyd, also when we had Roach on he mentioned that he thought his other fighter, Amir Khan, would have a very good shot to beat your son. What are your thoughts on Amir Khan as a fighter?
MAYWEATHER: Amir Khan would get the **** beat out of him. That’s another thing. They’re from the same camp now. So whatever they’re doing, all of them could be doing it or whatever. They’re from the same camp. It’s the same thing. There ain’t nobody going to beat nobody. There ain’t no more daylight. You know? Amir Khan got a glass jaw. He’s got a glass jaw so I know damn well if somebody hit his ass and he’s still standing up, okay. If you’re still standing up, okay. Something must be behind it to make him still standing up. Why would he be standing? He’s got a glass jaw!
JENNA: Now Floyd, you mentioned many times before that you thought Roach was a “joke of a coach”. You thought he should be called “The Dope Coach”, but what do you think of his training abilities? Do you think he’s a good trainer?
MAYWEATHER: I’m going to be honest with you, and with the Lord as my witness—I don’t play with the big man above, it’s the truth—no. Don’t get me wrong now. We got a different type of sickness. I got a sickness, too. I got sarcoidosis. It’s a bad disease, too, what I got. It’s a lung disease, but it has me, the last couple of weeks I’ve been in the hospital because of this right here. But like I said, the things they were doing about Freddie Roach the other day with those guys doing all this stuff. I didn’t get a chance to see it. A lot of people were telling me about it. They were doing the shaking things and whatever. That’s bad. I don’t like that at all. It has nothing to do with it, but do I think he’s a good coach? To be honest with you, no I don’t and a lot of other people don’t either. I got to give him some props because he’s doing what he’s doing. He’s making good money. You can’t take that from him. He’s brought himself to the point to where some people believe it. A lot of people that don’t box and don’t know boxing, they believe things that are really not there. Soon enough, when things keep happening and things come down the whole world will get a chance to see, how good was he really? How good was he really? Was he false or was he the truth? That’s what they’re going to come down and see. Is he the real Freddie Roach? Or is he the joke? That’s what it’s going to be, and like said as a trainer he’s no good. If they followed up all that stuff and t hey do what he said they were going to do, I mean have little Floyd go to their camp while they’re doing his thing? Well we ain’t got to go to the camp. Each guy goes to the other guy’s camp when the other one’s doing what they’re doing, and then you will find out. You will find out. Pacquiao was nothing that the people thought he was, and you will see that his coach was nothing, either.