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Boxing champ Floyd Mayweather drops plans for MMA bout
Las Vegas (AP)
December 23, 2007
12 Minutes ago
Welterweight Boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather broke all worldwide viewership records in his highly anticipated match against British hero and Junior Welterweight Champion Ricky Hatton just two weeks ago, a record which Mayweather had set in April for his title fight against Oscar DeLa Hoya.
As recently as yesterday, however, it seemed that reaching the pinnacle in Boxing was not enough for the outspoken champion.
Leonard Ellerbe, an adviser to camp Mayweather informed ESPN.com on Friday that the five-division world champion held a meeting with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban regarding an invasion of the youth culture sport of Mixed Martial Arts.
According to Ellerbe, Cuban is entering into the promotional business of no-holds barred fighting, and would do most anything to bring the talents and drawing power of Mayweather to his show, including paying Mayweather “100 times what any Mixed Martial Arts fighter has ever made for a contest”.
With interest in Mixed Martial Arts waning during the past year, Cuban believes that an athlete of Mayweather’s caliber would be a shot in the arm for a sport once seen as having unlimited growth potential, according to Ellerbe.
This afternoon, however, a spokesperson for Mayweather denied that negotiations were underway for a venture into the world of ground grappling for the champ.
“Floyd is not a ****, not even close, he just got a little stressed out after two mega events this year, and he got curious about what it would be like to, you know, lay with a man”.
The spokesperson, who asked not to be identified, confided that “Floyd took care of it. He went to the airport, you know, like that senator, and did his thing, got ****** off by a men’s room ***, and that’s the end of it, he got this whole thing out of his system”.
Neither Cuban or Mayweather could be reached this evening for comment.
Las Vegas (AP)
December 23, 2007
12 Minutes ago
Welterweight Boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather broke all worldwide viewership records in his highly anticipated match against British hero and Junior Welterweight Champion Ricky Hatton just two weeks ago, a record which Mayweather had set in April for his title fight against Oscar DeLa Hoya.
As recently as yesterday, however, it seemed that reaching the pinnacle in Boxing was not enough for the outspoken champion.
Leonard Ellerbe, an adviser to camp Mayweather informed ESPN.com on Friday that the five-division world champion held a meeting with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban regarding an invasion of the youth culture sport of Mixed Martial Arts.
According to Ellerbe, Cuban is entering into the promotional business of no-holds barred fighting, and would do most anything to bring the talents and drawing power of Mayweather to his show, including paying Mayweather “100 times what any Mixed Martial Arts fighter has ever made for a contest”.
With interest in Mixed Martial Arts waning during the past year, Cuban believes that an athlete of Mayweather’s caliber would be a shot in the arm for a sport once seen as having unlimited growth potential, according to Ellerbe.
This afternoon, however, a spokesperson for Mayweather denied that negotiations were underway for a venture into the world of ground grappling for the champ.
“Floyd is not a ****, not even close, he just got a little stressed out after two mega events this year, and he got curious about what it would be like to, you know, lay with a man”.
The spokesperson, who asked not to be identified, confided that “Floyd took care of it. He went to the airport, you know, like that senator, and did his thing, got ****** off by a men’s room ***, and that’s the end of it, he got this whole thing out of his system”.
Neither Cuban or Mayweather could be reached this evening for comment.
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