Floyd Mayweather's exclusive 22 minute interview with ESPN (Video)

[The Gambler1981]

If Floyd thinks that Bob Arum owes him millions of dollars it is pretty clear why certain fights never took place, even if Arum doesn't owe him that kind of cash but Floyd thinks he owes him money (I am pretty sure Arum did admit to owing Floyd a bit of cash) that would make it kind of hard to just make things work.

For the injury, why do people expect him to give out that info? He has a fight comming up and it behooves him to not really let JMM know right where the injury took place. Also Floyd has always been very secretive about his camp so he could have been doing some crazy **** or something dumb happeaned either way it doesn't really mean anything.


Interviewing Floyd must be fun and irratating all at the same time. He says some outlandish **** which a lot of athletes don't really do, it can be kind of annoying not getting your questions really answered and he also speaks rather poorly.

[JmtRyan]

Said some cool stuff about Gatti.

[Vladimir303]

I watched the movie Frost/Nixon the other day. Gave me a whole new perspective of what the interviewer has to do to prepare himself if he wants to grill the person hard that he is interviewing.

Just once I'd like for someone to nail Floyd during these interviews unstead of letting him ramble on. There were plenty of opening where the interviewer could've stopped him but didn't.

[Bhopreign]

Floyd would never say why or how he got injured and no boxer should before a fight. Situation is different but I remember after the first Castillo fight when after the first round Floyd told Roger his shoulder was hurt, he said because the cameras picked that up that he would never say anything again related to being hurt in the ring.

[deevel79]

Floyd claims that he doesnt care about a pfp title, yet the minute Brian Kenny introduced Floyd as the "former" #1 pfp fighter in the world, Floyd caught a hissy fit! LMAO.

[Roxas]

great interview from my man Floyd.....Marquez is going down!!!!!

[Spacey1991]

Agree:

Last time I checked, the biggest names in the sport over the past 50 years have been Oscar {non-white}; Tyson {non-white}; SRL {non-white}; Hearns {non-white}; Duran {non-white}; ALI {non-white}...and the rest can be filled in like Tito, Manny Pacquiao, Lewis (who has the arguement "If I were American" although considering Pac isn't American, maybe he just didn't have the full "it" factor)...and so on.


Jordan and Tiger Woods are Huge Names not only in the Sports-World, not only in America, but the World. And then you have Kobe, Lebron, etc.

Floyd's still lucky he had O$car and Hatton to help him out with those numbers. They needed him as well, but they were the bigger part.

I mean, I aint saying black fighters are better than white fighters cause I think that's a load of bull****, IMO its just about the hard work you put in the gym and how hard you train (I am white by the way)... but if anything white fighters get less credit than fighters of other races, not saying they deserve more and getting racial... just saying from what I see they don't.

I don't wanna get racial though and be a hypocrite... but what Floyd said then was ******, he is my favorite fighter but he was being an idiot then just like he was being an idiot when talking about MMA.

I mean I just wanna get everything straight, everything else he said was spot on... nothing else he said pissed be off and all of the rest of the interview was fine to me... and I had loads of respect for what he said for Gatti, its just that one bit ruined the interview a little... being racial will get him nowhere, especially on television interviews.

[Roxas]

If Floyd were white/mexican he'd definitely be much bigger and more respected......

[boxasmash]

if mayweather was a **** he'd do this when fighting a real opponent

[Spacey1991]

If Floyd were white/mexican he'd definitely be much bigger and more respected......

Calzaghe gets no respect... stop with the bull****, Floyd got racial... for no reason, he is my favorite fighter and yours too... but even if we're a fan we gotta admit when he makes a bull**** comment, there was no reason to get racial... at that one point of the interview... he was being a complete ****.

He didn't say Mexican, he said white... truth is nobody looks at race, nobody cares... if it was the case of him not being as big and popular due to his skin color then why do SRL, SRR, Ali, Luis, etc. get a **** load of credit, they are black... if he didn't get the recognition he deserved cause he was black then why would these guys have? He made a ****** comment, and that is that.

Not trying to get racial myself... but all I am saying is there was no need to say what he said.