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here's an old floyd jr. interview talking about his fight with zab judah....funny read.
Undefeated pound for pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. : "First off I want to say, Zab Judah, the same guy [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] trash got dropped by one of the lightest punchers in boxing, which is Cory Spinks. This guy feels and claims he's an elite fighter, but he's still fighting on undercards. This guy is undisputed champion and he still hasn't made a million dollars yet. He claims that I apologized, if he took anything personal I apologized, but I don't take nothing back that I said. And the only reason I did that is because he got a soft heart. He's a killer and he a thug but he got a soft heart. It's obvious I hit a nerve with him and it's obvious he's real, real sensitive. This guy, I can teach him things. He's undisputed champion and he hasn't seen a million dollars but he's paying three sanctioning fees and that don't make sense."Zab Judah needs belts, my name speaks for itself. Zab Judah needs belts.
GL: Regardless of what you or Zab have to say about each other, the fact remains that Judah-Mayweather is a fight that would have the entire boxing world salivating. I understand the Winky Wright fight is the frontrunner for November 12...
Floyd Mayweather Jr: (cutting in) "This is the same guy talking about he wants to get mega money for fighting me, but he's been in the [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] for nine years and hasn't seen a million dollars. How can he possibly get anywhere near the kind of money I make if we fight? That don't make sense. He don't sell tickets like me, he don't bring excitement to the fight game like me and h'e nowhere on my level. He's a good fighter, I don't take that away from him, but he's not on the level of a Floyd Mayweather. If he was, he would be one of HBO's elite fighters and he's not."Same guy, Zab Judah...First he wanted to fight like Pernell Whitaker and it didn't work out, then he tried to fight like Mike Tyson and that didn't work out, now he's trying to fight like me. Who does this guy want to be? And as far as with Don King, we can make the fight and I want the fight to happen but you got to realize this, I don't need a rematch clause because I know I'm going to get it right the first time. He needs a rematch clause same like he had with Cory Spinks, he can't get it right the first time. I get it right the first time because I don't make no mistakes.
GL: But if you were the undisputed champion would Bob Arum be out of line for asking for a rematch clause to protect his championships?
Floyd Mayweather Jr: "I don't need to protect nothing and I'd tell Bob Arum you don't need to protect nothing from me because I'm going to get it right the first time. Zab's talking about what he's going to do when he sees me. He's going to run in my face and do this and do that to me. For starters, real gangsters, real killers and real thugs don't make open threats in public. Bad boys move in silence. If he's a bad boy he'll move in silence. He wants to run in my face and try something so I can do something to him and catch another lawsuit. If he gets me in a lawsuit, maybe he'll make his first million dollars. Hopefully it's [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] on November 12. But it don't matter who they put in front of me, if it makes dollars it makes sense and to me Winky Wright is a much bigger fight."Zab Judah would be a crazy fight also though, I'm just looking for the fight that brings me the most money. The Winky Wright fight is bigger because it's two bigger names. This guy is acting like such a killer, acting so tough, the same guy got hit by one punch...not two or three, one punch from Kostya Tszyu dropped him three times. And then after the fight he tried to beat up the referee. Don't beat up the referee now, go beat up Tszyu. He had a rematch clause with Kostya Tszyu and he wasn't too quick to try and make the fight happen again."
GL: I think he tried to make it happen...Floyd Mayweather Jr: (cutting in) "Naw, naw...Kostya Tszyu probably didn't take the fight with Zab Judah because he acted like a baby. A real stand up guy would have taken his loss and taken it with pride admitting Tszyu was the better man that night."GL: It's no secret that Bob Arum is dying to make the Antonio Margarito fight. How do you feel about that fight?
Floyd Mayweather Jr: "That's not happening because nobody don't know who Margarito is. Of course Arum wants that fight because Margarito is with Arum so why wouldn't he want to make the fight? "On November 12, I'm looking to give Zab some discipline and I'm going to pick up where I left off, punishing him. Like I said, when he lost he acted real immature and real men don't act like that. I'm what you call a class act. After I beat Gatti I didn't have to run in the ref's face. Gatti didn't either. We shook hands, he knew I was the better man that night and that was that."Zab says, 'when me and Floyd fight I'm going to get crazy money!' No, I'm going to get crazy money and you're going to be happy to make what you make. I'll be the one making crazy money. If he was such a good fighter he would be one of HBO's elite fighters and he's not.
GL: Well, maybe he won't turn down a fight with you to become one of HBO's elite fighters by going through you.
Floyd Mayweather Jr: "Zab Judah is a thousandaire. Floyd Mayweather is a millionaire. Two different levels. Jealousy and envy is the devils work and everybody knows that Zab is jealous of me and he always has been. At the end of the day it's about being the best, and I'm numero uno. The cream of the crop, the top dog. "You see Zab [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] like that because he's immature. Once I school him in the ring I'm going to give him some lessons about how you have class..look clean cut and have nice teeth so once my career is over I'll be able to go into commentating show my versatility. Maybe one day he'll be able to say he's on that level. We love to see Zab in the rap videos, what we call him, we call him a video groupy. He got to get his exposure by being in someone else's video. I get my exposure by beating the top fighters in the fight game. "November 12 is right around the corner and it's not going to be at 140. It's either going to be Zab or Winky and I'm going with whichever one pays the most money. Most likely it's going to be the Winky Wright fight because it's a bigger fight but once I'm done with that, I'll help Zab become a millionaire. "Zab Judah needs to fight six times a year to make what I make in six rounds. His promoter already told me I'm the top dog so even his promoter knows what time it is. We don't even know who Zab's going to be with. Me, I'm honest and I'm loyal. My career started with Bob Arum and I'm still working with him. Maybe one day Zab will learn to be loyal like that. I'm the main event and the main attraction; Zab Judah is nothing but an undercard fighter. He just needs to make his mind up on who he wants to fight like. "I mean, when did he start rolling his shoulder? He's a southpaw and he's probably right handed."
GL: Well you would know, you're the one who sparred with him.
Floyd Mayweather Jr: "I didn't spar with him I punished him. And he knows it. I already know he got a glass jaw. His jaw is like a hollow egg shell. You can blow on it and his jaw will crack.
GL: And would you be able to expose that at 147?
Floyd Mayweather Jr: "Expose that? All I got to do is land. Matter fact, when we sparred I dropped him. He'll tell you that. I dropped him when we sparred, helped him up told him to stand up so I could you more of this act right. Then he calls my [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] with you on the other line, come November 12 or my next fight right after that he's not going to have to call my phone to look for me, he'll see me face to face I promise you that. I don't need to punch nobody in the face when I see them in the street because I carry myself with class, but watch what I'm going to do to him once we lace them up. I got a new name for Zab Judah.
GL: And what's that Floyd?Floyd Mayweather Jr: "Super glass jaw Judah. It ain't Zab Super Judah, it's Super Glass Jaw Judah. And Super glass jaw needs to understand that he's not going to get the kind of money I'm making because I made more when I was 21 then he is with the undisputed welterweight championship of the world.
Undefeated pound for pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. : "First off I want to say, Zab Judah, the same guy [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] trash got dropped by one of the lightest punchers in boxing, which is Cory Spinks. This guy feels and claims he's an elite fighter, but he's still fighting on undercards. This guy is undisputed champion and he still hasn't made a million dollars yet. He claims that I apologized, if he took anything personal I apologized, but I don't take nothing back that I said. And the only reason I did that is because he got a soft heart. He's a killer and he a thug but he got a soft heart. It's obvious I hit a nerve with him and it's obvious he's real, real sensitive. This guy, I can teach him things. He's undisputed champion and he hasn't seen a million dollars but he's paying three sanctioning fees and that don't make sense."Zab Judah needs belts, my name speaks for itself. Zab Judah needs belts.
GL: Regardless of what you or Zab have to say about each other, the fact remains that Judah-Mayweather is a fight that would have the entire boxing world salivating. I understand the Winky Wright fight is the frontrunner for November 12...
Floyd Mayweather Jr: (cutting in) "This is the same guy talking about he wants to get mega money for fighting me, but he's been in the [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] for nine years and hasn't seen a million dollars. How can he possibly get anywhere near the kind of money I make if we fight? That don't make sense. He don't sell tickets like me, he don't bring excitement to the fight game like me and h'e nowhere on my level. He's a good fighter, I don't take that away from him, but he's not on the level of a Floyd Mayweather. If he was, he would be one of HBO's elite fighters and he's not."Same guy, Zab Judah...First he wanted to fight like Pernell Whitaker and it didn't work out, then he tried to fight like Mike Tyson and that didn't work out, now he's trying to fight like me. Who does this guy want to be? And as far as with Don King, we can make the fight and I want the fight to happen but you got to realize this, I don't need a rematch clause because I know I'm going to get it right the first time. He needs a rematch clause same like he had with Cory Spinks, he can't get it right the first time. I get it right the first time because I don't make no mistakes.
GL: But if you were the undisputed champion would Bob Arum be out of line for asking for a rematch clause to protect his championships?
Floyd Mayweather Jr: "I don't need to protect nothing and I'd tell Bob Arum you don't need to protect nothing from me because I'm going to get it right the first time. Zab's talking about what he's going to do when he sees me. He's going to run in my face and do this and do that to me. For starters, real gangsters, real killers and real thugs don't make open threats in public. Bad boys move in silence. If he's a bad boy he'll move in silence. He wants to run in my face and try something so I can do something to him and catch another lawsuit. If he gets me in a lawsuit, maybe he'll make his first million dollars. Hopefully it's [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] on November 12. But it don't matter who they put in front of me, if it makes dollars it makes sense and to me Winky Wright is a much bigger fight."Zab Judah would be a crazy fight also though, I'm just looking for the fight that brings me the most money. The Winky Wright fight is bigger because it's two bigger names. This guy is acting like such a killer, acting so tough, the same guy got hit by one punch...not two or three, one punch from Kostya Tszyu dropped him three times. And then after the fight he tried to beat up the referee. Don't beat up the referee now, go beat up Tszyu. He had a rematch clause with Kostya Tszyu and he wasn't too quick to try and make the fight happen again."
GL: I think he tried to make it happen...Floyd Mayweather Jr: (cutting in) "Naw, naw...Kostya Tszyu probably didn't take the fight with Zab Judah because he acted like a baby. A real stand up guy would have taken his loss and taken it with pride admitting Tszyu was the better man that night."GL: It's no secret that Bob Arum is dying to make the Antonio Margarito fight. How do you feel about that fight?
Floyd Mayweather Jr: "That's not happening because nobody don't know who Margarito is. Of course Arum wants that fight because Margarito is with Arum so why wouldn't he want to make the fight? "On November 12, I'm looking to give Zab some discipline and I'm going to pick up where I left off, punishing him. Like I said, when he lost he acted real immature and real men don't act like that. I'm what you call a class act. After I beat Gatti I didn't have to run in the ref's face. Gatti didn't either. We shook hands, he knew I was the better man that night and that was that."Zab says, 'when me and Floyd fight I'm going to get crazy money!' No, I'm going to get crazy money and you're going to be happy to make what you make. I'll be the one making crazy money. If he was such a good fighter he would be one of HBO's elite fighters and he's not.
GL: Well, maybe he won't turn down a fight with you to become one of HBO's elite fighters by going through you.
Floyd Mayweather Jr: "Zab Judah is a thousandaire. Floyd Mayweather is a millionaire. Two different levels. Jealousy and envy is the devils work and everybody knows that Zab is jealous of me and he always has been. At the end of the day it's about being the best, and I'm numero uno. The cream of the crop, the top dog. "You see Zab [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] like that because he's immature. Once I school him in the ring I'm going to give him some lessons about how you have class..look clean cut and have nice teeth so once my career is over I'll be able to go into commentating show my versatility. Maybe one day he'll be able to say he's on that level. We love to see Zab in the rap videos, what we call him, we call him a video groupy. He got to get his exposure by being in someone else's video. I get my exposure by beating the top fighters in the fight game. "November 12 is right around the corner and it's not going to be at 140. It's either going to be Zab or Winky and I'm going with whichever one pays the most money. Most likely it's going to be the Winky Wright fight because it's a bigger fight but once I'm done with that, I'll help Zab become a millionaire. "Zab Judah needs to fight six times a year to make what I make in six rounds. His promoter already told me I'm the top dog so even his promoter knows what time it is. We don't even know who Zab's going to be with. Me, I'm honest and I'm loyal. My career started with Bob Arum and I'm still working with him. Maybe one day Zab will learn to be loyal like that. I'm the main event and the main attraction; Zab Judah is nothing but an undercard fighter. He just needs to make his mind up on who he wants to fight like. "I mean, when did he start rolling his shoulder? He's a southpaw and he's probably right handed."
GL: Well you would know, you're the one who sparred with him.
Floyd Mayweather Jr: "I didn't spar with him I punished him. And he knows it. I already know he got a glass jaw. His jaw is like a hollow egg shell. You can blow on it and his jaw will crack.
GL: And would you be able to expose that at 147?
Floyd Mayweather Jr: "Expose that? All I got to do is land. Matter fact, when we sparred I dropped him. He'll tell you that. I dropped him when we sparred, helped him up told him to stand up so I could you more of this act right. Then he calls my [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] with you on the other line, come November 12 or my next fight right after that he's not going to have to call my phone to look for me, he'll see me face to face I promise you that. I don't need to punch nobody in the face when I see them in the street because I carry myself with class, but watch what I'm going to do to him once we lace them up. I got a new name for Zab Judah.
GL: And what's that Floyd?Floyd Mayweather Jr: "Super glass jaw Judah. It ain't Zab Super Judah, it's Super Glass Jaw Judah. And Super glass jaw needs to understand that he's not going to get the kind of money I'm making because I made more when I was 21 then he is with the undisputed welterweight championship of the world.
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