by David P. Greisman - To hear Floyd Mayweather Jr. is to listen to a man addicted to the tenor of his voice, a man who talks with a confident tone but whose caricatural hubris suggests he is compensating for some shortcoming.
His swagger inflates his standing: “I truly believe I’m the best,” he says. “I know I’m the best. Someone could say, ‘Oh, he said he’s better than Muhammad Ali.’ Yep. I’m better than Muhammad Ali. Sugar Ray Robinson? Yep. I’m better than Sugar Ray Robinson. I would never say there’s another fighter better than me. Absolutely not.”
He insolently insults his opponents. There were the personal barbs about Shane Mosley’s hairstyle (“He got a Jheri curl, man. Come on, man, it’s 2010.”), his face (“Don’t talk bad about Shane because he got a nose job.”), his past use of performance-enhancing drugs (“Tell Shane to stop taking them steroids.”). And then there were the physical taunts: “Vernon Forrest f**ked you up. Winky Wright f**ked you up. Miguel Cotto f**ked you up. Money Mayweather, I’ma f**k you up some more.” [Click Here To Read More]
His swagger inflates his standing: “I truly believe I’m the best,” he says. “I know I’m the best. Someone could say, ‘Oh, he said he’s better than Muhammad Ali.’ Yep. I’m better than Muhammad Ali. Sugar Ray Robinson? Yep. I’m better than Sugar Ray Robinson. I would never say there’s another fighter better than me. Absolutely not.”
He insolently insults his opponents. There were the personal barbs about Shane Mosley’s hairstyle (“He got a Jheri curl, man. Come on, man, it’s 2010.”), his face (“Don’t talk bad about Shane because he got a nose job.”), his past use of performance-enhancing drugs (“Tell Shane to stop taking them steroids.”). And then there were the physical taunts: “Vernon Forrest f**ked you up. Winky Wright f**ked you up. Miguel Cotto f**ked you up. Money Mayweather, I’ma f**k you up some more.” [Click Here To Read More]
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