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by David P. Greisman - The numbers have long mattered to Floyd Mayweather Jr., or rather a couple of specific numbers were those to which he paid the most attention, particularly when it meant he could bring attention to how much he got paid.
He loved to brag about his record-setting earnings from pay-per-view and box office blockbusters, posting photos of his checks on social media with as much glee as a lottery winner holding an oversized cardboard mockup of their grand prize. But while their pleasure was born from luck, his profits justified his self-stylized status symbol as a luxuriously living hedonistic high-roller.
The betting slips he often put online only buttressed that belief. He could bet more than most earn in a year and win back even more to add to his bank account, or perhaps his satchel famously full of cash, before turning that money into even more shoes or clothes or ***elry or cars or anything and everything a rich man ever could desire.
And all of that was the product of something guarded as intensely as the moneybag — his undefeated record. It wasn’t even the number in front that meant the most to him. Rather, it was the zero at the end, a nothing that meant all. To Mayweather, the fact that no one had beaten him meant no one was better, not now and not ever. [Click Here To Read More]
He loved to brag about his record-setting earnings from pay-per-view and box office blockbusters, posting photos of his checks on social media with as much glee as a lottery winner holding an oversized cardboard mockup of their grand prize. But while their pleasure was born from luck, his profits justified his self-stylized status symbol as a luxuriously living hedonistic high-roller.
The betting slips he often put online only buttressed that belief. He could bet more than most earn in a year and win back even more to add to his bank account, or perhaps his satchel famously full of cash, before turning that money into even more shoes or clothes or ***elry or cars or anything and everything a rich man ever could desire.
And all of that was the product of something guarded as intensely as the moneybag — his undefeated record. It wasn’t even the number in front that meant the most to him. Rather, it was the zero at the end, a nothing that meant all. To Mayweather, the fact that no one had beaten him meant no one was better, not now and not ever. [Click Here To Read More]
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