Floyd Mayweather refuses to acknowledge Anthony Joshua in interview

[-MAKAVELLI-]

Mayweather can never give another guy top dog status...

Mayweather was asked questions about heavyweight king Anthony Joshua’s rise to global superstardom with victory over Wladimir Klitschko last month.
But Floyds response as always was a robotic script and had nothing to do with the questions asked..

Floyds response:
“A lot of young, tough competitors out there. A lot of fighters giving the sport of boxing blood, sweat and tears. They’re working hard every day.”
“You’ve got Gervonta Davis, you’ve got Badou Jack – and you have numerous other fighters that aren’t even under the Mayweather banner – working hard and giving the sport blood, sweat and tears.”


He goes off on a tangent and talks about Gervonta Davis and Badou Jack and puts them in the same bracket as Joshua... Then spends the majority if the interview talking about himself.

Floyd only talking about himself and his fighters?!?!?


I'm shocked

[Robbie Barrett]

No one is saying he needs to praise AJ.. He can be honest and say what he really thinks even if he says he doesn’t believe the AJ hype.. but he dodged the question which isn’t even a response.

Mayweather has said on multiple occasions that UK is the best and most loyal boxing market.. And AJ has changed boxing in the UK.. So many new fans have joined boxing because of him, it doesn’t hurt Floyd to acknowledge that AJ is doing great things for boxing.. but his ego is way to big.




He talked about himself more than the Davis vs Walsh fight.. he’s not there to promote himself at all. This was a press conference for Davis vs Walsh but Floyd was talking about his strip club.

Do you see De La Hoya talk about his own fights for the majority of the time when doing a press conference on Canelo’s fight?

Boxers get asked questions about other boxers all the time.. he’s a boxing promoter now if people can’t ask him questions about boxing then why is he in the business?

His name is what's selling this fight. It wouldn't be getting 1/10th of the publicity if he wasn't involved.

[Floyd is TBE]

Mayweather retiring was the worst thing to happen to some of yall. *****ing about the way he promotes his fighter, *****ing about meaningless interviews. Yall really miss being able to complain about this dude.

[NahMean]

His name is what's selling this fight. It wouldn't be getting 1/10th of the publicity if he wasn't involved.

Very true.. but the thing is he isn’t promoting the fight half as much as he’s promoting himself.
If he actually promoted his fighters these matched would be bigger.

Remember that he went on to ESPN first to promote Jack vs Degale??? But he didn’t mention Degale vs Jack fight at all...not even once! Instead he talked about himself for 30 mins.. Hows he promoting the fight and his fighers then?

He just can’t help but talk about himself.

[Kigali]

Mayweather can never give another guy top dog status...

Mayweather was asked questions about heavyweight king Anthony Joshua’s rise to global superstardom with victory over Wladimir Klitschko last month.
But Floyds response as always was a robotic script and had nothing to do with the questions asked..

Floyds response:
“A lot of young, tough competitors out there. A lot of fighters giving the sport of boxing blood, sweat and tears. They’re working hard every day.”
“You’ve got Gervonta Davis, you’ve got Badou Jack – and you have numerous other fighters that aren’t even under the Mayweather banner – working hard and giving the sport blood, sweat and tears.”


He goes off on a tangent and talks about Gervonta Davis and Badou Jack and puts them in the same bracket as Joshua... Then spends the majority if the interview talking about himself.

It's because you Brits ain't used to having **** in boxing

[Kigali]

He isn't there to promote other fighters, which would probably create more column inches than what he says about his own. He's doing what he needs to.

Buy this man a beer

[Kigali]

Joshua has 1 good fight, against an old man, and the world is supposed to revolve around him now? If he ever accomplishes even half of what Mayweather did, then we can say he's being ignored.

Ouch..........

[Kigali]

I don't get your point here. In what way is Joshua better than Gervonta? They are both IBF champs, but Gervonta is more skilled and more fun to watch.

Why are the Brits putting Joshua on a pedestal based on one good win? Joshua isn't all that. Hmmm...

...because they ain't used to having ****.

Wins over Lacy..Porter...and B*tchko..is all it takes to get them going.

[NahMean]

I can you Brits ain't used to having **** in boxing

Is that why Mayweather has got his best fighter and his Champ to the UK for this fight?

[Kigali]

Very true.. but the thing is he isn’t promoting the fight half as much as he’s promoting himself.
If he actually promoted his fighters these matched would be bigger.

Remember that he went on to ESPN first to promote Jack vs Degale??? But he didn’t mention Degale vs Jack fight at all...not even once! Instead he talked about himself for 30 mins.. Hows he promoting the fight and his fighers then?

He just can’t help but talk about himself.

Don't throw a hissy fit because everybody is not impressed by that Nigerian mummy.