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How Floyd Mayweather Jr. transformed from 'Pretty Boy' to 'Money'
Finally, upon defeating Zab Judah in 2006, Mayweather made what some view as the seminal move of his career, buying himself out of his contract with Arum for $750,000 and proceeding a year later to a showdown with De La Hoya after aligning with manager Al Haymon.
"Floyd Mayweather has never been struggling, let's clean that up right now," Mayweather said in a Thursday conference call. "Me and Al Haymon joined forces because he saw not just a fighter, but a person – very articulate and smart inside and out of the ring.
"I had done good numbers before Al Haymon, but when we came together, we had a game plan. And then everything came to be."
Ross Greenburg, the former president of HBO Sports and current executive producer of Showtime's boxing reality series "All Access", recounted how Haymon set up a meeting in Las Vegas at MGM Grand in which Mayweather told him, "I'm going to be the biggest star in the sport. Line 'em up and let's go."
http://www.latimes.com/sports/boxing...819-story.html
In the words of Robert Nesta Marley Jr.:
"Don't let 'em fool ya, nor even try to school 'ya!"
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