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Several weeks ago, promoter Floyd Mayweather proclaimed to fighters, "If you want to cry and you want to complain, win all your fights. If you can't win all your fights, don't cry and complain. You take what we give you and be appreciative." On the surface, that may sound like a harsh statement coming from a man that's made more money than any other fighter in the history of the sport by doing it his way, on his own, and without a promoter. While it's true that Mayweather has preached a philosophy of working smarter, not harder, while taking as little damage as possible, it's also true that Mayweather paid his dues and earned every accolade that's come his way throughout a 19-year professional career. That being said, what prompted Mayweather to make such a bold statement criticizing fighters for being unappreciative? One need only look at some of the fighters in Mayweather's own stable to get a sense of where his criticism stems from. Let's take a closer look!
JOSUE VARGAS
Josue Vargas is one of the newest additions to the Mayweather Promotions stable. He signed with the company in May of 2016 and a month later won his first professional fight in the United States (his 5th in-ring appearance) on the undercard of Thurman vs. Porter. Vargas met Mayweather in the summer of 2015 when he visited the Mayweather Boxing Club with his father/trainer. After watching him spar, Mayweather expressed interest in signing the young 16-year-old. Jessica Gonzalez, an acquaintenance of the family who happened to work for Mayweather, allowed the father and son to live at her house, telling them, "I told y'all from the beginning that Floyd will help y'all out and treat y'all right." True to form, Mayweather gave them thousands of dollars to help them extend their stay for the summer. However, when Josue's father revealed that he told his son to drop out of high school to focus solely on boxing, Mayweather informed him that the only way they would work with him is if he agreed to go back to school and get his high school diploma. The father, however, had other plans and ended up signing with a Florida-based company.
Evidently, things didn't pan out as well as the father had hoped. After a few fights in Mexico, they got back in touch with Jessica Gonzalez and asked, "Can Floyd please help us out because we don't like the situation we're in?" Mayweather agreed, got them out of their contract, and instructed David Levi, another one of his employees, to rent Josue a temporary place to stay in Las Vegas. Once again, Mayweather fronted Josue thousands of dollars to help him get settled into a comfortable position where he need only focus on boxing. When it was time for Josue to move into a place of his own, however, Levi was unable to get the deposit back because the temporary residence was "totally ****ed up." Nevertheless, Mayweather continued to help advance Josue's career, still fronting him money and suggesting that he let a professional trainer, Rafael Ramos, take charge of his corner after his father got into some legal trouble. Instead of taking Mayweather's advice, Josue opted to keep his father in charge, which resulted in him suffering the first blemish of his career, a disqualification loss, in his last fight back in October.
GERVONTA DAVIS
Before meeting Floyd Mayweather, Gervonta Davis was a fighter without a bank account still living in the tough inner city of Baltimore. After signing with Mayweather Promotions in early 2015, Gervonta quickly received the help he needed to immediately put himself and his family in a much better position. In fact, he may have received more help than any of the other new fighters that Mayweather has recently signed. First, Gervonta was advanced a substantial amount of money from Mayweather Promotions to move his mother from the hood to the suburbs so he could focus on his career and not worry about her well-being. He also received a $50,000 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon from Mayweather free of charge to help him get around. According to sources, however, Gervonta lied to the company and never moved his mother, instead leaving her in the inner city so he could pocket the money for himself. Gervonta also wasn't content with the Rubicon, so he traded it in for a more expensive Mercedes, adding a car note to the financial responsibilities of a young man that never had a bank account.
We're also told that when he joined Mayweather Promotions, Gervonta revealed that he signed multiple contracts with "some shady street dudes," who wasted no time in filing lawsuits. Fortunately for him though, the situation was quickly resolved and Mayweather Promotions was able to put his career on the fast track. His first fight under the Mayweather Promotions banner came on the undercard of Mayweather vs. Berto. Just 3 fights later, he was in a televised fight on Spike and one more fight after that, at 16-0, Gervonta is already in line for a title shot. The success was coming quickly inside the ring and Gervonta was wasting no time enjoying it. Mutual acquaintenances that also run in the Mayweather circle tell us that Gervonta was "spending money faster than he could count it." Apparently, despite having already made upwards of six figures, every time Gervonta fought, "he'd run through all his money within a week." We're told because of that, Gervonta was regularly asking Mayweather Promotions for advances of $5000. In fact, it go so bad that individuals within the company began questioning if he was doing something seedy with the money.
Nevertheless, Gervonta continued to receive help from Mayweather Promotions. They rented him a nice house in Las Vegas and filled it with $20,000 worth of furnitire so he could train in comfort as he focused on a title run. Gervonta, however, had other ideas. Sources say he decided to stop paying the rent, sold the $20,000 worth of furniture, and moved back to Baltimore to "stay in place where he was sleeping on an air mattress." Although it's unclear what prompted that decision, multiple people say that he wanted to "chase a girl out in Atlanta" and "hang out with Young Thug," who he met through Lil' James, a rapper signed to Mayweather's TMT Music Group. It wasn't long after that when Gervonta took to social media and, seemingly out of the blue, accused Mayweather of putting him on the shelf when a potential title fight with Jason Sosa fell through.
MICKEY BEY
Prior to signing with Mayweather Promotions, Mickey Bey was a very unhappy fighter. In 2010, the promotional company he was signed to, TKO Promotions, went out of business, which stalled his career for nearly a year. Eventually Bey would sign with Top Rank, but 4 fights later, his career would once again hit a snag. After a fallout with matchmaker Brad Goodman, Bey was pulled from a televised slot on ESPN and essentially put on the shelf. It was then when Bey reached out to Mayweather's cousin, Dejuan Blake, asking him for help out of his situation. Blake wasted no time in contacting Mayweather, who on the strength of his cousin's word, bought Bey out of his contract with Top Rank and signed him to his own company, Mayweather Promotions, in December of 2012. Two short months later, Mayweather got Bey a televised fight on Fox Sports. Just 5 months after that, Bey was in another televised fight, making the jump to a bigger stage when he faced John Molina Jr. on Showtime's Shobox series. Unfortunately for Bey, despite dominating nearly every round of the fight, Molina was able to mount a late rally and score a dramatic come-from-behind knockout in the final round. It was the first loss for Bey, a bitter pill to swallow, yet he could take comfort in knowing his career was active again and his paychecks had jumped from 4 figures to 5 figures. Despite the loss, Bey was able to quickly get back into title contention, thanks mainly to being attached to the Mayweather name. After only two wins against nondescript opponents, Bey was given an opportunity to face IBF lightweight champion Miguel Vazquez on the televised undercard of the Mayweather vs. Maidana pay-per-view event. It was an ugly fight, one that most observers felt Vazquez did enough to retain his title, yet when the scorecards were read, it was Bey who was awarded the victory. Although an argument could be made that the fight was close, there were many who questioned one particular scorecard (119-109) that had Bey winning all but one of the rounds of the fight. In fact, many would say that Bey was given a gift thanks again to being signed to Mayweather Promotions, who promoted the event.
After only 5 fights in a year and half with Mayweather Promotions, Bey went from being an unknown, untelevised contender to a world champion fighting on pay-per-view. Despite a rocky start that saw him fail a drug test and suffer a loss in his first 2 fights with the promotional company, his paychecks soared from 4 figures to 6 figures. It was then when people started noticing a change in Bey. Sources within Mayweather's inner circle of friends say after he became a champion, Bey "purchased a Bentley, got big-headed, and tried to dictate what he will and won't take for a fight." Lending some truth to that statement, after winning the title, Mayweather Promotions struck a deal for Bey to defend his title against mandatory challenger Denis Shafikov. Despite being initially offered $200,000 for the fight, Bey turned it down and ended up vacating his title when he learned that he would make less than half of that for the same fight after it went to purse bid. It was a costly move for Bey, who sources say was already living outside of his means while taking advances from Mayweather Promotions. Although he never pointed any fingers publicly, we're told that behind closed doors, Bey blamed the loss of the payday and his title on Dejuan Blake, who was now managing Bey after helping him get out of his contract issues with Top Rank, Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe, and Floyd Mayweather himself. Nevertheless, the same people that Bey blamed would once again quickly get him back into title contention. After an easy victory against another relatively unknown opponent, Bey was in line to face IBF featherweight champion Rances Barthelemy in another televised fight. Although he dropped the champion in the second round, Bey came up short and lost a split decision back in June. Since then, Bey has been quiet in public, but once again, behind closed doors, he's pointing the finger at the same individuals that have worked hard to put him in a position to succeed on multiple occasions. In fact, we're told that Bey has filed a lawsuit against Dejuan Blake and Mayweather Promotions, claiming wrongdoing in the handling of his career.
IN CONCLUSION
Three fighters, three different scenarios, and all three have benefitted greatly from the help of Mayweather, yet for some reason, they all seem to blame the promotional company for their current situation. It's no doubt that these scenarios are likely part of the reason why Mayweather went on record to voice his criticism about fighters complaining and being ungrateful. A lot of times, the fighters are being put into great positions to further their careers only to turn around and mess it up themselves. At the end of the day, Mayweather Promotions must be doing something right if they can take unknown fighters who suffer blemishes on their career and quickly get them into televised fights or title shots. For whatever reason, however, it's the fighters themselves that need to look in the mirror and figure out why they refuse to follow the advise of a man who retired unblemished from boxing before the age 40 with a billion dollar real estate portfolio to boot.
http://fighthype.com/mayweathernews/...gratefuls.html
Several weeks ago, promoter Floyd Mayweather proclaimed to fighters, "If you want to cry and you want to complain, win all your fights. If you can't win all your fights, don't cry and complain. You take what we give you and be appreciative." On the surface, that may sound like a harsh statement coming from a man that's made more money than any other fighter in the history of the sport by doing it his way, on his own, and without a promoter. While it's true that Mayweather has preached a philosophy of working smarter, not harder, while taking as little damage as possible, it's also true that Mayweather paid his dues and earned every accolade that's come his way throughout a 19-year professional career. That being said, what prompted Mayweather to make such a bold statement criticizing fighters for being unappreciative? One need only look at some of the fighters in Mayweather's own stable to get a sense of where his criticism stems from. Let's take a closer look!
JOSUE VARGAS
Josue Vargas is one of the newest additions to the Mayweather Promotions stable. He signed with the company in May of 2016 and a month later won his first professional fight in the United States (his 5th in-ring appearance) on the undercard of Thurman vs. Porter. Vargas met Mayweather in the summer of 2015 when he visited the Mayweather Boxing Club with his father/trainer. After watching him spar, Mayweather expressed interest in signing the young 16-year-old. Jessica Gonzalez, an acquaintenance of the family who happened to work for Mayweather, allowed the father and son to live at her house, telling them, "I told y'all from the beginning that Floyd will help y'all out and treat y'all right." True to form, Mayweather gave them thousands of dollars to help them extend their stay for the summer. However, when Josue's father revealed that he told his son to drop out of high school to focus solely on boxing, Mayweather informed him that the only way they would work with him is if he agreed to go back to school and get his high school diploma. The father, however, had other plans and ended up signing with a Florida-based company.
Evidently, things didn't pan out as well as the father had hoped. After a few fights in Mexico, they got back in touch with Jessica Gonzalez and asked, "Can Floyd please help us out because we don't like the situation we're in?" Mayweather agreed, got them out of their contract, and instructed David Levi, another one of his employees, to rent Josue a temporary place to stay in Las Vegas. Once again, Mayweather fronted Josue thousands of dollars to help him get settled into a comfortable position where he need only focus on boxing. When it was time for Josue to move into a place of his own, however, Levi was unable to get the deposit back because the temporary residence was "totally ****ed up." Nevertheless, Mayweather continued to help advance Josue's career, still fronting him money and suggesting that he let a professional trainer, Rafael Ramos, take charge of his corner after his father got into some legal trouble. Instead of taking Mayweather's advice, Josue opted to keep his father in charge, which resulted in him suffering the first blemish of his career, a disqualification loss, in his last fight back in October.
GERVONTA DAVIS
Before meeting Floyd Mayweather, Gervonta Davis was a fighter without a bank account still living in the tough inner city of Baltimore. After signing with Mayweather Promotions in early 2015, Gervonta quickly received the help he needed to immediately put himself and his family in a much better position. In fact, he may have received more help than any of the other new fighters that Mayweather has recently signed. First, Gervonta was advanced a substantial amount of money from Mayweather Promotions to move his mother from the hood to the suburbs so he could focus on his career and not worry about her well-being. He also received a $50,000 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon from Mayweather free of charge to help him get around. According to sources, however, Gervonta lied to the company and never moved his mother, instead leaving her in the inner city so he could pocket the money for himself. Gervonta also wasn't content with the Rubicon, so he traded it in for a more expensive Mercedes, adding a car note to the financial responsibilities of a young man that never had a bank account.
We're also told that when he joined Mayweather Promotions, Gervonta revealed that he signed multiple contracts with "some shady street dudes," who wasted no time in filing lawsuits. Fortunately for him though, the situation was quickly resolved and Mayweather Promotions was able to put his career on the fast track. His first fight under the Mayweather Promotions banner came on the undercard of Mayweather vs. Berto. Just 3 fights later, he was in a televised fight on Spike and one more fight after that, at 16-0, Gervonta is already in line for a title shot. The success was coming quickly inside the ring and Gervonta was wasting no time enjoying it. Mutual acquaintenances that also run in the Mayweather circle tell us that Gervonta was "spending money faster than he could count it." Apparently, despite having already made upwards of six figures, every time Gervonta fought, "he'd run through all his money within a week." We're told because of that, Gervonta was regularly asking Mayweather Promotions for advances of $5000. In fact, it go so bad that individuals within the company began questioning if he was doing something seedy with the money.
Nevertheless, Gervonta continued to receive help from Mayweather Promotions. They rented him a nice house in Las Vegas and filled it with $20,000 worth of furnitire so he could train in comfort as he focused on a title run. Gervonta, however, had other ideas. Sources say he decided to stop paying the rent, sold the $20,000 worth of furniture, and moved back to Baltimore to "stay in place where he was sleeping on an air mattress." Although it's unclear what prompted that decision, multiple people say that he wanted to "chase a girl out in Atlanta" and "hang out with Young Thug," who he met through Lil' James, a rapper signed to Mayweather's TMT Music Group. It wasn't long after that when Gervonta took to social media and, seemingly out of the blue, accused Mayweather of putting him on the shelf when a potential title fight with Jason Sosa fell through.
MICKEY BEY
Prior to signing with Mayweather Promotions, Mickey Bey was a very unhappy fighter. In 2010, the promotional company he was signed to, TKO Promotions, went out of business, which stalled his career for nearly a year. Eventually Bey would sign with Top Rank, but 4 fights later, his career would once again hit a snag. After a fallout with matchmaker Brad Goodman, Bey was pulled from a televised slot on ESPN and essentially put on the shelf. It was then when Bey reached out to Mayweather's cousin, Dejuan Blake, asking him for help out of his situation. Blake wasted no time in contacting Mayweather, who on the strength of his cousin's word, bought Bey out of his contract with Top Rank and signed him to his own company, Mayweather Promotions, in December of 2012. Two short months later, Mayweather got Bey a televised fight on Fox Sports. Just 5 months after that, Bey was in another televised fight, making the jump to a bigger stage when he faced John Molina Jr. on Showtime's Shobox series. Unfortunately for Bey, despite dominating nearly every round of the fight, Molina was able to mount a late rally and score a dramatic come-from-behind knockout in the final round. It was the first loss for Bey, a bitter pill to swallow, yet he could take comfort in knowing his career was active again and his paychecks had jumped from 4 figures to 5 figures. Despite the loss, Bey was able to quickly get back into title contention, thanks mainly to being attached to the Mayweather name. After only two wins against nondescript opponents, Bey was given an opportunity to face IBF lightweight champion Miguel Vazquez on the televised undercard of the Mayweather vs. Maidana pay-per-view event. It was an ugly fight, one that most observers felt Vazquez did enough to retain his title, yet when the scorecards were read, it was Bey who was awarded the victory. Although an argument could be made that the fight was close, there were many who questioned one particular scorecard (119-109) that had Bey winning all but one of the rounds of the fight. In fact, many would say that Bey was given a gift thanks again to being signed to Mayweather Promotions, who promoted the event.
After only 5 fights in a year and half with Mayweather Promotions, Bey went from being an unknown, untelevised contender to a world champion fighting on pay-per-view. Despite a rocky start that saw him fail a drug test and suffer a loss in his first 2 fights with the promotional company, his paychecks soared from 4 figures to 6 figures. It was then when people started noticing a change in Bey. Sources within Mayweather's inner circle of friends say after he became a champion, Bey "purchased a Bentley, got big-headed, and tried to dictate what he will and won't take for a fight." Lending some truth to that statement, after winning the title, Mayweather Promotions struck a deal for Bey to defend his title against mandatory challenger Denis Shafikov. Despite being initially offered $200,000 for the fight, Bey turned it down and ended up vacating his title when he learned that he would make less than half of that for the same fight after it went to purse bid. It was a costly move for Bey, who sources say was already living outside of his means while taking advances from Mayweather Promotions. Although he never pointed any fingers publicly, we're told that behind closed doors, Bey blamed the loss of the payday and his title on Dejuan Blake, who was now managing Bey after helping him get out of his contract issues with Top Rank, Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe, and Floyd Mayweather himself. Nevertheless, the same people that Bey blamed would once again quickly get him back into title contention. After an easy victory against another relatively unknown opponent, Bey was in line to face IBF featherweight champion Rances Barthelemy in another televised fight. Although he dropped the champion in the second round, Bey came up short and lost a split decision back in June. Since then, Bey has been quiet in public, but once again, behind closed doors, he's pointing the finger at the same individuals that have worked hard to put him in a position to succeed on multiple occasions. In fact, we're told that Bey has filed a lawsuit against Dejuan Blake and Mayweather Promotions, claiming wrongdoing in the handling of his career.
IN CONCLUSION
Three fighters, three different scenarios, and all three have benefitted greatly from the help of Mayweather, yet for some reason, they all seem to blame the promotional company for their current situation. It's no doubt that these scenarios are likely part of the reason why Mayweather went on record to voice his criticism about fighters complaining and being ungrateful. A lot of times, the fighters are being put into great positions to further their careers only to turn around and mess it up themselves. At the end of the day, Mayweather Promotions must be doing something right if they can take unknown fighters who suffer blemishes on their career and quickly get them into televised fights or title shots. For whatever reason, however, it's the fighters themselves that need to look in the mirror and figure out why they refuse to follow the advise of a man who retired unblemished from boxing before the age 40 with a billion dollar real estate portfolio to boot.
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