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Mayweather Tilts at Windmills

By Robert Ecksel on May 1, 2012

Winning friends and influencing people is not what Mayweather is about (Hogan Photos)

 

For a man who says he doesn’t care about Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather sure has Pacquiao on the brain.

After his grand entrance at the MGM Grand yesterday, Mayweather met with the press and talked at length about the steroidal Filipino.

“Where was Manny Pacquiao at ‘96?” Floyd asked. “He was a pro before me. Where was he in ‘97? Where was he in ‘98? Where was he all these years? All I’m doing is just asking a question. Come on, it’s basic common sense. And guess what, it took me years to get to here.

“Go back and look at the pictures. His head is small and then all of a sudden his head just grew? Come on man, stop this. Ray Charles can see this shit. Go back and look at the pictures and tell me this man’s head didn’t get bigger. You’re going to tell me this shit is all natural. Come one man, stop.”

Pacquiao’s head has gotten larger as the years have progressed, as has his body, arsenal and ambition. Mayweather’s head has swelled as well, although perhaps for different reasons.

But Floyd wasn’t talking about himself, at least not directly. He was explaining, in a roundabout way, why he and Pacquiao haven’t fought.

“I’m going up in weight but I’m not just walking through no damn fighters. This motherf—-er was 106 and he’s just walking through Cotto. And Cotto can’t knock down Mosley, but he can? Come on man.”

Mosley got caught up in the BALCO scandal and admitted he used PEDs. But it was presumably without his knowledge.

“You saw what happened when [Mosley] was doing? What was he doing to fighters? He was running through fighters. And guess what, then all of a sudden I spoke on it. And then when I spoke, they said, ‘Oh Floyd is just scared.’ Then you took him off of it and put him in front me, what did he do? He got killed! This is bullshit and you know it.”

Mayweather was finally talking about himself via the fact that he “killed” Sugar Shane. But the world is complicated, too complicated for one man’s reality to be the reality for us all. What Money May claims might or might not be true, but his constantly shoving it down our throats borders on the fascistic.

“These are the American people who don’t stand behind me,” he said, complaining about the very people who have made him rich. “They stand behind these foreigners. I get more love in the UK. Y’all know this is bullshit. People just say ‘we don’t give a f—- if he’s taking it or not. We just want to see a fight. We don’t give a f—- about your health. We don’t give a f—- about your family. All we care about is our own family.’ F—- no, I care about my family, because they are going to be there when nobody else is there. When my career is over, you’re going to move on to the next and write about the next motherf—-er. That’s exactly what is going to happen.”

That is what happens when fighters retire. With rare exceptions they cease being news. But it won’t be because we don’t give a damn about Mayweather’s health or family. That has nothing to do with it. It will simply be because he’s no longer fighting.

To the surprise of no one, Pacquiao isn’t the only person at whom Mayweather is furious. There’s Floyd Sr. There’s Larry Merchant. For all I know there’s you and me. But he’s also mad as hell at Don King, and of course his favorite bugaboo Bob Arum.

“Don King and Bob Arum don’t see out the eyes of a fighter because they’re not a fighter. All they care about is some f—-ing money. I care about a fighter’s well-being because I am a fighter.

“I know how it is to have a broken rib the rest of your life. I know how it is to piss blood. Y’all don’t know nothing about this.”

Winning friends and influencing people is not what Mayweather is about. He thrives on competition, both in and out of ring, and if tilting at windmills gets him geared for a fight, tilt away Money May.

Wednesday, May 02, 2012