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Floyd Mayweather Jr. delivers online rant against Manny Pacquiao
Friday, Sept. 3, 2010 | 1:02 p.m.
WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE
A 10-minute video posted to YouTube on Thursday featuring a racist rant by Floyd Mayweather Jr. against rival boxer Manny Pacquiao has quickly caught the boxing world’s attention.
Mayweather (41-0, 25 KO) refers to Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KO) as a "midget," makes repeated references to the Filipino’s race and accuses him of using performance-enhancing drugs.
“I’m gonna fight the Pacman when he’s off the power pellets,” he says.
The two welterweights are considered the top pound-for-pound fighters in the world, but have been unable to agree to terms that would see them meet in the ring.
Negotiations between the two sides fell through for a potential fight on March 13, when Pacquiao refused Mayweather’s demand that random blood testing be administered before and after their fight.
The two camps reportedly engaged in more negotiations this past summer, however, a deal was never made and Mayweather’s camp later insisted that talks with Pacquiao never took place.
In the video, Mayweather, who defeated Shane Mosley on May 1, says he doesn’t know if he wants to fight again — but then quickly adds he’ll beat Pacquiao whenever he does return to the ring.
“I don’t know if I’m going to fight again. I’m on vacation for about a year,” Mayweather said. “When we do come back, we are gonna kick (Pacquiao’s) ass.”
Brett Okamoto can be reached at 948-7817 or brett.okamoto@lasvegassun.com. Follow him on Twitter at LVSunFighting
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How is 'midget' and 'power pills' racist? I miss something? Poochie is only because he's not smart enough to pronounce his real name. lol
lol. Love Floyd. So entertaining. More money then anyone else in Vegas.
Floyd is stalling...waiting for Pacquiao to get older and a little slower. He should put up or shut up!
floyd is scared of seeing that "1" in the loss column. i do question why manny didn't take the first fight and blamed it on fear of getting stuck with needles when he has tattoos all over his body. i still think manny would win by unanimous decision. we'll probably never know.
@sevenhills
"cook his ass with rice and cats, or barbecued dog"
Yea thats kinda racist, but then again no one really listens to this joke talk. Just fight, pay your rent and shut up.
shayne: exactly. He doesn't remember what he's saying anyways. These videos are cut together from a bunch of different times. Obviously he's drunk or whatever else in the middle of the night.
Manny would crush him. It would be embarrassing. Manny is much too cerebral for Mayweather and it wouldn't be close.
Mayweather is racist and chicken. It's a bunch of False Bravado, he probably put the video out high as a kite.
When they fight... if they fight.... my $$$'s on Floyd. That said, I aways seem to pick the wrong fighter!
Mayweather is afraid of Pacquaio. If he wasn't he would have fought him already, instead of fighting on video like a little baby. If they ever do fight I'll love seeing Mayweather get his a.. kicked.
Looks like he has been rubbing up against too many WWE dudes. Too much acting and not enough fighting.
Amusing the CULTURAL clash here! Floyd is from the talk smack school and "Yo Mamma so ugly" world of hard knocks -
Watch the Filipino uproar over this - in pure Nationalistic form! The Philippine government will actually blacklist Floyd from entering the Philippines like they did with Baldwin who made an off-the-cuff remark about mail order brides on Late Night (forget if it was SNL).
Floyd has a valid point on the needle issue as Manny has more tattoos than the VIP tramp-tent at the Rehab Hard Rock Sunday pool splash!
There is strong reason to believe Manny does growth hormones from China...
Take the test MANNY!
Why should he take the tests, because the MASTER of AVOIDANCE demands it???
Manny has always tested CLEAN, and El Boy is not the NSAC!!!
"Manny has always tested clean" because he knew when the tests were coming and could game them a month out from an actual fight. Pacquaio's "legendary" endurance is chemical enhanced. If you've got nothing to hide Manny, drop the bogus needle pretense Bob Arum cooked up for you and prove what you got against Mayweather. If Mayweather were only blustering, as some of you have convinced yourselves, this would be the easiest bluff in the world to call. Mayweather is ready. Manny and his handlers are afraid.
What an embarrassing display, and not just because of his boneheaded and, yes, racist comments. He's whacked out. This dude has squirrels scampering around in his head. His future is bleak. In 10 years, when he no longer has boxing to prop up his ego, he'll fly into bouts of crazed and violent ranting on par with a drunk Mel Gibson.
My condolences to the Arum family on the loss of son, John Arum.
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I think Manny should celebrate his victory with fried chicken, waffles, watermelon and grape juice....
For DTJ, U not paying attention...Pac AGREED to all BOY's demand, including random Blood Tests!!!
BOY's seeking new EXCUSES to PUNK OUT!!!
Floyd=Hood rat!He will wind up broke like Mike Tyson in a few yrs begging Pac man for a job as his water boy.
ZZZAPATO,
Maybe you're right and I missed it, but please provide me a link to a major news source reporting this. What I have heard is that Pacquiao's camp 'claims' they've "met all demands," but in fact, STILL will not submit to random tests within a two-week window of the fight date.
http://www.boxingnews24.com/2010/08/roac...
Let me know what you've got, ZZZ.
I am not into this crap at all, I wouldn't pay one dime to see that crap. All of that profanity, not necessary, if don't know much about Floyd M. and listening to him talk like that; I for one never will
this why boxing is dead.......its the only fight any one wants to see....and its never going to happen ..........and 40 fights ....30 were hand picked.....10 floyd ran around like he was on dancing with the stars....garbage enjoy it floyd you will be the last of the overpaid boxers in that fraud of a sport......... thank you dana white
Mayweather,Mayweather,Mayweather Jr, You are acting like Ali, when our country call on him he ran from the draft as we call on you to fight Manny THE PACK MAN you are running as well "SCARED"..............
DTJ: Pac always agreed to the test, immediately AFTER the Fight, that not good enough for U???
BOY will continue to PUNK OUT!!!
Pacquiao scares the living h#!! out of Mayweather. It is time for this loud mouth to put up or shut up.