Oh boy…

I’m probably the biggest Mayweather fan out there, but I can’t co-sign any of what you’re about to read for reasons I will explain at the bottom of the post. But during a press conference promoting his upcoming fight against Juan Manuel Marquez, he offered these statements about MMA and Manny Pacquiao.

“You can’t take my shoes off, and take my shirt off and throw me in a cage. You do that with animals, you don’t do that with humans,” said a bold Mayweather. “It takes true skills to be in the sport of boxing.”

While Mayweather probably should have stopped his brash statements there — he didn’t, saying MMA was created by white fighters who couldn’t cut it in the ring.

“In boxing, we know who’s dominating. Black fighters and Hispanic fighters is dominating in this sport,” Mayweather continued. “And this is not a racial statement but there’s no white fighters in boxing that’s dominating, so they had to go to something else and start something new.”

Mayweather was then asked about a potential fight with Manny Pacquiao and offered these words:

“Everybody wants to see the Pacquiao fight, but it doesn’t work like that. Pacquiao isn’t his own boss and he’s giving up 27 percent of his money to Bob Arum,” Mayweather said. “Once he becomes his own boss, then we can talk. If he’s not his own boss I ain’t got nothing to say to him.”

But just in case he does, Mayweather says you know where to find him.

“It’s not hard to find me. Everybody know I’m in Las Vegas,” he said. “Just look for the biggest mansion and the prettiest Rolls-Royce — that’s me.” <---- LOL

Here’s what I think about the entire situation…….

1. First and foremost, I sincerely hope Floyd isn’t overlooking Marquez. It seems as if every time I hear or read a quote from Floyd lately it has NOTHING to do with the man he’s about to fight. This is the biggest moment of Juan’s career, and you can bet your ass he’s not concerning himself with trivial things such as other sports. Let’s not forget Floyd has a rib injury and probably won’t enter this fight at 100%.

2. Floyd’s remarks about MMA are very interesting, because if you can remember a year and a half ago Floyd briefly considered a career in mixed martial arts. So while it’s true none of us know exactly how serious he was about stepping into the cage… he makes himself look like an ass by badmouthing a sport he wanted to associate himself with. Not to mention he “competed” at Wrestlemania.

3. He needs to stop his pissing match with Bob Arum. All those comments about Manny Pacquiao not being a boss and getting robbed of his money were not shots at Pacquiao, they were shots at Manny’s promoter Arum. The #1 reason Floyd won’t step in the ring with Cotto and Pacquiao are because he and Bob can’t put their personal feelings to the side to do business. This isn’t a one sided affair either, Bob Arum has been saying all kinds of things about Floyd in the press which is only making things worse.

4. The night Floyd fights Juan Manuel Marquez will be huge for two reasons. The first is that the Mayweather PPV will go head to head against UFC 103 and it’s going to be a great measuring stick to judge which combat sport is on top of the hill. Mayweather calls himself “The Pay-Per-View” king and he should be really embarrassed if the UFC draws a bigger audience than he does. The second is that if Floyd wins this matchup, it’s going to put considerable pressure on Mayweather & Arum to get along and set up a superfight between Manny & Floyd (longshot).