7. Floyd’s Christmas card to Manny Pacquiao
With 6.4 million followers on Twitter and an estimated net worth of $400 million, you’d think that Mayweather would be above throwing petty shade at rivals on social media. Yeah, that’s definitely not the case as Floyd proved in late 2013 to be his way of saying Happy Holidays. Back when he and Pacquiao were still trading jabs in the media without actually meeting in the ring, Mayweather addressed the following “Christmas card” to his Filipino rival and mailed it through the Twitterverse.
This is my Christmas card to the world… Happy Sleepy Holidays zzzzzzzzzzzz pic.twitter.com/ynxAJiJmyS
— Floyd Mayweather (@FloydMayweather) December 23, 2013
One true class act.
6. Floyd makes it rain, literally
I have no idea if this was a commercial, a promotional video, or if Mayweather just spontaneously decided to put on a cheap suit, head down to his training facility, press the record button, and start tossing Ben Franklins around everywhere. Nevertheless, it was magnificent, and it’s probably the only Floyd Mayweather-related thing that can elicit so much as a light grin from me. He lives up to his nickname after all.
Also, I may or may not have attempted to recreate the above scene after a friendly payday from a local gaming casino recently.
5. Money Mayweather, not Reading Rainbow
To quote the legendary President Arnold Schwarzenegger in “The Simpsons Movie,” “I was elected to lead, not to read.” Mayweather has often taken heat for his perceived inability to read at an elementary level, and he has done himself no favors towards rebuking that notion. Who could forget the time that he struggled to read a radio promo liner like a first-grader still groggy after naptime?
Much like Charlie Kelly in “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” Floyd’s illiteracy has screwed himself over once again.
4. Floyd tiptoes around domestic violence questions in an interview with Rachel Nichols
Mayweather is a serial woman beater who has had multiple domestic violence convictions and has even done hard time in prison for it. These are the facts. But when ESPN reporter Rachel Nichols confronted him with these facts, Floyd tried to deftly tiptoe around the question much like the way he ducks and slips inside of the ring. He somehow tried to dispute the veracity of the hard evidence against him and even pulled the “Only God can judge me” defense.
Floyd Mayweather Jr: a master at avoiding punches and avoiding accountability.
