Mayweather rips HBO announcers for racial bias

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Floyd Mayweather Says HBO Announcers Are Racially Biased
Published 7/5/2008 by Chuck at Sportaphile
... by Jermain Taylor in the first fight, and that made for exciting television. On the other hand, Floyd Mayweather is SO good that his opponents can rarely get a clean hit on him, let alone knock him to the mat. Excellent boxing skill doesn’t always translate to well in terms of exciting television. You can’t be considered a “great boxer” by the media until someone beats your ass and then you get up. Oh yeah, and I have to include this quote….because it’s so damned funny. “Jim ...

Floyd Mayweather Jr. Rips on HBO
Published 7/6/2008 by Larry Brown at Larry Brown Sports
... Pretty Boy says that he was coerced into pleading no contest in a case where he hadn’t done anything just to clear the incident up so that he could fight on pay-per-view. He also says that he’s made such strong investments that he expects to be a billionaire by the end of the year. Now that’s highly debatable, but it tells us that he doesn’t need boxing anymore because he’s already seemingly set for life. Additionally, Floyd expressed a desire to be in good mental and physical state later on in life, which helps ...

Media News & Notes
Published 7/7/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... half-baked theories, line by line: His paper has hired a blogger and is looking to hire more; Eggers just last week wrote a navel-gazing column about how he can no longer play pick-up basketball, but he wishes he had played with Charles Barkley; Peter Vecsey of the NY post recently admitted to preferring to watch games at home rather than at the arena; and it goes on and on and on. Beautiful stuff. Floyd Mayweather rips the HBO boxing announcers as racist. (Grand Rapids Press via USA Today) Three of Deitsch’s June media ...

Newsflash: Jim Lampley Goes to the Same Strip Clubs as Money Mayweather
Published 7/7/2008 at The Sporting Blog
[image] Or at least, so claims Money. In his first interview since his surprise retirement , Floyd Mayweather mentioned that he and Lampley frequented the same strip joints in the past, a revelation that came in the course of making bigger news by ripping HBO Boxing commentators for being racist. In particular, he singled out Lampley, Larry Merchant and Emmanuel Steward for this accusation (Manny Steward who, it should be mentioned, is himself African-American). They talk about Kelly Pavlik, a white fighter, like he's the second coming. Or they go crazy over Manny Pacquiao. ...