On Friday, Floyd Mayweather's publicist from Swanson Communications categorically denied a report that she refused media members the opportunity to interview Mayweather after his Los Angeles public press conference with Shane Mosley on Thursday.
Dennis "d Source" Guillermo, the Filipino Sports Examiner had reported earlier Friday that Philippine media members were told they would not be allowed to interview Mayweather because he wouldn't speak about Manny Pacquiao.
Ms. Kelly Swanson remembers that, "Two individuals approached me about talking with Floyd after all other television crews had finished. Floyd was already off the stage signing autographs with fans."
Swanson had asked that TV media members assemble behind the stage after the public portion of the program was over. The Los Angeles appearance ended a three-city tour during which both Shane Mosley and Floyd Mayweather appeared in person in front of large crowds to promote their May 1 bout.
The TV crews were to get access to Mosley and Mayweather first prior to print and electronic media having their chance to ask questions and shoot photos.
After Mayweather finished with the media he left the stage, according to Swanson and went into an area where fans had waited to speak with him and obtain autographs.
Swanson remembers the two journalists and she said that, "They arrived after other TV crews were gone. I told them that Floyd was not going to answer questions related to Manny Pacquiao and drug testing." According to Ms. Swanson, that is what the media members were interested to discuss with her client.
She continued, "I at no time refused them the opportunity to speak with Floyd Mayweather. They were welcome to go down to where he was with the fans and wait to see if he would give them an interview. But he would have told them what he has told many other media members this week about keeping to the topic at hand."
Throughout the week of this three-city tour to promote the May 1 fight with Mosley, Swanson said that Floyd Mayweather has refused to talk about Manny Pacquiao, the break-down in negotiations between their two sides for what would have been a fight in Dallas this month between the two and any issues related to Mayweather's demands that Pacquiao accept random blood testing prior to a proposed fight.
Swanson insists that her client loves the media and would not have refused to speak with anyone "no matter what their ethnicity, including the Filipino press".
She added, however, that the reporters wouldn't have gotten very far with Mayweather if all they wanted to talk about was Manny Pacquiao.
Source: examiner.com
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