Obviously, Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s unprovoked racist diatribe against Manny Pacquiao, in which he also used anti-gay language and repeated his unproven assertion that Pacquiao uses performance enhancing drugs, was disgusting.
But do you think that it was a coincidence that Mayweather made the Internet video just as Pacquiao was in the midst of the promotional tour for his fight with Antonio Margarito? Please.Pacquiao should have been promoting a fight against Mayweather, not a dog match with a cheater. But Mayweather won't fight Pacquiao. The hateful remarks are inexcusable under any circumstance, but might be remotely fathomable had Mayweather been promoting a fight with Pacquiao. But he's not even doing that.
If he had been getting ready to fight Pacquiao, Mayweather could at least have said after the deserved uproar that his comments were just a way for him to promote the bout, even though that is a stupid way to get attention. Of course, despite Mayweather's boasts about being so smart, he's not the sharpest tool in the shed. I think he's proven that yet again. How else to explain his unnecessary tax problems and office eviction?
Fights have, unfortunately, been built on incendiary racial angles forever. But Pacquiao-Mayweather is such a significant matchup, and one that the public is desperate for, that it is not necessary to stoop to that level. But Mayweather is too dumb to understand that. He's also too dumb to realize that he's not even promoting an actual fight, since he won't sign for it. So he simply launched the attack for no reason other than that he can't live without the spotlight.
He probably figured ranting and raving, especially at a time when Pacquiao was getting a lot of play for his November fight, would give him the attention he craves.
Well, be careful what you wish for.
Mayweather got attention. A lot of attention. But it's all negative. I wonder if his mother is proud of him? How about his young children? They'll be able to watch that video someday because it will be on the Internet forever.
Seems to me that Mayweather, because he is surrounded by nobody who will hold him accountable for his actions or tell him no, thinks he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, just because he's a famous fighter who makes a lot of money when he decides to fight.
Who wants to bet though that in, say, 10 years, Mayweather will be broke? Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield made much more than Mayweather and look what happened to them. When it happens to Mayweather, at least he can always click on the video and watch himself playing childishly with piles of money.
He has earned lots of money outside the ring, working as a company spokesman for AT&T, for example, although that deal is over. But what corporation in its right mind would again associate itself with such a classless, clueless person who has become a poster child for ignorance and is the very worst of today's coddled professional athlete?
I found his apology the day after his original hate-filled video to be weak and unconvincing. He said he "was just having fun" and that he "didn't really mean it." He ended by saying, "It's all love."
Well, if that's love, I'd hate to see hate. His apology rang hollow also because it came at the end of another lengthy video, almost as an aside to the rest of the nonsense he and his posse of yes men were partaking in.
I really don't want to hear another word from Mayweather's filthy mouth until he signs the contract to fight Pacquiao.
Mayweather, who is 33 but acts more like he's 3, may someday wind up on an all-time great boxer list with the likes of Sugar Ray Robinson, Henry Armstrong, Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali. But those are all men who, unlike Mayweather, regularly stepped up to face the biggest challenges of their era.
Until Mayweather does that, the only list he'll be on forever is the one that includes those branded racists because of their foul public remarks: John Rocker, Jimmy the Greek, Don Imus, Mel Gibson, Michael Richards and others.
Welcome to the club, Floyd, and enjoy your lifetime membership.
Source: espn.go.com
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