It's been quite a year for Floyd Mayweather Jr. There is no questioning how good of a fighter Floyd Mayweather is. Floyd's accomplishments with boxing gloves on stands on its own merit. There are many things we can point out that's wrong with Floyd Mayweather, and the media including this writer has done plenty of pointing. Floyd makes it pretty easy for the media to bash him, he feeds the media. His decisions in life and being such a public figure makes him fair game.
Floyd has had a few opportunities to get into the ring against Manny Pacquiao and because of himself, and nobody else, that fight has not happened. The steroid allegations that resulted in a lawsuit filed against him for slander was the starting point of a horrible year for him. This was the first roadblock that Floyd threw in the way, and the accusations derailed the talks and ended any chance for the big fight to happen.
Round two of the negotiations crashed and burned when Floyd scoffed at Bob Arum's deadline for a decision. Even worse, Floyd denied that negotiations ever took place, and this turned out to be untrue. Negotiations did take place and for whatever reason once again Floyd ducked on the fight. Mayweather then went on the Internet and launched a racial attack that disrespected every Asian man and woman on the planet. His attack on Filipinos and Manny Pacquiao was a disgusting display of disrespectful behavior that did a lot of damage to Floyd's already diminished reputation. Floyd realized that he had made a bad mistake and immediately apologized for what he had said, but not many people took him seriously and the apology for the most part fell on deaf ears. This has been a PR nightmare for Floyd.
The bad news didn't stop there. Just recently Floyd was arrested and charged with two felony counts and a stack of misdemeanor charges that accuse him of beating up his ex girlfriend, and stealing her phone. He is looking at additional charges for threatening his children.
Floyd finally has been quiet as of late, and probably because someone finally told him to shut up.
With all of this said, Floyd actually has done some good things for folks and it wouldn't be fair to blast the guy without pointing out some good things. Floyd does a lot of good things for the homeless folks in Las Vegas. He also does some good work with the youth in Las Vegas, and these two things should be pointed out. He's not all bad, and hopefully one day he will wake up and smell the coffee.
Floyd has done a very good job of destroying his reputation and now he has some damage control to do if he cares about fixing it. The path to fixing things is to get into the ring and fight Manny Pacquiao. If Floyd would just fight Pacquiao, and behave like a gentleman win, lose, or draw, that would be one big step toward repairing his bad reputation.
Source: 8countnews.com
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