50 Cent has found a niche in boxing promotions but he doesn’t see Jay Z being successful.
50 Cent thinks Jay Z has started off on the wrong foot. Jay Z and his Roc Nation Boxing promotion came in with the idea that they can outbid established promotions for marquee fights, as expected it’s rubbed many the wrong way.
“I think they gonna clean Jay up,” 50 Cent told BET.com. “The sport of boxing is going to clean him up and he’s going to find out it’s not like any other portion of business that he’s been involved in.”
“You can’t just buy your way into it by purchasing existing companies and stuff like that,” he snarled. “You look at the roster of fighters…you have to have experienced people around to run it. But boxing is like the fur coat business…we don’t know how much they actually sold the jacket for.”
50 Cent can’t be happy to see another entertainer try and encroach upon his boxing money, but he has some great points. It’s also possible that he still holds a grudge about this: