The Mayweather clan is a different bunch. Jeff Mayweather, a boxing trainer and uncle of Floyd Mayweather, says his nephew is strongly disliked because he enjoys spending money.
: I think the only theory is that so many people dislike Floyd because Floyd enjoys his money. He enjoys his money so much that he puts it in your face. He’s not saying, “Oh look at my money,” but people take it that way.
People don’t realize that this man is risking his life every time he steps in the ring, he should be able to do what he wants to do with his money. You hate him because he has money? Is that really a reason to hate somebody? That’s the bottom line because you don’t have a reason to hate a guy just because he’s winning, you hate him because he fronts the fact that he has money.Floyd’s not selling drugs, he’s not poisoning anybody, he’s not out robbing nobody, he can go do whatever the hell he wants to do with his money, he earned it! It was the same with Ali, everyone hated him because first of all he’s African American, he was braggadocious and he was making predictions and they were coming true.
There was a story of a lady that followed Ali until he lost and finally said when she got in his face, she said, “They finally got your black ass.” That was her hate towards him, just because he was winning. It’s not just the winning, it’s the combination. Ali was kind of like Floyd in a sense, he was braggadocious, good looking guy and he talked trash. He talked trash but he was backing it up.
Ali wasn’t fronting his money like Floyd but it’s just that he was so confident and bold about the things that he did and said, that people took it the wrong way. Rather than looking at it as being confident, they looked at it as being braggadocious and thinking that he was about everyone else, but I didn’t see it that way.
Everyone’s got their own opinion and I think that when you win, somebody always wants to see you get knocked off, no matter how. I think that’s one of the things with boxing, nobody wants to see a person get out undefeated and hoping that when they do leave the sport, that everything is intact. Floyd’s in that position right now and hopefully he goes out on top and walks away from the sport with no blemishes and moves on into the realm of being a promoter.
Thats some strong commentary from uncle Jeff.