The long-running soap opera between 50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather just got another loud, messy episode.
This time, 50 Cent is back to doing what he does best. Talking spicy on the internet. He intensified their beef by calling Floyd Mayweather “dumb as*” while reacting to Floyd’s lawsuit against Showtime. Yes, the same Floyd who built a career on not getting hit is once again getting hit, verbally.
Floyd is suing Showtime, claiming the network cheated him out of millions of dollars. That’s a lot of zeroes to be missing. Naturally, 50 Cent saw this and smelled content. Instead of sympathy, he chose violence. Digital violence. He mocked Floyd’s intelligence and basically wrote;
Oh no don’t cry now champ they beat you out of $320 million, you dumb ass 🥷🏾. I told you let me read the contracts now lace up, You gotta look good fighting Mike. then maybe we can get Bud to beat your ass for some big money.
This is not new behavior. These two have been beefing since flip phones were cool. Every time Floyd pops up in the news, 50 Cent appears shortly after like an unwanted software update. Always loud, always sarcastic and always ready to remind the world that he thinks Floyd struggles with reading.
Floyd, on the other hand, is serious, very serious. The lawsuit claims Showtime shortchanged him during their business relationship. If true, that’s not pocket change. That’s yacht money, that’s private jet fuel. That’s “I could’ve bought another mansion” money. Floyd believes he was owed more, and now he wants it back.
50 Cent does not care at all. Instead of focusing on the lawsuit, he zoomed in on Floyd’s decision-making skills. He suggested Floyd got played because he didn’t understand what he signed.
In the lawsuit, filed by Floyd in California, and obtained by TMZ Sports … Mayweather says he’s gunning to “recover hundreds of millions of dollars in the misappropriated funds and damages resulting from a long-running and elaborate scheme of financial fraud,” allegedly perpetrated by his longtime advisor Al Haymon … and now he’s claiming Haymon got “substantial participation and aid” from Showtime and former Showtime Sports president, Stephen Espinoza.
Showtime and Espinoza are listed as defendants … while Haymon is NOT being sued.
Floyd claims Haymon, with whom he worked for over a decade, misappropriated a “significant portion of his career earnings” to the tune of a whopping $340 million … and he says he did so with the help of Showtime and SE.
Mayweather says the money is still “‘missing’ and unaccounted for.”
Showtime and Espinoza are listed as defendants … while Haymon is NOT being sued.
Floyd claims Haymon, with whom he worked for over a decade, misappropriated a “significant portion of his career earnings” to the tune of a whopping $340 million … and he says he did so with the help of Showtime and SE.
Mayweather says the money is still “‘missing’ and unaccounted for.”
More on the lawsuit,
Mayweather references several of his biggest fights, including against Manny Pacquiao and Conor McGregor, alleging Showtime and Espinoza effectively delivered money owed to Floyd directly into Haymon’s hands by sending accounts essentially controlled by Haymon.
Floyd Mayweather and his lawyers aren’t joking with this lawsuit but 50 Cent, that’s comedy content for him and his audience.
Years later, after the undefeated boxer switched managers and his new team asked to see Showtime’s books, which Floyd claims the network told him were “lost in a flood,” or weren’t accessible.
Mayweather is suing Showtime and Espinoza for aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty, civil conspiracy to commit fraud, conversion, and unjust enrichment.
In addition to the $340 million, Mayweather is also seeking punitive damages.
This is what Floyd Mayweather’s attorney Bobby Samini had to say about the lawsuit.
“Floyd is one of boxing’s biggest pay-per-view draws. He generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for Showtime. Mr. Mayweather now takes this fight to the courtroom to recover what he rightfully earned. Retiring undefeated at 50-0, Mr. Mayweather will go the distance in the courtroom just as he has in the ring.”
At this point, the beef is tradition. Floyd sue, 50 jokes, the world laughs and somewhere in the background, lawyers quietly rack up billable hours. Everyone wins, except maybe Showtime.
