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\"\"<\/a>WBC\/WBA welterweight and super welterweight world champion Floyd \u201cMoney\u201d Mayweather hosted international media conference call in advance of his SHOWTIME PPV rematch against Marcos \u201cEl Chino\u201d Maidana taking place Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Floyd discussed his feud with 50 Cent, his camp\u2019s objection to referee Tony Weeks, his differences with Maidana trainer Robert Garcia, his relationship with Alex Ariza, the first fight with Maidana, the reason for the immediate rematch, and much more.<\/p>\n

Do you think that 50 Cent crossed the line by suggesting that you have trouble reading in that Instagram video that he posted?<\/p>\n

My thing is this, I try to focus on Maidana. I don\u2019t really focus on that. I think people can believe whatever they want to believe. Intelligence and education are two different things. I\u2019m happy with my career and I wish 50 Cent nothing but the best; when I\u2019m in training camp I try to focus on my training. You have to realize that the circus is for clowns and my job is just to focus on my job, which is boxing. I know what I can and I can\u2019t do, so I can care less.<\/p>\n

Were you surprised that 50 Cent went in that direction and talked about a topic that would be that sensitive?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t even worry about that. Like I said before, that\u2019s not my focus. I know what I can and I can\u2019t do. You guys don\u2019t know when you\u2019re dealing with pay-per-view you have to read at least 60 to 70 teleprompters, and I don\u2019t think they could choose a better person for the job than myself. I go out there and I do it with no problem.<\/p>\n

I just feel like basically I\u2019m not judged by a person, I\u2019m judged by God. Reading does not define my place in boxing history. Will God not let me in heaven because I didn\u2019t read like a news anchor? Me, myself, I would be perfect at reading if it was how I made my living and fed my family. Once again, intelligence and education are two different things.<\/p>\n

Making fun of a person because they can\u2019t read is not funny. It\u2019s tragic. Second, if I really couldn\u2019t read it would make my accomplishments even that much more amazing. I don\u2019t know if 50 Cent is a boxing promoter, I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s making music; I really don\u2019t know. My focus is on Floyd Mayweather, and I wish 50 Cent nothing but the best.<\/p>\n

Floyd, do you want to just comment on the footage that the radio station played of you reading the drops?<\/p>\n

Well, I don\u2019t get paid to read radio drops. I\u2019m capable of having a bad day; I\u2019m not perfect. But you know, as well as I know, they edited the tape how they wanted to do it. I\u2019m a perfectionist; if I go read a teleprompter, I read it six or seven or eight times, because I\u2019m a perfectionist. I could have been up twenty-four hours; I could have just landed in New York City. People find different ways to try to break people down and tear people down.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going strong and I\u2019m happy. We talk about that situation, but there\u2019s plenty of videos out there just showing me reading teleprompters and reading other things. When I was at the ESPY\u2019s I had to read a teleprompter. I\u2019m pretty sure you guys thought I did an okay job. Like I said before, I\u2019m not a news anchor, never claimed to be. What I do for a living, I\u2019m a boxer, but I didn\u2019t get to where I got to not being able to write, read and do arithmetic, and I\u2019m going to say this once again, intelligence and education are two totally different things.<\/p>\n

How do you go about dealing with camp distractions and is there something that you want to get rid of as you keep going forward, because it seems like in every camp something that has nothing to do with boxing comes up?<\/p>\n

Well, like I said before, that\u2019s small to me. I\u2019m truly blessed to be where I\u2019m at. I try not to focus on that type of stuff. My job is to focus on my children, make sure my children and my family are in the best position, and stay focused upon my craft, which is boxing. Nothing can steer me the wrong way; I don\u2019t focus on everything, it\u2019s why I don\u2019t focus on clown stuff. Like I said before, that\u2019s for the circus. My job is to stay focused on boxing. I got to where I got to by being smart, making smart moves, and doing what\u2019s best for Floyd Mayweather.<\/p>\n

What was it about Maidana that was a little bit different than some of the other boxers that you really picked up really quickly what they were doing and were able to dominate the entire fight, like what you did with Canelo? What was it about Maidana that took you a little bit of time to kind of figure out what he was doing?<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t say it was tough or it was hard to make adjustments. I said I took my time. If you look at the interviews, I said he came out kind of wild, and I took my time and kept my composure. I can make adjustments and I can adapt to any style, whether it\u2019s in the first round, the second round. Just because I beat Canelo 11 rounds that doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s not a better fighter than Maidana. Canelo\u2019s by far stronger, and tried to pull a couple dirty tactics but, like I said before, that comes with the territory.<\/p>\n

Obviously, you and Leonard weren\u2019t happy with Tony Weeks and now you have Kenny Bayless. First of all, can you comment on him as a referee?<\/p>\n

I think Tony Weeks is an extraordinary referee. I think Kenny Bayless is an extraordinary referee. Tony Weeks is only human. He\u2019s capable of having a bad night. So it doesn\u2019t matter who the ref was going to be, we just want to go out there and entertain and give people something, give people an exciting fight. I\u2019m pretty sure Kenny Bayless is going to be watching both sides extremely close.<\/p>\n

Do you see that the fact that you\u2019ve had Kenny Bayless against De La Hoya, Mosley and Alvarez and he\u2019s only had Maidana once, and he is a very balanced referee. Do you see that as any kind of advantage, your familiarity with him and him with you?<\/p>\n

The job of the referee is to be fair and not lean towards my side or not lean towards Maidana\u2019s side, but with the team meetings before the fight hopefully, like I\u2019m pretty sure the last time Leonard and my team didn\u2019t know that Robert Garcia was going to tell his guy to go out there and be extremely dirty.<\/p>\n

My health is more important than money or anything else. I have to be healthy to go out there and perform the way that I do, and I truly believe in having a career after the sport of boxing is over. I said this before in some of my past interviews, this is not the Internet, this is boxing. If you guys notice, I got tackled, the guy tried to knee me, I got a head butt, and there were rabbit punches, and there were low blows, and the list goes on and on.<\/p>\n

With 45 seconds left in the fight it appeared on video that you complained of him biting your glove. Did that happen?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not really sure, but it\u2019s possible. It\u2019s possible. He did a little bit of everything. That night I had to do two jobs; I had to be the boxer and referee, so I had to do two jobs. But Tony Weeks, he\u2019s a future Hall of Fame referee and he does an extraordinary job in the sport of boxing, and so does Kenny Bayless.<\/p>\n

Do you see any double standard in the way Robert Garcia reacted after Brandon R\u00edos\u2019 fight with Diego Chavez complaining of how dirty Chavez was, and yet he appears to be prepared to do similarly as they did in the first fight.<\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019m glad that someone got the chance to see that side of Robert Garcia. He\u2019s supposed to be \u201cone of the best trainers\u201d in the sport of boxing, but I think it\u2019s totally disrespectful to the sport of boxing for a trainer to be telling the guy to be dirty. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s cool at all. Robert Garcia is worried about the gloves, not Maidana, so why is Robert Garcia worried about the gloves if he\u2019s not fighting or he\u2019s not trying to do anything slick that he shouldn\u2019t be doing. He\u2019s doing all the talking. I haven\u2019t heard it, but when I do my interviews, different writers let me know that Robert Garcia is saying and complaining about me doing certain things.<\/p>\n

The only thing that I want to do is give the people an exciting, good fight and give the people an exciting night of boxing. But it\u2019s not cool for him as a trainer, one of the best trainers in the sport of boxing, to be telling the guy be dirty, but then get upset when Brandon R\u00edos fight and he wants to complain to the referee. That\u2019s not cool at all.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just wondering, from a boxer\u2019s perspective, how do you stay poised in the ring when fighters are committing fouls against you?<\/p>\n

What I think is this, I try to tell my sons to always conduct themselves like young men, so under any circumstances always conduct yourself like a young man. Even though you guys see ALL ACCESS you must understand that it\u2019s about entertainment also. I have to sell tickets. That\u2019s a part of my job, and I signed up for this.<\/p>\n

But when it\u2019s something like that I just tell myself keep your composure, just relax, and the referee\u2019s going to do his job. I guess on that night the referee had a bad night. This didn\u2019t just start, this has been going on since the beginning of my career. If you guys go back and look and at how fighters have been fighting dirty in front of me with different dirty tactics. Even in the Canelo fight you go look and see.<\/p>\n

How much do you want to go out there and make this a shutout? How much do you want to dominate Marcos Maidana compared to the first fight? How much do you want to end in doubt?<\/p>\n

Well, I think nine rounds to three rounds is a shutout. Whoever is on the phone right now I\u2019m pretty sure you can go to YouTube and watch the fight, and actually I\u2019m going to get with SHOWTIME today so I can put the fight on FloydMayweather.com so you guys can go watch the fight. Just look at the fight. The fight is not close. But he came out, he won the first round, I won the second round, he won the third and the fourth, and from the fifth on he lost every round. So, like I said before, I\u2019m going to go out there and I guess get a knockout, win twelve rounds, and look impressive, but also be exciting.<\/p>\n

When you were just breaking down the first fight between you and Maidana, did you have the fight in your favor eight rounds to four or nine rounds to three?<\/p>\n

If I could just recall, I won the second round. He won the first one, but I won the second round, and he won probably the third and fourth, because I know one of those I got headbutted and couldn\u2019t see; I was just mainly in survival mode until I got back to my corner to Rafael, the great cutman, Rafael Garcia. So I gave him three rounds.<\/p>\n

In your only other rematch, with Castillo, I think that was a fight that you won certainly much easier than whatever went down in the first fight. Would you agree with that?<\/p>\n

But you know what I\u2019ll say is, you know what you have to do. I\u2019m one that always speaks his mind, and I speak from the heart so a lot of times people don\u2019t like that. A lot of people they say certain things and I just speak on what I feel is the truth.<\/p>\n

So if you guys really just go back and look at the Castillo first fight, and you can just put your TV on mute, the first six rounds he\u2019s not even landing a shot. So if I win six rounds and we got six rounds left, and people don\u2019t think out of six rounds that I\u2019m capable of just winning just two rounds that still would be eight to four. So like I said before, I\u2019m good with math and I\u2019m still sharp.<\/p>\n

But this training camp has been tremendous. I mean I\u2019m talking about I\u2019m in good shape. I just boxed yesterday, well the day before yesterday, fifteen rounds, and out of fifteen rounds only took one break. So I feel good.<\/p>\n

Is there anything you can take from the situation of having an immediate rematch with Castillo into this immediate rematch, only the second time in your career you\u2019ve had a rematch, going into the Maidana fight?<\/p>\n

I just have to go out there and just be me and be first. I can\u2019t really say how the fight is going to play out, but I\u2019m pretty sure he\u2019s going to be once again extremely dirty and wild, and my job is to keep everything under control the best way that I can.<\/p>\n

What do you remember then about after the first Castillo fight of preparing yourself for a rematch with the same guy you had just fought a few months earlier?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know, with Castillo I already knew what he had done the first fight. But, with me the commentators persuade people to think a certain way. Put it on mute, put your TV on mute and watch the fight, you\u2019ll look at the fight in a total different way. I can look at a fight and hear the commentators start saying certain things, and I\u2019d be like sometimes the commentators will say certain things, I\u2019ll be like what is he talking about, what is he watching.<\/p>\n

So are you saying, Floyd, in your mind you didn\u2019t really need to make an adjustment because you felt like you won the first fight so easy you\u2019re going to just do the same thing a second time. Was that your mentality?<\/p>\n

Absolutely. You couldn\u2019t say it any better.<\/p>\n

Okay. I have to ask you another question. Can you explain what is the role, if any, of Alex Ariza in your training camp?<\/p>\n

Alex Ariza, I think he\u2019s out in Las Vegas, I don\u2019t know, taking care of some personal stuff. So our gym is open to everyone. In the past I\u2019ve spoke about Alex Ariza, but I never knew him. He\u2019d come by the gym, he\u2019d watch me train, and he showed me some stretches before I ran and that\u2019s it. However he handles business with his other fighters is how he handles business.<\/p>\n

So is Alex Ariza not working for you in any official capacity? Just a friendly hello at the gym?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not enemies with Alex Ariza. We may just talk about boxing, we just talk about normal things. What Alex Ariza has said is \u201cI\u2019ve never seen a fighter in my life train as hard as you and work as hard as you. Now I see why you where you\u2019re at. He said I just wanted to come see for myself. He basically said that I thought that ALL ACCESS was just camera tricks. I didn\u2019t really know you worked that hard.\u201d When he came and said I\u2019ve never seen a fighter work as hard as you. Now I see why you are where you at in the sport of boxing.<\/p>\n

He showed me stretches. Actually, yesterday after my run he showed me some other stretches that I can do that could help me.<\/p>\n

So he\u2019s not part of The Money Team? Is that true, or is he going to be part of the team on fight week, either way?<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t say who\u2019s going to be around me fight week. I really don\u2019t know. I can\u2019t really say. Leonard used to be around me a lot fight week, but I mean he\u2019s doing different things now so he\u2019s not around me fight week. So we don\u2019t know who\u2019s going to be around, but fight week I\u2019m not around nobody. I\u2019m at home resting. That\u2019s where I should be.<\/p>\n

Alex came to the gym more than just on one occasion, but just because a guy comes to the boxing gym and watches me train or a guy goes to eat with us that doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s my strength and conditioning coach. He happened to be a strength and conditioning coach and showed me some stretches so far.<\/p>\n

The only thing I can say is that he\u2019s a strength and conditioning coach that showed me some stretches. Has he ever received a check from me? Absolutely not.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a love\/hate relationship between Hispanics and Latinos because you have beat a lot of Latino boxers, yet they admire you because of your history. But in some way you have pushed some buttons wearing sombreros in the ring. What is that all about?<\/p>\n

My thing is, I\u2019m the face of boxing. I don\u2019t have nothing against anyone in the sport of boxing. I love the Mexican, the Latino, the Spanish fans, I love them, and I appreciate them supporting the sport of boxing as a whole, and so I appreciate them all.<\/p>\n

Since you also said you\u2019re an entertainer do you have anything planned for the Maidana? He\u2019s Argentinian.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m pretty sure we got some interesting for the walkout and for the people. We always want to give the people excitement all around the board, so I\u2019m pretty sure we got some excitement.<\/p>\n

With all the dirty moves that Maidana pulled in the first fight what have you prepared to do differently this time?<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t prepare for that. Well, I can actually. My job is to prepare for everything all around the board, but I\u2019m going to let the referee do his job and be fair to both parties.<\/p>\n

So what made you put the 154-pound belt on the line as well?<\/p>\n

Leonard Ellerbe: Because in an unprecedented move that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing. Floyd is defending his WBC title at 154. It\u2019s only been done one other time in the sport with Sugar Ray Leonard when he fought Donny Lalonde. Floyd brings something different to boxing; that\u2019s why we\u2019re doing it.<\/p>\n

Is is safe to say that you\u2019ve been practicing going more for knockouts or are you just going to go do what you do?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just going to let the fight play out like it plays out and go out there and do what I do best. If a knockout presents itself of course I\u2019m going to take full advantage of a knockout.<\/p>\n

Will you let us in to who\u2019s going to walk you out or anything this time, because it\u2019s rumored from another Bieber sighting to even Miley Cyrus walking you out this time.<\/p>\n

Well, we don\u2019t know what we\u2019re going to do, but I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s going to be something extremely exciting.<\/p>\n

So when do you make the decision, is that fight week or you just go out and you just pull something out of the hat?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t like to let the cat out of the bag yet. In fact, if I tell you everything you guys wouldn\u2019t have to watch the fight. So I won\u2019t tell you everything. I want you guys to buy pay-per-view and watch the fight.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t get a knockout in this fight do you think there\u2019s anything that you have to do differently if it goes to decision to get a unanimous decision since the first fight was technically a majority decision?<\/p>\n

Well, I don\u2019t really know what I can do. Just like my fight with Canelo, I feel like I dominated that fight, but it was a split decision. I feel like when I fought Oscar De La Hoya I felt like I dominated Oscar De La Hoya, but that was a split decision. So the only thing I can do is walk in and fight.<\/p>\n

Was the decision to do an immediate rematch was it based more on whatever controversy there was from the first fight, both the dirty tactics and the majority decision, or was it something else?<\/p>\n

Well, the fans demanded it, the fans said it was real exciting. My team had a meeting. They came up with this guy, and, like I said before, I\u2019m a man of my word. Just like I said after the fight, if you feel like you want to do it again let\u2019s do it again; if you feel like you really want it, so we\u2019re making it happen again.<\/p>\n

Do you have any concerns about the judges getting it right, again, if it goes the distance?<\/p>\n

Well I think we\u2019re in the mecca of boxing, and we have the best commission in the world. So we probably need some new, young judges, whereas I think some of the judges now are a lot older and I think we need some new, young judges.<\/p>\n

Leonard Ellerbe: There\u2019s a new Executive Director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, Bob Bennett, and he\u2019s done a tremendous job with bringing a lot of things to the forefront. We\u2019re very confident that Nevada\u2019s the best commission that\u2019s out there, and we feel as though we\u2019ll get a fair shake if the fight happens to go the distance.<\/p>\n

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Who do you think will win between Floyd Mayweather, JR. and Marcos Maidana?<\/strong><\/p>