In the Philippines, this boxer has always been thought of as the boxer who is afraid of Manny Pacquiao. He has made every ridiculous demand and excuse not to fight the Filipino champion. Let’s take a look at how he lives in luxury.
Rappler reports that he has a fleet of exotic cars in three different cities in America. He owns a mansion where his friends and entourage hang out. Every payday, he hands out $100 bills to his employees who are at his beck and call.
In a not-too-recent report posted by Associated Press, here’s a few more things that boxing aficionados may not have ever known:
? He likes cheeseburgers. At 3 in the morning on the Las Vegas Strip, he and the posse can often be found throwing a few down at Fatburger.
? He gets sad sometimes watching kids box in his gym when his sons have no interest in the sport. “Does that hurt me?” he asks. “Absolutely.”
? He can lose at the sports book. Mayweather loves to post pictures on Twitter with six-figure wins on his bets, but acknowledged he lost a big bet one night on the Houston Texans.
? He can name every car on duPont Registry, his favorite online shopping site. He owns many of them, almost all in white and in fleets at homes in Las Vegas, Miami and Los Angeles.
? He spends big money, sometimes as much as $200,000, for handbags for his female friends. Then he buys them something called Baginizers to make sure everything inside is organized.
? He’s in business with a Chinese company that manufactures his “The Money Team” apparel. His business partner is named China Mike “because everybody’s got to have a nickname.”
Mayweather has a nickname, too, though it’s different than the one he had when he first started boxing professionally 17 years ago. He was Pretty Boy Floyd then, before America discovered him as the villain they would pay to watch and before he had the cars and the mansion on a golf course.
He’s Money May now, and he’s the highest paid athlete in the United States.
Will Mayweather ever agree to fight Manny Pacquiao? That’s still a big question mark which will probably depend on how Pacquiao will perform in his next fight with Rios.
Congressman Manny Pacquiao is scheduled to fight Brandon Rios at the Cotai Arena in Macao on November 24, 2013.