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Floyd Mayweather Jr. credit for one thing. Like any great fighter, he knows when to turn and run.
A day after unleashing a
racist rant against
Manny Pacquiao that was insulting even by
boxing standards, Mayweather was at it again. Surprisingly, this time it was to apologize.
“Forgive me for saying what I said,” Mayweather said in yet another video. “I was just having fun. I didn’t really mean it, nothing in a bad way.”
Oh, what fun it was, for as long it lasted.
Fighting words, from a man who refuses to fight.
But, hey, what did you really expect from Money May?
Not an apology, surely. With all the sycophants and yes men who surround Mayweather it’s a wonder he was able to figure out that this time he had crossed the line from fun to just plain disgusting.
But cross it he had, in a 10-minute video that was racist,
homophobic, and an insult to Filipinos everywhere.
If Mayweather’s idea was to get people to back off criticism for him not
fighting Pacquiao this fall, it didn’t work. He still seems to be afraid of either the fight or the thought that he could actually lose.
But if his idea was to get Pacquiao’s attention, he succeeded.
Pacquiao sat in his hotel room in
Texas and watched Mayweather unleash every derogatory Asian stereotype he could come up with. Then he pressed the play button to watch it once more, his expression never changing.
The fighter in him probably wanted a shot at Mayweather right then and there. The
politician in him thought better of it.
“It’s an uneducated message,” the congressman from the province of
Sarangani said.
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