Mayweather apologizes for pacquiao rant

[aquariusone]

Mayweather apologies for Pacquiao rant
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Updated Sep 4, 2010 11:03 PM ET

Days after releasing a 10-minute, profanity-laced tirade on Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather has apologized through another live video, Michigan news website Mlive.com reported Saturday.

During his first rant, Mayweather referred to Pacquiao as a "yellow chump", adding he was on a one-year "vacation" and would return to "stomp the midget."

On Friday, Mayweather, originally of Grand Rapids, Mich., said he "didn't really mean any of it."

"I do want to apologize for what happened the other night. I want to apologize to everybody because everybody thought that it was a racist comment that I said. I don't have a racist bone in my body. I have nothing but love for everybody," Mayweather said.

"Some of my guys are Muslim, some of my guys are Jews, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, whites ... it doesn't matter. I got nothing but love in my heart. All I want to say is, if anybody was affected from what I said the other day, I apologize as a man. I was just having fun. I didn't really mean it."

In the previous video Mayweather said, "Once I stomp the midget, I'm going to make that (expletive) ... make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice." His bravado didn't stop there. Becoming even more offensive he said, "We're going to cook that (expletive) with some cats and dogs."

Mayweather and Pacquiao engaged serious talks last December and January before a proposed March 13 fight fell apart, leading Pacquiao to defeat Joshua Clottey instead, and Mayweather to defeat Shane Mosley.

Another proposal for November ended when Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum sent messages through HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg to no interest or response from the Mayweather camp. So Pacquiao will fight Antonio Margarito on Nov. 13 instead.

Mayweather did not back off from the notion that he's looking forward to fighting Pacquiao.

"Manny Pacquiao, he truly believes that he's one of the best, but I know that I am the best, that's the difference," Mayweather said. "I want him to believe that he's going to win. All 41 opponents that I faced thought that they were going to win, but that didn't happen."

[aquariusone]

Mayweather may have been "just having fun" but he pushed his luck too far for his racial slur. In doing so, he has cast himself too far down an abyss where no one would want to be anywhere close.

This "apology" is meant to extricate himself from a most unsavory light he has created for himself. Even in jest, there are norms. One of them is to avoid at all cost anything that comes close to being perceived as bigot or a racist.

As good the intention is, this apology is like closing the barn door when all the horses are gone.

I don't feel hatred for this man. I feel great sadness and pity. I for one no longer crave to see him in the same ring as Manny Pacquiao. He just is not in the same class - not as a boxer; not as a human being. This chapter in boxing history should now come to a close.

[The Cobra]

He almost seems sincere-------almost. I for one ain`t buying a word of his apology, he`s apologizing cause he`s got a lot of negative feedback for his rant not cause he`s sorry---that`s no apology. Many of us have branded PBF as an idiot-----so should we expect less from him?

[sharky20]

Mayweather is a chicken sh*t! Im so sick of this guy and if I have one wish in life its for him to get his ass kicked!

[aquariusone]

With that careless, thoughtless, idiotic rant, he has just written off millions of dollars in endorsement contracts. Do you think that AT & T would continue using him in their promotional and ad campaigns?

His credibility and image is now forever tarnished. Compared to the transgressions of Tiger Woods, which cost him a few sponsors to dump him, Mayweather has just suffered a major "stock crash" from which he may never entirely recover.

Which corporation would want to be represented by a low-class person?

Meanwhile, the "market value" of Manny Pacquiao just shot passed the best "bull run" in the stock market as he responded to the tirade in a humble and gentlemanly manner, displaying no anger at all. They are just not in the same class at all.

George Foreman is right when he said that "Pacquiao does not need Mayweather".

[eyeQ]

I think it is the weather. There's a similarity from Kenya West to Taylor Swift apology :tehe::tehe:
:offtopic1:
sorry;)

[The Cobra]

I think it is the weather. There's a similarity from Kenya West to Taylor Swift apology :tehe::tehe:
:offtopic1:
sorry;)

.....or it could be a monthly thing..........................LMAO