Floyd Mayweather's Youtube Disgrace

Believe what? I dont believe he was drastically poor, all though he did have to live with his mom in jersey for a time, and expereinced true poverty, but he certainly wasnt a rich kid like your dumbass is trying to portray him. Let me spell it out for you, ghetto ass criminal school, raised by a drug dealer and drug addict. What the **** is he lying about?

 

Lets see, floyd fakes being a thug to draw media attention, Zab IS a thug who still roles dice on street corners and stomps people out.

 

I grew up more hood than Floyd.

I got the typical low income shithole neighborhood stories.Dead friends,packin pistols at the age of 15,friends locked up,coked out friends,some sell some live regular lives,some gang members,some are ex gang members.

At the end of the day life in the "hood" is sad so i never found the need to glorify it.Floyd wants to embrace it.

 

Put it this way. Lil Wayne acts hood to sell records. Mayweather acts hood to sell fights. If mayweather embraced that lifestyle he'd be like Zab, on the corner,rolling dice, stomping people out. From what I can gather from Floyds interviews, he's a family man, that takes care of his friends, funds charities, and wont be caught on any street corner hustling anytime soon.

 

Big difference in selling records and fights.Hood music is it's own genre.

Most fighters have rough backgrounds.

 

Except when he's in the ring.

Then he just runs away.

 

Like Pac said I didnt have a record until I had a record. Its image. Floyd wasnt a top sell when he wasnt controversial. With his fighting style, he wouldnt be a top seller to the casual fan. Now he is. And I think its partly due to his attitude he portrays.

 

Ok it's image.

And what most people will agree on is that the image he chose is cheesy.

Putting on an image is cheesy.

 

I have to agree here. I spent my early teen years going to a school where they would send young idealistic teachers just out of college to prove they had guts; the idea being, if they could make it at my school for four years, they had a total passion for teaching and would have their pick of any job in the district. I too saw friends fall victim to coke and meth, go to prison, pack guns to school, hold drive by shootings on my neighbors, and the spectre of late 1980's Crip v. Surenos violence. I remember nearly getting mugged while walking through my own neighborhood late one evening by Tongan Crips because it was late, they didn't immediately recognize me as having family & common friends in the area (which ultimately saved my outnumbered ass) and they were coked up and paranoid.

I am a distinctly middle class lawyer now. Some of my criminal clients are the same types of kids that I used to be and used to know where I grew up. Thinking back, it is ****ing sad, all that human wastage, and I am happy to distance myself as much as possible from it. Anyone who glorifies it is an ass in my book and fake as hell.

 

floyd sr was selling drugs for big time money, not to put food on the table, his uncle roger was a champion he was brought up by grandma and unca jeff, so what if his mom was a crack addict and his aunt OD'd? i know several people who are addicts and are living normal life, my cousin OD'd does that make me gangsta?

 

Ice my man.. I noticed in that first post you said that floyd will never become loved like sugar ray. I understand floyd. Remeber floyd got robbed in the olympics and never had that gold medal oppurtunity like sugar ray and oscar had. They were loved by the media, floyd never was. He had to fight his way to where he is now without any type of fanfare whatsoever. So this is turn makes him feel like everyone is against him. That is why he acts the way he does. Because in his mind no one ever gave him a 'golden' oppurtunity like they did with oscar, sugar ray, roy jones, etc.. He never got big endorsment deals, never got nike commercials, none of that until his fight with oscar. And even then, it was all about oscar. Add to the fact that ****ing larry merchant has been an ass to the guy his whole ****ing hbo career. I remeber watching floyd vs angel manfredo. Floyd ****ing destroyed that guy (the people saying it was an early stoppage dont know ****), and all larry has to say to him in the post fight interview is 'Your only quick in the ring floyd'. Made him look to be a total ass. Then takes the interview to manfredo and sides with the guy for it being an early stoppage. Now look at Merchant with floyd now at the baldomir post fight interview saying people are leaving early. It has been like 10 ****ing years later and Larry is still being an ass to him in front of millions of viewers. This is why he acts the way he does. In his mind its him vs the world. I believe he gets a lot of motivation from that too. So its kind of wierd that the things he hates makes him who he is.

 

"When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity," Mayweather says. "When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up."

Mayweather was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., into a family of boxers. His father Floyd Sr. and his uncles Jeff and Roger were all professional boxers. Floyd Sr. was defeated by Leonard in 1978. He never fought for a world title. Floyd Sr. also had a side job - selling drugs. That job made him a mean taskmaster at home. His punishment of little Floyd was often harsh and brutal, according to Mayweather Jr. He says that when he was a baby, his father used him as a shield to keep his brother-in-law from shooting him.

"It depends on which side of the family you talk to," Mayweather Jr. says. "My father said he was holding me and he said, 'If you're going to shoot me, you're going to shoot the baby, too.' But my mother said he used me as a shield to keep from getting shot. "Either way, I'm just happy I didn't get shot and I'm still here."

It was nothing for young Floyd to come home from school and find used heroin needles in his front yard. His mother was also addicted to drugs and he had an aunt who died from AIDS because of her drug use.

"People don't know the hell I've been through," he says.



So is he lying his ass off?

 

yup!

dont take my word for it ask his unca jeff or his father.

 

I've heard what his father said, who was in prison for what 6 years of his life? I havent heard what his uncle had to say on the matter. Got a link?

 

look around here you'll find it.......