Floyd Mayweather Reveals How $550 MILLION Was Stolen From Him | PBD Podcast #876

Floyd Mayweather joins Patrick Bet-David to reveal how he claims $550 million was stolen from him, why he rejected a Pacquiao rematch offer, and how a $750,000 investment changed his career. He also discusses Conor McGregor, financial independence, family, discipline, and his boxing legacy. ——— . 👞 Get the NEW Billionaire Suede Loafer: https://bit.ly/4ym5oRA . 👕 SHOP THE ICON COLLECTION: https://bit.ly/3TuUU3x . 👞 GET THE FLB1's: https://bit.ly/4mC4uf6 . Ⓜ️ CONNECT ON MINNECT: https://bit.ly/4kSVkso . Ⓜ️ PBD PODCAST CIRCLES: https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP . 👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 . 🥃 BOARDROOM CIGAR LOUNGE: https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj . 🇰 KALSHI: http://kalshi.com/pbd . SUBSCRIBE TO: @VALUETAINMENT @BetDavidConsulting @vtgenz @ValuetainmentComedy . ABOUT US: Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

• 0:00Speaker 00

  Fuck what you guys think about. I'mma live my life the way I wanna live it.

• 0:04Speaker 01

  This guy changed the game in his business.

• 0:09Speaker 01

  Pound for pound, the greatest boxer of all time. Please stand up and give it up to the one and only Floyd Mayweather. So 550 million stolen from you?

• 0:27Speaker 00

  Yes, and I still live a great life.

• 0:30Speaker 01

  Because if anybody were in the middle of the fight, you're like, alright, this thing is a little bit close. I better make some adjustments.

• 0:36Speaker 00

  No, everybody easy. I'm Mayweather, that's easy.

• 0:40Speaker 01

  Don't mean if these stories are true or not, or if these are... That's unbelievable Floyd to say that.

• 0:45Speaker 00

  Yes. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You mean the guy that took my whole swag and took it over there to the UFC? If nothing can humble a person, boxing can humble you. One thing everybody know when they face me, I ain't gotta worry about you, you gotta worry about me.

• 1:15Speaker 00

  Hey, everyone. How y'all doing today?

• 1:20Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 1:21Speaker 01

  How's it feel being here?

• 1:23Speaker 00

  It feels great. Just to wake up and see another day is truly a blessing. So every day we wake up, we got a choice and a chance at life.

• 1:30Speaker 01

  I love it.

• 1:31Speaker 00

  So...

• 1:32Speaker 01

  But when you come here, do you, is this like a special place? I think you are 15-0 here, right? Out of your 50 fights, 15 of them were here.

• 1:39Speaker 00

  In this arena right here, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, 15-0.

• 1:43Speaker 01

  15-0?

• 1:44Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 1:45Speaker 01

  Some of the biggest fights ever were here. You and Pacquiao, you and Oscar, you and, I think, Kodo, I think you and, uh, uh, am I saying it correct? Ortiz?

• 1:54Speaker 00

  A lot of record-breaking fights were held in this arena. And out of the 10 biggest fights in history, 6 fights was Floyd Mayweather fights.

• 2:07Speaker 01

  Out of the 10 biggest fights in history, 6 of them is you?

• 2:10Speaker 00

  Yes, but I couldn't do it without the fans and the people.

• 2:13Speaker 01

  I love it. That's amazing. And so Floyd, your story, there's so many different angles I wanna go on, you know? I had a short time to prepare for it, but I know your story. I know what you've done. So I've been looking forward to this for a while.

• 2:27Speaker 01

  So I think the biggest thing, when I think about, you know, we gotta go through business, your boxing career, family, other things that you've been doing, maybe let's start off with the first thing here. One day, you know, you come out and you buy out your contract.

• 2:44Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 2:44Speaker 01

  Something that's never been done before. You come out and you pay 750 to decide to own your own thing, and you were always calling everybody. You would say, "You go talk to your agent, you go talk to your manager, you go talk to Aram, you go talk to this." I don't need to talk to anybody. What got you to make that business decision?

• 3:02Speaker 00

  Well, you know, each and every day, you know, when I was in the sport of boxing, you know, I would take my time and study, not just what was going on inside the ring, but economics far as outside the ring. Like, well, who's getting the extra money for the merchandise? And who's getting all the money for the tickets? And so eventually one thing led to another. And I told the promoter, I said, "Let's become partners." He said, "No." So finally, when I had the chance to become my own boss,

• 3:36Speaker 00

  they had me in a headlock. Then I said, "What would it take for me to become my own boss? And let me become my own promoter?" And they said, "750,000." That's the best 750,000 I ever spent.

• 3:49Speaker 01

  That's it?

• 3:50Speaker 00

  That was it.

• 3:50Speaker 01

  Why, why did they only, I would have never given you up for only 700,000?

• 3:53Speaker 00

  Well, they didn't owe me now. You know, this is...

• 3:56Speaker 01

  But they have said 7 and a half?

• 3:58Speaker 00

  No one owns, no one owns no one. They had me in a contract, and my contract had came to an end, but they still had options on me. So I took it upon myself, wrote the check for 750,000. And when I left the company, in, uh, 3 fights, I think McGregor, uh, Pacquiao, and Canelo, I made 750 million.

• 4:31Speaker 01

  Okay, so let me flip it on you. Now that you're in the business of having fighters, if you were on the other side, and one of the guys came up to you offering 750, and that guy's name is Floyd Mayweather, would you have taken his check?

• 4:45Speaker 00

  I'd let him loose. I don't wanna hold nobody hostage. I want, I truly believe in letting people go out there, explore the world, so they can accomplish and do the things that they wanna do. If you wanna be free, I mean, I can have 200 or 300 fighters. If they all wanna leave, let them leave, 'cause I know how to fish, and I know how to climb.

• 5:06Speaker 01

  Got it. So your linchpin would be, you wanna go work with somebody else? Good luck, I know what I'm capable of. Don't go anywhere you wanna go, 'til I'm not worried about it. That's the mindset for you?

• 5:16Speaker 00

  My mindset is, if you believe in something, go for it. If you believe that you can be better somewhere else, or you can accomplish more being by yourself or being independent, go for it.

• 5:30Speaker 01

  But you, people would always criticize you, saying, you know, "He's not that smart, he's not this, he's not that." You would hear the people that would say in the marketplace, "But there's no way in the world, somebody makes a business decision like this, and they don't know what they're doing." Was somebody in your ear, was somebody mentoring you, was it truly your own decision?

• 5:48Speaker 00

  Well, a lot of times what these people tend to hear, certain stories, like as of lately. We have con artists and thieves in all type of business.

• 5:58Speaker 01

  Of course.

• 5:58Speaker 00

  That comes with the territory. Now, have I dealt with that throughout my career? Absolutely. But remember, I always tell people, the best thing about myself and the best thing about my life is, I was born poor, I was born broke. So I was able to work myself from nothing to something. So if I go all the way to the top, if I go all the way to the top,

• 6:23Speaker 00

  and, like, once you go to the top, I can go all the way to the bottom, but I can go back to the top. You know why? 'Cause I started at the bottom, and I know how to climb.

• 6:33Speaker 01

  Got it.

• 6:33Speaker 00

  So as long as I know how to climb, I will always be okay.

• 6:37Speaker 01

  So then let me ask you a question for you. To increase your identity, what, did you ever flirt with the idea of being a little bit reckless with your money? Because you're like, "I don't mind going to the bottom because I've been there before." Or did you make a new floor, that you're like, "I will never drop below this number"?

• 6:54Speaker 00

  Well, life is really short. A lot of times we think life, life is long. Life is really short. And we can, we can never tell no one how to live life. We live life the way we wanna live it. And so I can be here today and gone tomorrow, but one thing I can say, I live my life the way I wanted to live it. So do I like to have fun, you know, with my funds when I make, when I make money? Of course, but I also make my, I like to make my money work for me. So, you know, things happen, shit happens. I like to have fun and live life.

• 7:31Speaker 01

  Out of the 1.4 billion that you made in boxing, 750 million in 3 fights that you've had, right?

• 7:36Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 7:37Speaker 01

  What is the most money you've made out of boxing on a business deal?

• 7:43Speaker 00

  Well, you know, I was, I was working at one particular time, I was in real estate doing the skyscrapers. After the skyscrapers, then eventually I moved over to apartments. So right now, I'm working, we doing some big deals in real estate. So mainly right now, the main income is real estate.

• 8:04Speaker 01

  Today?

• 8:04Speaker 00

  Today.

• 8:05Speaker 01

  That's the main income that you have?

• 8:06Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 8:06Speaker 01

  Okay. And you know when you get the money that comes to you in a big way? What philosophies did you have for you not to lose the money that comes? What did you do? Did you say, "Hey, for every 100 million that I make, I'm gonna put 20% of it here, I'm gonna put 40% of it here"? Did you have any of those rules that you followed?

• 8:24Speaker 00

  Well, my rule for everyone in this room is always to put half up, no matter what. Always put half up. So if it's $100, put $50 up. If it's $200, put $100 up. You always have to save money for a rainy day.

• 8:42Speaker 01

  Got it. So that was, that was the philosophy going in. Going back, again, I wanna ask that last, the question one more time. When you did that deal, the 750, was there anybody you'll give credit to that said, "Hey Floyd, try to get out of contract by asking for this"? Was there anyone that gave you a hint or a tip, or was it all you?

• 8:59Speaker 00

  Well, I always try to surround myself with smart people. You don't only, you don't wanna be the only smart person on your team.

• 9:10Speaker 01

  Fully.

• 9:11Speaker 00

  You gotta, you have to surround yourself with people that's smarter than you. And that's what I did throughout my career.

• 9:17Speaker 01

  Was there somebody in that moment that gave you a tip? Anyone that gave you and said, "Maybe this is a good idea"?

• 9:22Speaker 00

  They told me how to, how to move to make it happen.

• 9:24Speaker 01

  Was it a lawyer? Was it a person in the sporting game? Was it somebody outside of it?

• 9:28Speaker 00

  It was, it was, it was a guy who was sort of like a father figure, but he stole 350 million from me.

• 9:37Speaker 01

  Holy shit.

• 9:38Speaker 00

  So I didn't, so that's why I didn't even wanna speak his name.

• 9:42Speaker 01

  I got it. So he told you to go by 750, but he got 350 out of you?

• 9:48Speaker 00

  No, he told me go right to check. Well, no, it was my idea to be free.

• 9:51Speaker 01

  Sure.

• 9:53Speaker 00

  He connected with me because he knew I was the face of boxing. And he knew if he, he played, he played chess like I play chess in life. Meaning that if, if I'm able to get a Floyd Mayweather, then I'm able to get 200 or 300 other fighters, because he's the face of boxing. If he speak about me, other fighters will follow. So eventually, it was my idea to become free. I paid the 750, I became free. He was helping me, at least I thought he was helping me, at least I thought he was a friend. Eventually, you know, we start looking at the paperwork years later, and then we come to find out, 350 million was stolen.

• 10:33Speaker 01

  Did you ever get that money back from him?

• 10:35Speaker 00

  Um, we in, we in litigation right now.

• 10:37Speaker 01

  Oh, right now you are?

• 10:38Speaker 00

  Right now, we still in litigation right now about the money.

• 10:41Speaker 01

  Is that the thing that I saw, the 164 million right now? Is that part of it, or that's different?

• 10:45Speaker 00

  Which one?

• 10:46Speaker 01

  The 164 million?

• 10:47Speaker 00

  164 million. Now, that's the same guy now, now with the, we talking about the 200 million now. It's a guy who was sitting next to me, acting like he was a friend, helping me clean up business, and he stole 200 million.

• 11:00Speaker 01

  So this is a completely different guy?

• 11:02Speaker 00

  Yeah, this is a completely different guy.

• 11:03Speaker 01

  So 550 million stolen from you?

• 11:06Speaker 00

  Yes, and I still live a great life.

• 11:15Speaker 01

  Okay, so why do you think there's a pattern of so many great boxers having people that steal money from them? You hear these stories from a lot of different people. Why do you think that happens?

• 11:25Speaker 00

  It's no different from the Bernie Madoff story. At this level, it's totally different. It's not like, like what you think, like with the 350 million. It's not like no one went to me and took 350 million. Or what happened was, Showtime, I got a deal with Showtime. Money on the back end, spoiler, came to Mayweather Promotions. Spoiler, came exactly to Floyd Mayweather, and they sent it to someone else's account. And that's what happened.

• 11:56Speaker 01

  So Floyd, I'm looking at you, you seem very happy.

• 12:00Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 12:00Speaker 01

  You seem at peace.

• 12:01Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 12:01Speaker 01

  You seem grateful.

• 12:03Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 12:03Speaker 01

  Freaking beautiful to see that.

• 12:05Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 12:05Speaker 01

  How do you tell apart now and filter people out for not coming in because you've seen people take advantage of you? What is your process now?

• 12:12Speaker 00

  My main thing right now is trust, but verify. Trust, but verify.

• 12:19Speaker 01

  How do you verify?

• 12:20Speaker 00

  I mean, you, a lot of times, you can look over paperwork, but you can have the best lawyers. Things happen in life. We live, we learn, we keep moving. I'm a climber, I'm a fighter. I've been a fighter since birth, so I will always stay on top.

• 12:36Speaker 01

  Any plans, is that, is that Pacquiao fight gonna happen? The fight that you guys are flirting with?

• 12:42Speaker 00

  Well, December, you know, December, we got Mayweather, Mike Tyson exhibition. You know, that's in December. And I think Pacquiao Mayweather will be somewhere in 2027.

• 12:58Speaker 01

  So you think it's gonna happen?

• 13:00Speaker 00

  Yes, yes. You know, we already talked about it, you know. For that fight, I'll be guaranteed 110 million, so, you know, we'll be okay.

• 13:09Speaker 01

  What's he gonna get? Is it a decent number he's getting, Manny?

• 13:13Speaker 00

  Well, the reason why the fight hasn't happened-

• 13:15Speaker 01

  Oh, because the deals are not-

• 13:16Speaker 00

  As of lately, I know you guys kept hearing, well, why this fight is not happening? So let me kind of explain. It was a guy, the same guy that stole the 200 million, he was in the middle of trying to defraud, committing fraud against numerous people, I should say. And we was gonna fight on Netflix, and with the deal, they tried to offer me, as well as Pacquiao, the same amount of money. And so I said, okay, on the first, on the first Pacquiao fight, I was guaranteed 101 million, he was guaranteed 25. So we come back and do the rematch this time, and they tried to give both of us 27 and a half million.

• 14:00Speaker 00

  I said, well, he lose and he get the exact same much as I get? I said, absolutely not. So I said, go back to the drawing board, get your numbers right, and when y'all got your numbers right, then come talk to me.

• 14:11Speaker 01

  We talked to you at a negotiate, Floyd. You're very good negotiator. How did, how did that happen?

• 14:15Speaker 00

  Things happen.

• 14:16Speaker 01

  Things happen.

• 14:18Speaker 00

  I mean, life experiences, you live, you learn, and that's how it is.

• 14:24Speaker 01

  So it's just through experience you became a better, or if I was like, if I was friends with you at 14 years old?

• 14:29Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 14:29Speaker 01

  Okay, and I know you're boxing at 14 years old, were you still a very strong personality?

• 14:34Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 14:35Speaker 01

  Just as much as you are today?

• 14:36Speaker 00

  Well, we all educated different. Some of us are educated in school, and some of us are educated in life. I'm educated in life. I know how to survive.

• 14:47Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's, that's a, that's a completely different kind of training that you can't get from school. You're gonna get it from streets that you're going through. I want to show a video to you. I want to show a video to you. I want to get your thoughts on this. So if you can pull this video up-

• 15:01Speaker 00

  Check it out.

• 15:02Speaker 01

  -I'm curious to know how you're gonna react to this. This is a video of you, if you guys can pull it up in the back. Kelly, let me know if you have the video or not. Humberto, let me know if you guys have sent it to them or not. Okay, right, I want you to watch this video. Pause it, please. Pause it first.

• 15:17Speaker 02

  When you look at Todorov-

• 15:18Speaker 01

  Pause, pause. Okay, you know what video this is?

• 15:21Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 15:21Speaker 01

  Okay, so if you, if you want to let them know what video this is-

• 15:25Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 15:25Speaker 01

  -and then we can get into it, because I want to ask you about this.

• 15:28Speaker 00

  Okay, so 30 years ago, I went to the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. I represented the red, white, and blue, my country that I love so much. I love it. And as you can see, the woman, not right behind me, but the other woman, right there is my mother. And people don't really know my story. You know, I come from seven of us in a one bedroom, with no light, no heat, and I beat all odds to get to where I got to. So my mother was on drugs, my dad went to prison, and it was always one of my goals

• 16:13Speaker 00

  since, since I watched the Olympic Games in 1984, I think. I seen Mary Lou Retton, she was a gymnast. I seen Mary Lou Retton competing in Olympic Games, and different people competing in Olympic Games, and it was always one of my goals was to go to the Olympic Games. And I was able to compete in the 1996 Olympic Games, and right there, that night, I fought, I was 19 years old, and I fought against the amateur world champion, Seraphin Todorov.

• 16:47Speaker 01

  Bulgarian guy.

• 16:48Speaker 00

  He's from Bulgaria. And I know I really beat him. I beat him, that was in the semifinals in Olympics. And I ended up receiving a bronze, receiving a bronze medal, and I didn't win, so my tears right there, I was hurt, because I felt, I felt like I let my mother down, I let, I let my country down, I let my father down, but things happen, and you live and you learn. And actually, that was the best day of my life, because I knew I didn't want that feeling anymore, so I went out there and turned professional, and now today, I'm 50 and up.

• 17:23Speaker 01

  By the way, I can't tell you how many times I've watched this video, 100 plus times, and I can't tell you how many times I've shown this video to people that had a loss, that they didn't think it was fair, because of how he reacted. I just want you to watch this and feel the sheer emotions of a 19-year-old Floyd Mayweather. Watch this clip, go for it.

• 17:49Speaker 02

  I'm at on the, on the scoring.

• 17:52Speaker 00

  Yeah, I'm gonna fight.

• 17:53Speaker 02

  Now, when you look at Todorov, a three-time world champion, do you feel like he got some consideration from the judges? I understand how emotional you are right now, Floyd, with your family.

• 18:11Speaker 01

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• 21:02Speaker 00

  I mean, I mean, that's, I feel like that's really a part of life, blood, sweat and tears. I mean, that's, that's life. We love, we happy, tears of joy, tears when we sad. We live, we learn, we fight, we have bad days, but we continue to move on.

• 21:27Speaker 01

  What are you thinking right now? Why are you getting the feeling you're getting right now? What are you thinking right now?

• 21:31Speaker 00

  Um, because you gotta realize, with me, everything is black and white, no gray areas. And I'm not a person that's full of shit. I'm just, I'm real, I'm authentic. So, you know, a person like myself, and even like with me being here in front of, front of the world, my thing is this, we, all of us in this room want the same thing. Brother, you see Floyd Mayweather with a diamond watch, a Rolls Royce, we all want the same thing through our life. We want peace, happiness, we wanna love our families, and we want a comfortable life. So that's why we make certain sacrifices to, uh, to make certain money, so we can have a comfortable life. Money is nothing but comfort.

• 22:16Speaker 01

  Did you and him ever unite, ever reunite since that day, or no?

• 22:20Speaker 00

  Who, the guy, actually?

• 22:21Speaker 01

  The guy, yeah.

• 22:21Speaker 00

  Who I lost to?

• 22:22Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 22:22Speaker 00

  No, actually, the guy that I lost to, um, I think he's homeless now, actually, from what I'm told. So, you know, everything happens for a reason, but I don't wish bad on no one. So if I, if, if I can find him, and lend, give him money, or, or give him a handout, no problem.

• 22:43Speaker 01

  You would do it?

• 22:43Speaker 00

  Absolutely.

• 22:44Speaker 01

  How about you let me go find him, and I'll schedule the meeting?

• 22:47Speaker 00

  Find him and I'll do something for him.

• 22:48Speaker 01

  I'm gonna schedule the meeting. I'm gonna go find him. Yeah, okay. Because, you know, you know what it made me think about? Do you, do you remember when the whole nomas, you know, the nomas, nomas, nomas, the Roberto Duran?

• 23:00Speaker 00

  I'm, I'm a student, I'm-

• 23:01Speaker 01

  Of course, I know you, that's what I'm saying to you.

• 23:03Speaker 00

  I'm a, I'm a student of boxing, of course, so, cuz that's Roberto Duran and Sugar Ray Leonard's second fight. Now, Roberto Duran and Sugar Ray Leonard's first fight, he gave Sugar Ray Leonard his first loss. And, um, of course, you know, I'm a fan of Sugar Ray Leonard. Um, he's one of the guys that paved the way for me to be where I'm at. And also, Sugar Ray Leonard is one of the guys that beat my father, you know, in, in my father's career. So, he's a hell of a champion and a hell of a fighter.

• 23:34Speaker 01

  Yeah, and, and do you remember the clip of when they got together, and they reunited? And I think Showtime or HBO did a documentary of Sugar Ray and Duran coming together?

• 23:45Speaker 00

  Well, they, I think they fought three times.

• 23:47Speaker 01

  They did, they did fight three times. But many, many years later, when it's like, hey, did you really do the nomas, the, the visiting of each other? I don't know if you've seen that or not.

• 23:54Speaker 00

  I didn't see it.

• 23:54Speaker 01

  It's a very good moment. I don't have it here with me, but I'll send it to you to look at. But it would be fascinating to see you and him reuniting from 19 years old till today, to see what that conversation would be like.

• 24:04Speaker 00

  Yes, you know, uh, just being able to, but I think, I think it's truly unbelievable, even like with my career, for me, there's no other fighter that's my age. Um, cuz I never, I've never really took no abuse in the sport, because the first thing my father taught me was, the less you get hit, the longer you're able to last. And that's whatever you do, that's like in business. You try to take less hits, you know, you try to take as, as many less, uh, as many, you don't wanna take too many losses. You always wanna win. So, my dad taught me about defense, taught me about being smart, being intelligent, and I applied it. And in boxing, so that's why I'm still able, at my age, and when, in

• 24:47Speaker 00

  a couple months, I'll be, what, 50 years old? And I'm still, I'm still able to go out and make a hundred million.

• 24:52Speaker 01

  That's unbelievable, Floyd, to say that.

• 24:54Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 24:55Speaker 01

  That's unbelievable to say that. By the way, there, there used to be stories, tell me if these stories are true or not, or if these are, it was a story about, you would go to the nightclub with your boys, but you would never drink, you wouldn't smoke, and you're in the back doing sit-ups at a nightclub. Is that a true story?

• 25:11Speaker 00

  Not, not really sit-ups, but hanging out at the nightclub, my team, uh, they would drink, they would party, they would have fun. I would party too, but no alcohol, no drugs, because I just, um, you only have, you only have, this is your real wealth, so take care of this. Your body is your real wealth. So you have to take care, you, God only give you one body. You only get one temple, take care of it. So, a lot of times we hanging out, and if I'm in training camp, I would run from the club. I would run probably 60, 7 miles from the club.

• 25:46Speaker 01

  You would run from the club?

• 25:47Speaker 00

  Yes, absolutely.

• 25:50Speaker 01

  I mean, that's crazy to just, so you would go to the club, you would party, but you're running home?

• 25:54Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 25:57Speaker 01

  How, how did temptation of drugs and alcohol not get to you? How did you say no? It's not an easy thing, you're in that environment, it's, how do you say no?

• 26:04Speaker 00

  My dad was a, of course, I seen my mother on drugs, I seen my mother doing drugs. Uh, my dad was a drug dealer, because his career didn't go good. So, once I seen those certain things, I said, you know what? You know, that's not for me. So, I took it upon myself, not to do drugs, not to drink. I was always on my mother about, I was on, I was always on her case about smoking and drinking, so I didn't wanna be a hypocrite. So I said, I'm not gonna do it.

• 26:35Speaker 01

  So then what do you do? That's major respect, but it's not easy to do. So, Floyd, when, when you, all of a sudden are, you know, one of the most famous people in the world, everybody wants to be around you, you know, the hip-hop folks show up, everybody else shows up, you know, you're partying with all these guys, you know, some, some, you know, people that may have bad habits. Zero temptation, nothing?

• 27:00Speaker 00

  Well, I'll, I have to look at my life, and look what I got. And I say to myself, well Floyd, how did you get to where you got to? Was you smoking, was you drinking to get there? Were you was living a clean life, being thankful, saying your prayers, working hard, dedicating yourself, and, and God was answering your prayers? When God was answering my prayers, I asked for a lot of things. And I said, God, please, help me get to the Olympics, help my mother get off drugs, and I'll live, and, and I'm, I will continue to obey you, and help me, help my family become great, and I'll follow

• 27:43Speaker 00

  you. And that's what happened. Wow.

• 27:46Speaker 01

  It's amazing. Did, did you, I don't know if you're, are you following the Kefi D trial with Tupac? Or are you following any of that stuff on what's going on right now?

• 27:54Speaker 00

  I don't, I don't really be on social media, because you only got 24 hours in a day. You, we only, we only got 24 hours. Eight hours we sleep. And, and a lot of people that work a nine to five, that's another eight hours. So I can't spend it, uh, with another eight hours on, on social media. So, I'm, I'm out there building generational wealth.

• 28:13Speaker 01

  Respect. Did you ever hang out with Tupac? Or was Tupac, uh, did you guys ever spend time together?

• 28:18Speaker 00

  I met Tupac in, uh, 1993. I was in Indianapolis Black Expo in Indiana, actually.

• 28:27Speaker 01

  93, so 93 has he, yeah, 93 Tupac is Tupac.

• 28:31Speaker 00

  Yes, well Tupac, I, I, actually, Tupac, um, the, the, the day he got killed, he was, I was in this arena, and he was in this arena, cuz Mike Tyson was fighting in this arena, actually, right here. And, um, I was, I was supposed to go to the after-party at, um, Shit nightclub, which is on Flamingo.

• 28:52Speaker 01

  You're supposed to go to the after-party?

• 28:53Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 28:54Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 28:55Speaker 00

  You know, after the fight, it's always after.

• 28:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, of course, you gotta, most definitely. And so, interesting, because they just came out with the story saying the guy that killed Tupac is a guy named Kefi D, and then the story, anyways, this is an area that I follow a lot of these things. I thought maybe there was a story with you and Tupac. Did you listen to his music? Were you a fan of his music?

• 29:14Speaker 00

  Um, he was one of the best, one of the best.

• 29:18Speaker 01

  What do you listen to when you're, when you're training, you're getting ready for a fight? What are you listening to?

• 29:21Speaker 00

  Well, a lot of times when you see me jogging with my headphones on, I prefer to listen to more R&B music. Yes, more relaxing music, but, but, um, now I like to listen to Afro beats and Afro house.

• 29:39Speaker 01

  Good taste. Okay, any specific, any specific thing?

• 29:43Speaker 00

  Um, uh, Black Coffee.

• 29:46Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 29:47Speaker 00

  He's a great, he's a great, he's, he's one of the best DJs.

• 29:50Speaker 01

  How about R&B? What were you listening to with R&B?

• 29:51Speaker 00

  R&B, a little bit of everybody.

• 29:53Speaker 01

  Cool. Brian McKnight, Keith Sweat, like, who were?

• 29:56Speaker 00

  Um, I like Brian McKnight, I like Keith Sweat, I like Mary J. Um, uh, even though they gonna, they, they don't like R. Kelly, I still like R. Kelly. I like a lot of artists.

• 30:07Speaker 01

  Yeah, you can't listen, one thing about R. Kelly's music, it's like so many of them, that, you know?

• 30:12Speaker 00

  It's timeless, even though he, I mean, it is what it is, but the music-

• 30:17Speaker 01

  He, did you ever meet him? Did you ever meet him again?

• 30:21Speaker 00

  Yes, yes.

• 30:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, he, he, he's had a couple interviews that were, uh, epic, epic interviews. So, Floyd, your, your career of fighting, hardest hitting puncher, that you, you walked away, you couldn't show it, but you knew this hurt when they hit you. Who was the hardest hitting puncher?

• 30:39Speaker 00

  Victoriano Sosa. A guy, um, Victoriano Sosa, a Dominican guy.

• 30:49Speaker 01

  Now, is this, this guy's not a top 50, he's not a famous fighter, he's not?

• 30:53Speaker 00

  He's not, but, he can hit, he can hit, he can hit, yeah, he can hit.

• 31:02Speaker 01

  It felt very different than everybody else?

• 31:04Speaker 00

  Marcos Madonna, Marcos Madonna hit hard, but not like Sosa. Sosa hit, he hit like the baseball player out the park.

• 31:14Speaker 01

  Mayweather, Floyd, who'd you go up against where, in the middle of the fight, you, you ask yourself, you said, uh, this person may give me the first loss, I better change my, uh, approach? Was there anybody where in the middle of the fight, you're like, all right, this thing is a little bit close, I better make some adjustments here? Cuz, you know, you know the stories where everybody says, I'm wondering what you would say about this question?

• 31:35Speaker 00

  It's, I, I don't really wanna say lose, but I can go back to my corner, and they said, well, we need to pick it up a little bit. We need to pick it up a little bit, so I'll pick it up.

• 31:47Speaker 01

  Anybody? Any specific fight?

• 31:49Speaker 00

  No, everybody, everybody easy.

• 31:51Speaker 01

  Everybody easy?

• 31:52Speaker 00

  I'm Mayweather, everybody's easy.

• 31:53Speaker 01

  Floyd, everybody?

• 31:55Speaker 00

  I'm Mayweather, I'm, everybody easy.

• 32:00Speaker 01

  Where does the confidence come from?

• 32:06Speaker 00

  If, if I don't believe in myself, who's going to believe in me? Self-preservation is a law of the land. I'm the best.

• 32:18Speaker 01

  At what age you do-

• 32:19Speaker 00

  And, and, and the reason why I'm the best, cause when you do your homework-

• 32:22Speaker 01

  Yup.

• 32:23Speaker 00

  Because you, you have to be a student, you just have to be a student at whatever. You can't talk boxing without talking Mayweather. Okay? Now, do you think that a lot of other fighters are my age and they still can go out there-

• 32:37Speaker 01

  No.

• 32:38Speaker 00

  And demand the money that I demand?

• 32:40Speaker 01

  No. You're one of one. No one, no one's ever been able to do that.

• 32:43Speaker 00

  Okay, so, even at my age now, I bought, wait, we got in a few, in a few months, I'll be 50 years old. Now you tell me another athlete that can go out there at 50 years old and say, you know what? I need 100 million. Every time I go out there. Or if I do an exhibition, I need eight fitness.

• 33:04Speaker 01

  Jake Paul's 32. He's saying 50.

• 33:08Speaker 00

  Well, we, well, well, the one thing about Jake Paul, now, one thing about him, I take my hat off to him. But someone had to open up the floodgates for guys like Jake Paul. Now Floyd Mayweather go, if Floyd Mayweather's doing exhibitions and Floyd Mayweather is doing, is fighting guys like Conor McGregor, where we, where we crossing, where we make the sport, where we crossover and make, and make things like this happen, you would never know nothing about a Jake Paul.

• 33:40Speaker 00

  Now, now, one thing about Jake Paul, we, we have to, we have to give him his flowers. One thing about Jake Paul, as well as Logan Paul, they know how to hustle. And I like their hustle. But in the sport of boxing, you can play basketball, you could play baseball, you could play football, you can't play boxing. Now Jake Paul was fighting, you know, basketball players, little guys, not really good fighters. When he finally fought somebody that can fight, he got his jaw broken in two places. So you can't play boxing.

• 34:18Speaker 01

  Floyd, there, there's, there is a, uh, there, there is list that they say the most difficult sport in the world. I don't know if you guys seen this or not. If you look up what is the most difficult sport in the world, boxing's always at, always at the top. Why, why is it the most difficult sport in the world?

• 35:18Speaker 00

  Boxing sometimes, if you're not in tip-top shape, or you're not, if you're not conditioned, or you playing with the sport, it'll make you question yourself just about life. It'll humble you. If nothing can humble a person, boxing can humble you. You can be, you can be a gangster, but you, everybody a gangster in boxing. Everybody's tough in boxing. And on any given night, it's just like, it's just like a cop. One shot can end your whole career. So that's why I was very, very smart, you know, um, the best, really the best thing

• 36:03Speaker 00

  about my career is, is my mental. So whatever you, so if, when I face a guy, this is exactly what I'm saying. Whatever your best attribute is, I need to take that away from you and make you resort to doing something that you don't want to do.

• 36:19Speaker 01

  How would you do that?

• 36:20Speaker 00

  Easy. If you got a good jab, I'll take your jab away. If you got a good right hand, I know I'll stay away from it. If a guy got a good hook, then I know that's the only thing I gotta watch out for.

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• 38:57Speaker 01

  Do, do you prepare for each fight in a different way? Or do you just prepare for all three of them in case it happens?

• 39:04Speaker 00

  Well, they gotta worry about me. I don't have to worry about them. One thing we, one thing everybody know when they face me, he can fight. I ain't gotta worry about you, you gotta worry about me. Cause everybody know I can fight.

• 39:17Speaker 01

  So the onus is on them?

• 39:21Speaker 00

  Basically.

• 39:22Speaker 01

  Basically, okay. Okay. So, you know, the, the, the game of, uh, boxing, like if you go look, a lot of people will say the greatest UFC fighter of all time is Khabib or Jon Jones. They'll give those names, right? But they'll say no one was a better promoter than Conor McGregor.

• 39:39Speaker 00

  Now- Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

• 39:44Speaker 00

  You mean the guy that took my whole swag and took it over there to the UFC?

• 39:49Speaker 01

  So you're saying Conor copied you and took it to UFC?

• 39:52Speaker 00

  You, you tell, you tell me.

• 39:56Speaker 00

  As soon as, as soon as Conor McGregor faced Floyd Mayweather, I mean, he was big as life.

• 40:04Speaker 01

  What do you mean?

• 40:04Speaker 00

  I mean, his career wasn't like that before. What was his biggest payday? What was his biggest fight?

• 40:10Speaker 01

  Prior to that? 5, 10 million?

• 40:12Speaker 00

  Okay, so when he got me, what kind of money did he make?

• 40:15Speaker 01

  Was it 200 or 150?

• 40:18Speaker 00

  I don't know, he probably made, I think I made-

• 40:21Speaker 01

  You made 300?

• 40:22Speaker 00

  I think I made about 300. Uh, you know, I don't like to count another man's pocket, but he ate good.

• 40:29Speaker 01

  He ate good.

• 40:31Speaker 00

  I'm pretty sure he ate good, yeah.

• 40:32Speaker 01

  Floyd, if you've made, but by the way, when you, that one day, when you guys were promoting this fight-

• 40:38Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 40:38Speaker 01

  I've never in my life-

• 40:40Speaker 00

  Seen a fight like that.

• 40:42Speaker 01

  No, not a fight. Promotion like that.

• 40:45Speaker 00

  That's why I had to become my own boss.

• 40:47Speaker 01

  But Floyd, you weren't, you were sitting back and letting him do his own thing. Was it your way of saying, this guy can do this better than me? Or was it like, go do the show and sell the ticket? What, you, you didn't say a lot in that fight. It was mainly him talking.

• 41:00Speaker 00

  Um, what, what do you mean, like mainly him talking?

• 41:04Speaker 01

  So you're sitting there with your bag over here and your friends are over here and Connor's going around doing his thing.

• 41:11Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 41:11Speaker 01

  Selling it, talking trash, and you're just sitting there like this, not saying anything. What were you thinking when you were sitting, not saying anything? Are you just telling yourself, this guy just made me a, you know, this guy just got made a ton of money the way he's promoting the fight?

• 41:23Speaker 00

  No, actually what I was saying is, um, talking doesn't win fights. One thing you can do, he can do all that he want. I know that when you get in there with Floyd Mayweather,

• 41:36Speaker 00

  I mean, you, you, I'm the truth. When you get in there, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's go time. So, so this whole arena could be filled with Conor McGregor fans, but they can't fight for you. The fans can't fight for you.

• 41:51Speaker 00

  And as you, like you see, I, um, and I think, actually, I think man Conor McGregor may lock up again, actually. Yeah, absolutely.

• 42:01Speaker 01

  You and Connor may lock up again?

• 42:02Speaker 00

  Yeah. I, I, he didn't break his hand, he broke his foot, right?

• 42:06Speaker 01

  Right.

• 42:06Speaker 00

  Okay, well, we going from the shoulders.

• 42:08Speaker 01

  Good point. That's a good point.

• 42:09Speaker 00

  From the shoulders.

• 42:10Speaker 01

  Oh, and I think that would be, by the way, is there a friendship there or is there a true animosity between the two of you? Do you guys have a friendship?

• 42:17Speaker 00

  Um,

• 42:20Speaker 00

  I don't, I, I don't, I'm, I'm not really upset with anyone. I mean, it is what it is. I mean, I don't, I don't live with Conor McGregor and he's not my friend. I don't have to see him. It's just when it's time for us to do business and lock up, let's do it.

• 42:33Speaker 01

  So it's not a friendship? You guys are not texting each other, calling?

• 42:35Speaker 00

  Absolutely not.

• 42:36Speaker 01

  That's what I'm saying. So you just changed, your body just changed right now? So you're not going to dinner together at Cipriani's and, you know, breaking bread?

• 42:44Speaker 00

  I mean, if we gotta sit down to talk.

• 42:47Speaker 01

  For business.

• 42:48Speaker 00

  For business sake, if we have to put the fight together by sitting down, having dinner, then we'll do it. But all in all, I, I couldn't care less about, I, I don't need to be friends with anyone.

• 43:00Speaker 01

  Was there anybody you ever fought that you had true animosity that you wanted to destroy them? Anybody?

• 43:05Speaker 00

  No.

• 43:06Speaker 01

  Never?

• 43:07Speaker 00

  I, I, I, I mean, I wanna win, but I, you can't, you can't go into boxing like that. It doesn't work like.

• 43:11Speaker 01

  Tell, tell me why?

• 43:13Speaker 00

  Because if you,

• 43:16Speaker 00

  it ju, it just, this is a different, this is a different, boxing is a different creature. You cannot do that.

• 43:21Speaker 01

  Is it because you can't lose your emotion? You can't, you lose control of your emotion?

• 43:25Speaker 00

  You have to stay calm and relaxed and focused at all times, cause anything can happen. You can't go in there trying to kill a guy. You gotta go in there with a game plan.

• 43:37Speaker 00

  This is what it is.

• 43:38Speaker 01

  How, how much have you learned how to stay calm under pressure in the arena with 15,000 people around you, millions watching? How do you prepare for that behind closed doors?

• 43:50Speaker 00

  In the boxing gym, where in the boxing gym, we always, we got this thing that we call the doghouse that I created. Where every day we let people from all around the world come watch, watch me train. So sometimes it's 200 people in the boxing gym watching me train. So once you train around two or 300 people every day for 30 years, you're used to it. So when you fighting, when you in the ring, it's just like you and a guy in the ring, just, it's just like y'all two in the arena by yourself.

• 44:19Speaker 01

  Do you even see the audience when you're fighting?

• 44:21Speaker 00

  No.

• 44:22Speaker 01

  You don't see the audience?

• 44:23Speaker 00

  I don't see nothing. I see my opponent. I don't even see the referee, just the guy in front of me.

• 44:27Speaker 01

  But sometime when you were fighting, the announcers were talking, you were talking to them. You would go back and forth with the announcers?

• 44:32Speaker 00

  Well, I was just letting you know how easy it is.

• 44:34Speaker 01

  You would do that. Who knows what I'm talking, you ever seen Floyd do that when he's fighting, somebody's telling the announcer how easy the opponent is? It was hilarious watching, uh, you know, some of those fights of yours. Okay, so going back to Connor. If, if they invited you, if Connor said, hey Floyd, let's do, let's do a UFC fight, would you ever do it?

• 44:53Speaker 01

  In the octagon?

• 44:53Speaker 00

  I don't have to. I'm the A side always.

• 44:56Speaker 01

  So you choose the grounds?

• 44:58Speaker 00

  That's why I, that's why I spent 750,000 to become my own boss.

• 45:02Speaker 01

  Got it. Got it. So you, you tell everybody it's my rules, this is how we fight and it's boxing?

• 45:08Speaker 00

  It's not my rules. It's let us negotiate so that both sides are happy, that they're safe to say.

• 45:17Speaker 01

  Both sides are happy, okay. So if you've made 1.4 billion dollars in your career,

• 45:22Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 45:22Speaker 01

  how much money you think you've made others?

• 45:29Speaker 00

  Not sure.

• 45:30Speaker 01

  What do you think it is? What do you think that number would be? Cause you, you, you, you started saying.

• 45:33Speaker 00

  We can't count no, we can't count no one else's pockets. We can't worry about what nobody else getting, we gotta worry about what we get.

• 45:39Speaker 01

  No, I, but the reason why I'm asking the question is, is to say like the impact.

• 45:44Speaker 00

  Right now, right now in the audience, everybody's trying to worry about how they can, how they can gain more and grow more and grow their business. Not about nobody else who they competing against. So I can't worry about my competitor. I gotta worry about Floyd.

• 45:56Speaker 01

  Right, but I'm talking about like when, cause you made a lot of people money Floyd. You made a lot of people a lot of money. You know, you, you were, you were one of those guys that if there was a Floyd fight, like we know Cinco de Mayo, you know, the things you would do, the hats, all of that stuff, we would look forward to it every flipping year. You made the industry a lot of money. Is, is there a Floyd Mayweather right now in boxing?

• 46:19Speaker 00

  Um,

• 46:22Speaker 00

  not yet, but my grandson could be the next Floyd Mayweather. My grandson is boxing every day.

• 46:29Speaker 01

  Stop.

• 46:30Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 46:30Speaker 01

  How old is he?

• 46:31Speaker 00

  My, he five.

• 46:34Speaker 01

  You're not joking?

• 46:35Speaker 00

  No, I'm not joking at all.

• 46:37Speaker 01

  So at five years old, you think he has what it takes to be like you one day?

• 46:40Speaker 00

  My daughter makes sure her son goes to the boxing gym every day.

• 46:44Speaker 01

  Stop.

• 46:45Speaker 00

  He goes to school, then he go to his second school.

• 46:48Speaker 01

  For how long does he go at, at five years old to his second school?

• 46:51Speaker 00

  Um, couple hours, two hours.

• 46:53Speaker 01

  So what, what, what do you, what do you, do you train him or are you working with him or who works with him?

• 46:57Speaker 00

  Well, right now, I'm just letting him, he wanna, he don't wanna listen. He wanna do it, all he wanna do is spar. All he wanna do is spar, but I'm telling him every day, you have to learn the techniques about boxing. All, but all he wanna do is just spar. He wanna box everybody in the gym.

• 47:15Speaker 01

  Do you say that because you see something in him that you, you, you're a member of yourself?

• 47:19Speaker 00

  He's super, super, super smart, intelligent. And, um, if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't change nothing, cause I won't be able to get that same grandson.

• 47:31Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 47:32Speaker 00

  So he's, that's, that's my, that's my, that's my pride and joy in life.

• 47:39Speaker 00

  And, and I will always stand on this. My dad is the, the best man God ever blew breath into. But the best, one of the best gifts God has ever given me is my grandson.

• 47:55Speaker 01

  What, what, what are you most proud of right now at 49 years old? What is your greatest accomplishment in life?

• 48:00Speaker 00

  Um,

• 48:04Speaker 00

  just being, just being able to, um, get up and work out, um, being able to jog, run, work out, play with my grandson and just travel the world and live life.

• 48:17Speaker 01

  So just being free?

• 48:18Speaker 00

  Just being free, absolutely, yes.

• 48:20Speaker 01

  Wow. Being free, greatest accomplishment?

• 48:23Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 48:24Speaker 01

  Five years old, I would have never guessed you're gonna say five year old. So at five years old, you're thinking this kid can be?

• 48:28Speaker 00

  We have, we have, we have kids every day in the gym that we help, that we push, just like, just like Floyd Mayweather. If we looking for the next Floyd Mayweather, we can't start him off at 16. You gotta start him off, um, from the beginning. The only reason why I'm where I'm at is because my dad basically pushed me to be a fighter.

• 48:48Speaker 01

  At what age?

• 48:48Speaker 00

  At my whole life.

• 48:50Speaker 01

  What age? How, how early?

• 48:52Speaker 00

  From, what, one, two years old, I was in the gym every day.

• 48:57Speaker 01

  From one, two years old, you're in the gym every?

• 48:59Speaker 00

  Every day. Yes.

• 49:04Speaker 01

  Folks, we're screwing up. Can you imagine?

• 49:07Speaker 00

  It's no different from if they want to, whatever you want your children to be in life, you have to start them off early. Even if they don't wanna do it. I'm glad my dad pushed me to become a fighter. I'm glad. That's the best thing, that's the best thing in my life that my dad did for me. That's why he's the best.

• 49:25Speaker 01

  Did, did he ever push you away from boxing or no?

• 49:27Speaker 00

  No.

• 49:28Speaker 01

  How did he sell you how amazing the sport is?

• 49:31Speaker 00

  He did, he didn't sell it to me. He just, he, he would go every day, he would take me with him. Once he take me with him, eventually by the time I was

• 49:41Speaker 00

  14, I was ready to turn pro at 14 years old.

• 49:45Speaker 01

  14 years?

• 49:45Speaker 00

  At 14, yes.

• 49:47Speaker 01

  You, you, you and him had a lot of conflicts over the years. Some of them were public, when you guys would, you know, go back and forth.

• 49:52Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 49:53Speaker 01

  How did you manage that? How did that, you know, and was it your way of saying, I know what I'm doing? What, what were the conflicts about?

• 49:59Speaker 00

  The conflicts was, my dad went to prison, my dad went to prison when I was 16.

• 50:06Speaker 00

  When my dad came back into my life, I was 21. So I had my own house, my own car, my own everything.

• 50:15Speaker 00

  And me and my dad would agree to disagree on certain things. The same, the same vision I had when I was 16 is totally different from when I'm 21. I'm on my own and I already, I'm already living my life, I'm already traveling the world, doing certain things. So I wasn't against what my father was telling me. But, um, we would just bump heads, but at the end of the day, whatever I had to say about my dad in the past, I apologize. I come on record and apologize, um, to the world and say, I apologize. My dad is the best man I've, I've ever known.

• 50:53Speaker 01

  That's so beautiful. That is so beautiful, man, to say something like that. Guys, if you wanna ask questions, this is the time to line up, cause I can go another hour. If you got any questions you wanna ask, this is your opportunity to be able to ask the great one. Any questions? Sean, I'll come to you first. Go for it.

• 51:07Speaker 00

  So, Money Mayweather, thank you, brother.

• 51:10Speaker 01

  I, I know my guy's name. I, I know my guy's name.

• 51:13Speaker 00

  Thank you, thank you, man. Thank you for being honest, transparent, authentic, and not allowing people to take you out of your game and start fighting rough and losing your senses. I appreciate that. Personal branding is what I.

• 51:28Speaker 01

  That's the thing I want to ask you about. You were pretty boy Floyd.

• 51:34Speaker 01

  And your purse was a certain thing. And then you became Money Mayweather. Talk about the difference. What was the difference? And how did the world respond to you? And how did that affect your thinking and your purse?

• 51:49Speaker 00

  Well, once I know.

• 51:52Speaker 00

  We got to a certain point where we did record breaking numbers. Once we, once we done record breaking numbers now, it's time to cross over. And we got to change up. We got to change up the whole look. We got to change up everything. And that's what we did.

• 52:07Speaker 01

  Thank you. Fantastic. Manny Soto back there.

• 52:10Speaker 05

  Money. Mayweather, man, I'm excited. I gotta pee like a racehorse, bro, but I had to talk to you, dude. You are bad. You're a bad dude. Wherever there's players, there's always player haters. Like all over the place, man. How do you deal with the haters? Like I'm there, there's like little whispers. I'm like, man, I'm gonna say, he's gonna whip your ass after this little interview here. You keep talking this madness. I love that. But how do you deal with the haters, bro? Like, I know you get a lot of bad publicity.

• 52:41Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 52:42Speaker 05

  Come on. Like, and don't filter it either. Like, tell me exactly the real deal. What do you, like, how do you take it? And how do you develop it? And how do you use it for yourself instead of against yourself?

• 52:53Speaker 00

  Um, I, I feel like hating comes with success. I mean, if I wasn't successful, I'd have nothing to talk about. So that comes, that comes with, with your journey. You know? When it's all said and done. We all came here the same. We may not leave the same way, but we all came the same way. So we all got a story to tell. We all live a certain, we all live the way we want to live. And, and that's life.

• 53:22Speaker 00

  Good press, bad press, write about me.

• 53:26Speaker 01

  Is that literally the mindset?

• 53:27Speaker 00

  That's my mindset.

• 53:28Speaker 05

  That's the mindset.

• 53:29Speaker 00

  Good press, bad press, write about me. I'm something to talk about.

• 53:32Speaker 05

  Yeah, but does it, I know it's got to affect you like on a level of one to 10. What's the level that it affects you? And how did it?

• 53:39Speaker 00

  If it affected me, I wouldn't be 50 and O.

• 53:43Speaker 05

  See, that's what I'm talking about. See, that's what I'm talking about. I'm telling, if Manny Pacquiao won't fight you, bro, I will. Manny Soto, you know what I'm saying? Money business, Manny, come on, baby.

• 53:52Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 53:53Speaker 05

  Okay, maybe not.

• 53:54Speaker 01

  First round, Manny. Save your good looking face. Gary John, what's happening? Go for it. What's on your mind?

• 54:01Speaker 00

  How do you know all these people?

• 54:02Speaker 01

  I know my guys. I know these, these are my friends. These are people I do business with. These are my guys. Go for it.

• 54:08Speaker 05

  Pat, thank you, bro. This is an honor for you to be here. Pat's my high school friend and we grew up together.

• 54:13Speaker 01

  Yeah, we went to high.

• 54:14Speaker 05

  Way back.

• 54:15Speaker 01

  15, 16 years old.

• 54:16Speaker 05

  So for you to be there with Pat, this is, this is remarkable. But tell me one thing about your career, because you admire me as an athlete, being a very good at what you do, is probably the best boxer out there, pound for pound. And how did you pivot that one time to say, now I'm going to go into business and I'm going to be one of the best entrepreneurs? Because with your brands and things that you do, everything seems to be going great. So how do you take that from boxing to business?

• 54:43Speaker 00

  Well, we know that, I knew that I couldn't fight forever. So. You always got, so at one particular time, boxing was my main source of income. But then you gotta, you gotta look, you gotta look at certain fighters, you know? We can't fight forever. So what's going to be your next source of income? So while I was fighting, I took it upon myself to start investing in real estate while, while I was fighting. So it wouldn't be too hard once, it wouldn't be, it wouldn't be, it wouldn't be too hard to transition once, um, once my career was over. So that's what I did.

• 55:18Speaker 05

  You did a great job.

• 55:19Speaker 00

  Thank you.

• 55:20Speaker 01

  Fantastic. Right here. Actually, you know what? Let me go, is there somebody up there? Is there a question up there? Right up there. Go for it.

• 55:27Speaker 01

  Hey Floyd, how you doing? Um, my name is David. And I just want to say, you know, I admire everything you did with the sport of boxing. And, you know, you're one of my inspirations to start training. I've been training for about a year now. And, um, I just wanted to ask you, you know, you mastered turning your skill into a business and, you know, turning yourself into a brand, you know, a very successful one at that. So, you know, for a kid like me trying to learn business and trying to be someone in life, uh, what's one piece of advice that you wish you knew at my age?

• 56:00Speaker 00

  Invest in yourself first. Invest in yourself first. And it can be a lot of people around you that don't believe, but you have to believe first. So no matter what it is, if you feel like it's something, because even if you fail, failure is, failure is a part of the journey. So whatever you're trying to do in life, go for it.

• 56:24Speaker 01

  Yes, sir. Thank you so much. There you go, buddy. Right over there, I got the hands up. I see you all the way up to top, section 20.

• 56:31Speaker 07

  Floyd, so my name is Artemis Johnson. I actually met you five years ago in Miami, Florida, at Matt Buke Condon's, uh, event. I stumbled on my words, so hopefully I don't this time.

• 56:45Speaker 07

  You have a video where you say dedication, hard work. Dedication, hard work. I'm a one man army. The world can go in against me, I'mma still end up on top. That has motivated me and probably so many other people.

• 57:03Speaker 07

  You know, when I'm working now, I always listen to that. The question I was going to ask you five years ago was with your mindset, how were you able to sharpen that and, you know, keep that fight through fight as you were

• 57:19Speaker 07

  getting to the record that you're at? Because I feel like your mindset is like the, the best thing that you have with you. And, um, I'm just curious on how you were able to develop that to get where you're at.

• 57:31Speaker 00

  Well, you have to realize, just like when, uh, the young man was right there, uh, talking just now, and the other little young man was right there, and, and people like yourself. Every day I come out my home and I'm, well, when I move around, just move around the world, I have people like yourself that's inspired, that I, that I touch, I touch their lives by them seeing, uh, certain videos, or I touch their lives about, they hear my story. Those are the people that count.

• 58:04Speaker 00

  Though, because you got to realize.

• 58:07Speaker 00

  Hate and jealousy, that is, uh, uh, that is people that don't believe in themselves. I believe in myself. I believe I can do anything. There's only three ways you can learn in life. Hearing, seeing, and doing. And doing mean, meaning, meaning physically, hands on. So.

• 58:29Speaker 00

  I need people like you to, to inspire me, to push me, to continue to be great, so I can inspire others to be great. So thank you.

• 58:40Speaker 01

  Love it.

• 58:47Speaker 01

  Yes, right there. Yes, ma'am.

• 58:51Speaker 05

  Thank you so much for being here. From one perspective, we're all talking about boxing, but is there any knockout punch you can talk about that you've learned outside the ring that has really helped you sharpen your skills when it comes to business?

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  Well, what we talked about there earlier in business, what I had to learn the hard way, the trust but verify. I had to learn that the hard way. We talking about 550 million. But every day I get up, my life is still great. My family is healthy. And the main thing, like I said before, I'm gonna keep climbing, no matter what. I'm in a great position, comfortable life, great life. And like I said, when I come to places like this, the people inspire me to be great. You guys pushed me to be great.

• 1:02:18Speaker 00

  And so I will continue to come back and give my time and talk to the people, no matter what.

• 1:02:26Speaker 04

  Thank you.

• 1:02:26Speaker 01

  Awesome. Floyd, if we can talk about, if you don't, you guys can stay here because I may come back to you on a question. Can you tell me about the Money Team Legal Network that you're working on right now? What's that all about?

• 1:02:37Speaker 00

  Okay, so a lot of people around the world that can't afford the right team. When I say the team, meaning the right lawyers. And they're put in a certain position that's not good. So I took it upon myself and I was talking with a couple of my buddies. One of them is James McNair and another guy by the name of Brian. And we reached out to some attorneys. We sat down and we talked and we came up with a game plan. And the game plan was to start the TMT Law Firm.

• 1:03:21Speaker 00

  So we can help those that can't really afford the lawyers and give them, you know, good representation, help them when they're in certain positions.

• 1:03:32Speaker 01

  And it's called the TMT Law Firm?

• 1:03:34Speaker 00

  Yes, I think.

• 1:03:35Speaker 01

  TMT Legal Network?

• 1:03:36Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 1:03:37Speaker 01

  TMT Legal Network? And is that national? Is that Las Vegas? Is that Nevada? Where's it based now?

• 1:03:43Speaker 00

  It's nationwide.

• 1:03:43Speaker 01

  Nationwide.

• 1:03:44Speaker 00

  Nationwide. And we steady growing, yes.

• 1:03:47Speaker 01

  And you just started? Are you guys been doing that?

• 1:03:49Speaker 00

  We've been doing it for a little while. You gotta realize, everyone is not wealthy. Everyone is not rich or wealthy. So we want to put them in position for them to be treated fair. And life is all about being treated fair. So that's why we started to help people that want to be treated fair.

• 1:04:09Speaker 01

  Fantastic. I love that. Respect to you. Let's do two more and then we'll wrap up right here.

• 1:04:15Speaker 00

  Thank you so much Floyd for being here. Your story is very inspirational. You have an amazing record. We all have fears that we have to go through either as an entrepreneur, as a business person, or as a champion. I would like to know what process do you go through to overcome a fear? So you can get to the next level? Belief. Belief. Everyone in this room, we have to believe first. Believe in yourself first before you can believe in anyone else. Believe in your dreams first. And one thing about me, I believe in Floyd first. And I continue to gamble on myself. Gamble on yourself. If you feel like it's something that's going to really be big, if you can be,

• 1:05:00Speaker 00

  everybody can be working for. Everyone in this room right now can have a boss. But you still can be a boss. So in this new era, I look at social media as a gift and a curse. The gift is you can become wealthy overnight. The curse is when you see so many negative comments, it hurts your feelings. When you really gotta say, fuck what you guys think about. I'm gonna live my life the way I want to live it.

• 1:05:34Speaker 01

  Thank you. Put that on your wall. Put that on the wall.

• 1:05:37Speaker 00

  I'm sorry.

• 1:05:39Speaker 01

  That's all good. All right. By the way, I think Stephen Bartlett was nonstop as well himself. Go for it, right over there.

• 1:05:46Speaker 00

  Man, it's a long time coming. I've been wanting to ask you this for a long time. But my name is Ron. The world knows me by Coach Hollywood and Scary Night. I'm a coach, trainer, mentor, public speaker and life coach. Like yourself, I come from adversity. I broke generational curses. I'm the first one to graduate high school, college, first millionaire in my family. And man, my question that I want to ask you, being someone who is developing leaders, human development, right?

• 1:06:27Speaker 00

  What was something that you did through the pressure, the adversity and the successes that you had that really drove you to become the man that you were required to be for your next level?

• 1:06:44Speaker 00

  Everyone in this room, we really need positive people around us. People that genuinely care around us. Meaning surround yourself with assets. And a lot of times, we surround ourselves with liabilities that we think are assets. And we are too afraid to let certain liabilities go when we think they are assets and they're not assets. Even with certain people that's, it's just like a basketball team. If someone is not right for this program, trade them. Not only we dislike you.

• 1:07:26Speaker 00

  So if you, I mean, it's no different from a marriage. Sometimes in marriages, if I see red, white and blue and she see orange, pink and yellow, and we don't see one color alike, then we not, no longer on the same page. So surround yourself with assets. Surround yourself with positive people that really want to see you win. Whether you got more than them or less. Surround yourself with positive people.

• 1:07:59Speaker 01

  By the way, do you do a lot of affirmations? Would you do affirmations of repeating positive things to yourself? Because you are so bulletproof confident, like you protect yourself with.

• 1:08:10Speaker 00

  I'm the best. I'm the best.

• 1:08:12Speaker 01

  That's affirmation though. Were you always telling yourself this? Were you always?

• 1:08:16Speaker 00

  Yes. My dad always told me. I can remember one of the first tournaments I went to. My dad, because I was 16 when I went to the tournament. So you fight guys that's 28, you fight guys that's 30. I was 16. My dad said, oh, my son gonna win the whole tournament. But he's, and it was like, what? Your son is only 16. These guys are 32 years old. I won the tournament. Then the next year, my dad was in prison. I won the tournament again when I was 17. The year after that, I won the tournament again without my dad. Then I went to the Olympics without my dad.

• 1:08:57Speaker 00

  But if I don't believe in myself, then who's going to believe in me? Like me? I have to love me first. So continue to love yourself. Know you the best. Know there's nobody better than you. Know you can grow. Know you can become better. Know you can climb.

• 1:09:20Speaker 01

  You think that's your number one quality?

• 1:09:26Speaker 00

  I don't know.

• 1:09:27Speaker 01

  It's bulletproof. What you got is bulletproof.

• 1:09:30Speaker 00

  I don't know.

• 1:09:31Speaker 01

  What do you put above that?

• 1:09:33Speaker 00

  But I just know whatever you teach me, whatever I learn, I can master it, no matter what it is.

• 1:09:40Speaker 01

  And it's such a powerful thing to have that level of confidence in yourself. I mean, you, you know, I got four kids. You wish your kids have that kind of confidence in themselves to go out there and do big things for themselves. Two last things before we wrap up. Why do you love America? You're very patriotic. Why do you love America?

• 1:09:58Speaker 00

  We should all love where we were born at, you know? Why wouldn't I love America?

• 1:10:07Speaker 01

  Do you think this is the greatest country in the world?

• 1:10:11Speaker 00

  Do I think America is the greatest country in the world? Absolutely fucking love me.

• 1:10:22Speaker 01

  What do you think about some of this stuff that's going on in America right now? You know, socialism, they want to bring socialism to America versus capitalism. Where do you stand with that?

• 1:10:29Speaker 00

  You're not gonna put me in the middle of that. I ain't gonna get in the middle of nobody bullshit. I'm not getting in the middle of that. Absolutely not. I'm not getting in the middle of nobody business. If it got nothing to do with me, I'm not getting in it.

• 1:10:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, but if you have to.

• 1:10:41Speaker 00

  I'm raised, you know, I have children. I have to worry about my house first.

• 1:10:46Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:10:46Speaker 00

  I had to worry about my house first. I love my country. I love my people. I love the red, white and blue, but I have to take care of my house first.

• 1:10:53Speaker 01

  I respect it. But if you have to choose between high taxes and low taxes, which do you choose? You know what you choose? You know what you choose?

• 1:11:05Speaker 00

  No taxes.

• 1:11:06Speaker 01

  No taxes.

• 1:11:11Speaker 01

  Give it up to the one and only Floyd Mayweather.

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