Is Mayweather Looking For Excuses If He Should Lose?

While watching the recent Mayweather-Hatton 24/7 episode on HBO, I couldn’t help but notice that Mayweather, 30, seemed to be looking for excuses as he prepared for his December 8th bout against unbeaten Ricky Hatton. Looking at the camera with a look of a sick dog, Mayweather complained bitterly about his various injuries, seeming to look for both sympathy and a ready made excuse should things work out badly for him in his bout with Hatton. His physical trainer, some blond-haired woman, was totally on his side, placating him and encouraging him with advice about his boxing career.

If it wasn’t so pathetic, it would be comical. Just watching Mayweather was like being a fly on the wall as someone develops an alibi for a crime, as he just seemed to be looking for a way out, perhaps a lifeline before his big bout with Hatton. For his part, Hatton, 29, seeing all of Mayweather’s sympathy inducing efforts on the 24/7 special said this, “He is already saying he has trouble with his hands again and I’m just wondering from my point of view if Floyd Mayweather loses I hope he doesn’t blame the defeat on his dancing or on his hands.”

It already seems as if Mayweather is in the process of doing that, from what I’ve seen of him. In a way, Mayweather reminds me of a track athlete, who after getting badly beaten in a 100 meter race, pulls up lame in the last 10 meters, to disguise his embarrassment at being badly beaten in the race.