Mayweather Jr. gets out of jail this Friday

By Boxing News - 07/29/2012 - Comments

Image: Mayweather Jr. gets out of jail this FridayBy Chris Williams: Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. gets out of the Clark County jail this Friday after having served 63 days for his domestic abuse charges. Mayweather Jr. will be ready to start working with his friend 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) on their new promotional company TMT (The Money Team) Promotions.

50 Cent and Mayweather Jr. want to change how boxers are promoted and are looking to help the fighters as well putting together fights that boxing fans actually want to see. The sport has become frozen in the last 20 years with many promoters not wanting to make fights with rival promotional teams for various reasons and protecting their fights by matching them against fluff opponents to build up inflated resumes. TMT Promotions wants get away from all of that by putting together the best fights possible aimed at the fans.

50 Cent told the heraldsun.co.au “We want to change boxing. The goal initially is to create a company by fighters, for the fighters, which breaks the traditional vibe of promoters taking advantage of fighters. We’re going to change the demographic also, appeal to the younger demographic.”

Mayweather and 50 Cent both have huge personal fortunes, which should make it a lot easier for them to immediately challenger the major promotional players – Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank. Already, TMT Promotions has signed Yuriorkis Gamboa, Andre Dirrell and Billy Dib. They won’t stop there. It’s only a start for TMT Promotions.

Mayweather will likely be fighting near the end of the year. Like his companies’ philosophy, doesn’t believe in taking on easy opponents, and we’ll likely see him facing one of the following fighters: Saul Alvarez or Miguel Cotto next.

The fight that boxing fans want to see if Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao, but that bout isn’t possible with Pacquiao wanting a 50-50 purse split. He’s not going to get that with him losing to Tim Bradley and doing less than spectacular in pay-per-view buys for that fight. If Pacquiao comes down to a more reasonable figure of say 35 to 40%, the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight can definitely be made. But getting Pacquiao to agree to that could be all but impossible.



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