Is Floyd Mayweather Jr still playing the villain?

By Michael Vena - 05/07/2014 - Comments

By Yannis Mihanos: Humility is not a virtue that Floyd Mayweather Jr will be remembered of having in boxing long after he’s gone from the sport. If Mayweather ever goes down as one of the greats in boxing, it will certainly be for other reasons and mainly statistic as far as his unbeaten record goes.

Twitting about his extreme money earnings for Mayweather’s 12 round majority decision win over Marcos Maidana last Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, Mayweather said “$32M for 36 minutes. I’m waiting for the PPV numbers to come in so I can make another $38M on the back-end. Making it a grand total of $70M.” Remarks like that from Mayweather doesn’t help his image. I mean, I know that he is a skillful fighter and an intelligent businessman but as a human being he has a lot still to learn.

In the entertainment business, comments like this likely helps him a lot to stay popular as the enemy: The arch villain.

I know an actor in Hollywood named Danny Trejo, who frequently plays the villain roles. As Danny has said in many interviews, the bad roles that he plays, remain only on the film set, and after that he is a different man, more easy going and loveable. He wouldn’t be where he is today if he was a bad guy in real life. His life probably would have ended abruptly. So Danny here offers a good life lesson.

Floyd still needs to understand this. The difference of being a villain in boxing and in real life. Like I said he still has a lot to learn. If he continues creating outrage in and out of the ring I see no good things coming for him in the future.

Being accomplished, being successful in everything you do is great but there are some limits that no man or woman should cross. There is a thin line between of what’s real and what’s not.

Playing a role strictly for business is different from playing a role in real life. I hope one day Floyd understand this.



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