By Jim Dower: Movie actor Jamie Foxx, 47, will be singing the national anthem at this Saturday’s Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to Fox Sports. Foxx, an academy award winner for the 2004 movie ’Ray’ is a very good singer in addition to his acting skills.
Foxx will be playing Mike Tyson in a movie coming up about the life of the former world champion boxer. This won’t be the first boxing movie that Foxx has played in, as he was also in the movie ‘Ali’ in the past. He didn’t play Ali in that movie. Instead, he played Drew Bundini Brown.
Having Foxx sing the national anthem will be an interesting prelude to the fight given how recognizable he is to many Americans from Foxx having played previously on the television series ’In living color’ with Jim Carey from 1991-1994.
Mayweather’s trainer/father Floyd Mayweather Sr. sees him as having no problems beating Pacquiao. “This era is closed,” Floyd Sr. told the telegraph.co.uk. “It’s done. Pacquiao is done. He needs to be locked up in jail because it’s time to save his a–. Pacquiao needs to lock himself up. He is no on Floyd’s level. All he is, is an opponent. That’s all he is. Nothing more, nothing less.”
As you can see, Floyd Sr. doesn’t have much respect for Pacquiao as an opponent for Mayweather Jr. Floyd Sr. had a high opinion of Pacquiao before the contracts for the fight were signed, but since then he’s been blasting him and not giving him much credit for having got to this stage for what could be the biggest fight in boxing history.
Pacquiao is a former eight division world champion, and he currently holds the WBO welterweight title. Boxing fans have been pushing for the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight for the past six years, and it’s only now that the fight is finally about to take place next Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight is set to break records on HBO/Showtime pay-per-view, and they’re expecting a possible 3 million or more PPV buys coming from the fight.
“I believe he’ll knock him out within five rounds,” says Uncle Roger Mayweather about Mayweather stopping Pacquiao. “I can’t see nothing that Pacquiao can do. It’s just a matter of Floyd being focused and doing what he needs to do. An that’s whoop his a–. Let’s get him [Pacquiao] out of the way and go to the next one.”
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