When boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. isn’t pounding an opponent senseless in the ring, the burly dude’s got an interesting workout program -- he beats on women!
According to police records, the five-time repeat offender is a heavyweight domestic batterer with violent violations that go back over a decade, and for which his own son has openly called him “a coward.”
That’s why some decent people are now asking the public to boycott Mayweather’s upcoming battle with the mild mannered Manny Pacquiao, and donate their money instead to programs that aim to end domestic violence.
The much anticipated pay-per-view match on May 2, 2015 has been billed “the fight of the century” and is expected to fetch the first rate wife-beater and his morally bankrupt managers record-setting earnings estimated to exceed $200-million.
That’s a lot of hype and moola, but none of it impresses ESPN’s outspoken commentator Keith Olbermann, who says shame on you Showtime, Sky and HBO for shamelessly promoting such a shameful perp.
“I will not give Mayweather a dime,” Olbermann has vowed. “He should have been banned for life by his sport two, or five, or ten years ago. I will not promote, watch, nor report on Mayweather’s fight. I will boycott it and I urge you to, as well.”
And plenty of other people of conscience are also appalled to now learn that the world’s highest paid professional brawler is somehow exempt from the same scrutiny and penalties that similar women-hating star athletes have received lately, and which, in many high profile cases, resulted in sporting expulsions.
In fact, a growing number of disgusted fight fans are eager to see Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s license to box revoked altogether, because they think he’s a common and remorseless criminal and therefore not qualified to participate in pro competitions.
It is, after all, unlawful for anyone -- famous or infamous -- to assault people, and it’s especially objectionable when one of the top-ranked boxers on the planet is constantly pummeling the daylights out of his children’s mother, and his girlfriend, and his ex girlfriend, and his…
Well, Mayweather’s list of mauled females appears to be endless really, and more obscene still is that the sentence he got in each of those brutal attacks amounted to nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
So then, the real question for unenlightened judges and the boxing community at large is: Why are you being so gentle with a known and convicted violent offender?
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EPONYMOUS ROX @EponymousRox
