Floyd Mayweather is a rich man. A very rich man. We know this because Mayweather—who goes by the nickname "Money"—has told us over and over and over again about how rich he is. In fact, if we had a dollar for every time Mayweather showed off his wealth to us, we would probably be rich, too.
But during a recent sit-down interview with Fight Hype, Mayweather revealed that he believes he would be even richer, if he was a white boxer. At around the 17-minute mark of the video above, he starts talking about some of the pay-per-view records that he's set over the last few years. And then, after briefly discussing the racism that he says still exists in the boxing industry, Mayweather says that he believes he would have a lot more money than he already does if he was white.
"If I was a white American fighter with the same aura, the same style, the same pizzaz," he says at the 18:20 mark of the interview, "I would be a multibillionaire. Multibillionaire."
Elsewhere in the interview, Mayweather also discusses the fight he had with Oscar De La Hoya back in 2007, his potential matchup with Manny Pacquiao, and his disdain for the way promoter Bob Arum does business. Mayweather does get off topic at times and he's a little bit all over the place with regards to the topics he touches on. But it's still worth a watch if you've monitored Mayweather's career over the last decade.
[via Fight Hype]
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