50 Cent Rides for Floyd Mayweather on First Take: "Didn't Manny Pacquiao's Daddy Eat His Dog?"

50 Cent told Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless that he's rooting for Floyd Mayweather this weekend.

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50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather literally just got back onto good terms within the last week or so. But it already sounds like the rapper is firmly entrenched on the Money Mayweather bandwagon.

Earlier today, he made an appearance on ESPN First Take to talk about his thoughts on the Fight of the Century, his rocky relationship with Mayweather (specifically, he addressed the $2 million rift that came between 50 and Floyd a few years ago), and his new movie, Southpaw. And during the course of his debate with Stephen A. Smith, Cari Champion, and Skip Bayless, 50 brought up the story about Manny Pacquiao's father killing his dog when he was younger to provide food for his family, which has been circulating around on the Internet this week (and may or may not be true). In true 50 Cent fashion, he tried to make it seem like he wasn't taking an outright shot at Pacquiao by approaching the issue seriously. But it drew a lot of laughter from the crowd—and will no doubt serve as bulletin board material for Pacman.

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"Didn't Manny Pacquiao's daddy eat his dog?" 50 asks at the 4:50 mark of the clip above. "Doesn't any of that factor into what's psychologically going on with him right now? It's all kind of stuff going on. He just was in an interview talking about his daddy ate his dog. It's dramatic. This whole thing is really getting to him."

We don't know what the dog has to do with tomorrow's fight. But First Take has held a lot of Mayweather/Pacquiao segments this week and, weird dog comments aside, 50's was the most entertaining.

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