Tom Brady and Floyd Mayweather are great friends. At least, that’s what Mayweather would lead you to believe. During an interview with ESPN in the days leading up to his fight with Conor McGregor, Mayweather called Brady a "very, very close friend." He also revealed that Brady texted him prior to the McGregor fight to see how everything was going with him.
It sounds like Brady see things a lot differently, though. On Monday morning, he made his weekly appearance on WEEI’s Kirk & Callahan to talk about everything that’s going on with him and the Patriots. And while Brady spent the majority of the interview talking about the season-ending ACL injury his teammate Julian Edelman suffered during a preseason game over the weekend, he also touched on his friendship, or lack thereof, with Mayweather when he was asked about it. And things got… awkward. Very awkward.
You can listen to Brady responding to the comments Mayweather made last week at the 12-minute mark of the interview.
We’ve also transcribed the Mayweather portion of the interview below—with all of Brady’s lengthy pauses included—just to give you a sense of how weird this got for everyone involved.
HOST 1: We spent some time on this at the end of last week based on a comment Mayweather made to [ESPN’s] Sal Paolantonio, and obviously there was a fight this weekend. Mayweather said that the two of you were "very close friends." Would you say that’s an accurate representation of your relationship?
Brady seemed to be trying to do his best to distance himself from Mayweather without taking any shots at him. But if you read between the lines, it's not hard to hear what he was attempting to say.
