Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been his typical self during the promotion for his challenge Saturday to welterweight champion Victor Ortiz at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. He has run his mouth about a number of things, from drug-testing to how he should go down as the greatest boxer ever.
He has criticized Ortiz for his admiration of his boss, Oscar De La Hoya and has engaged De La Hoya in a dicey war of words. De La Hoya is president of Golden Boy Promotions, which besides this fight has helped Mayweather promote his previous four.
During one of the episodes of HBO’s “24/7,” De La Hoya was shown visiting the camp of Ortiz to provide the champion some moral support. He told Ortiz how previous Mayweather opponents such as “Sugar” Shane Mosley, Ricky Hatton and Juan Manuel Marquez were either too old or too small.
De La Hoya didn’t say that ahead of their fights with Mayweather because De La Hoya was promoting those little, old guys.
Still, it peeved Mayweather so much he went off on De La Hoya during a conference call.
“Ricky Hatton was his fighter and then he talked bad about Hatton, how Hatton was small and then Marquez, how Marquez was small,” said Mayweather, who also wasn’t crazy about De La Hoya referring to him as an old fighter. “Now me, I was old. And then he talked about Mosley and how Mosley was old.
