If he was just some limp-wristed, suck up company man for HBO, “Unofficial Fight Judge” Harold Lederman would keep his mouth shut about Floyd Mayweather Junior’s acidic verbal attack in a post fight interview with 80 year old Larry Mechant.
After all, “Money” is one of the prime cable network’s two most important fistic clients, the other obviously being a gentleman named Manny Pacquiao.
But the part-time pharmacist isn’t and he wont.
Mayweather has never hid his displeasure with the Merchant of Venom’s analysis of his in ring performances, constantly asserting that the former New York Post sports columnist never gives him his “just dues.”
Mayweather then called for HBO to fire the commentator, saying “you don’t know shit about boxing.”
In reaction to Mayweather’s rips, in what Merchant calls now an act of “sponstaneous combustion,” the Santa Monica resident fired back, saying that “if I were 50 years younger, I would kiss your ass.”
Later, Merchant amended that to saying if he was 30 and not age 80, he would’ve given it his best (Oklahoma Sooners) college try in spanking mouthy “Money.”
