If Floyd Mayweather Jr. needs a hug outside the ring, not the foolhardy kind that crunched opponent Victor Ortiz sought, then “Money” just got a big one from his “Uncle Ray.”
Fresh from his recent stint coaching movie star Hugh Jackman on how to mangle metal foes, Hall Of Famer Sugar Ray Leonard said Wednesday night that, while he agrees that his fellow American Mayweather must take on Manny Pacquiao, he doesn’t need to change his personality or public image at all.
“What Pacquiao does in politics, in other things, that’s good because it gives boxing a positive image in some ways,” Leonard told me by phone from Los Angeles where he’s busy day and night hyping the Jackman movie about ring robots entitled “Real Steel.”
“But Floyd Mayweather, he gives back to society also,” the five weight class champion and 1976 Olympic gold medalist told me. “I know that Floyd has his foundation, that he does charity events because I’ve been there, right beside him. “Floyd gives back, he does, he is philanthropic,” the 55 year old Leonard said.
