Trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr wants US$2million to help Oscar De La Hoya plot his son’s downfall later this year.
The outspoken handler says it appears unlikely he’ll work for De La Hoya when the ‘Golden Boy’ opposes his son in a huge superfight in Las Vegas on May 5.
De La Hoya hasn’t yet chosen his trainer for what promoters hope will be the best-selling pay-per-view bout ever.
But with the fighter himself expected to make a guarantee in excess of $20 million plus a share of pay-per-view profits, Mayweather Sr says he wants a decent piece of the pie as well..
He claims he was offered a $500,000 guarantee and $500,000 if De La Hoya wins, which he called insulting. He said he wants $2 million.
“If they want me to work against my son, then they’re going to have to pay me,” Mayweather Sr told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“My son and I, no matter what’s gone down between us, he’s still my blood. Hey, I’d work for Oscar if the deal is right, because that’s my job and boxing is just a sport.
“But if you want me to tell you how to beat my son – and I’m the only one who can tell Oscar how to do that – then you need to pay me.”
Mayweather and his son have feuded since 1999 and rarely speak.
