A lawsuit was filed against Floyd Mayweather for having ?knowingly misrepresented the facts while testifying before the Nevada Athletic Commission??
?I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.??Giacomo Casanova
You gotta hand it to Floyd Mayweather. He?s a great boxer. He?s filthy rich. He plays by his own rules and usually gets away with it.
When Mayweather speaks people listen. He may stretch the truth now and then, but he?s pretty much skated insofar as his fans are concerned.
But nothing lasts forever.
Three weeks ago Mayweather was asked to appear before the Nevada State Athletic Commission. His presence was requested so that he could answer questions regarding the second episode of All Access: Mayweather vs. Maidana 2.
Mayweather was asked about the babes smoking grass in the Big Boi Mansion. He was asked about the sparring session that lasted 31 minutes without a break. He was asked about the gambling that was happening ringside.
With the confidence of someone accustomed to believing his own lies, Floyd assured the commission that the girls weren?t really smoking marijuana, which is illegal in Nevada, but that it was a prop, a special effect to make him appear even cooler than he is.
When asked about the sparring session between Hasim Rahman Jr. and Donovan Cameron, Mayweather said, ?With All Access we?re able to edit and chop footage the way we want.?
He also denied that there was any wagering going on. It was just theater for the cameras, he said, because ?I like to sell a lifestyle.?
That explanation, however inadequate on its face, was enough to appease the commission.
Most boxing writers were irate. With pulses racing, chests heaving, with foam forming at the corners of their mouths, they were incensed to learn that Showtime showed something that wasn?t real (as though TV doesn?t pimp reality).
Oddly enough, Mayweather?s veracity, the source of all that angst, wasn?t questioned, even though he?s played fast and loose with the truth many times.
But I?m not the only one who?s grown tired of watching Floyd get away with murder.
Hasim Rahman Jr. and his brother Sharif have grown tired as well.
The Rahman brothers filed a lawsuit today against Floyd Mayweather for having ?knowingly misrepresented the facts while testifying before the Nevada Athletic Commission.? Mayweather Promotions, Mayweather Boxing Club, and Showtime were also named in the suit.
Hasim Rahman Jr. insists the sparring session, which Mayweather described as a ?fight to the death,? did in fact last 31 minutes without a rest period. He also alleges that Mayweather bet ?large sums of money? against him without his knowledge.
Mayweather has talked his way out of trouble before. Maybe he?ll talk his way out of trouble again. But the fancy footwork he displays, in and out of the ring, has never been less compelling than it is now.
