Floyd Mayweather: Reading won’t define my place in history, responds to 50 Cent.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is supposed to be focusing on his fight on Sept. 13against Marcos Maidana, but instead, he still has to talk about his reading ability. Floyd Mayweather, one of the most emblematic fighters, stepped into a boxing circle and became the greatest of his generation in history. His unbelievable record 50-0 speaks for itself, but one man who is not a fan of the king is his first best friend and rapper at 50 cents.
Last week, rapper 50 Cent said he would donate $750,000 to charity if Mayweather was filmed reading one page of a Harry Potter book. Fans of the rapper and the boxer both then debated heartily whether Mayweather was illiterate.
A video of 50 Cent asking Mayweather to read a complete page of a Harry Potter book went popular on social media recently. If the boxer is able to complete his challenge, 50 Cent has promised to contribute $750,000 to charity. This occurred during the ALS ice bucket challenge, when all of the celebs were participating.
Mayweather has been subjected to constant taunting from 50 Cent on Twitter, but the unbeaten boxer has finally hit back using the only manner he knows how: by displaying his wealth.
Read this $72,276,000.00. God bless. pic.twitter.com/dpwE3X7eLR
— Floyd Mayweather (@FloydMayweather) August 23, 2014
Later, 50 Cent went one step further and enlisted the help of famed TV host Jimmy Kimmel. If the boxer is willing to recite a page from a Harry Potter book live on Jimmy Kimmel’s show, the rapper claimed it may happen. However, 50 Cent proposed that Floyd Mayweather read ‘The Cat in the Hat’ instead of Harry Potter because he would be unable to pronounce several phrases from JK Rowling’s popular novel.
At a news conference Thursday for his fight with Maidana, Mayweather was asked several questions about the challenge, before he finally tried to put the matter to rest.
“My thing is this, I try to focus on Maidana,” Mayweather said. “I don’t really focus on that. I know what I can and I can’t do. You guys don’t know when you’re dealing with pay-per-view you have to read at least 60 to 70 teleprompters and I don’t think they could choose a better person for the job than myself. I go out there and I do it with no problem.”
“I just feel like basically I’m not judged by a person, I’m judged by God. Reading does not define my place in boxing history. Will God not let me in heaven because I didn’t read like a news anchor? Me, myself, would be perfect at reading if it was how I made my living and fed my family. Once again, intelligence and education are two different things.”
“Making fun of a person because they can’t read is not funny. It’s tragic. Second, if I really couldn’t read it would make my accomplishments even that much more amazing. I don’t know if 50 Cent is a boxing promoter, I don’t know if he’s making music; I really don’t know. My focus is on Floyd Mayweather, and I wish 50 Cent nothing but the best.”
Floyd was filming Showtime’s All Access pre-fight documentary for the Maidana fight when he was asked about the 50 Cent challenge.
“Hey, I heard 50 Cent challenged you for 750 thousand,” a fan says in the video. “That’s all he challenged me?” Mayweather responds. “He gotta raise the stakes. Let him know. Does he still make music? I ain’t heard him in a while.”
Jake Paul snatched Floyd Mayweather’s hat off his head and it’s still not the most disrespectful thing involving a hat to happen to Floydpic.twitter.com/CXfSuY1xvI
— Clem (@TheClemReport) May 6, 2021
The G-Unit leader line comes after Mayweather stated he’d fight 50, who had just declared the day before that he’d fight Mayweather if they were closer in size. Bring it on, says Mayweather. “I also heard that 50 cent would fight me but claims I’m too small,” Mayweather wrote in the caption for an Instagram post yesterday. “If he wants to lace up at the end of the year, we can do an exhibition then. I don’t care about weight class with any of these guys. The Paul brothers will make great money with the events, but with 50 cent it has to be ‘Winner Take All’.”
Shantel Jackson, Mayweather’s six-year girlfriend, filed a lawsuit against him last week, alleging that he physically mistreated her and publicly humiliated her by distributing photographs of a scan that reportedly showed her carrying their twins. He claims he ejected her and accused her of aborting the twins, which she denied in court documents.
50 insulted Mayweather while explaining why he wouldn’t fight him in an Instagram post he shared late Wednesday night (Feb. 3). “The fight is off because Floyd cant read 2 paragraphs of my New York Times best seller (Hustle Harder Hustle Smarter) on IG live,” 50 said in the caption of an Instagram photo of the cover of his book Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter.
Mayweather discussed the feud with the Champside podcast in 2021. He explained: “You can’t hang out with me every day for years then all of a sudden if I don’t give you half of my company you’re like, ‘You’re dumb, you’re stupid, you can’t do this and you can’t do that.’ “But if I can’t do all these things, why are you hanging around with me? That’s all I’m trying to add. “If I’m such a person that doesn’t know certain things, and I’m not that sharp, why you want to be around with me every day.”
In his universe, beef-squashing is a real thing. After the passing of their mutual buddy, music executive Chris Lighty, on August 30, 2012, 50 Cent resolved his battle with Fat Joe. After dissing Fat Joe in his 2005 song “Piggy Bank” (to which Joe retaliated with his own 50 diss song, “My Fo Fo”), 50 allegedly tried to make amends on September 29, 2012, during the taping of the 2012 BET Hip Hop Awards.
The longstanding feud between 50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been well-documented over the years. Recent reports have confirmed that the long-standing feud between the rapper and boxer has finally come to an end.
According to these reports, both Fif and Mayweather have managed to settle their differences and put an end to their public disagreements. While the exact details of how they resolved their issues remain undisclosed, it is evident that both parties reached a point where they no longer felt the need to continue their feud. Interestingly, despite their past conflicts, 50 Cent still refers to Mayweather as “champ,” indicating a certain level of respect between them.
In April 2023, Floyd Mayweather and 50 Cent spotted together at the Sacramento Kings game with the Golden State Warriors. The two were pictured together after sitting opposite each other at the game.
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Just recently, the rapper also attended a NBA game with Fat Joe, with whom also had a beef in the past. Joey Crack also made an appearance at 50 Cent’s Final Lap Tour.
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