Boxer Floyd Mayweather Loves To Punch Women In The Kisser, But Nobody Cares
American super-boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr. made more than $200 million for his fight with Manny Pacquiao last May, so what should he get for punching a woman in the face or slamming a car door against her head?
Many would say Mayweather should get jail time, because he has done both and more. Yet the 151-pound fighter, considered by boxing experts as one of the best boxers to ever step into a ring, has served only 60 days despite a troubling record of violence against women.
The man nicknamed “Money” for his ability to ring up extraordinary greenbacks for a fight ducks his history of domestic abuse as easily as he does an opponent’s left hook. Many look the other way when it comes to Mayweather’s abhorrent behavior outside the ring.
“Floyd Mayweather has a terrible history of domestic abuse,” USA Today columnist Christine Brennan told Reuters. “It’s amazing to me that very few people know about it or seem to care about it,”
Mayweather Jr.’s bout last May with Pacquiao generated $600 million. Money talks and strikes dumb a host of sins. In Mayweather’s case, the black-eyed sin is fisticuffs against defenseless females.
There is no dispute that Mayweather is a serial abuser of women, and the proof is, to use a boxing analogy, in the tale of the tape.
In 2001, he allegedly swung a car door into a woman’s face. Not content that he had inflicted enough damage, the five-foot eight-inch boxer is said to have unleashed his fists and hit her several times in the face.
The lawsuit generated by that incident was dismissed, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
That’s just one of at least seven assaults he allegedly perpetrated against five women, as recounted by CNN.
Let’s take a cursory look at some of Mayweather’s “courageous” assaults on women over the past decade or so.
Between 2001 and 2002, the welterweight boxer admitted guilt to two charges of domestic violence, reported Business Insider. The penalty? Mayweather was confined to two days house arrest and had to perform two days of community service.
While he has held title belts in multiple weight classes, Mayweather showed little class when he attacked two women during a 2003 visit to a nightclub in Las Vegas.
That little bout of mayhem saw Mayweather plead guilty to two counts of domestic battery. The penalty? A six-month suspended sentence and a fine of $1,000.
The bell rang again in 2010, when the pull-no-punches pugilist went after the woman who is mother of three of his four children and delivered what was no doubt an artful boxing blow to her head.
His son, thankfully, contacted police, leaving us with some hope that Mayweather is not passing on his despicable conduct to his children. This resulted in the boxer’s only jail sentence, 60 days in the slammer.
So the record is clear – Mayweather is a batterer of women. One would think he might be just a tad remorseful, but apparently not.
CNN reported that when one of its journalists went after Mayweather last year for the abuse, Floyd said there were “no pictures…just hearsay and allegations.”
Let’s add what “Money” overlooked – guilty pleas, fines, two months in jail, house arrest, suspended sentence…that’s the true tale of the tape.
But in all the hype surrounding Mayweather’s boxing career, his vicious record of physically abusing women is pushed off into a corner.
He is a misogynist of the highest ranking, and at the same time the globe’s highest-paid sports personality.
As CNN pointed out, the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight was carried on Showtime, owned by CBS, without a qualm on the network’s part. It did not seem to bother the people behind the MGM Grand, site of the May 2015 fight in Las Vegas, or any of the fight’s sponsors.
In the United States, there are an estimated 5.3 million cases of domestic violence against women annually.
That a sports celebrity/role model like Mayweather can walk away virtually unscathed from repeated bouts of abuse against women and be paid millions of dollars for boxing despite that unsavory record is inexcusable.
Speaking of his boxing career, Mayweather ruminated on the start of his boxing career when he was a youngster.
“I think my grandmother saw my potential first,” Mayweather mused.“When I was young, I told her, ‘I think I should get a job.’ She said, ‘No, just keep boxing.'”
Too bad grandma didn’t specify whom little Floyd should punch.
[Photo by John Locher/AP Images]
