MMA is for beer drinkers

Floyd Mayweather Jr. continues to hype his return to boxing after a 16-month retirement (he faces Juan Manuel Marquez in a 144-pound catchweight bout on Sept. 19). Coming on the heels of UFC 100 and all the attention it’s been getting, it’s no surprise he throws a few jabs at mixed martial arts, starting at the 0:35 mark.

In a nutshell, Pretty Boy says it takes “true skills to be in the sport of boxing,” the implication being that MMA doesn’t require true skills. He says that MMA is for beer drinkers (what do boxing fans drink? Cristal?), he likens the fighters to animals in a cage, and he says that MMA was created so that white fighters could be competitive in a combat sport.

This isn’t Mayweather’s first jab at MMA. Prior to his May 2007 fight with Oscar De La Hoya, Mayweather stated that any quality boxer could easily become the UFC champion. UFC president Dana White offered to put him in the octagon with then-lightweight champ Sean Sherk. Mayweather politely declined and apologized.

And this is just more of the same, a chance for Mayweather to shoot his mouth off, grab a few headlines with some controversial comments, nothing more.