Mayweather mouths off; Dana White fires back

Tonight is UFC 103 Franklin vs. Belfort. I don’t know anybody who will be watching the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Marquez card. I don’t know anyone who can even name another boxer on that card. Which may explain why Mayweather continues to run his mouth off with some outrageous statements about being a black fighter:

“If you’re rich, you’re a rich nigger. If you’re poor, you’re a poor nigger. If you’re smart, you’re a smart nigger. At the end of the day, they still look at me as a nigger.”

There was plenty more in Mayweather’s tirade, including accusing the media of whitewashing Oscar De La Hoya’s misdeeds — namely De La Hoya’s two children out of wedlock, and the lawsuit he settled with an 18-year-old who accused him of rape. He also said he’d be more beloved if he were from a different country.

Well, Steve Cofield over at Cage Writer asked UFC president Dana White what he thought of Mayweather and boxing in general.

Among the highlights:

“Let’s say Floyd does a million [pay-per-view] buys out there… there’s a million stupid fucking people out there. All right? That doesn’t mean, oh God, boxing’s better and bigger than the UFC, that’s not true. The reality is, the UFC is bigger than boxing and the WWE combined. The funny thing about the Floyd Mayweather thing is he runs around and he says, you know, money money is all he’s talking about… You talk about how much you fucking hate him and you don’t like the way he fights and you don’t want to see him run around in circles and you’re the ones giving him that money.”

“As a boxing fan the fight that I want to see is [Manny] Pacquiao and Mayweather. Is there anybody that will fucking disagree with that? That’s the fight people want to see… My opinion is, my fucking job is to make these fights. Dude, there’s plenty of fucking people that I don’t like that we put fights on with. It’s not up to me whether I like ‘em or dislike ‘em, it’s up to what the fans want to see. You know? I don’t think Fedor’s the best fucking heavyweight, he’s definitely not anywhere in the Top 10 in the fucking pound-for-pound, but if you fucking guys want to see that fight then I want to see that fight and I did everything I could to try to make it happen. You know, you’re not going to hear me fucking say, ‘yeah, we’re not going to go after Fedor, we’re not going to try, probably not going to happen’, I want it to happen, I want to see it, to be honest as a fan I want to see it if he can beat Brock [Lesnar].”