The president of Mayweather Promotions, Floyd Mayweather has come out on Twitter and stated that him and his company intend never to do business with any other promoter or their company after his main star, Gervonta Davis secured a technical knockout victory on Saturday night over Mario Barrios in the 11th round.
On the famous social networking site, Mayweather said:
“Our thing is this, we work smarter, not harder. So we keep everything in-house.
“Mayweather Promotions/PBC, we’re all one family.
“We’re not gonna go away and make another company great.
“We’ve got plenty at 140lbs, 135lbs, 130lbs. We’re gonna continue to fight the fighters that we’ve got to fight.”
It was last year when Floyd stated that boxing has to clean itself up when he said in a video provided by Showitime:
“People don’t know you have to pay, for every belt you win, there’s a sanctioning fee. If a fighter has just the regular belt, he has to pay a sanctioning fee. If a fighter is a super champion, he has to pay a sanctioning fee. This is not good for the sport of boxing.
“Every fighter is a champion now. Belts now is like a fighter winning an amateur trophy.
“We gotta clean this sport of boxing up. This s—, this doesn’t look good.”
There are a couple of things wrong from my perspective in what he has been saying and I will address them in order in which they appear here.
The first is about Floyd’s tweet on Twitter.
There are some great fighters in the 140lb division right now. And there are many more in other divisions. Bob Arum has often been accused of wanting to “keep it all” for himself with his own company, Top Rank. And while I understand there is some bad blood between Arum and Mayweather Floyd’s decision to keep everything “in-house” is not a good thing for the fans.
I can foresee many a great fight being deprived because of Floyd’s materialism.
The second and final point I want to address is what Floyd stated in that Showtime video.
Mayweather makes a good point and he seems sincere when he said that he wants to make a concerted effort to clean up boxing. So, why did he have Davis box for the WBA regular belt? That only serves to keep the sport fractured. He mentioned all the sanctioning fees that boxers have to pay when they fight for a belt and there is no doubt that Davis did so to collect the regular WBA title on Saturday evening.
We know there is the business side of the sport. But what leverage does that give Davis by doing what he did a couple of days ago? It doesn’t do much if he wants to eventually face Taylor, who holds the Super version of the WBA crown. Unless the plan would be to unify the WBA crowns. Ismael Barroso holds the Gold version.
That would be an incredibly cringy move if that started to become a thing.
Apart from Gervonta Davis Mayweather Promotions lacks any other name in it’s stable that has any real star power at the moment. And doing business internally, at this stage in their game, just might make things harder for the company to progress.
If any combatant who was considering signing up to Mayweather Promotions and cared about legacy at all then they would likely think twice about joining up with the company. The only real reason to do so, judging by Floyd’s own words, would be to fight only for money. And that everything else would come second.
