«
»

Mayweather Fined

floyd-mayweather I don’t follow boxing much, but I just read that Floyd Mayweather, Jr. was fined “six figures” for weighing in at 146 instead of 144 for his upcoming welterweight fight against Juan Manuel Marquez. Six figures for two pounds??? Are you kidding me? That’s at least $50,000 per pound (yes, I can do first grade math), which I think is positively insane!!

Ya know, if I had some kind of penalty for each pound I was overweight, maybe that would be enough incentive to keep me popping diet pills instead of M&Ms and jogging instead of sitting in front of the boob tube all day long. Hmm, sounds like a plan!

This entry was posted on Saturday, September 19th, 2009 at 4:02 pm and is filed under Current Events. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Mayweather Fined”


  • randolph
    September 20th, 2009 21:21
    1

    it was in his contract to weight that weight. he had months to train to get there. it wasn’t important to him, so he paid the cash. heck, he knew he was going to win the fight anyway, which i think is the worse crime — making people play to see such a sham of a fight.

  • randolph
    September 20th, 2009 21:21
    2

    weigh that weight, that is… :-P

  • admin
    September 21st, 2009 18:59
    3

    Oh, I see. As I said, I don’t follow boxing at all, so I don’t know about the weigh-ins and contracts and all that. Still, a six figure fine for being 2lbs overweight is massive IMO!!!

Leave a Reply