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Mayweather Fight Night Before Jail in June
By: Jenny Triplett, Prisonworld Magazine
Floyd Mayweather plans to have one last hurrah before the doors are closed on his jail cell. The State of Nevada Licensing Commission has been lenient in granting him permission to fight, but he unbeaten champion still get not get his greatest wish: a showdown with Manny Pacquiao.
“I presented Pacquiao with the fight,” Mayweather said after meeting with the Nevada Commission. “Pacquiao is blowing a lot of smoke. … He doesn’t really want to fight. I gave him a chance to step up to the plate. We’re talking about a $10 million fighter that I tried to give $40 million to. We didn’t even talk about the back end.”
“He’s ducking and dodging me,” Mayweather continued. “He really didn’t want to fight from the beginning. He got famous basically by piggybacking off my name. When you mention Floyd Mayweather, man, you mention an all-time great, an icon in the sport of boxing. When you mention Manny Pacquiao, they say, `Oh, that’s the guy who’s trying to fight Floyd Mayweather.’ When it’s all said and done, all the guy did is just piggyback off my name.”
Mayweather will fight Miguel Cotto on May 5 at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden after Nevada’s athletic commissioners granted him a conditional license for one fight before he goes to jail in June.
The May 5 fight date was set before Mayweather pleaded guilty Dec. 21 before a Las Vegas judge to a reduced battery domestic violence charge and no contest to two harassment charges. The plea stemmed from a hair-pulling, punching and arm-twisting argument in October 2010 with Josie Harris, the mother of three of Mayweather’s children. Prosecutors dropped felony and misdemeanor charges that could have gotten Mayweather 34 years in prison.
Read more about the fight here.
About Jenny Triplett
Jenny Triplett is the co-owner of Dawah International, LLC, a multimedia company which publishes Prisonworld Magazine and distributes Prisonworld Records. She also co-hosts her own weekly radio show, the Prisonworld Radio Hour, which airs on Mondays at 1:00 pm EST on WWWE-1100 AM International Talk Atlanta and WAEC – Love 860AM. She is a blogger, motivational speaker for correctional facilities, non-profit organizations, corporate functions, schools, colleges and universities. She is part of a professional husband and wife team with her husband Rufus who do just about everything together, having survived over twenty plus years of marriage being attached at the hip. The couple met in the late 80′s when Rufus was singing and touring with the platinum R&B group, Ready for the World. Jenny was an intern at a radio station and headed the marketing outreach team for the act. They are Ebony Magazine’s “Couple of the Year” see February 2012 Issue. As a husband and wife team, Rufus and Jenny readily acknowledge their individual male and female perspectives but both agree that communication is the greatest survival tip. Their appearances on “Family Court with Judge Penny” and “Dr. Phil” garnered rave reviews for their parenting philosophies. Jenny has appeared on “The Mike & Juliet Morning Show” giving advice to “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” and she is also a prison and relationship pundit contributing to the Daily National and has provided commentary for CNN, Black Enterprise Magazine, MSN.com and the Los Angeles Times.