Floyd Mayweather had a dramatic exchange with a boxer much bigger than him.
Next year, ‘Money’ will go head-to-head with Mike Tyson in a fight destined to do huge numbers.
While the heavyweight champion rates his countryman’s skills, he isn’t sold on him as a person. Tyson once slammed Mayweather for saying he was better than Muhammad Ali.
Now, they’ll have a chance to settle their differences. And while significantly smaller than his rival, this isn’t the first time in the five-weight world champion’s career that he has had to deal with someone bigger than him.
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Floyd Mayweather dropped a heavyweight, says Dmitry Salita
Dmitry Salita claims he once witnessed Floyd Mayweather put a heavyweight on the canvas.
The now-retired boxer was stunned by what the pound-for-pound great was capable of.
In an interview with ES News, from 2020, Salita said: “We were at the gym just hanging out, it was after one of Floyd’s fights.
“This guy comes into the gym, a heavyweight and said, ‘I wanna get some boxing’ and he was just talking a lot of smack.
“There was no one big enough to spar, so Floyd was like, ‘Leonard [Ellerbe], get my stuff from the car’.
“Leonard went into the car and got his gear for him.
“Floyd got in the ring with him for 30 seconds and does his shoulder roll and block and just hits the guy with a body shot, and drops him, a heavyweight.
“And the guy could fight. Roger [Mayweather] always said if someone is going to stick it on you in the streets, you ain’t going to say ‘I need to go into a training camp for six weeks’.
“‘If you’re a real fighter, you will get in there and you will fight’.
“And that is what Floyd did. It takes that spirit and that training since you were a kid to have a great mindset to be a great fighter.
“Something great like Floyd Mayweather doesn’t happen by accident, I witnessed how hard they worked, how hard they trained and the routine they established.”
Mike Tyson revealed how he’d beat Floyd Mayweather if they were the same weight class
While Tyson and Mayweather have only recently agreed to face one another, ‘Iron Mike’ has been thinking about a potential bout for years.
And he didn’t pull any punches when he was asked about it.
During an interview, Tyson said how he’d beat Mayweather if they were the same size.