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Here’s the video for Floyd Mayweather’s Wrestlemania press conference (at least until WWE has it pulled from YouTube).

He must have just been excited about the reported $20 million dollars that he’s going to get for play-fighting at this years Wrestlemania.  How else would you explain Floyd Mayweather tossing money into a crowd of onlookers after announcing his participation at Wrestlemania.  According to FOX:

Mayweather incited the couple hundred of already hyped fans at Staples Center by whipping out a thick wad of cash and repeatedly tossing $100, $50 and $20 bills into the crowd that had nearly as many women as men.

A mad scramble ensued, with a light pole nearly getting knocked over and two small children caught in the chaos. One lucky man emerged from the pileup clutching six $100 bills.

Mayweather played to the frenzied crowd after appearing from behind a black curtain wearing a New York Yankees jacket and cap. Fans shouted insults and the name of hometown hero Oscar De La Hoya at Mayweather.

“I run Vegas and I run L.A. and I will run the WWE,” he boasted.

Of course you’ll run the WWE Floyd.  It’s scripted.  What?  Predetermined.  What?  Not Real.  What?  Fake.  What?  Big Show can’t hit you for real.

And you better watch that making it rain stuff in public.  Next thing that you know Pac Man Jones will be suing you for copyright infringement.

Last night Wladimir (don’t call me Drago) Klitschko defeated Sultan (who) Ibragimov in a unanimous decision to unify the WBO, IBF, and IBO titles.

IDGAF.

And apparently neither did some of the fans in attendance, who were witness to a boxing match that would make even the most diehard boxheads admit that the sport is on life support.  According to The New York Times:

Klitschko, nonetheless, landed punches when he had to and won by unanimous decision in a fight that had fans booingbecause of the lack of action. The judges scored the fight for Klitschko, 119-110, 117-111 and 118-110.

The fans were booing because it was boring.  Mind you, this fight took place in Madison Square Garden, a place where the New York Knicks play their home games.  These people know crap when they see it.  And according to Fox Sports, the corner for Klitschko implored him to do something to get the crowd into the fight:

“You have to knock him out, or this is going to be bad,” Emanuel Steward pleaded with Klitschko in an exchange picked up by HBO’s microphones before the final round of his fight with Sultan Ibragimov.

I’m not going to get behind two fighters who I have to have phonics lessons to pronounce their names, so now that my own personal bias is out of the way; let me say that if this is the best that boxing can give me, it’s never going to get me or my millions of fans back.  K could have hit I with a shovel in the final round and it wouldn’t have saved this abortion of a fight.

Boxing purists are pissed about Mayweather being in bed with WWE but at least he’s trying to get his face out in the media; hell, boxing gains more from an association with WWE at this point that WWE does with boxing.  Boxing is now listed in that dreaded category of “other sports” along with rugby, lacrosse, and curling and it has  no one to blame but itself.

Floyd Mayweather appeared at WWE pay-per-view last night and started what appears to be a wrestling storyline that will culminate in Mayweather facing, the 500lb giant known as “The Big Show” at Wrestlemania.

According to WWE.com:

Considered by many to be the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world today, Mayweather sat at ringside enjoying No Way Out and Rey’s bid for the title before Big Show began taunting him. The (more…)