In part two of this exclusive interview, Mayweather Sr. speaks candidly about the state of his relationship with his son as well as his brother as he makes it clear that he's the one who deserves credit for Mayweather Jr.'s success. In fact, Mayweather Sr. goes so far as to call Roger a "perpetrator" and explains the reason why he thinks his son is being "disrespectful". Plus, you don't want to miss what he had to say about Arturo Gatti and more of his thoughts on Ricky Hatton, Miguel Cotto, Paul Williams, Jermain Taylor and Felix Trinidad.
PC: I know you we're in Mississippi, so I don't know if you got a chance to watch Gatti/Gomez, but my question is, do you think Arturo Gatti is Hall of Fame material?
FM: I'm going to be honest with you man, the way they play the game, I think he's going to be Hall of Fame material, but he ain't Hall of Fame material. He is a straight up bum. That's what he is, a straight up bum. He's just like Freddie Roach, the trainer. Freddie Roach is in the boxing Hall of Fame as a trainer. Freddie Roach is a joke. He's in the Hall of Fame for training right now. You know why he's in the Hall of Fame? Eddie Futch used to go with his mother and that's how he got in there. He got in off of Eddie's name and to tell you the truth, a lot of guys that they say he made, Eddie Futch didn't make them. He didn't make Joe Frazier. Yank Durham made Joe Frazier. I will tell you this man, Freddie Roach is in the Hall of Fame right now for training and he should be in the Hall of Shame. Gatti should be in the Hall of Fame for getting his ass tore up. Getting the shit whopped out of him, that's what he should be in the Hall of Fame for. He don't have no business being in there for nothing damn else. He should be ashamed to show his damn face. Everybody whooped this motherfucker half to death. Angel Manfredy whooped Gatti. You know, the one my son fought. Manfredy opened up his eye to where you could stick your whole fist in it. Let me tell you something about Gatti man, Gatti been done since 94. I went to prison in 83 and Gatti been done since 94. Been done! He then went past 2004 and now in 2007. That man was done before my son got a hold of his ass. Gatti should've stopped 14 years ago. He got famous for bleeding from the head, ass and everything else. You make sure you put that in there. Gatti's going to go to the Hall of Fame and he should go to the Hall of Shame for taking ass whoopings. Put that just like I said it. All he do is get his ass kicked. His ass should've retired 14 or 15 years ago.
PC: What did you think about Paul Williams at welterweight?
FM: I didn't really get a chance to see the fight because I was in Mississippi. Let me tell you why Lil Floyd would whoop him if they ever fought. Lil Floyd knows how to fight long tall fighters. Floyd fought a guy from Canada that was about 6'0. He fought Genaro Hernandez who had never lost at 130 and I told them, "get the garbage man ready to pick his ass up. He'll be out there in a bag." Indeed they picked his ass up to. He was tall too. He was about 5'10. I know for a fact Lil Floyd has way better skills than Williams. He could still cause problems because he has that height and he throws a lot of punches, but Lil Floyd break guys down man. He never lost what his daddy taught him. Lil Floyd can say what he wants to say about me making him a boring fighter, but his daddy made him period. Me and him just had different opinions on things, so he'll find anything he can to say. He knows what the real deal is. How your daddy make you a boring fighter motherfucker? He punished Genaro Hernandez. Who the hell he think was training him then. When he beat Angel Manfredy, who was training him then? I coached him through the Diego Corrales fight. I called him up and told him, "This is going to be a dangerous fight for you, do you want to listen or you don't?" "Oh yeah, daddy. Oh yeah, daddy!" Me and him were on bad terms then. I told him how to beat Diego and around what round they were going to stop him too. You could do what you want to do, but sooner or later, you're going to come back to your roots. I'm not worrying about what he says. Does Chad look like a boring fighter to you? The other day, did Hanshaw look like a boring fighter? Oscar wasn't boring against Mayorga. He was even beating Hopkins' ass. He's trying to find things to say because the main thing with him right now is to down his daddy, but he can't down his daddy. He got my brother now, but who do you think calling him [Roger] to train them? If I was the boring trainer, why is everybody calling for me? Roger's his trainer. Why nobody calling for him? If Floyd's the best fighter in the world, don't you think Roger should be the best trainer in the world? Aint nobody looking for no damn Roger. Everybody knows who trained Lil Floyd, that's why. Floyd still doing the same damn thing his daddy taught him. I taught him how to roll behind his shoulder. Roger didn't even fight that way.
PC: So you're saying if he has the "Pound for Pound" best fighter, his door should be getting knocked down with offers?
FM: Man, look here, his door is getting webs on it. The door hasn't been open in so damn long. He's going out of the back door himself just to get where he got to go. He already knows man. They got one dude in the gym, he kind of crazy. He aint really crazy, but he be telling everybody, "Floyd Mayweather is the best trainer in the world, can't nobody come close." That's the way he be talking and Roger be in there too. He gets in front of them guys and trys to show out, but he don't have to do none of that man, they already know. If you noticed, Roger hit on top of the gloves doing the mitts. Who do you punch that way? You watch the video. You won't see a lot of jabs, double or triple hooks, and you won't see right uppercuts, left hooks and right hands. They go back to hitting with the top of the gloves. You don't see all that other stuff. Everything I do is what a fighter's really going to do in the ring. I don't hit on the top of the hands because boxing don't go that way. He's a perpetrator. He was trying to tell somebody what he did and my mother told him, "Look boy, you need to shut your damn mouth, Floyd trained his own damn son and you aint did nothing." If anything, he made it worse. I have tapes where Lil Floyd rolled his shoulder and came back with an uppercut and knocked the dude flat. I have all kinds of stuff. You seen Manfredy, Hernandez and Corrales. All of that shit man. He can talk, but he's going to have to come back to his roots. He can't go around it.
PC: Looked like you two were about to patch things up again, but it went back sour huh?
FM: I broke the ice myself last time. It's boxing man, but he's calling his sparring partners bitches, whores and I'm going to kick your ass you punk B and all this. He's disrespecting his daddy man. He's disrespecting his momma's name, but his momma can't say that because he's taking care of her. I don't have to go for that. He doing all that disrespecting, calling them guys bitches and whores. Come on man, it ain't that serious. I don't know what's wrong with these guys man. They let a man feel on they ass and call them all kinds of names cause Lil Floyd would whoop the shit out of all of them. One thing about it man, when it comes to boxing Lil Floyd, you going to have problems.
PC: You don't see any fighter beating Lil Floyd right now?
FM: No. Maybe not even Jermain Taylor.
PC: Really!
FM: No, I'm just talking man. (Laughing) I'm just saying, the way things are going right now
PC: You're saying no one is close to him skillwise?
FM: No, nobody is messing with him that way. His skills are far beyond Jermain Taylor and anybody else. De La Hoya was probably about the best thing skillwise close to him and he shut that down.
PC: Do you think Felix Trinidad will come back to boxing?
FM: You can see Trinidad didn't really want to fight De La Hoya again. De La Hoya beat Trinidad the first time and I wasn't training De La Hoya at that time. Trinidad said he wanted to fight Lil Floyd and Lil Floyd would've beat the shit out of him. I think Lil Floyd would turn Cotto into an ice sickle. Lil Floyd would crush him man. Lil Floyd against Cotto would be a joke fight just like Hatton is a joke fight. Cotto would probably be a little better than Hatton, but Lil Floyd would do him the same way. Cotto can be hit and every time he gets hit by somebody that can halfway fight, his ass is wobbling all over the ring. I think Cotto's punch is good, but Lil Floyd aint no Zab Judah. Like I was telling you though Percy, the way Jermain Taylor has been looking though man
you know what I'm saying too Percy. He's getting worse and worse. Zab Judah stopped Cory Spinks and look how Taylor fought him.
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