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In the mid-2000s, a highly publicized friendship blossomed between the world champion boxer and the platinum-selling rap artist. 50 Cent was right there to witness Floyd’s transition from “Pretty Boy Floyd” to the trash-talking, egotistical villain known as “Money” Mayweather.

On May 5, 2007, Jackson joined Mayweather for his famous Cinco de Mayo ringwalk. Mayweather wore boxing trunks sporting the colors of the Mexican flag, topping off the outfit with a mariachi-style sombrero. When the bell sounded, Mayweather participated in a highly competitive bout. At the conclusion of the 12-round contest, he defeated Oscar De La Hoya via split decision to win the WBC junior-middleweight title.

The victory over De La Hoya was a career-defining win that jump-started the “Money” Mayweather era. Floyd went on to become the face of boxing and the undisputed pay-per-view king.

Mayweather achieved next-level fame, and alongside that fame, he routinely filled his pockets. However, a serious legal matter soon threatened to derail his momentum.

In September 2010, Mayweather was arrested for felony domestic abuse. After his team successfully negotiated a plea deal, he surrendered to the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas on June 1, 2012.

Mayweather served two months before being released from jail. Once he was out, his friendship with 50 Cent took a turn for the worse.

According to 50 Cent, prior to Mayweather turning himself in, Floyd asked him to help manage TMT and Mayweather Promotions. As a guest on Power 106 with Big Boy in November 2012, 50 Cent explained what happened.

“As he was actually going into jail, he asked me to help him with Mayweather Promotions,” 50 Cent stated. “Then as he actually got in, and I took a look, I realized there is no Mayweather Promotions, there’s no LLC, there’s no seal, it’s not incorporated.”

While Mayweather was incarcerated, 50 Cent signed boxers, did the necessary legwork, and legitimized the company under the TMT Promotions brand, investing both his time and money. Once Mayweather finished serving his time, he refused to acknowledge 50 Cent as a business partner. This structural dispute ultimately fractured the friendship.

From 2013 to 2017, Mayweather resumed his boxing career, clearing nine figures in most of those bouts. When he retired from professional boxing, he had tallied up over 1 billion dollars in career earnings.

After retiring in 2017, Mayweather refused to downsize. He continued to spend money at a rapid pace, maintaining a massive entourage, routinely flying on a private jet, and purchasing expensive jewelry and luxury vehicles.

In February 2020, 50 Cent was a guest on the Hot 97 radio show. When asked if Mayweather should return to the ring, he dropped a bombshell.

“I think he got to right now because the money is gone,” 50 Cent said. “With his lifestyle that money is gone, trust me. Now it’s like if you call him, he’ll be at, you know, your local hosting in a nightclub cause he needs that action right now.”

When the rap mogul initially made the statement, it sounded ridiculous to the public. Years later, his assessment appears entirely accurate. Floyd Mayweather is facing significant financial pressure, and his economic situation seems to have forced him back into the ring.

According to Business Insider, two of Mayweather’s commercial properties have been foreclosed, and the IRS filed a 7.3 million dollar lien against him for unpaid taxes stemming from 2018 and 2023. Furthermore, Mayweather risks losing additional properties that he used as collateral to secure a 54 million dollar loan. He is also facing two felony charges for allegedly writing a $200,000 bad check to purchase an Audemars Piguet luxury watch.

From a financial standpoint, Mayweather may be down by his lofty standards, but he is certainly not out. A massive payday is on the horizon this September, when he puts his perfect 50-0 legacy on the line in a highly anticipated rematch against Manny Pacquiao.

 

Moses Itauma will face the biggest test of his unbeaten career when he takes on Filip Hrgovic on August 29 at London’s O2 Arena.

The heavyweight clash is expected to be officially announced in the coming days, with a press conference reportedly planned for next week. For Itauma, the fight represents a major step up in opposition after rapidly climbing the heavyweight ranks with a series of dominant victories.

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That is one reason many boxing historians consider the 1976 U.S. team to be the stronger achievement.

The American team in Montreal won five gold medals, one silver medal, and one bronze medal. Lightweight Howard Davis Jr. was also awarded the prestigious Val Barker Trophy as the outstanding boxer of the Olympic Games.

The gold medalists were Leo Randolph at flyweight, Sugar Ray Leonard at light welterweight, Howard Davis Jr. at lightweight, Michael Spinks at middleweight, and Leon Spinks at light heavyweight.

Several members of the team went on to enjoy remarkable professional careers. Leonard became a five-division world champion and is widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters in boxing history. Michael Spinks captured world titles at light heavyweight and heavyweight, while Leon Spinks famously defeated Muhammad Ali to win the heavyweight championship in 1978. Randolph later won the WBA super bantamweight title.

The team’s other medalists also found success. Charles Mooney earned a silver medal but chose not to turn professional. John Tate, who won a bronze medal, later captured the WBA heavyweight title and was recognized as one of the leading heavyweights of his era.

Even some members of the team who failed to reach the medal stand were highly regarded amateurs. Chuck “White Chocolate” Walker, Clint Jackson, Louis Curtis and Davey Lee Armstrong were all talented fighters who helped make the 1976 squad one of the deepest teams ever assembled by the United States.

While the 1984 team produced stars such as Evander Holyfield, Pernell Whitaker, Meldrick Taylor and Virgil Hill, supporters of the 1976 squad point to the level of competition in Montreal and the number of future world champions it produced.

Nearly 50 years later, the argument remains open, but the 1976 U.S. Olympic boxing team still has a strong claim to being the greatest American Olympic boxing team of all time.

Tim Bradley says Shakur Stevenson is creating the wrong impression by going quiet after Devin Haney agreed to the 144-pound catchweight that Stevenson had publicly requested for a fight between the two.

The former two-division world champion, Bradley, expressed his frustration, arguing that Haney made the concession Shakur wanted only for talks to seemingly stall afterward.

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Before a crowd of 54,487, Conn steadily built a lead on the scorecards. Louis looked unusually sluggish as Conn repeatedly beat him to the punch and controlled the tempo. The challenger may have produced the fight’s biggest moment in the 12th round when he staggered Louis with a pair of left hooks, sending the crowd into a frenzy.

At the time of the stoppage, Conn led on two official scorecards, 7-5 and 7-4-1, while the third judge had the fight even at 6-6. The Associated Press scored it 8-4 for Conn.

Then came the 13th round.

Instead of continuing to box his way toward a decision, Conn went looking for a knockout. Louis, who had been told by trainer Jack Blackburn that he needed a stoppage to win, seized the opportunity. The heavyweight champion caught Conn with a counterattack and knocked him out at 2:58 of the round.

In the dressing room afterward, Conn blamed nobody but himself.

“I lost my head and a million bucks,” he famously said. When asked why he abandoned the strategy that had put him ahead, Conn offered another memorable line: “What’s the use of being Irish if you can’t be thick?”

The regret stayed with him for the rest of his life.

Years later, Conn admitted he had the fight won before chasing the knockout. “I was a wise guy. I had him, and I let him get away,” Conn recalled. “If I hadn’t hurt him in the twelfth and tried to knock him out in the thirteenth, I’d have beat him.”

Near the end of his life, Conn suggested he wasn’t certain the judges would have awarded him the decision against a champion as popular as Louis. Still, the fighter’s own reflections focused less on the scorecards and more on his decision to abandon a winning game plan.

Eighty-five years later, the lasting image remains the same: Billy Conn outboxing the great Joe Louis, only to let victory slip away while trying to finish the job too soon.

“Become a world champion has been a dream of mine since I’ve been 10 years old,” Vargas said to DAZN Boxing.

“I’m going to do everything necessary to win for me, for my family. There’s no other option.”

Emiliano believes the lessons passed down by his father have helped shape his approach to the sport.

“My father’s my idol. You know, the good, the bad. Everything that happened in his career is for the betterment of my career,” Vargas said.

“He tells me all the time discipline is the biggest thing that he took away from his career. That’s the difference between good and great. And I know I’m a great fighter because I do everything necessary to make sure that I’m a great fighter.”

The 22-year-old also stressed the importance of building his own profile in boxing’s social media era.

“I think nobody’s going to promote you better than you. No promoter, no manager. Nobody’s going to show the world who’s really you more than you,” Vargas said.

Emiliano (17-0, 14 KOs) returns on June 27 when he faces Bryce Mills (22-1, 9 KOs) in a 10-round bout at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The fight is scheduled for the undercard of the Jaron Ennis vs. Xander Zayas event, which will be broadcast on DAZN PPV.

Currently ranked #2 by the WBO at 140 pounds, Vargas is positioned near the top of the sanctioning body’s rankings as he continues his push toward a world title opportunity. A victory over Mills would move him another step closer to title contention in a division currently headed by WBO champion Shakur Stevenson.

Emiliano remains focused on the goal he says has driven him since he first laced up a pair of gloves.

“My father lived his dream. I’mma live mine,” Vargas said.

 

Christian Mbilli’s promoter believes the unbeaten WBC super middleweight champion is ready to do more than defeat Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on September 12. He believes Mbilli can take over as boxing’s biggest star.

Mbilli (29-0-1, 24 KOs) will defend his WBC title against Canelo in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in one of the biggest fights of his career. The Canada-based fighter was elevated to full champion after Terence Crawford vacated the belt following his retirement.

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Charlo (34-0, 23 KOs), 36, has fought only twice since 2021 and has repeatedly seen long layoffs interrupt his career during what should have been some of his prime years. His most recent appearance came in December 2024, when he defeated Thomas LaManna by fifth-round stoppage.

Mazoudier (15-4-1, 6 KOs) enters as the Australian super welterweight champion but is largely unknown outside his home country. The 30-year-old from Sydney has won six straight fights since suffering a ninth-round stoppage loss to Nikita Tszyu in August 2024.

The matchup is widely viewed as a tune-up fight designed to position Charlo for a more significant bout later this year if he comes through successfully.

Also added to the card is a super featherweight clash between former unified super bantamweight champion Stephen Fulton and Australia’s Liam Wilson.

Fulton (23-2, 8 KOs) will be looking to rebound from a one-sided unanimous decision defeat to O’Shaquie Foster on December 6. The Philadelphia native was thoroughly outboxed over 12 rounds in his bid to capture the WBC interim lightweight title, dropping his second fight in his last four outings.

Wilson (18-3, 10 KOs) has rebuilt momentum since being stopped by Oscar Valdez in March 2024. The Australian contender has won five consecutive fights, including a fourth-round knockout of Rodex Piala in January to retain his WBO International super featherweight title.

The Fulton-Wilson bout is scheduled for 12 rounds and represents a significant opportunity for Wilson to score the biggest victory of his career against a former world champion.

The July 26 event marks one of the biggest boxing cards staged in Australia this year, with Tszyu attempting to secure a career-defining victory over former welterweight champion Spence in the main event.

Bill Haney says a fight between Devin Haney and Keyshawn Davis would determine who is boxing’s No. 1 fighter, but stopped short of saying whether his son would give up the WBO welterweight title to pursue a showdown with Shakur Stevenson.

The comments come as Devin Haney weighs his next move amid growing speculation about potential fights against either Shakur or Keyshawn, who recently became the WBO’s mandatory challenger at welterweight.

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Manny Pacquiao has competed in 73 professional bouts to date, but there is one man who is thankful that his scheduled showdown with the Filipino icon did not take place, labelling his withdrawal as a ‘blessing in disguise’.

A true pound-for-pound legend of the sport, many fighters dream of sharing the ring with one of boxing’s most accomplished combatants; the only boxer to have held a world title in four different decades and the only eight-division world champion.

Pacquiao is now chasing another feat, hoping to break his own as the oldest welterweight champion of all time, having last held the WBA welterweight title at the age of 42 years old before losing it to Yordenis Ugas, who stepped in as a challenger when Errol Spence Jr pulled out.

Speaking on The Art of Ward Podcast, Spence admitted that he is glad the fight with ‘Pac-Man’ did not go ahead, fearing that the eye injury, which caused his withdrawal, could have seriously impacted both his career and life.

“All through camp I was feeling bad, I was feeling super bad, I was messed up. I’ll say this again, I don’t know if it is life, God or whatever it was; I got hit in my eye during sparring and I really was still sparring during that time and all of that.

“I went to Vegas and I had to do the eye test, it was cloudy, I was seeing clouds, it was messed up and I went to go to the eye doctor and I think he saw it, but he wanted me to tell him, so he was like, ‘do you see any clouds?’, and I was like ‘nah, I don’t see nothing’.

“He said, ‘you sure?’ And I said ‘nah, I don’t see nothing, it looks clear, I am good’. I was trying to get the approval, but he was like ‘man, your eye is messed up’.”

“I was trying to tell the doctor to let me fight and that I will be good, that I will sign whatever you want me to sign, I told him that I will make sure that he [Pacquiao] don’t hit me in my eye!

“He was like, ‘nah, man, if you get hit in your eye the right way, you could be blind in your eye. I can’t let you fight’.

“I think that was a blessing in disguise because, if I would have took that fight and something would have happened, I would be wearing a patch over my eye right now and I wouldn’t have had the fights that I have had and made the money that I have made.”

Spence returns to action against Tim Tszyu next month, ending a three-year stretch of inactivity with an intriguing test up at super-welterweight.