Cent over his video taunt about the boxer's reading skills, as a title
rematch against Marcos Maidana looms,AFPreports.
Mayweather, 46-0 with 26 knockouts, meets Maidana, 35-4 with 31
knockouts, on September 13 to defend his World Boxing Council and
World Boxing Association welterweight titles, and his WBC light
middleweight crown, after taking a majority decision over the
Argentine in May.
But the 37-year-old American took more verbal jabs at 50 Cent, real
name Curtis Jackson, over an Instagram posting in which the rapper
vows to donate $750,000 to charity if Mayweather can read one page of
a Harry Potter novel without stumbling.
"Making fun of a person because they can't read is not funny. It's
tragic," Mayweather said. "If I couldn't read, it would make my
accomplishments that much more impressive.
"The circus is for clowns. My job is to focus on boxing. I could (not)
care less."
Mayweather posted a photo on Twitter of two huge recent paychecks with
the message, "Read this $72,276,000.00. God bless."
The reading issue erupted after a radio station released a tape of
Mayweather struggling to read station promotions, known as drops.
"I don't get paid to read radio drops. I would be perfect at reading
if it was how I had to feed my family," Mayweather said.
"I could have been up 24 hours. I could have just landed in New York
City. People find ways to break people down. I'm going strong. I'm
happy."
Mayweather noted many instances where he has been forced to read copy
off teleprompters, much the way television news show hosts do.
"I'm not a news anchor. Never claimed to be. But I didn't get where I
am not being able to read and write and do arithmetic," Mayweather
said.
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