Floyd Mayweather apologizes for his Ray Rice comments he made before his Saturday match. The press conference before Saturday's Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana rematch could have ended without predictably. However, the Ray Rice comments to which Floyd Mayweather apologizes for happened.
According to USA Today, in the span of 12 hours, not only did Mayweather knock the NFL for backing off its two-game suspension of Ray Rice, he also announced his retirement after two last fights and his plans of knocking out Marcos Maidana on Saturday night.
The 37-year-old probably didn't expect he would be grilled about his comments about Rice. In the end though, Floyd Mayweather apologizes for remarks he made.
The boxer was cited for commenting about Ray Rice's original two-game suspension. He said Rice's suspension should have been honored by the NFL, instead of an indefinite suspension.
Mayweather reportedly said the NFL should have stuck with its suspension because "there's a lot worse that happen in households. It's just not caught on video, if that's safe to say."
Needless to say, it wasn't safe. He received media backlash to which Floyd Mayweather apologizes for recently.
According to USA Today, Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe asked "haters" to "please stop. This is the reason boxing hasn't crossed over to be like the NFL and the NBA. You have a guy like this (Mayweather) who you will never see again and you try to tear him down."
Still, the questions continued. Ellerbe eventually said, "Things get taken out of context," Ellerbe said, "and a lot of times it depends on the messenger."
Meanwhile, on his part, Floyd Mayweather apologizes and claims he wasn't able to see the new elevator footage of Ray Rice before he made the comments, reports TMZ.
According to Michigan Live, the NFL originally issued a two-game suspension to Rice after video surfaced of him committing domestic incident on his then-fiancee, now his wife Janay Palmer. Eventually, the suspension became indefinite. The Baltimore Ravens reportedly revoked his contract after the video of the Ray Rice elevator attack was released during the week.
According to TMZ, Floyd Mayweather apologizes saying, "I was just getting word from people that there was a video out there. I didn't know because I'm training for a fight."
"If I offended anyone, I apologize. I apologize to the NFL," he added.
He was also asked of his reaction to the criticism he received between Tuesday's remarks and Wednesday's press conference, but Mayweather only said he wasn't aware of any such backlash.
According to mlive.com, he said jokingly, "You've got to realize, I don't read nothing. I don't read nothing. Remember, I can't read," he said as he referred to "50 Cent's" criticism of his reading abilities and offer of $750,000 if he would read a page of a Harry Potter book during a late-night television show.
Was Floyd Mayweather lying?
Although Floyd Mayweather apologizes for his remarks, TMZ recently pointed out a major problem with Mayweather's apology. According to the news site, during the time he made his original comments, Floyd said he had already seen the video.
Aside from the NFL comments to which Floyd Mayweather apologizes for, the boxer also pointed out that Rice was not the worst wife-beater in the country, the only problem was that the beating was caught on tape.
According to reports, Mayweather previously served his own 3-month sentence for domestic violence. Mayweather insisted on his not being guilty despite the cae being a plea bargain.
When asked about his case, he didn't comment on it, but as Floyd Mayweather apologizes for the domestic violence comments he issued, he said, "I strive to be a perfectionist but no one is perfect. I don't condone what happened. I'm not even involved in football. I'm a boxer. If I'm not focused on it I don't know why anybody else is."
Still, it is undeniable that Mayweather keeps doing his part to stay abuzz.
Floyd Mayweather apologizes for his Ray Rice domestic violence comments, and in the end says, "Bad press, good press, bad stories, good stories, it doesn't really matter what you write about me. Just write about me."
Below is the video Mayweather commented about.
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