http://www.maxboxing.com/fischer/fischer030107.asp
Here's an excerpt:" So, is he saying that he might hurt his hands against De La Hoya and be forced to box a safety first fight the way he was in his last fight? Who knows? Mayweather himself might not know what he’s going to do.
“See, I’m real,” he told Doug Krikorian of the Long Beach Press-Telegram, when the veteran writer asked how he plans to fight De La Hoya. “If you asked Oscar that question, ‘How would you beat Floyd Mayweather?’, he would actually tell you the game plan. But since I’m so real, and it’s from the heart, I would tell you a game plan but that’s not the game plan I’m gonna use.”
Huh?
Don’t try to understand. Mayweather is a genius of the ring. And aren’t all geniuses – from Picasso to Einstein – just a little bit quirky, just a tad conflicted, maybe a wee bit kooky?
Over the course of Mayweather’s 30- or 40-minute chat with the media, he probably contradicted himself seven or eight times, but that’s what made the round table interview interesting (in a morbidly fascinating way).
Mayweather is cocky and insecure at the same time. He’s both aloof and hyper-sensitive. He’s cold as ice, but he’s often overly emotional. As he told the writers about the many struggles in his life, about his rise from the ghetto to the top of the boxing world, and his desire to give his mother and family a better life, his moods changed as quickly as he can drop a one-two combination in the ring.
Combine one of Bernard Hopkins’ more self-righteous tirades with one of Mike Tyson’s more bi-polar rants and you have Floyd Mayweather’s idea of “keepin’ it real” with the press.
Hey, we’ll take it. It’s not like we have any choice. This sport is literally dying for a mega-event, and De La Hoya-Mayweather is as big (perhaps bigger than) the Golden Boy’s showdowns with Vargas, Hopkins and Felix Trinidad."
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