A friend the other night told me this would happen.
She was right.
Here is the article.
Oscar De La Hoya Beats Floyd Mayweather Junior To The Punch,
Provides Fight Tickets And Hotel Room For Mayweather Senior!
Michael Marley
4/30/2007
www.boxingconfindential.com
Oscar De La Hoya has beaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. to the punch already. An inside source has informed www.boxingconfidential.com that De La Hoya, the benevolent former employer of trainer Floyd “Pretty Daddy” Mayweather Sr., has scored points in the ongoing game of One Upsmanship between the May 5 Superfight opponents.
“While HBO’s 24/7 show keeps replaying all that crap about how Little Floyd loves his Dad and vice-versa,” the source told me, “Oscar went to work. Oscar used an emissary to get to his former trainer and he is providing Big Floyd with complimentary tickets and a free hotel room at the MGM Grand for the fight.”
It may seem trivial given all the money involved but the source said Big Floyd graciously accepted the largesse of his ex-boss. And, as always, psychological master Oscar has an ulterior motive.
“It’s a preflight jab by Oscar,” the source said. “It’s giving L’il Floyd the mental needle. L’il Floyd is flashing all the cash around on 24/7 and yet he didn’t bother to hook his own father up with tickets and a hotel room for the big event.”
And as first revealed by me on www.boxingconfidential.com, Floyd Sr’s stay in his son’s camp was short and cosmetic. It was basically scripted for the 24/7 show just as that cockamamie “phone call” from Roger Mayweather to Freddie Roach.
Now the only question is paying room and ax only for his ex-trainer or is “Pretty Daddy” getting R,F,B, which high-rollers can tell you is old-time Vegas lingo for carte blanche. That means room, food and beverage are all paid for by whoever put up the credit card.
Call me crazy but, if Floyd Sr, has R,F,B I think it’s going to be party time for Pretty Daddy this Cinco de Mayo weekend. Pretty Daddy will be living large even though he's not in charge.
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