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got my questions answered...

this is a continuation of the east side boxing interview with mayweather sr.

ESB: How realistic is the chance of a fight with your son (Floyd Mayweather Jr.) and Oscar actually coming to fruition?

Mayweather Sr.: It’s real realistic….

ESB: Can you sit in the corner and train someone to fight your son?

Mayweather Sr.: I don’t think it’s ever happened before

ESB Can you sit in the corner and train someone to fight your own son?

Mayweather Sr.: Yes I can. You want to know why I can do that. It’s because I have a disrespectful son. My son knows that I am training Oscar De La Hoya, why would you disrespect your daddy and come on your daddy’s playground and try to provoke a fight with Oscar? How am I wrong if he comes on to my territory?

ESB: Because he is your son.

Mayweather Sr.: And I am his father!!! this isn’t his brother, his cousin, or his friend. This is his daddy!! How is he going to come over here and interrupt what his daddy is doing? How is he going to be so disrespectful to his daddy and want to fight someone his daddy is training? I’m the daddy that made him the world champion that he is and now he wants to take what his daddy gave him and come over here and mess with his father? Then whatever happens to him happens. I am not going to say that I’ll be happy that my son gets knocked out or I won’t be happy about De La Hoya losing, either way I won’t be happy. I’m stuck in the middle playing the fiddle. But I am not going to let my son sit up here at the end of the day and have his daddy back down by letting somebody else train Oscar. That other trainer would get all the money I’m supposed to get and my son probably won’t give his daddy a damn thing. I would look like a fool if I stepped to the side.

ESB: Analyze that potential fight.

Mayweather Sr.: They both have skills. Lil Floyd of course is faster and younger. Oscar is the heavier puncher. My son has a lot of good tools. Oscar since he has been with me uses his right hand now to go with a terrific left hand. It would just be a very interesting fight. I couldn’t even tell you what the outcome of the fight would be.

ESB: Let’s say Floyd is not your son and Oscar was fighting someone with the same skills, experience, and size, how would you see the fight?

Mayweather Sr.: I’ll be right where I’m at now. I can’t make a prediction in a fight like that.

ESB: So you won’t be shocked with any result?

Mayweather Sr.: I won’t be shocked if Lil Floyd got knocked out but I’d be shocked if Oscar got stopped. That would shock me. It wouldn’t shock me if he knocked Lil Floyd out and it wouldn’t shock me if Lil Floyd won the fight.

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(the story below had nothing to do with the scheduled de la hoya vs mayweather fight).. the story probably happened before mayweather sr. became oscar's trainer...

A look into Mayweather Sr.'s family life is also revealing. His son fired him as his manager/trainer and gave him twenty-four hours before he evicted him from his house and repossessed his car. The father and son almost coming to blows several times over the career path chosen by Mayweather Jr. and money he claimed was owed to him by his father. This typical of Mayweather Sr.'s storied relationship with his other family members.