{"id":781258,"date":"2026-07-05T06:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781258\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T06:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:19:13","slug":"floyd-mayweather-addresses-financial-rumors-while-praising-jake-and-logan-pauls-hustle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781258\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather Addresses Financial Rumors While Praising Jake and Logan Paul’s ‘Hustle’"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the hurdles around the Mike Zambidis exhibition now removed thanks to a recent federal judge ruling, Floyd Mayweather<\/a> can now look ahead to pursuing his comeback plans with renewed energy. However, it is not as easy as it appears. The former world champion continues to deal with challenges on two fronts. While a string of lawsuits continue to follow him, incessant rumors linked to potential financial distress pose another problem. Talks claiming Floyd Mayweather is on the verge of bankruptcy have become a headline staple now.<\/p>\n

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Against that backdrop, months ago in March, before lawsuits and financial distress became synonymous with his name, Floyd Mayweather painted a different picture. During a recently released interview with rapper and Come And Talk 2 Me\u2019s Cam\u2019ron, Mayweather reflected on his financial standing, including a long-pending dispute with Jake Paul<\/a>\u2018s elder brother, Logan Paul.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody has taken none of my properties away from me. I still got all my houses, I still got everything. My mother, my whole family, their bills are still paid. Still pay all my employees,\u201d the former champion remarked<\/a>. \u201cThe Black community has been paying money for years to come see me fight\u2026 You bet it on Floyd \u2019cause I prove that I\u2019m 100% when I get in that ring\u2026 They believe in me\u2026 And after they go home, and they got everything they won, they\u2019re praying on my downfall. \u2018We don\u2019t want to see Floyd win nothing. It\u2019s this lawsuit, it\u2019s that lawsuit.\u2019 One thing about me, who whoever I get involved with in far as with business, I get myself out of the situation. One thing we\u2019re not going to do is go out there and go point fingers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s no different from when people get to talking about real estate. \u2018Oh, Floyd doesn\u2019t got this and Floyd doesn\u2019t got that.\u2019 All I want is for y\u2019all to tell me what you got. Everybody, all of y\u2019all, just tell me what y\u2019all got. Everybody always worried about what Floyd got, but what did you get?\u201d<\/p>\n

Rumors about Mayweather going broke have surfaced before, dating back to 2017, when reports about him owing the IRS surfaced. A major investigation done by Business Insider last year further suggested financial issues were plaguing the former world champion. In that context, the likely cause of Mayweather\u2019s frustration could have been the $340 million lawsuit he filed against former broadcast partners Showtime and its then-president Stephen Espinoza. The massive claim itself hinted at concerns surrounding his financial health.<\/p>\n

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Mayweather later spoke about his fight plans, including the proposed exhibition with Mike Tyson. While he acknowledged that he had been out of the ring for a long duration, the Olympic bronze medalist appeared to take things as they come.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look, man, you just look around my team; they are still paying their bills,\u201d Mayweather argued. \u201cAnd at my age, you know, at my age, what, 40? I\u2019m 49-50 years old. If I\u2019m able to just pay my mother, my mother\u2019s house is paid for. All my properties are paid for. My grandson doesn\u2019t want for anything. I\u2019m happy with that. As long as I\u2019m able to eat every day, pay my bills, and travel and do the things that I want to do, and I don\u2019t have to get up and punch a clock and work for nobody, then that\u2019s my company, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

However, this did not stop him from acknowledging the fighters who had impressed him. The interview took an interesting turn towards the end, when Cam\u2019ron asked Mayweather about his \u201ctop three\u201d fighters on the current roster.<\/p>\n

The former world champion named David Benavidez, Shakur Stevenson, and Devin Haney, before eventually zeroing in on Jake Paul.<\/p>\n

How Floyd Mayweather sees the Paul brothers today<\/p>\n

\u201cI got to take my hat off to Jake Paul because I like Jake Paul\u2019s hustle, right?\u201d Mayweather replied. \u201cAll in all, Jake Paul popped that sh-t. He knows how to hustle and he knows how to get that back. So, his hustle is\u2026I mean, he is a white boy, but his hustle is\u2026 you can\u2019t knock his hustle like a black dude from the hood.\u201d<\/p>\n

To some, that should come as a surprise, given Mayweather\u2019s and Jake Paul\u2019s previous encounter. Five years ago, the YouTuber-turned-fighter famously grabbed Mayweather\u2019s cap during the press conference for the exhibition fight with Logan Paul.<\/p>\n

His relationship with the older Paul brother hasn\u2019t been much warmer, largely because of the financial dispute that surfaced after their exhibition at Miami\u2019s Hard Rock Stadium. While the bout gained significant traction due to Jake Paul\u2019s pre-fight antics, the controversy didn\u2019t end once the fight was over. Logan Paul<\/a> later claimed that Mayweather owed him a significant amount.<\/p>\n

According to the older Paul, he and Mayweather had a separate private agreement to split some of the money earned from selling their exhibition match internationally before it happened. However, Mayweather never paid his share of $1.5 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When Cam\u2019ron reminded Mayweather of Logan\u2019s claims, the former world champion simply replied, \u201cI wish them nothing but the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking back now, it\u2019s hard to imagine that roughly a month after Mayweather defended his financial standing, things began to unravel, with one lawsuit after another being filed against him. In April, after the IRS\u2019 $7.3k tax lien surfaced, Mayweather also faced a lawsuit from a private jet service provider over unpaid services worth $105k.<\/p>\n

Another report indicates that he had abandoned the case with Business Insider. More recently, he has faced two felony charges<\/a>, including alleged theft and intent to defraud by passing a bad check. <\/p>\n

For a long time, Mayweather enjoyed a reputation as the world\u2019s richest boxer who drew attention with his luxurious lifestyle. To see the same icon years later, insisting that he is not broke, only to find himself surrounded by a wave of lawsuits, is something that will leave many confused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the hurdles around the Mike Zambidis exhibition now removed thanks to a recent federal judge ruling, Floyd…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-781258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}