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Undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. has confessed that a “reality” television show promoting his fight with Marcos Maidana was not reality. “All Access” featured Mayweather attending pot smoking parties and betting on sports.
From the Daily Mail:
The pot wasn't real. Neither, admitted Floyd Mayweather was much else that went on in the cable television shows promoting his latest fight.
Not the joint rolling parties with a bevy of female friends in his Las Vegas mansion. Not the 31 minute fights without a break in the 'Dog House' of his gym just off the city's glittering Strip.
Not even the betting that went on between Mayweather and others over who was going to win.
"I don't want to just sell a fight,” Mayweather said. “I want to sell a lifestyle.”
The five-division world championship made the admission before regulators in Nevada.
“It wasn't real marijuana,” Mayweather said. “It's all about entertainment.”
He said the show helped draw enough viewers to the pay per view fight in which he was guaranteed a cool $32 million. Showtime disclosed that the Mayweather- Maidana rematch did only slightly better than the first fight in terms of pay per view sales.
The regulators took issue with the marijuana smoking scenes and the gambling.
“It's a new generation, a young generation,” Mayweather said. “We believe in going outside boxing and doing something different. Because we did something different we got better pay-per-views this time around.”
“All Access” also featured fighters who supposedly went a half hour fighting without a break.
“We do take breaks when we spar. I make sure,” Mayweather offered. '”I'm not going to let anyone get hurt because safety is very important to boxing.”
- Tyrone Black, Gambling911.com
