The photo featured him standing in front of them all. The caption? “Welcome to my toy world! Who wants to come out & play?” He of course poses the question rhetorically because he’s not about to invite the rank and file boxing fan, read you and I, over to play with his cars and jet. But someone he might invite to play, someone he should invite — is Manny Pacquiao.
And it seems Pacquiao saw the posting and responded by putting up a photo of himself standing quietly by a log fire, arms folded in front of him and the caption: “Floyd brags about his lifestyle and everything! I don’t care! I’m just waiting here for him to sign the contract!”
Mayweather/Pacquiao: Hype before fight
What that exchsnge is, of course, is boxing hype, something these two have been engaging in for a while now, each suggesting the other won’t agree to give boxing fans a Mayweather v. Pacquiao bout, which is what fans have been waiting for and what should be the richest fight in boxing history. It’s natural that there’d be a few rounds of boxing hype first.
That’s what the photo really is — hype, something invented by the great Muhammad Ali, with a little help from boxing promoter Don King. They’ll be more of it before the big announcement that the two will fight, likely on May 2 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
In the meantime for anyone interested in knowing, here are the eight cars Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather is standing with: a Bugatti Gran Sport, two Bugatti Veyron, two Ferrari 458 Spiders, one Lamborghini Aventador, a Porsche 911 Turbo S and a Ferraro 599 GTB Fiorano.
The value? A heck of a lot, yes, but not as much as both boxers are certain to earn when they finally give us a boxing match for the ages.
Only a little more hype and it will be here.
