In the lead-up to his long-awaited fight against rival Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas, Floyd Mayweather has been talking himself up no end, and has repeatedly claimed that he believes himself to be a better boxer than Muhammad Ali.
Mike Tyson took him to task for the comments, calling him a “scared little man”, but during a recent TV appearance, Muhammad’s daughter Laila Ali, herself a former professional boxer, gently but firmly attempted to set him straight.
“There have been times I’ve wanted to reach out to him and have a conversation with him, because I see a little boy, even though he’s a grown man. I see a broken person,” she told a CBS sports interviewer.
“I know when you have money and you have ‘power’ and you have all these yes people around you, sometimes you don’t have that person to pull you aside and give it to you straight. I don’t hate him. I dislike the way that he acts. I dislike the way that he treats people.”
“And obviously, I’m definitely not down with this beating up on women because that’s very cowardly,” she continued, referring to the domestic violence conviction that had him denied entry to Australia.
“But … he needs somebody to reach out to him and guide him.” Watch her comments below:
via News Limited
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