Floyd Mayweather Jr. responds to illiteracy trash talk by bragging about his cash
Mark J. Terrill/AP “Money” Mayweather tweeted he has no problem reading the stunning sums on checks for prize fights. Money discussion.
One day after Power 105 DJs revealed fighter Floyd Mayweather Jr. struggled with reading, he tweeted an image of two eye-popping checks.
“Read this $ 72,276,000.00. God bless,” the undefeated fighter wrote early Saturday.
The tweet was in response to a humiliating recording played by DJ Charlamagne Tha God in which “Money” Mayweather stumbled through a promo meant to be used in between radio segments.
Larry Busacca/Getty Images for The Weinstein C More pleased times: 50 Cent has feuded for days with Floyd Mayweather Jr., mocking the champ as illiterate. “I’m Floyd Mayweather” was all the fighter could muster before getting tongue-twisted reading phrases like “movement to support hiring vets.”
Trash talk about the champ’s reading skills had begun earlier in the week, when rapper 50 Cent parodied the viral ALS challenge, saying he’d donate $ 750,000 to a charity of Mayweather’s choice if the pugilist could read just one page of “Aggravate Potter.”
Fitty kept the body blows coming on his Instagram account Friday, posting a photoshopped image of Mayweather looking perplexed while reading a book in a classroom as the rapper looks on.
