{"id":295609,"date":"2023-11-19T18:24:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T18:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=295609"},"modified":"2023-11-19T18:24:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T18:24:25","slug":"floyd-mayweather-hits-back-at-critics-of-his-exhibition-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/boxing\/floyd-mayweather-hits-back-at-critics-of-his-exhibition-fights\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather hits back at critics of his exhibition fights"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Floyd Mayweather hits back at critics of his exhibition fights by revealing he makes &#8216;$60 MILLION&#8217; per fight as he compares himself to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in online rant<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mayweather blasts critics of his exhibition boxing bouts, as he reveals figures<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He retired undefeated, but made a return to exhibition boxing matches in 2018\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lightweight champion drew comparisons to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Floyd Mayweather\u00a0has blasted his critics for how much he earns through his exhibition boxing matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former professional boxer &#8211; who amassed an impressive 15 major world championships, including two WBC light middleweight champion titles &#8211; has hit back at critics of his venture into exhibition boxing matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Via a post on X &#8211; formerly Twitter &#8211; Michael Benson posted Mayweather responding to critics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He joked:\u00a0&#8216;Dubai, pick up a couple dollars&#8217; he winked.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his critics, he described them as &#8216;upset&#8217; because of his success with exhibition boxing matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/19\/16\/77989575-12767809-Mayweather_hit_back_at_critics_for_his_exhibition_boxing_bouts_i-m-107_1700411833988.jpg\" height=\"414\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/19\/16\/77989583-12767809-image-m-109_1700411840192.jpg\" height=\"414\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Mayweather hit back at critics for his exhibition boxing bouts in which he makes huge sums<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/19\/16\/77989591-12767809-image-a-104_1700411818868.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He amassed an impressive 15 major world championships during his professional career<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They&#8217;re upset, see, they&#8217;re upset because .. I&#8217;m smart, I cap all my faculties, I made a lot of smart investments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When great people like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, the Waltons the people that own Walmart and Walgreens, when they&#8217;re getting money in their 50s, 60s, 70s, even in their 80s and 90s &#8211; it&#8217;s ok.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A young kid like myself from the inner city, from the ghetto, I worked my way to the top. I was able to leave boxing on my own terms and keep all my faculties and a lot of my money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They&#8217;re upset that I&#8217;m able to go out there and continue to make 40, 50, 60 million [dollars] outside the ring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You can&#8217;t get mad, it&#8217;s what God wanted.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mayweather first took to the ring for an exhibition match on New Year&#8217;s Eve in 2018 to take on Japanese kickboxer, Tenshin Nasukawa. His opponent was knocked down three times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The undefeated boxer went on to face Logan Paul and YouTuber Deji Olatunji, with his Logan Paul clash generating an eye-watering\u00a0$50million.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mayweather&#8217;s famous fight with Conor McGregor made a revenue of\u00a0$370m &#8211; dubbed as The Money Fight, with Mayweather winning with a tenth round knock-out.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/article-12767809\/Floyd-Mayweather-critics-Bill-Gates-Warren-Buffett.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Floyd Mayweather hits back at critics of his exhibition fights by revealing he makes &#8216;$60 MILLION&#8217; per fight as he compares himself to Bill Gates <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/boxing\/floyd-mayweather-hits-back-at-critics-of-his-exhibition-fights\/\" title=\"Floyd Mayweather hits back at critics of his exhibition fights\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Floyd Mayweather hits back at critics of his exhibition fights - Sportstoft<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/boxing\/floyd-mayweather-hits-back-at-critics-of-his-exhibition-fights\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Floyd Mayweather hits back at critics of his exhibition fights - Sportstoft\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Floyd Mayweather hits back at critics of his exhibition fights by revealing he makes &#8216;$60 MILLION&#8217; 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