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Laila Ali rips Floyd Mayweather (Video)

By Will Osgood

Apr 14, 2015; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Floyd Mayweather Jr., answers questions from reporters before training at Mayweather Boxing Club. Mandatory Credit: Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports
Apr 14, 2015; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Floyd Mayweather Jr., answers questions from reporters before training at Mayweather Boxing Club. Mandatory Credit: Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports /
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Laila Ali, the daughter of Muhammad Ali, wasn’t buying Floyd Mayweather’s comments that he’s the greatest boxer

In one of the wildest craziest sports weekends in recent memory, Floyd Mayweather will finally fight Manny Pacquiao, which of course is what everyone has been clamoring for the past few years.

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It’s finally going to happen Saturday night at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. In advance of that fight, Floyd Mayweather has been his usual confident self, telling ESPN earlier this week, “No one can ever brainwash me to make me believe that Sugar Shane Robinson and Muhammad Ali was better than me.”

That comment has sparked a figurative riot across sports talks show this week in advance of the biggest (at least in terms of hype) fight of the century. TMZ was able to track down Laila Ali, daughter of “The Greatest”, for her thoughts on the topic.

Unsurprisingly she isn’t buying the hype. Her father is/was the greatest fighter to ever live. Floyd Mayweather boxes in a watered-down era of relative nobodies. Granted he’s undefeated to date.

But Ali actually had to fight against legitimate competition in his day, and still kicked their butts one by one.

The younger Ali, now retired from her own boxing career, is right to be dismissive of Mayweather. Interestingly, she believes Mayweather actually believes his words, which carries with it an implication–based on the tone of her voice–that she thinks Mayweather is a little nutty.

She might be right. Or Mayweather might once and for all give legitimacy to those remarks on Saturday night. If he were to knock out Pacquiao, he may then be able to say with more ethos, “I am the greatest boxer of all-time”.

It still wouldn’t be true, however.

Ali also made other remarks this week, not seen in the video, that she’s “not down with this beating on women because that’s very cowardly,” and called Mayweather “a little boy” and “a broken person”.

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