No retiree can splash the cash like Money May.
Life is good for one of the more famous retired folks in the U.S. No one knows for sure how fast Floyd Mayweather is spending the ridiculous amount of dollars he earned during his boxing career, but he’s obviously managing his money well enough to have plenty of cash on hand.
As evidence, consider the following story from the Los Angeles Times. It involves Mayweather buying another home in Miami Beach for $7.7 million. No big deal, right?
Except he paid for it in cash. Damn.
That dough got Floyd 5,200 square feet, five bedrooms, five bathrooms, an infinity pool and a rooftop patio complete with kitchen. Not too shabby. He even managed to be a bit of a bargain hunter, considering the Times reports that the home was originally listed for almost a million more when it first went on the market.
The purchase price might be a bit steep even for most professional athletes, but Mayweather is almost without peer in terms of his earning power. Unless I did my math wrong, $7.7 million is just a tad over one percent of his total haul of $700 million from his boxing endeavors.
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That likely means he doesn’t need to lace up the gloves again, whether it’s to fight Conor McGregor, Manny Pacquiao again (please no) or anyone else. Unless he wants to buy like six or seven more houses with cash, that is.
Yep, it’s not bad to be Floyd Mayweather.
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