If Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s barely intelligible uncle Roger is to be believed, his nephew has been keeping in shape and could get back into the ring for a fight by the end of the Summer. As you may know, our entire human existence is building toward the hypothetical Mayweather/Pacquiao fight, and while Mayweather has retired to sit at home with his jets and dogs and fill duffel bags with enormous stacks of money, Manny has been imagining Money Mayweather’s face on his opponents’ and systematically punching them to death.

Roger Mayweather is kind of a cross between a blue singer and Boomhauer from “King of the Hill,” so listening to him doesn’t really result in comprehension of facts, but he says getting back in the ring is a money issue for Floyd, which is sort of like saying water is an issue for human survival. He also managed to say both Manny Pac and Shane Mosley are on drugs, which is funny and appropriate and another step toward the inevitable conclusion of Mayweather getting sh:tkicked in round one by a guy with political, musical AND punching power. Of course, I’m talking about The Great Khali.

For more (if you can understand it), check out the interview at Black Sports Online.

[via Larry Brown Sports]

Chicago Bulls C.J. Watson has denied being the boyfriend of a woman who has an out-of-wedlock child with boxing great Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Watson’s name surfaced in a police report made after Mayweather reportedly hit and kicked the woman earlier this month.

But multiple sources close to C.J. — including his father Charles Watson — tell TMZ that the NBA player is only in a relationship with his longtime girlfriend Danielle — with whom he has a child.

C.J.’s dad — who says he talks to C.J. every day — also tells us, “I know for sure that Josie is not his girlfriend … she did some event planning for C.J., but other than that, they have no relationship whatsoever.” –via TMZ.

Point guards have to make good decisions all the time in the NBA, and Watson made another good one here by distancing himself from this mess. We realized that Mayweather didn’t want anything to do with Manny Pacquiao, but surely he’s man enough to punch someone that isn’t the mother of his child. Yeah, I realize that sounds ridiculous, having faith in humanity and all that.

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. remained undefeated by knocking out Ricky Hatton in the 10th round last night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas: 

The sound seems to be lagging a bit behind the pictures in this video, but that's to be expected since the color commentator is Robert Burns, and he's been dead for 223 years. -KD 

English boxer Ricky Hatton has a unique strategy for an upcoming fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr.:

Hatton will evoke the spirit of Roberto Duran in his quest to become the first man to defeat Floyd Mayweather Jr. and establish himself as the No. 1 pound-for-pound boxer in the world.  That is the view of Hatton's trainer, Billy Graham, who said . . . "This is Ricky's Sugar Ray Leonard fight. It's the first Duran-Leonard fight all over again. Look at how Duran won that fight and you will see how Ricky will beat Floyd."

If anybody can conjure the spirit of Roberto Duran (pictured here filming Heaven's favorite reality show, Hands of Stone, Abs of Jell-O), it's surely Billy Graham.  I can't imagine the old Christian Crusader will summon the fighting Panamanian's ghost with the aid of a séance or the dark arts, so it will be interesting to see how Duran comes to haunt the world of the living.  Though, wouldn't an English boxer be better served harnessing the power of Duran Duran?  Union of the Snake or Hungry Like the Wolf must be as motivational for the Brits as The Eye of the Tiger is for us.  Remember when you collected all those Dynamite magazines with Simon LeBon on the cover?  And do you also remember how everyone was shocked when you came out?  I wasn't. -KD

Asst. Editor note: Roberto Duran is not actually dead yet, but he may soon be if he can't say "no mas" to extra desserts. 

Floyd Mayweather Jr. won a split-decision over Oscar De La Hoya last night to capture the junior middleweight title.  Naturally, "Pretty Boy" Floyd was magnanimous in victory:

"It was masterpiece of boxing," Mayweather said. "I showed you why I am the best fighter of this era."

Well spoke sir.  When humility is no longer the order of the day in this sport of kings , I will stop watching it.  Let's hear what else Mr. Mayweather had to say:

"Look at the punch stats and then you can see I'm the new champion," Mayweather said. "I was having fun in there. It was a hell of a fight. I told the fans I would give them a hell of a fight, and that's what I did . . . I just fought the best fighter in our era and I beat him. It was a hell of a fight.

Couldn't he say it was a "H-E-double hockey sticks fight" for the youngsters?  Oh well, he's talking about retiring now (which is always definitive for a boxer – they never come back from retirement), which is just as well because he's not getting much family support.

[Floyd] Mayweather Sr., however, said he thought De La Hoya, 34, won.  "I thought Oscar won the fight," he said. "My son had better defense and caught a lot of punches, but I think Oscar pressed the fight and did enough to win."

Wow, I thought my dad was tough on me when I brought home 94%s on Latin exams, but Floyd Sr. has pushed critical parenting into a whole other realm.  He is undoubtedly referred to as the Joan Crawford of the Sweet Science. -KD  

Picture Note: Lovely Ali is an Octagon Girl for UFC, and thus the photo is fight related.