Floyd "Money" Mayweather Is Really Fighting For The Cash This Time

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Finally, there is proof of the rumors.

Associated Press writer Oskar Garcia writes:

Floyd Mayweather Jr. has said rumblings about his financial troubles are nothing more than rumors, but public records obtained by The Associated Press show the boxer nicknamed "Money" owes about $6.4 million to the Internal Revenue Service and others.

The IRS hit the former pound-for-pound boxing king with a lien in October for $6.17 million in unpaid taxes from 2007, according to the Clark County Recorder in Las Vegas. A New Jersey Superior Court judgment from the same year shows he owes $193,000 in state taxes there.

Now I'm not writing this to imply Mayweather is broke, but I do wonder if he is in financial trouble. I know we will never get a truthful answer from Mayweather or Leonard Ellebe, his adviser.

If he is in financial trouble, I also wonder how this will affect his future performances. Will he fight harder, knowing that the IRS may be coming to take his things soon? Or will he fight will less inspiration because he really wanted to stay retired?

What say you, B/R Boxing community?

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