Rex Ryan Would Beat Floyd Mayweather in a Street Fight

Undefeated welterweight boxer Floyd “Money” Mayweather visited the New York Jets practice facility Thursday at Florham Park, N.J.

The Jets invited Mayweather to their practice, and he arrived with a slew of his flunkies before he addressed the team.

The main advice Mayweather offered the Jets was to not allow their loss last Sunday to the Saints in New Orleans to hinder their preparation for Monday night’s game against the Miami Dolphins.

“This is my first time coming to an NFL training camp,” said Mayweather, 32, the winner of six world boxing championships in five different weight classes. “I’ve bet enough money on them.”

Mayweather (40-0, 25 KOs) endorsed the trade the Jets made this week to acquire disgruntled wide receiver Braylon Edwards from the Cleveland Browns and he predicted that Gang Green are legitimate contenders to win the Super Bowl this year.

“They’ve made a couple of good trades, and if Braylon Edwards and (Mark) Sanchez can get good chemistry, they’ve got the potential to make it to the Super Bowl.”

Jets Head Coach Rex Ryan and Mayweather became fast friends once they were formally introduced to each other.

“Yeah, he’s cool! I like that coach, man,” Mayweather said of Ryan, 46. “He’s the coolest NFL coach I’ve ever met.”

Ryan, who has been outspoken of his love for fighting, remarked about Mayweather’s size vs. his skills.

“You always just imagine guys being really big,” said Ryan, a former defensive end at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. “When you look at him, you’re like, ‘Oh, please. I’ll whip that dude.’ Then, he’s like bam! And you wake up missing. That guy can punch you in the face 20 times before you ever thought about punching him.”

Ryan, as brash a talker as there is, still couldn’t resist his urge to mock Mayweather’s tiny frame.

Mayweather, who was named the Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year in 1998 and 2007, stands 5-foot-7.5 inches tall and he weighs less than 150 pounds.

Ryan measures 6-foot-4 inches tall and he recently admitted that his weight has ballooned to 340 pounds since the Jets hired him to coach their franchise last January.

“There are so many great Italian restaurants in New Jersey,” joked Ryan.

Despite his massive girth, Ryan claimed he is a portrait of health.

“The thing that gets me is, my cholesterol is fine, my blood pressure is fine. I am a genetic freak, I guess.”

This past summer, Ryan and Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder exchanged a series of verbal jabs.

“I don’t know this Channing Crowder,” Ryan conceded. “But all I know is that he’s all tatted up, so I need to be nervous about him. The only thing I can say is, I’ve walked over tougher guys going to a fight than Channing Crowder.”

When informed of Ryan’s remarks, Crowder went on the offensive.

“He says that he’d take care of me if he was younger?” asked Crowder, 25, who starred for the University of Florida football team. “I’d have beat the hell out of that big old joker. Come on now.”

There is no dispute that Crowder is a physical specimen and it is hard to imagine that Ryan could currently beat him in a street fight.

However, it is fascinating to ponder who would win a street fight between Ryan and Mayweather.

Mayweather is a world-class pugilist for the ages.

Ryan is a football coach in seemingly horrible physical condition.

Still, Ryan is nearly a foot taller than Mayweather and he outweighs the “Pretty Boy” by approximately 200 pounds.

If Mayweather was able to avoid Ryan’s charges, he could land a series of blows and stun the Jets leader.

While disoriented, Mayweather would have the propensity to connect with powerful blows that could conceivably render Ryan unconscious.

Nevertheless, it is more likely that the enormous Ryan would absorb Mayweather’s punches and continue to stalk his vastly smaller prey.

In all likelihood, Ryan would eventually capture Mayweather and bludgeon the native of Michigan to a pulp.

It is easy to envision a scene eerily reminiscent of the one in the movie Bloodsport when the little scrapper that fought like a monkey ultimately had his back broken by the much larger Asian mixed martial artist.

Mayweather was asked whether football or boxing was a tougher sport.

“They’re both very, very brutal contact sports,” answered Mayweather.

Upon being told of Mayweather’s response, Ryan quipped, “He doesn’t get hit very often, so what does he know about contact?”

In this intriguing fantasy matchup, Ryan would “get hit very often.”

However, by the time cops arrived on the scene, Ryan would be standing and Mayweather would be laying bloodied in the fetal position.

Rex Ryan’s “walked over tougher guys going to a fight than” Floyd “Money” Mayweather.

Mayweather should begin to practice screaming the word “matte” in order to ensure his survival in his dangerous encounter with Ryan.