The relationship between rapper 50 Cent and pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. is officially over. Floyd Mayweather has been posting on Twitter and Instagram his hate towards 50 Cent whose real name is Curtis Jackson.
Mayweather started calling him “fuck boy” and saying “I respect the shooter not the one who got shot” in reference to the 2000 incident where 50 Cent was shot nine times and mocked his declining record sales.
50 Cent also tweeted, “I’m no longer a part or down with TMT Promotions. If anyone wants a Money Team jacket I’m selling mine for a dollar. The (snap) back hat comes with it. That’s a (fair) price.”
The rift between the two former friends has been building ever since 50 Cent announced he would be going into business with Mayweather’s boxing rival Manny Pacquiao in September but many have questioned if the beef is real or cooked up to promote future fights.
50 Cent and Tommy Summers aka Tommy Smalls tried to break the relationship between Floyd Mayweather and boxing promoter Al Haymon along with Golden Boy Promotions. The reason why? Greed!
Mayweather is a money-making machine. He makes a lot of money for himself, Haymon and Golden Boy. 50 and Smalls wanted Mayweather to be their cash cow and the only way to do that is to get Mayweather’s name on a TMT Promotional contract.
Fight Hype released some jailhouse letters were Small sent during Floyd’s sentence. In them Tommy Small embarks on a plan to try and convince Mayweather that he would be better off cutting ties with Al Haymon and instead too partner with him and 50 Cent.
According to Tommy Smalls, if Mayweather did so he could potentially make between $500 million and $1 billion dollars before he retires, raking in a whopping $100 million to $200 million per fight. Summers alleges that Haymon, Golden Boy Promotions and HBO were all in cahoots, hiding money from Mayweather in a deal that was “cut under the table” with MGM Grand.
Judging from the letter that was sent to Mayweather while he was incarcerated, postmarked July 24, 2012, which was exactly 4 days after it was revealed that TMT Promotions was formed, it would seem that the newly created promotional company was more of a joint venture between 50 Cent and Tommy Summers. Furthermore, given his instructions in the letter to “tear this up when you finish reading”, it should be clear that, at the very least, Tommy Small was definitely up to something.
Saying Mayweather would make $150-200 million a fight is obscure. What 50 and Smalls were promising sounded like what Don King and Bob Arum offer fighters and hope they don’t read the fine print of the contract.
Haymon and Golden Boy have been in the boxing industry for years, why 50 Cent thought he could convince Mayweather himself someone very knowledgeable in the world of boxing to leave Haymon and GB is beyond me.
They remind me of 2pac and Suge Knight’s relationship.
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