Name: J. Prince on Being Floyd Mayweather's Manager
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'J. Prince on Being Floyd Mayweather's Manager' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-19. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan Experience
When boxing came along, boxing was my first love, you know.
I got distracted by the music game because of, I mean, by boxing because of the
music game.
I always wanted to be a boxer, but it wasn't any gyms in Fifth Ward, you know.
So I always said to myself, if I ever make it, I want to build a boxing gym, a
recreation center in my hood.
And that's what I'd done.
And shortly after I'd done that, I had an opportunity to go in the gym and
start watching the amateurs.
And I just kind of fell in love with boxing all over again.
Which ultimately led me, I prayed for a champion.
Everything I tried to accomplish in life, I always exercised prayer.
It worked for me.
So I prayed for a champion.
And I set up a meeting with Mike Tyson in Las Vegas.
And I went to Las Vegas.
What year is this?
This had to be '99 or 2000.
So, you know, I knew a friend that knew Mike.
And Mike, you know, accepted the invitation because he was familiar with my
movement where Rapalite was concerned.
And I flew out there with my focus on Mike.
And man, I walked into him sparring and I was like, you know, I was on cloud
nine because I had never saw him, you know, in person sparring.
It was always at a fight.
And I walked in and he was throwing leather with another heavyweight.
And I was like starstruck.
And in the midst of watching this sparring, Floyd Mayweather came in the gym.
And Floyd, you know, I didn't know who he was.
He kept coming to me.
Yo, Jay.
Yo, Jay.
Oh, man, I know.
I know.
I know about your group.
You know, he was calling groups out.
I'm like, oh, okay.
Thanks, bro.
Thanks, bro.
I'm zeroing back in on Mike.
Boom, boom, boom.
Floyd come over again.
Yo, Jay.
Yo, Jay.
Yo, Jay.
Man, I know about this group here, man.
And Jay, if you want to do something later on, you know, this is my number.
I'll come pick you up.
I'm like, all right, brother.
Okay.
Focus on Mike.
I don't know who Floyd is, right?
Right.
So afterwards, you know, me and Mike go to his house to have the meeting that I
came to have
because my objective was to become his manager, to be on his management team.
And he and I met for an hour.
He got his ex-wife on the phone.
And, you know, I was pretty much convinced.
I was on the team after the meeting and everything took place.
And, you know, hung with him all night.
The next day, I tried to reach Mike and I couldn't reach Mike.
And I was left with Floyd.
And I asked my friend, I said, who, who number is this number right here?
He said, oh, that's Floyd Mayweather, the 130-pound champion.
So, bam, a red light went off in my head because I prayed for a champion.
Long story short, me and Floyd was in business together less than a week.
That's crazy.
I was his manager.
You didn't even know who he was?
I didn't know.
No idea.
He was pretty boy Floyd.
Yeah.
That was before Money Mayweather.
Exactly.
Yeah.
He had a totally different style back then, too.
He was much more aggressive, went for the knockout war.
Yeah.
Well, I think he used his legs a lot more then.
But if he saw the opportunity, he definitely went in for the kill.
But, you know, his whole image was different before it came about.
Well, he had a lot of hand problems, right?
Like, he's had several hand breaks.
Yeah.
Well, I don't know about a break, but I know we eventually had to get a
specialist to wrap his
hands because, you know, he would hurt him a lot.
Yeah.
And do you think that affected his style?
Because he developed a very defensive style as he got older.
I think that's a part of confidence.
I think that's a part of evolving as a fighter.
You know, in the beginning, I think Floyd used his legs much more.
But as he evolved with experience, he got comfortable, you know, with the
defense.
Shoulder roll and defense.
Yeah.
Greatest defense of all time.
Oh, man.
Of all time.
Yeah, I agree.
We had a lot of results on here yesterday.
We were talking about it.
We were like, he might have got hit hard four times in his career, which is
insane.
Yeah.
50-0 and got tagged four times, which is unthinkable.
No, he's amazing.
But his work ethic is amazing.
You know, the guy got to work.
You know, I've had opportunity to like witness a lot of fighters' work ethic.
Andre Ward's and Floyd Mayweather work ethic is unlike any fight I ever saw.
Yeah, you don't get there without it.
Exactly.
There's so many talented people.
There's so many athletic people.
There's so many fierce dudes.
But to be a champion.
Yeah.
You need everything.
You need gifts.
Yeah.
You need athletic gifts.
You need a sharp mind.
You need a passion for the technical aspects of the game.
But you got to have that ethic.
If you don't have that work ethic, you never keep it going.
You always fall short of your expectations.
And without naming any names, we all know those champions that could have been
great.
But they got fat in between camps.
And they just never trained as hard as they should have.
Yeah.
I mean, some of the all-time greats suffered from it.
Like Roberto Duran after he beat Sugar Ray Leonard.
Yeah.
And Sugar Ray knew it, capitalized on it, and forced a quick rematch when he
knew that Duran was fat.
Duran was partying and drinking.
Yeah.
A guy like Floyd Mayweather never did that.
Nah.
Never got out of shape.
Man, he would, you know, Floyd was the type of fighter that would party with
everybody.
But no drinking, no smoking.
He'd sit back and watch and observe the whole movement.
I remember watching a video of him leaving a club in Vegas.
It showed him at the club, hanging out with everybody, leaving the club at two
in the morning running.
Oh, yeah.
We used to do that all the time.
Yeah.
Regular pants on.
We would watch fights together.
And right after the fight, he was ready to run.
Yo, Jay, ain't nobody gonna catch me slipping.
The only way they can beat you is catch you out of shape.
They ain't gonna catch me slipping.
Take off running down the strip.
Yeah.
It's amazing.
And having his brother, or having his uncle Roger, and having his father, you
know, two world-class fighters, and having grown up seeing these guys, seeing
his uncle.
When Roger Mayweather was a champion.
He had a vicious style.
He was, you know, his right hand was a thing of beauty.
I mean, people forgot.
Like, I was watching some Roger Mayweather fights the other day.
And to have his father, a guy who, you know, gave Sugar Ray Leonard a hell of a
fight.
Yeah.
There's so much talent.
There's so much knowledge and understanding of boxing in that family.
To grow up with that.
And to have that mindset like Floyd has, where he's observing and watching
everything.
That dude just absorbed everything.
Oh, yeah.
And not only watching, he had to spar with Roger.
So, you talking about, you know, having to learn how to protect yourself
against the best.
Yeah.
He did.
So, you know, he had access to a lot of power and evidently, you know, there's
no doubt about it.
It benefited him in a major way.
When you met Floyd, he was the 130 pound champion.
Mm-hmm.
And did you just, you immediately started working with him?
Um, yeah, but it was a process and it was, um, it wasn't easy because I came
into a situation
where his father and his uncle was his manager and I wasn't embraced.
Oh.
You know, with, with love, you know, because they kind of felt like I was
imposing on a situation.
He had a $12 million contract on the table at the time I came in that everybody
wanted him to sign.
And, uh, Floyd called the contract a slave contract before I came, but they
blamed me for him calling the contract a slave contract.
So.
What was the provisions in the contract that he didn't like?
Well, he, he just thought 12 million wasn't enough.
You know what I mean?
And, uh, you know, ultimately I had to, uh, go in and do some damage control.
And one of the things that I told him when, you know, when I met him, I said,
if I can't make this better,
I don't want to eat off of your 12 million that already been offered to you.
So I had opportunity to have a meeting with said Abraham, you know, at the time
was the, uh, the president of HBO.
And I pretty much just asked the guy, you know, how could we get around this $12
million contract?
How can I, uh, make this a bigger contract?
And at the time he told me about the fighter named Diego Corrales.
He was like, you know, if you all would be willing to fight Diego Corrales,
then this could jump up to 35 million.
So if y'all was able to beat Diego Corrales and, uh, you know, that was
interesting to me.
You know, I went home and done some due diligence on Diego Corrales at the time.
And at that particular time, Diego had, uh, jumped on his ex wife and kind of
beat up.
He had charges, you know, uh, kind of done her pretty bad, uh, bad to the
extent where he was facing jail time.
And, and I saw that and I went back to Florida.
I say, Florida, I said, it's a perfect time to fight Diego Corrales.
I said, I even have a, a marketing tool.
We can whoop him for every battled woman in the United States of America.
Yeah.
So he heard me out, but he wasn't embracing it.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Jay.
Ain't time to do that right now.
No, no, no, no, no.
So he didn't want to fight Diego because of Diego's skillset.
Well, you know, I don't want to say Florida was scared, but at the time, you
know, everybody thought Diego could beat Florida.
He was like 30 and over 29 knockouts.
Diego was a wild man.
Yeah.
Diego was, he was a knockout artist and he just felt like it wasn't the time.
I talked to him for like four hours and couldn't convince him.
So I decided to go home and I went home about six in the morning and I woke up
about 11 in the morning with a message from him.
Yo, yo Jay, I hired you, you know, as my manager.
And, uh, if you think I should fight him, I'll fight him.
So it was then where, you know, I was celebrating.
I'm like, whoa, we finna get Diego.
So I call the people at HBO and they told me they didn't have a date.
They wouldn't have a date to next year or something like that.
And it was then I decided to use, uh, some of my record label, uh, talents.
You know, I had to be on my record company without having video without having
radio, you know, just pulling publicity stunts.
So I told Florida, I said, here's what we're going to do.
Uh, Lennox Lewis and David tour was fighting at the, at the Mandalay Bay.
I say, during the press conference, I'm hearing Diego supposed to come to that
fight.
I say, during the press conference, we're going to surround Diego.
I'm going to have the homies to surround Diego.
And I want you to come and just push him.
And, and we're going to stop the fight.
Right.
It ain't going to be no free fight, but you go and get your push in on him.
We're going to stop it.
We're going to steal the show.
That was my objective.
And, um, that came to fruition.
You know, we went and stole the show at the press conference.
That was Saturday night, Sunday.
We was on the front page of the, uh, Las Vegas time.
And, you know, Monday or Tuesday, I called them and they said, Oh, we got a
date for you.
Ah, I love that you tell me this.
Cause I always wonder, I always wonder when I see those kinds of altercations,
how many of those are coordinated by a wise man who understands publicity?
Quite a few, I would say.
Why wouldn't you?
Yeah.
Why wouldn't you?
You know, it's marketing.
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