Don King defends Floyd Mayweather Jr.

By Bettor.com • September 17, 2010

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Fresh off the Mayweather train, where he sought the fighter’s contractual rights and feasted with the many, legendary boxing promoter Don King has spoken about Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s recent arrest for larceny and domestic battery.

King made headlines last month when he treated “Money” Mayweather to some fights in St. Louis and told reporters he was bidding for the fighter. The boxing world fell like Mickey Mouse in love for the possibility that King would be able to arrange a mega-fight between Mayweather and seven-division titlist Manny Pacquiao. Even Bob Arum, who heads Top Rank, said that if anyone would be able to make the fight happen, it would be the guy with the craziest hair in boxing.

The boxing world has been anticipating a bout between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather for a long, long, long time. But things have got in the way.

Most recently Mayweather was arrested for larceny after a domestic dispute with his long time on and off girlfriend, Josie Harris. Harris called the police after the fighter allegedly stole her iPhone in a bid to check her text messages and then returned and battered her while she was sleeping on a couch. Allegedly Mayweather snapped when he learned Harris had a new lover, Chicago Bulls’ guard CJ Watson.

The police have verbal testimony from Mayweather and Harris’s son, Koraun, 10, that the undefeated boxer attacked Harris.

That’s disaster number one for Mayweather. Hardly a week before that, he uploaded a video online criticizing Manny Pacquiao and berating him with racist slurs.

Most weren’t pleased.

Don King offered his singular opinion.

He called the video rant and Mayweather’s recent arrest “frustrations of the ghetto expressing themselves,” and suggested that oppose to being jailed Mayweather needs to be educated.