07/24/2026
Recently the Chinese sat down in Diario Chaco to talk unfiltered about his fight with Mayweather and told things that at the time never came to light.
It all started with the gloves that led to Vegas. The same ones he always trained with, and the commission approved. The problem was that Floyd didn't want them, so he says:
đŁ "We had an inconvenience with the gloves, but it was at his request." The commission accepted the gloves and he didn't want so he had to pay for me to put on other gloves. And yes he paid me. "
He says he could refuse, but he also knew what would happen if he didn't.
đŁ "If I said no, there I wouldn't fight, there wouldn't be a fight, and I would lose even more"
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And there's something else that almost no one knew. Mayweather picked him, they put 2 names on the table.
đŁ "They told me Pacquiao or Mayweather, it was one of the two." And I picked Mayweather because he hit less. I don't know whether to beat him, but don't knock me out"
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About the result you have a reading that didn't change in 12 years. I knew the cards would never favor him.
đŁ "I knew that if I didn't knock I didn't win." "It was quite even, he won by a small point, but it was knock him out to win it, it was knock him down the only way"
He retired at the age of 31, his mom, his wife and his children asked him. What he didn't calculate was what came next.
đŁ "I stayed in my house, I was doing nothing there, and it was hurting me"
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Today he travels around the country looking for kids with glue and hold, the 2 things he doesn't train, and buys bags and gloves to give out in gyms that have nothing.