7. Verbal Rumble With Ronda Rousey
Athletes going back and forth about who’s better than the other isn’t a foreign concept, yet Floyd and UFC’s Ronda Rousey’s war of words was surprising to many. Ronda ignited the feud, after she won the ESPY award for Best Fighter (beating out Floyd), when she said to the press, “I wonder how Floyd feels being beat by a woman for once. I’d like to see him pretend to not know who I am now.”
A year prior when asked what his thoughts were about Rousey, Floyd responded that he didn’t know who “he” was.
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Rousey also made other comments captured by the paparazzi when she told TMZ Sports that mathematically, she earns more money per second that he does. She also took a jab — pun intended — at his controversial lack of literacy skills by saying, “When he learns to read and write, he can text me.”
Floyd didn’t take long to bite back and prepared a statement of his own to give to TMZ. “Big bank take little bank,” Floyd said. “Let’s play and see how much money you got. Last time I checked I was No. 1 on Forbes. She will never be at my status. Keep trying to get publicity.”
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