Dana White Tells Floyd & Roger Mayweather Stories - JRE Throwback

Hello freak bitches. A lot of guys have broken their hands, ground and pounding on dudes, because the fucking skull is stronger than the knuckle. The reality is, and one of the things about boxing gloves is boxing gloves actually help protect your hand. And look how many guys break their hands in boxing by hitting the head. Floyd, yeah Floyd breaks his hands all the time. It's unbelievable that there isn't a lot more hand damage in MMA. Yeah it is. I mean, well there is a lot though if you really stop and think about how many guys break their hands. It's pretty extraordinary. To the point Floyd's hands were so bad it looked like he was going to have to retire at one point. Yeah, what did he want to do about that? Did he get some surgery? Yeah, he got some crazy good surgery. He's got little tiny hands. It's weird. Oh he's a tiny guy. I mean anybody who's ever met Floyd on TV, everybody looks good. He's tiny. Yeah, but he was using special gloves for a while and he was pulling his punches and just outboxing guys and pitting, patting him. You know, he was breaking his hands like crazy for a while, right? Oh speaking of that, have you seen this kid? We didn't talk about this. That experiment didn't work too well. That's a lot of work. It's interesting to see the attitude that used to exist back then in the boxing gyms. And now that people are, we're seeing this evolution in mixed martial arts where the beginning, we saw a lot of gym wars. Like that would be like a really normal occurrence in gyms where guys would just beat the fuck out of each other. You hear about fighters getting knocked out in the gym left and right and left and right. But now I think people are starting to realize like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, there's no fucking benefit in this. Like what's going on here? We're looking at a gigantic multi-multi-multi-million dollar business and this is how we're treating our commodities and our prospects. We're throwing them at each other and letting them blast each other and dudes are getting punchy way before their time. We both know gyms where guys, they get chinny way too quick. And you go, well, how's this guy, like this guy had an iron chin just three years ago. Oh, he's taking fucking gym wars. He's going through gym wars on a regular basis. That was Shoot the Box. That was the deal at Shoot the Box. And Shogun himself said like, we realize, you know, after doing that for a while, we can't do that anymore. That's how it was in boxing too though. When I was involved in boxing, some of the best fights I ever saw were in the gym. Oh, yeah. You know? Oh, hell yeah. One day I saw Livingstone Bramble and Roger Mayweather fucking go at it at a fucking gym in Vegas. Yeah. Another time at one of the gyms because we all worked together. I worked with Mayweather. I worked with Nick One Kick, Floyd when Floyd was first coming. I mean, we all worked together in these gyms, you know? And one time there was this dude, he was a heavyweight. His name was Tracy. And him and Roger Mayweather fucking got into it. Tracy was a young heavyweight, 24-year-old kid heavyweight. And Roger was fucking... 1.47? Yeah, in his forties. Jesus Christ. And Roger said like, what you say, motherfucker? The fucking game into it. Well, back and forth, I go, oh shit. Here we go. And they got in the fucking ring and started fighting, man. Whoa. Yeah, they started fucking fighting. And at the end of the round when the bell went off, Tracy tried to stop. And Roger fucking lit him up and he goes, no rounds, motherfucker. No rounds. Wow. So they just kept fighting straight fucking through until fucking Tracy quit. Oh my God. Roger fucking whooped his ass and he fucking quit. In his forties. Yeah. And then when he quit, Roger hit him another eight, nine times after he fucking quit. Oh, shit. And he was basically like, don't have a fucking mouth off to me in this gym. A 147-pound 40-year-old. Yeah. But that's the black mamba. Yep. You know, a lot of people don't know Roger. You know, a lot of people, everybody knows Floyd. But Roger, his uncle, in his time, he was a bad motherfucker. He had a piston right hand. Yep. He had a nasty jab and he would fucking slam that right hand in. He was a bad dude for many a year. I've seen some crazy shit happen in fucking boxing gyms, man. Crazy shit over the years. That's incredible. Would you ever hear about the Floyd Bayweather thing, where like when he was dealing with those rap guys, they came in and beat people up and pissed away at people and shit? Yeah. What was that all about? You remember that at one point? Yeah. I remember that. I wasn't there, so I can't, you know, this isn't like fucking eyewitness testimony, but I heard about it too. And what I heard was the dude that was managing him at the time was like a hardcore, like real dude. And he didn't just walk into a gym. I heard he walked into top rank. Yeah. Their gym. Pistol whipping people and fucking pulling out guns with Floyd and shit and kind of such, just whatever their beef was, got it straightened out.