Floyd Mayweather on Gervonta Davis Leaving Mayweather Promotions

In this clip Floyd Mayweather talks about Gervonta "Tank" Davis' desire to leave Mayweather Promotions. #gervontadavis #floydmayweather #boxing Link to Full Episode:    • Floyd Mayweather on His Plans to Buy an NB...   EYL University: https://www.eyluniversity.com Monthly Investment Deal: https://www.earnyourleisure.com/pages...

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Speaker 2 (00:43):
I don't I'm not the one two knock anyone. You know,
whatever you want to do and like, go for it.
You know, I just can't be stopped at whatever I
put my mind to do, I can do.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah. You know.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
You know when I was walking to New York as
a kid, did ever when I was young, did every
think that I was going to own a skyscraperag?

Speaker 3 (01:07):
I didn't think about it. But now I do own nine.
That's incredible.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Can you talk to us about maybe one of the
biggest lessons you've learned from Leonard lb one, you may
have taken away from Vince McMahon and then someone.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Else who's a mentor to you that's had the impact
in your career. Well, they say, well, they say you
are you are the five people that you surround yourself with.
That's who you are. Yes, So of course i'm you know,
Roy Disney is one of my friends who owns what
Disney Wild, Robert Smith, the richest Black men in America, Yes,

(01:46):
and the list, Mark Holliday from sl Green, Al Hayman,
all these guys are It's not just it's not just
the money. Yeah, you know, I many I've dealt with million,
millions and billions of dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
It's about building relationships. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Sady talk about that and he always mentioned that.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
It's all about it's not really the money because you
can make a lot of money, but if you don't
have a game plan, it's.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Gonna be you.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
You you're rich, you're not wealthy because rich is when
you got it for a short period of time.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Wealth it's long term.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
So one of the things that we've noticed, obviously you
said you were in Dubai and Abu Dhabi we saw
you there is that you're you're doing business deals like
I see the exhibition fights, but I'm like, he's just
doing that.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
But there's something bigger going on obviously. I think it's
the deals.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
And so when you're looking at what are you looking
for when deals come across to you, right, Because I'm
sure there's probably a team that says, all right, boyd
we have this.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
What are you looking forward to?

Speaker 5 (02:46):
Say?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
All right, yes, we're going with this because I mean
not skytscreen, but that's that's pretty impressive.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Man.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well, well, I don't want to be the only smart
person with my team, so I got to choose.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
It's chess.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
It's real life, real life chess out here in the world.
So I want to make sure that you know, I
got smart individuals that that's around me. That's gonna tell
me don't do that's not smart. You know, I've been
working on buying an NBA team outright. You know, there's

(03:17):
a difference between clapping up for that.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
We look.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
You know me and actually one of my other other
business partners, Brent Johnson, he's here. So we've been working
on the NBA team for a while now. You know,
it's kind of it's rough Vegas. It could be the
Vegas franchise, it could be the Seattle franchise, or I
could be buying a franchise that's already up and running.

(03:46):
So the first offer we offer them a little bit
over two billion for majority ownership.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
We got. Do I have it? Absolutely? I have it.
But clapping up for that, of course, I can kidding me.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
But it didn't happen. It didn't happen overnight. It didn't
happen overnight. It's a lot. It's a lot when you
have so many different businesses all around, all around the world.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Actually, it's a lot. It's not easy.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
I just followed out really quick because I wonder when
you walk into a business deal, right, are they respecting
you as Foyd made, whether the businessman, or are they
looking at you as Foyd made? Whether the Hall of
Fame boxer at the greatest all the time.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Exactly right? TD? What is that like for you? Well?

Speaker 2 (04:40):
I had to be I had to be somewhat intelligent
and smart to be able to make one hundred million
and three hundred million. And actually, at my age now,
I'm still going out there picking up twenty and thirty
million for fifteen minutes in twenty minutes, I'm a.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
Greater's true, So clop it up. So it's obvious.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's obvious that.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
I'm the smart one if I'm able to make the
people pay and I'm beating YouTubers.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Good point.

Speaker 6 (05:16):
So let me let me ask you this. This is
one thing that I always admired about you. I don't
think you got enough credit for it because you had.
We always see Lebron always getting credit for working with
his team all black young men. But when I look
at you and you see Al Hayman and Leonard llerv
and your circle is all black as far as on
that business side, on the boxing, like the forefront people.

(05:36):
So you were early on that and was that important
to you or you just that just kind of happened
that way.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Well, of course, I'm gonna always I'm gonna always love
my people first, always. But in business, you know, I
gotta think about my family first. I got to think
about my grandson, my daughter, my two daughters, my two sons.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
I gotta think about them first.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
So when it comes to business, it's not no, it's
not no certain color. I work with everybody. It's just
like that, But far as my team, it just ended up.
You know my team, I.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
Have a real diverse team.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
You know, we got people from all walks of life
that's on my team that I that I'm with every
day and I love my team. But when it comes
to business, I do business with everyone, honestly speaking.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Quick go ahead, A quick question for you. Talked about
using the hatest fuel and it's something that I struggle with,
but I also use it as fuel. At what point
does using negative energy become detrimental to your life or
do you think it's because we grow with childhood traumas
that makes us activate a higher gear when we hear

(06:59):
something negative towards us.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Well, they say, if you want to.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Going back and forth, and I really want to apologize
because a lot of the time I go back, and
you know, I never I was always on the internet.
I was always the reaction. I wasn't the action because
I never, like I said before, I love my people first.
I'm never gonna you know, but sometimes you can shoot
at me. You can shoot at me and I really
won't say nothing. But you know, I got to shoot back.

(07:30):
You know, I got to teach my children and my
family how to defend themselves, you know, not just in
the ring. So a lot of times when people are
people don't really like when you are.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
When you continue to be successful. You know, it's even
like a woman.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
A woman can be in your life and she's no
longer in your life, and she can think that, you know,
the grass is green. On the other side, she thinks
that you're not going to continue to be successful.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Shout out to my answers.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
You could have been here with me and Floyd's Truyn
shot but shot ob.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Why and it's and it's nothing. Networks both ways. So
I don't want to be in this room. I don't
want to be biased. It works both ways. You know
a lot of times a man like me, I've never
been with a woman. And when we went our separate ways,
I was like, oh, I don't want to see her
be successful. More power to you. That's not gonna that's
not going to change everything that I got. That's not

(08:27):
going to change my drive and my desire, uh to
be great at whatever I'm you know, to be great
at whatever investments I'm trying to do, or whatever I'm
trying to go for in life.

Speaker 6 (08:38):
How do you deal with you know, managing people because
you obviously, you know, have many weather promotions, and you know,
you set the precedent for boxes, you know, becoming their
own boss. And you have one of the greatest young
talents on your stable, Javontae Davis. But I've seen recent

(08:59):
I've seen recently that he's actually looking to leave. So
how does that relationship work? How like? How does that work?
As far as you know, grooming somebody, getting him to
a point and then having some differences.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
I've always been a gentleman. I've always been respectful, and
there's nothing like taking a kid that come from the
same background as you and helping them and put them
in a position to become a multi man.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
There. You know, you meet a kid, he just he
come up to you for autograph, You sign an autograph
for him.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Then I tell him, in a few years when you
get older, I'm gonna work with you and I'm gonna
make your world champion.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Someday.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Years later, I started working with him, helped him, pushed
them to be great. And if he feels like you know,
his wings, he's grew wings where he can fly become
his own boss.

Speaker 7 (09:54):
More power to him from your standpoint, because that's not
going to I didn't get into the sport of boxing,
you know, you know after I retired to not want
to see fighters grown.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
I wonder if I can, if he feels like he
can surpass Floyd Maywether or beat the next Floyd Mayweather.
I'm here to push you go for it.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
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