Floyd Mayweather fir off anti-gay slur at Conor McGregor

Contents:

• FLOYD MAYWEATHER APOLOGIZ FOR G GAY SLUR TROSPECTIVE MOMENT
• LAST STOP OF MAYWEATHER-MCGREGOR MEDIA TOUR GO SIWAYS WH GAY SLUR
• FLOYD MAYWEATHER LLS CONOR MCGREGOR ANTI-GAY SLUR AS WORLD TOUR NCLUS LONDON
• FLOYD MAYWEATHER FIR OFF ANTI-GAY SLUR AT CONOR MCGREGOR AS WORLD TOUR ENDS LONDON
• FLOYD MAYWEATHER FIR OFF ANTI-GAY SLUR AT CONOR MCGREGOR AS WORLD TOUR ENDS LONDON
• LGBT ACTIVISTS NMN FLOYD MAYWEATHER'S E OF ANTI-GAY SLUR
• FLOYD MAYWEATHER IS BTI WH THIS BTAL ANTI-GAY DICTATOR
• FLOYD MAYWEATHER GAY SLUR ON CONOR MCGREGOR AS HYPE HEATS UP
• WHEN FLOYD MAYWEATHER SHOUTS ‘FAGGOT,’ THIS IS WHAT LGBT PEOPLE HEARWORD POWERBOXER FLOYD MAYWEATHER JT LLED UPG OPPONENT CONOR MCGREGOR ‘FAGGOT.’ THIS, ALONGSI RACISM, HAS TAKEN THE MEN’S PRE-BOUT BAG TO A DARK PLACE FAR BEYOND TRASH TALK.TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 9:43PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 14, 2017 8:30PM EDT OPNMATTHEW LEWIS/GETTY IMAG“FAGGOT.”FLOYD MAYWEATHER SHOUTED AT CONOR MCGREGOR TODAY, FRIDAY, LONDON. TO GIVE HIS UGLY LANY PROPER NTEXT: “PUNK. YOU FAGGOT. YOU HO.” THERE IS. LOUD. LIKE A BULLET. A KNIFE. THREATENG. I’M READY FOR THE “IT’S ONLY PRE-MATCH HYPE.” “IT’S ALL PANTOMIME.” “THIS HAPPENS EVERY BIG BOXG MATCH.” “NONE OF THEM MEAN .” “THIS IS JT BOXERS TRASH TALKG.”DON’T BOTHER. WE N ALL HEAR HOW MAYWEATHER SAYS, AND MEANS, “FAGGOT.” HE MEANS “FAGGOT” WHEN FAGGOT MEANS “GAY,” WHEN “GAY” MEANS “LS OF A MAN THAN ME” WHO SHOULD BE SRED OF ME WHEN I SHOUT “FAGGOT” AT HIM, AND KNOW HIS LOWER, DISGTG PLACE. THE ULTIMATE, -MASCULIZG SULT.THAT KD OF “FAGGOT.”I SUPPOSE UNTS AS IRONY THAT THIS SULT WAS FLUNG AS PART OF THE WHACKED-OUT CIRC OF TWO APPARENTLY STRAIGHT MEN TOURG THE WORLD RIDICULO OUTFS, SCREAMG AT EACH OTHER MENTED SULTS TO PROMOTE A BOXG MATCH ON AUG. 26 LAS VEGAS TO MAKE THEM LOTS OF MONEY. AS ROBERT SILVERMAN WROTE THE DAILY BEAST: “WHY DID ALL THE PARTI VOLVED AGREE TO GO AHEAD WH WHAT’S SURE TO BE A GRIM, FLABBY SPECTACLE? THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE AND, WELL, NOT THAT SIMPLE: MONEY.”MAYWEATHER SAID “FAGGOT” JT THE WAY GAY MEN, AND MEN ASSUMED TO BE GAY, HAVE HEARD “FAGGOT” SHOUTED, SAID, WHISPERED, SPAT AT THEM FOR CENTURI.MAYBE ’S GOOD TO HEAR AGA, JT SO EVERYONE N HEAR S UGLS, REMEMBER S UGLS, AND REMEMBER WHAT THAT UGLS STANDS FOR.MAYWEATHER’S EASE AT SAYG ON A WORLD STAGE, ONT OF HUNDREDS OF MERAS AND NOW VIEWED BY THOANDS, HOWEVER, BRGS S OWN SANCTN, PECIALLY THIS ERA WHEN LGBTQ PEOPLE ARE G UNR GREATER ATTACK. ATTACKS LAW, AND ATTACKS VIEWED BY LNS AS PART OF A BOXG PROMOTN, DO TWO THGS. THEY BRG OUT LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO SAY HOW BAD IS TO SAY THIS KD OF STUFF WHICH IS ALL VERY NICE, BUT THEY ALSO MAKE THE SAYG AND DOG OF BAD THGS, LIKE SHOUTG “FAGGOT” AT PEOPLE, AND THKG THAT IS OK, THAT MUCH MORE STANDARD. YOU MIGHT LL THE GENIE-OUT-OF-THE-BOTTLE PRCIPLE.IF THIS ALL SOUNDS A LTLE DRAMATIC, AND YOU’VE NEVER BEEN LLED A “FAGGOT,” HERE’S A PRIMER. YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN ’S G. YOU MIGHT BE AT SCHOOL. YOU MIGHT BE A RTROOM. YOU MIGHT BE GOG TO LUNCH. YOU MIGHT BE LEAVG A BAR OR CLUB. YOU MAY BE WH IENDS. YOU MAY BE ON A B OR TRA. AT NIGHT. DURG THE DAY. BUT EVERY TIME SCYTH THE AIR. AND YOU THK: REALLY? NOW? YOU MAY NOT BE OUT AS GAY, YOU MAY BE G OUT. YOU MAY NOT EVEN BE GAY.BUT THE THREAT IS SUDNLY THERE. THIS ISN’T “FAGGOT” AS GAYS RECLAIMED , THIS IS “FAGGOT” AS THE BIGOTS WH THEIR FISTS, GUNS, WEAPONS, AND WHATEVER ELSE THEY HAVE TO JURE AND GRA GAY PEOPLE TEND TO BE HEARD. AS AN ATTACK ON YOU AS A MAN, THEIR IA OF WHAT A MAN IS, WHICH ISN’T GAY.AND, IRONILLY AS MAYWEATHER SAID THIS AS A PRELU TO BEATG ANOTHER MAN UP, OFTEN WH THE THREAT OF A FIST OR WORSE. “FAGGOT” N BE THE LAST THG YOU HEAR BEFORE YOU ARE JURED OR WORSE. ANTI-GAY BULLYG AT SCHOOL, ANTI-GAY VLENCE ON THE STREET, HOMOPHOBIC MURRS, HOMOPHOBIC LAWS, THE IA OF GAY MEN AS LSER MEN: THEY ALL HAVE “FAGGOT” LIKE A MAGGOT AT THEIR CENTER. HELL, THE WORD N EVEN BE RVED TO BOTH YOUR ARMS—“DIE FAG” TO BE PRECISE—BY YOUR ATTACKERS. PERHAPS MAYWEATHER THKS THAT SOUNDS PRETTY OL.MAYWEATHER’S “FAGGOT” ALSO EMERGED AS PART OF A BIZARRELY, OVERLY EXECUTED PARA OF ANGER AND AGGRSN BETWEEN THE TWO MEN.ALL WEEK MAYWEATHER AND MCGREGOR HAVE BEEN VOLVED A SPECTACULARLY BASG SCRAMBLE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL WHEN TO PRE-BOUT BAG, WH HOMOPHOBIA AND RACISM BEG FLUNG AS RELSLY AS MUD ON A RAY DAY.FOR MORI WHO FEAR THAT BOTH THOSE UGLY PHENOMENA ARE NOW RETURNG TO THE PUBLIC AND POLIL ARENA EVER MORE ALARMG WAYS, HERE WERE TWO GROWN MEN WILLG TO PROVE THE NAME OF PUBLICY, AND TO LE THEIR WALLETS. ONE HOP THE HATRED THEY SPOUT, AND ENURAGE AMONG THE PUBLIC, IS WORTH .IN THE AMERIN ARM OF THIS PAIR’S PUBLICY TOUR, MCGREGOR HAD SCRIBED THE BLACK BOXERS APOLLO CREED’S GYM ROCKY III AS “DANCG MONKEYS.”MAYWEATHER RPOND: “I DON’T LIKE THE FACT THAT HE LLED BLACKS ‘MONKEYS.’ I THK THAT’S TOTALLY DISRPECTFUL. SAYG A LOT OF RACIST THGS TODAY TO BLACK WOMEN, I HAVE TWO BLACK DGHTERS AND A BLACK MOTHER… HE’S CROSSG THE LE, I N’T FOC ON THAT RIGHT NOW. I’M HERE TO DO A JOB AND MY JOB IS TO GO OUT THERE AND ENTERTA BUT HE’S OUT THERE LOSG A LOT OF FANS.”MCGREGOR THEN FEND HIMSELF, “LET’S ADDRS THE RACE,” HE SAID. “A LOT OF MEDIA SEEM TO BE SAYG I’M AGAST BLACK PEOPLE. THAT’S ABSOLUTELY FUCKG RIDICULO. DO THEY NOT KNOW I’M HALF-BLACK? YEAH. I’M HALF-BLACK OM THE BELLY BUTTON DOWN.”WAY TO GO. COUNTER A RACISM CHARGE WH SOMETHG EVEN MORE RACIST.CAN’T THEY JT PUNCH THE LIVG HELL OUT OF EACH OTHER, PICK UP THEIR SANELY LARGE PAYCHECKS, AND BE DONE WH ?MCGREGOR THEN TRIED TO SAVE FACE AT A SUBSEQUENT TERVIEW. “THAT DON’T REALLY S WELL WH ME,” HE SAID OF THE CHARGE OF RACISM. “I’M VERY MULTI-CULTURED, AND I DON’T HAVE ANY ILL-FEELGS TOWARDS ANYBODY. I DON’T EVEN SEE LOR. I JT WANTED TO SAY SOMETHG AND HAVE A LTLE B OF FUN WH . I JT WANTED TO PLAY WH AND ADDRS MY OWN LTLE WAY. IT’S STUPID AND RIDICULO. BASILLY THAT’S WHAT I WAS GETTG AT.”WILL MAYWEATHER OFFER ANY KD OF APOLOGY OR MEA CULPA FOR “FAGGOT”? DOUBTFUL. HIS FATHER, FLOYD MAYWEATHER SR. LOV THE WORD “FAGGOT.” HE ONCE LLED MANNY PACQUIAO “ONE OF THE BIGGT FAGGOTS ON THE PLA.” AMIR KHAN, HE TOLD AN TERVIEWER, WAS A “FAG ASS AND SISSY,” WHO DIDN’T SERVE TO BENEF OM A PAYDAY FOLLOWG A FIGHT WH HIS SON BEE “HE’S A FAG.”PACQUIAO HIMSELF, NOT TO BE OUTDONE BY MAYWEATHER SR., LLED GAY PEOPLE “WORSE THAN ANIMALS.” HE IS NOW A SENATOR THE PHILIPP.MAYWEATHER JR.’S WORDS TODAY SOUND UGLY BEE 2017, “FAGGOT”—SAID WH THE SPIBLE VENOM MAYWEATHER SAID WH—WE THOUGHT WAS AS VERBOTEN ON OUR TV SCREENS AS THE N-WORD RIGHTLY IS. APPARENTLY NOT. MASTREAM BOXG HAS A LONG AND GLOR RELATNSHIP WH NOT JT THE F-WORD BUT HOMOSEXUALY GENERAL. THE WORLD WELTER- AND MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPN EE GRIFFH ACCINTALLY KILLED AN OPPONENT, BENNY PARET, 1962 DURG A BOUT—THIS AFTER PARET HAD CENSED HIM AT THE WEIGH- BY LLG HIM A “MARICóN,” SPANISH SLANG FOR “FAGGOT.” LENNOX LEWIS NIED HE WAS GAY, SPE MORS TO THE NTRARY, CLAIMG HE WAS A “WOMAN’S MAN” A TV NONTATN WH HASIM RAHMAN 2001. IN 2015, HEAVYWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPN TYSON FURY’S HOMOPHOBIA ME ACPANIED BY BIBLE VERS, AND STCTNS TO “BELIEVE THE LORD J CHRIST AND YOU WILL BE SAVED.”ONE OF THE MOST ASTONISHG TIRAS—FOR S MIXG OF VLENCE, RACE, SEX, POWER, HOMOPHOBIA, AND LYRIL POETRY—WAS MIKE TYSON’S AGAST A REPORTER, WHO 2002 SAID TYSON SHOULD BE A STRAJACKET. “I’LL PUT YOUR MOTHER A STRAJACKET, YOU PUNK-ASS WHE BOY. COME HERE AND TELL ME THAT, AND I’LL FUCK YOU YOUR ASS, YOU PUNK WHE BOY, YOU FAGGOT... I’LL EAT YOUR ASSHOLE ALIVE, YOU BCH... YOU SRED, WARD, YOU’RE NOT MAN ENOUGH TO FUCK WH ME, YOU N’T LAST TWO MUT MY WORLD, BCH. LOOK AT YOU, SRED NOW, YOU HO. SRED LIKE A LTLE WHE PSY, SRED OF THE REAL MAN. I’LL FUCK YOU TILL YOU LOVE ME, FAGGOT.”THERE IS, YOU MIGHT SAY, QUE A LOT GOG ON THERE—AND ALL OF THE TOXIC MASCULY THAT BOXG EELY ENURAG IS WRAPPED UP .TYSON, LIKE MAYWEATHER JR., HAS A HISTORY OF DOMTIC VLENCE. IN BOXG, SEEMS, MASCULY—OF THE MOST HYPER-AGGRSIVE KD—MT BE AVERRED AT ALL TIM OUT OF THE RG AS WELL AS .AND YET BOXG HAS S OWN STRANGE MP TO . IT IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MAYWEATHER AND MCGREGOR TO SNARL AT EACH OTHER TIGHT BRIEFS AT A WEIGH-, THEIR GRO BULG NEARLY TOUCHG, FLEXG, AND POSG. THE ONLY THG TO DO SUCH AN OVERTLY HOMOEROTIC SUATN TO ASSERT YOUR RAMPANT HETEROSEXUALY IS TO SCREAM THAT THE OTHER GUY’S A FAGGOT. OR H HIM. OR TURN AWAY AND FLEX. OR WHAT? YOU MIGHT JT DO THE MOST NATURAL THG THE SURREAL CIRCUMSTANCE AND KISS HIM, OR GRAB A HANDFUL. OR ENQUIRE HOW HE GOT HIS AMAZG LTS. INSTEAD, MAYWEATHER AND MCGREGOR, THE BIG, BUTCH MEN, MT BE MEAN TO EACH OTHER FOR MONTHS NFECTED THEATRIL SUATNS BEFORE ACTUALLY HTG ONE ANOTHER. EVEN THE MOST DITED MEAN GIRL WOULD NOT HAVE THE ENERGY FOR THIS. WH THIS MENTED ARENA OF AGGRSN AND DOLLARS, MAYWEATHER AND MCGREGOR HAVE SHOWN THEMSELV THIS WEEK TO BE THE WORST KD OF MEN, THE MOST PATHETIC, THE LEAST MANLY, THE LEAST ADMIRABLE, AND THE WORST POSSIBLE EXAMPL TO YOUNG PEOPLE. FOR ALL THEIR MCL AND MENACE, THEIR SULTS BASED ON SK LOR AND SEXUALY SHOW HOW WEAK THEY ARE.WELL, IF PAYS THEIR BILLS AND MAK THEM FEEL BADASS—FE. BUT THEY SHOULD KNOW THAT THEY ARE WEAKER THAN ANY GAY MAN OR BLACK PERSON THEY HAVE VOKED AND SULTED. WE HAVE HAD REAL FISTS AND REAL SULTS THROWN AND JABBED OUR FAC, AND WE KNOW THAT WHILE RACISTS AND HOMOPHOB ARE VILE AND SOMETIM TERRIFYG THEY ARE ALSO LS THAN NOTHG. WE KNOW THEIR WEAKNS AS SOON AS WE HEAR THEM SAY “FAGGOT.”THERE IS ALSO THE EXAMPLE OF ORLANDO CZ, THE FIRST PROFSNAL BOXER TO E OUT AS GAY 2012, WHO TOLD DER SPIEGEL OF WHAT HE WOULD HE WOULD SAY TO AN OPPONENT WHO LLED HIM THE F-WORD: “WHAT? YOU LL ME A FAGGOT? OKAY, IF YOU LIKE. BUT YOU’D BETTER WATCH OUT, BEE I’M THE FAGGOT WHO’S GOG TO KICK YOUR ASS.”YOU MIGHT ARGUE THAT ANSWERG VLENCE WH VLENCE IS NEVER THE ANSWER—THOUGH YOU MIGHT ALSO ARGUE THAT THE MORONIC HOMOPHOB BOXG, SO LONG LEFT TO SPEW THEIR PREJUDICE WH IMPUNY, REALLY HAVE G. TIM TEEMAN
• FLOYD MAYWEATHER GAY SLUR AFTER ADVISG CONOR MCGREGOR TO RPECT PEOPLE
• MAYWEATHER SAYS HE SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE

FLOYD MAYWEATHER APOLOGIZ FOR G GAY SLUR TROSPECTIVE MOMENT

Floyd Mayweather is fendg himself after hurlg an anti-gay slur at an opponent ont of 10, 000 fans at London’s Wembley Arena. The ter, however, seemed to be most irked by the July 14 cint, wh many Twter ers accg Mayweather of beg a homophobe. “Floyd has nothg agast gays or lbians at all...

Floyd has nothg but the utmost rpect for gays and lbians. Before You GoHomophobic Tweets By CelebsPopular the CommunyYou May Like. He’s learned om them, he sists, and striv to be the cuff, he apologized for g a gay slur durg the prs tour that kicked off the promotn of the fight wh McGregor, and he spoke of how he was bothered by what he perceived were racist remarks g om McGregor.

LAST STOP OF MAYWEATHER-MCGREGOR MEDIA TOUR GO SIWAYS WH GAY SLUR

“In the prs tour when I said somethg toward lbians or gays when I said somethg toward him.

But rather than go out wh a bang, end wh more started out as a relatively tame London nference parison to the prev stops was railed wh one poor judgement by Mayweather jt a day after McGregor’s New York sympathy that Floyd Mayweather may have gaed after Conor McGregor’s poorly handled ments on race went right out the wdow when Mayweather cid to drop the bar even lower wh an anti-gay slur aimed at his Aug. ”Wh all the homophobic, racist, and misogynistic one-lers that you n thk of domatg this media tour, ’s probably a good thg that this is fally om Yahoo Sports: • Tim Brown: No wners om Pablo Sandoval’s time Boston • How Aaron Judge proved NASA wrong at the HR Derby • Why the Warrrs rejected a Pl Gee blockbter. Mayweather ed an anti-gay slur durg a rant agast McGregor, UFC's lightweight Friday's prs nference, McGregor explaed that he felt the e of the slur was no big al.

"Athlete Ally strongly nmns the homophobic slur ed by Floyd Mayweather, " Hudson Taylor, executive director of the LGBT group Athlete Ally, said an email.

FLOYD MAYWEATHER LLS CONOR MCGREGOR ANTI-GAY SLUR AS WORLD TOUR NCLUS LONDON

"Rortg to homophobic and racial ephets is shameful no matter how or why one them.

"They are dog a disservice to not jt their gay fans, but all their fans. You don't acplish anythg by g anti-gay or racist language.

”MORE:Conor McGregor don't see why Floyd Mayweather hurlg anti-gay slur at him is a big alConor McGregor: I won world tour over Floyd Mayweather ' a whewash'The crowd turned once Mayweather took over. Mayweather ed a homophobic slur to scribe the UFC lightweight champn another expletive-filled affair, wh both fighters leang heavily on misogynistic language to pump up the McGregor-iendly crowd a boxg rg set up at Wembley Arena.

FLOYD MAYWEATHER FIR OFF ANTI-GAY SLUR AT CONOR MCGREGOR AS WORLD TOUR ENDS LONDON

Now ’s Mayweather tchg heat after g an anti-gay slur to sult McGregor durg Friday’s stop London. "Athlete Ally strongly nmns the homophobic slur ed by Floyd Mayweather, " Hudson Taylor, executive director of the LGBT group Athlete Ally, said a statement.

Later, Jason Lee talked about his abily to mata iendships wh straight men, unlike many gay men. Floyd Mayweather jt doubled down on his long history of homophobic actns.

FLOYD MAYWEATHER FIR OFF ANTI-GAY SLUR AT CONOR MCGREGOR AS WORLD TOUR ENDS LONDON

Kadyrov has repeatedly said gay people don’t exist his untry, and if they do they mt leave. “This is my buddy, ” Mayweather said a vio while enuragg people to follow the vrlic homophobe on social media. Mayweather has a long history of public homophobia himself.

In 2010 he went on a racist, homophobic rant about Manny Pacquiao. Earlier this year he lled Connor McGregor the gay slur.

LGBT ACTIVISTS NMN FLOYD MAYWEATHER'S E OF ANTI-GAY SLUR

Now he embrac a man who at the very least has told all gay people to get out of his untry, and at the worst has (allegedly) enuraged the torture and murr of gay men an orchtrated attempt to purge his untry of homosexualy.

Jt one example of this evil dictator’s anti-gay rampage was the report of one victim’s pleadg for a human-rights vtigatn:. At a prs nference Mosw on Monday, he said he was held a basement for 12 days March and beaten by Chechen secury forc, who mand to know whether he was gay and for him to give the nam of his sexual partners. Mayweather has prevly said he supports the right of gay people to marry.

FLOYD MAYWEATHER IS BTI WH THIS BTAL ANTI-GAY DICTATOR

“I stand behd Print Obama & support gay marriage, ” he tweeted 2012.

09amLondon: Floyd Mayweather has land himself trouble London for g a gay slur agast Ireland's UFC lightweight champn Conor a tira livered at Wembley Arena, Mayweather publicly and aggrsively lled McGregor "a faggot" durg the last of their four-day fal public showdowns, ahead of their Augt 26 bout Las Vegas. Courtg ntroversy: Mayweather has been slammed for g a gay slur about McGregor, while McGregor has prevly ed a racial slur an earlier prs Matthew Lewis"McGregor is the younger man.

” He means “faggot” when faggot means “gay, ” when “gay” means “ls of a man than me” who should be sred of me when I shout “faggot” at him, and know his lower, disgtg place.

FLOYD MAYWEATHER GAY SLUR ON CONOR MCGREGOR AS HYPE HEATS UP

”Mayweather said “faggot” jt the way gay men, and men assumed to be gay, have heard “faggot” shouted, said, whispered, spat at them for ’s good to hear aga, jt so everyone n hear s ugls, remember s ugls, and remember what that ugls stands for. You may not be out as gay, you may be g out. This isn’t “faggot” as gays reclaimed , this is “faggot” as the bigots wh their fists, guns, weapons, and whatever else they have to jure and gra gay people tend to be heard.

Anti-gay bullyg at school, anti-gay vlence on the street, homophobic murrs, homophobic laws, the ia of gay men as lser men: They all have “faggot” like a maggot at their center.

Mayweather’s “faggot” also emerged as part of a bizarrely, overly executed para of anger and aggrsn between the two week Mayweather and McGregor have been volved a spectacularly basg scramble to the bottom of the barrel when to pre-bout bag, wh homophobia and racism beg flung as relsly as mud on a ray mori who fear that both those ugly phenomena are now returng to the public and polil arena ever more alarmg ways, here were two grown men willg to prove the name of publicy, and to le their wallets.

WHEN FLOYD MAYWEATHER SHOUTS ‘FAGGOT,’ THIS IS WHAT LGBT PEOPLE HEARWORD POWERBOXER FLOYD MAYWEATHER JT LLED UPG OPPONENT CONOR MCGREGOR ‘FAGGOT.’ THIS, ALONGSI RACISM, HAS TAKEN THE MEN’S PRE-BOUT BAG TO A DARK PLACE FAR BEYOND TRASH TALK.TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 9:43PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 14, 2017 8:30PM EDT OPNMATTHEW LEWIS/GETTY IMAG“FAGGOT.”FLOYD MAYWEATHER SHOUTED AT CONOR MCGREGOR TODAY, FRIDAY, LONDON. TO GIVE HIS UGLY LANY PROPER NTEXT: “PUNK. YOU FAGGOT. YOU HO.” THERE IS. LOUD. LIKE A BULLET. A KNIFE. THREATENG. I’M READY FOR THE “IT’S ONLY PRE-MATCH HYPE.” “IT’S ALL PANTOMIME.” “THIS HAPPENS EVERY BIG BOXG MATCH.” “NONE OF THEM MEAN .” “THIS IS JT BOXERS TRASH TALKG.”DON’T BOTHER. WE N ALL HEAR HOW MAYWEATHER SAYS, AND MEANS, “FAGGOT.” HE MEANS “FAGGOT” WHEN FAGGOT MEANS “GAY,” WHEN “GAY” MEANS “LS OF A MAN THAN ME” WHO SHOULD BE SRED OF ME WHEN I SHOUT “FAGGOT” AT HIM, AND KNOW HIS LOWER, DISGTG PLACE. THE ULTIMATE, -MASCULIZG SULT.THAT KD OF “FAGGOT.”I SUPPOSE UNTS AS IRONY THAT THIS SULT WAS FLUNG AS PART OF THE WHACKED-OUT CIRC OF TWO APPARENTLY STRAIGHT MEN TOURG THE WORLD RIDICULO OUTFS, SCREAMG AT EACH OTHER MENTED SULTS TO PROMOTE A BOXG MATCH ON AUG. 26 LAS VEGAS TO MAKE THEM LOTS OF MONEY. AS ROBERT SILVERMAN WROTE THE DAILY BEAST: “WHY DID ALL THE PARTI VOLVED AGREE TO GO AHEAD WH WHAT’S SURE TO BE A GRIM, FLABBY SPECTACLE? THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE AND, WELL, NOT THAT SIMPLE: MONEY.”MAYWEATHER SAID “FAGGOT” JT THE WAY GAY MEN, AND MEN ASSUMED TO BE GAY, HAVE HEARD “FAGGOT” SHOUTED, SAID, WHISPERED, SPAT AT THEM FOR CENTURI.MAYBE ’S GOOD TO HEAR AGA, JT SO EVERYONE N HEAR S UGLS, REMEMBER S UGLS, AND REMEMBER WHAT THAT UGLS STANDS FOR.MAYWEATHER’S EASE AT SAYG ON A WORLD STAGE, ONT OF HUNDREDS OF MERAS AND NOW VIEWED BY THOANDS, HOWEVER, BRGS S OWN SANCTN, PECIALLY THIS ERA WHEN LGBTQ PEOPLE ARE G UNR GREATER ATTACK. ATTACKS LAW, AND ATTACKS VIEWED BY LNS AS PART OF A BOXG PROMOTN, DO TWO THGS. THEY BRG OUT LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO SAY HOW BAD IS TO SAY THIS KD OF STUFF WHICH IS ALL VERY NICE, BUT THEY ALSO MAKE THE SAYG AND DOG OF BAD THGS, LIKE SHOUTG “FAGGOT” AT PEOPLE, AND THKG THAT IS OK, THAT MUCH MORE STANDARD. YOU MIGHT LL THE GENIE-OUT-OF-THE-BOTTLE PRCIPLE.IF THIS ALL SOUNDS A LTLE DRAMATIC, AND YOU’VE NEVER BEEN LLED A “FAGGOT,” HERE’S A PRIMER. YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN ’S G. YOU MIGHT BE AT SCHOOL. YOU MIGHT BE A RTROOM. YOU MIGHT BE GOG TO LUNCH. YOU MIGHT BE LEAVG A BAR OR CLUB. YOU MAY BE WH IENDS. YOU MAY BE ON A B OR TRA. AT NIGHT. DURG THE DAY. BUT EVERY TIME SCYTH THE AIR. AND YOU THK: REALLY? NOW? YOU MAY NOT BE OUT AS GAY, YOU MAY BE G OUT. YOU MAY NOT EVEN BE GAY.BUT THE THREAT IS SUDNLY THERE. THIS ISN’T “FAGGOT” AS GAYS RECLAIMED , THIS IS “FAGGOT” AS THE BIGOTS WH THEIR FISTS, GUNS, WEAPONS, AND WHATEVER ELSE THEY HAVE TO JURE AND GRA GAY PEOPLE TEND TO BE HEARD. AS AN ATTACK ON YOU AS A MAN, THEIR IA OF WHAT A MAN IS, WHICH ISN’T GAY.AND, IRONILLY AS MAYWEATHER SAID THIS AS A PRELU TO BEATG ANOTHER MAN UP, OFTEN WH THE THREAT OF A FIST OR WORSE. “FAGGOT” N BE THE LAST THG YOU HEAR BEFORE YOU ARE JURED OR WORSE. ANTI-GAY BULLYG AT SCHOOL, ANTI-GAY VLENCE ON THE STREET, HOMOPHOBIC MURRS, HOMOPHOBIC LAWS, THE IA OF GAY MEN AS LSER MEN: THEY ALL HAVE “FAGGOT” LIKE A MAGGOT AT THEIR CENTER. HELL, THE WORD N EVEN BE RVED TO BOTH YOUR ARMS—“DIE FAG” TO BE PRECISE—BY YOUR ATTACKERS. PERHAPS MAYWEATHER THKS THAT SOUNDS PRETTY OL.MAYWEATHER’S “FAGGOT” ALSO EMERGED AS PART OF A BIZARRELY, OVERLY EXECUTED PARA OF ANGER AND AGGRSN BETWEEN THE TWO MEN.ALL WEEK MAYWEATHER AND MCGREGOR HAVE BEEN VOLVED A SPECTACULARLY BASG SCRAMBLE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL WHEN TO PRE-BOUT BAG, WH HOMOPHOBIA AND RACISM BEG FLUNG AS RELSLY AS MUD ON A RAY DAY.FOR MORI WHO FEAR THAT BOTH THOSE UGLY PHENOMENA ARE NOW RETURNG TO THE PUBLIC AND POLIL ARENA EVER MORE ALARMG WAYS, HERE WERE TWO GROWN MEN WILLG TO PROVE THE NAME OF PUBLICY, AND TO LE THEIR WALLETS. ONE HOP THE HATRED THEY SPOUT, AND ENURAGE AMONG THE PUBLIC, IS WORTH .IN THE AMERIN ARM OF THIS PAIR’S PUBLICY TOUR, MCGREGOR HAD SCRIBED THE BLACK BOXERS APOLLO CREED’S GYM ROCKY III AS “DANCG MONKEYS.”MAYWEATHER RPOND: “I DON’T LIKE THE FACT THAT HE LLED BLACKS ‘MONKEYS.’ I THK THAT’S TOTALLY DISRPECTFUL. SAYG A LOT OF RACIST THGS TODAY TO BLACK WOMEN, I HAVE TWO BLACK DGHTERS AND A BLACK MOTHER… HE’S CROSSG THE LE, I N’T FOC ON THAT RIGHT NOW. I’M HERE TO DO A JOB AND MY JOB IS TO GO OUT THERE AND ENTERTA BUT HE’S OUT THERE LOSG A LOT OF FANS.”MCGREGOR THEN FEND HIMSELF, “LET’S ADDRS THE RACE,” HE SAID. “A LOT OF MEDIA SEEM TO BE SAYG I’M AGAST BLACK PEOPLE. THAT’S ABSOLUTELY FUCKG RIDICULO. DO THEY NOT KNOW I’M HALF-BLACK? YEAH. I’M HALF-BLACK OM THE BELLY BUTTON DOWN.”WAY TO GO. COUNTER A RACISM CHARGE WH SOMETHG EVEN MORE RACIST.CAN’T THEY JT PUNCH THE LIVG HELL OUT OF EACH OTHER, PICK UP THEIR SANELY LARGE PAYCHECKS, AND BE DONE WH ?MCGREGOR THEN TRIED TO SAVE FACE AT A SUBSEQUENT TERVIEW. “THAT DON’T REALLY S WELL WH ME,” HE SAID OF THE CHARGE OF RACISM. “I’M VERY MULTI-CULTURED, AND I DON’T HAVE ANY ILL-FEELGS TOWARDS ANYBODY. I DON’T EVEN SEE LOR. I JT WANTED TO SAY SOMETHG AND HAVE A LTLE B OF FUN WH . I JT WANTED TO PLAY WH AND ADDRS MY OWN LTLE WAY. IT’S STUPID AND RIDICULO. BASILLY THAT’S WHAT I WAS GETTG AT.”WILL MAYWEATHER OFFER ANY KD OF APOLOGY OR MEA CULPA FOR “FAGGOT”? DOUBTFUL. HIS FATHER, FLOYD MAYWEATHER SR. LOV THE WORD “FAGGOT.” HE ONCE LLED MANNY PACQUIAO “ONE OF THE BIGGT FAGGOTS ON THE PLA.” AMIR KHAN, HE TOLD AN TERVIEWER, WAS A “FAG ASS AND SISSY,” WHO DIDN’T SERVE TO BENEF OM A PAYDAY FOLLOWG A FIGHT WH HIS SON BEE “HE’S A FAG.”PACQUIAO HIMSELF, NOT TO BE OUTDONE BY MAYWEATHER SR., LLED GAY PEOPLE “WORSE THAN ANIMALS.” HE IS NOW A SENATOR THE PHILIPP.MAYWEATHER JR.’S WORDS TODAY SOUND UGLY BEE 2017, “FAGGOT”—SAID WH THE SPIBLE VENOM MAYWEATHER SAID WH—WE THOUGHT WAS AS VERBOTEN ON OUR TV SCREENS AS THE N-WORD RIGHTLY IS. APPARENTLY NOT. MASTREAM BOXG HAS A LONG AND GLOR RELATNSHIP WH NOT JT THE F-WORD BUT HOMOSEXUALY GENERAL. THE WORLD WELTER- AND MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPN EE GRIFFH ACCINTALLY KILLED AN OPPONENT, BENNY PARET, 1962 DURG A BOUT—THIS AFTER PARET HAD CENSED HIM AT THE WEIGH- BY LLG HIM A “MARICóN,” SPANISH SLANG FOR “FAGGOT.” LENNOX LEWIS NIED HE WAS GAY, SPE MORS TO THE NTRARY, CLAIMG HE WAS A “WOMAN’S MAN” A TV NONTATN WH HASIM RAHMAN 2001. IN 2015, HEAVYWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPN TYSON FURY’S HOMOPHOBIA ME ACPANIED BY BIBLE VERS, AND STCTNS TO “BELIEVE THE LORD J CHRIST AND YOU WILL BE SAVED.”ONE OF THE MOST ASTONISHG TIRAS—FOR S MIXG OF VLENCE, RACE, SEX, POWER, HOMOPHOBIA, AND LYRIL POETRY—WAS MIKE TYSON’S AGAST A REPORTER, WHO 2002 SAID TYSON SHOULD BE A STRAJACKET. “I’LL PUT YOUR MOTHER A STRAJACKET, YOU PUNK-ASS WHE BOY. COME HERE AND TELL ME THAT, AND I’LL FUCK YOU YOUR ASS, YOU PUNK WHE BOY, YOU FAGGOT... I’LL EAT YOUR ASSHOLE ALIVE, YOU BCH... YOU SRED, WARD, YOU’RE NOT MAN ENOUGH TO FUCK WH ME, YOU N’T LAST TWO MUT MY WORLD, BCH. LOOK AT YOU, SRED NOW, YOU HO. SRED LIKE A LTLE WHE PSY, SRED OF THE REAL MAN. I’LL FUCK YOU TILL YOU LOVE ME, FAGGOT.”THERE IS, YOU MIGHT SAY, QUE A LOT GOG ON THERE—AND ALL OF THE TOXIC MASCULY THAT BOXG EELY ENURAG IS WRAPPED UP .TYSON, LIKE MAYWEATHER JR., HAS A HISTORY OF DOMTIC VLENCE. IN BOXG, SEEMS, MASCULY—OF THE MOST HYPER-AGGRSIVE KD—MT BE AVERRED AT ALL TIM OUT OF THE RG AS WELL AS .AND YET BOXG HAS S OWN STRANGE MP TO . IT IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MAYWEATHER AND MCGREGOR TO SNARL AT EACH OTHER TIGHT BRIEFS AT A WEIGH-, THEIR GRO BULG NEARLY TOUCHG, FLEXG, AND POSG. THE ONLY THG TO DO SUCH AN OVERTLY HOMOEROTIC SUATN TO ASSERT YOUR RAMPANT HETEROSEXUALY IS TO SCREAM THAT THE OTHER GUY’S A FAGGOT. OR H HIM. OR TURN AWAY AND FLEX. OR WHAT? YOU MIGHT JT DO THE MOST NATURAL THG THE SURREAL CIRCUMSTANCE AND KISS HIM, OR GRAB A HANDFUL. OR ENQUIRE HOW HE GOT HIS AMAZG LTS. INSTEAD, MAYWEATHER AND MCGREGOR, THE BIG, BUTCH MEN, MT BE MEAN TO EACH OTHER FOR MONTHS NFECTED THEATRIL SUATNS BEFORE ACTUALLY HTG ONE ANOTHER. EVEN THE MOST DITED MEAN GIRL WOULD NOT HAVE THE ENERGY FOR THIS. WH THIS MENTED ARENA OF AGGRSN AND DOLLARS, MAYWEATHER AND MCGREGOR HAVE SHOWN THEMSELV THIS WEEK TO BE THE WORST KD OF MEN, THE MOST PATHETIC, THE LEAST MANLY, THE LEAST ADMIRABLE, AND THE WORST POSSIBLE EXAMPL TO YOUNG PEOPLE. FOR ALL THEIR MCL AND MENACE, THEIR SULTS BASED ON SK LOR AND SEXUALY SHOW HOW WEAK THEY ARE.WELL, IF PAYS THEIR BILLS AND MAK THEM FEEL BADASS—FE. BUT THEY SHOULD KNOW THAT THEY ARE WEAKER THAN ANY GAY MAN OR BLACK PERSON THEY HAVE VOKED AND SULTED. WE HAVE HAD REAL FISTS AND REAL SULTS THROWN AND JABBED OUR FAC, AND WE KNOW THAT WHILE RACISTS AND HOMOPHOB ARE VILE AND SOMETIM TERRIFYG THEY ARE ALSO LS THAN NOTHG. WE KNOW THEIR WEAKNS AS SOON AS WE HEAR THEM SAY “FAGGOT.”THERE IS ALSO THE EXAMPLE OF ORLANDO CZ, THE FIRST PROFSNAL BOXER TO E OUT AS GAY 2012, WHO TOLD DER SPIEGEL OF WHAT HE WOULD HE WOULD SAY TO AN OPPONENT WHO LLED HIM THE F-WORD: “WHAT? YOU LL ME A FAGGOT? OKAY, IF YOU LIKE. BUT YOU’D BETTER WATCH OUT, BEE I’M THE FAGGOT WHO’S GOG TO KICK YOUR ASS.”YOU MIGHT ARGUE THAT ANSWERG VLENCE WH VLENCE IS NEVER THE ANSWER—THOUGH YOU MIGHT ALSO ARGUE THAT THE MORONIC HOMOPHOB BOXG, SO LONG LEFT TO SPEW THEIR PREJUDICE WH IMPUNY, REALLY HAVE G. TIM TEEMAN

”Pacquiao himself, not to be outdone by Mayweather Sr., lled gay people “worse than animals. Mastream boxg has a long and glor relatnship wh not jt the F-word but homosexualy general.

FLOYD MAYWEATHER GAY SLUR AFTER ADVISG CONOR MCGREGOR TO RPECT PEOPLE

” Lennox Lewis nied he was gay, spe mors to the ntrary, claimg he was a “woman’s man” a TV nontatn wh Hasim Rahman 2001. In 2015, heavyweight world champn Tyson Fury’s homophobia me acpanied by Bible vers, and stctns to “Believe the Lord J Christ and you will be saved. ”One of the most astonishg tiras—for s mixg of vlence, race, sex, power, homophobia, and lyril poetry—was Mike Tyson’s agast a reporter, who 2002 said Tyson should be a strajacket.

The only thg to do such an overtly homoerotic suatn to assert your rampant heterosexualy is to scream that the other guy’s a faggot. But they should know that they are weaker than any gay man or black person they have voked and sulted.

MAYWEATHER SAYS HE SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE

We have had real fists and real sults thrown and jabbed our fac, and we know that while racists and homophob are vile and sometim terrifyg they are also ls than nothg. ”There is also the example of Orlando Cz, the first profsnal boxer to e out as gay 2012, who told Der Spiegel of what he would he would say to an opponent who lled him the F-word: “What? ”You might argue that answerg vlence wh vlence is never the answer—though you might also argue that the moronic homophob boxg, so long left to spew their prejudice wh impuny, really have g.