0:11 to be a fighter to be a great champion
0:16 to be a winner requires blood sweat and
0:19 tears and this man has done that and
0:23 much much more and with his last two
0:28 victories over Marcos Madonna and Manny
0:31 Pacquiao without question Floyd
0:35 Mayweather jr. deserves to be Nevada
0:39 Boxing Hall of Fame fighter of the year
0:41 so put your hands together and bring up
1:18 um we're here again what else can I say
1:26 I want to thank everyone that turned out
1:29 for this event and you guys couldn't
1:34 choose a better champion to present to
1:39 present me with this award you know as I
1:42 think back when I was a child when I was
2:01 every day I would come home and watch
2:08 every legendary champion every champion
2:13 Larry Larry Holmes Sugar Ray Leonard
2:31 Julio Cesar Chavez I mean this list goes
2:38 on and on and I always wanted to you
2:40 know it was a one fighter I want to be
2:43 like some days I want to fight like
2:46 Leonard some another day I want to fight
2:49 like Hagler but then I want to be I want
2:51 to have a style like Tommy Hearns but
2:52 then I want to be a killer like Mike
2:56 Tyson and then when I took all those
2:59 different champions shares and Roberto
3:01 Duran and all these different champion
3:03 in all these different guys
3:06 I said I'm gonna take a little bit from
3:10 every one of them and put it all in one
3:13 box and shake it up and see what we come
3:21 up with this guy's like Aaron Pryor that
3:30 they never talked about you know and
3:35 being a champion I think that even even
3:37 though I transcend it and change the
3:41 sport of boxing but being a champion is
3:46 not just receiving a lot of money are
3:49 given or received in a belt because I
3:50 did it
3:54 thousands of times for free before I got
4:02 to this point it started I could
4:06 remember at first I was a southpaw
4:09 because before any of us any real
4:11 fighter know about boxing if you were
4:13 right here if you're right-handed you
4:16 keep your right up front until you're
4:23 taught the right way I would like to
4:53 Nate what is this dream that I had it
4:57 started you know this dream that I had
5:04 started years and years and years ago
5:09 you know no matter what my dad did you
5:13 know because he done whatever he had to
5:17 do to get me to find her life to give me
5:19 a better life to give me the best life
5:25 that he could give me and everything
5:30 happens for a reason even when my dad
5:34 was incarcerated and he went away
5:38 I still hear his words in the back of my
5:42 mind continue to work hard nothing is
5:48 going to come easy I worked hard I
5:51 worked extremely hard to get to this
5:54 point and every day I know I'm blessed
5:56 I'm truly truly blessed I don't take
5:57 anything for granted
6:00 and nobody and you take anything for
6:07 granted yes everyone sees you know us on
6:11 all access or when I was when I was with
6:15 HBO 24/7 they see all the flashiness on
6:20 the shit-talking the trash talking I had
6:25 a game plan then when I say tbe there's
6:28 no disrespect to no legendary champion
6:30 because anybody every fighter dust in
6:34 this room has to feel that he's the best
6:56 al hinman a guy that I met until this
7:01 day when I'm one of my best friends we
7:06 had a remarkable game plan kinesin every
7:09 everyday everyone says what everyday
7:11 people ask me different questions
7:19 different play but it's going to take in
7:20 a while cuz I want to make sure I say
7:24 the right thing um how's your
7:26 relationship without Haman you know how
7:28 did you guys meet how did you guys come
7:35 so come so close and telling us that was
7:40 in God's plan and our ultimate goal was
7:43 to Martin the goal is to become 100
7:47 million dollar fighter monster I seen
7:51 guys like when Mike Tyson and I seen him
7:54 myself with my own eyes when I seen that
7:56 Bentley at the boxing gym and I've seen
7:58 that diamond Rolex I said I want that
8:02 and I knew what it took so I know when
8:05 my opponent is sleep I'm out there at
8:07 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning chopping
8:12 trees working to this day because I can
8:15 retire today I'm well off very
8:19 comfortable but I got the will to win
8:24 and I'm a man that's gonna honor his
8:27 contract when I was with HBO I honor my
8:31 contract that's what I trained out of my
8:34 contract and these young fighters right
8:37 here will tell you I'm a man of my word
8:39 if I could tell you you got to work with
8:42 me no don't work against me work with me
8:46 if I tell you that I can get you to a
8:48 certain point because my thing is this I
8:49 teach you how
8:52 how to fish I don't fish for you I tell
8:54 these guys I can put you in a position
8:58 to fight for the title but you have to
9:02 win the fights I can't fight for you I
9:05 don't I put on my shoes I put on my
9:08 clothes like everyone in here I have
9:13 good days I have bad days I'm only going
9:18 to have my bad days in a box in jail
9:20 because I'm under the lights type
9:22 fighter because when I go into the
9:43 me and my dad relationship no one would
9:48 ever understand our relationship but us
9:53 why because we so much alike so much
9:55 alike when you so much like it's like
9:59 looking in the mirror you know he won't
10:01 he wanted cheeseburger I want to cheat a
10:04 cheeseburger it's only one left me I
10:05 want to fight for the cheeseburger
10:07 instead we need to cut in half and split
10:14 it you know when when I was young he
10:17 want to listen to James Brown I want to
10:19 listen to rap music
10:22 instead of sin okay once you listen to a
10:24 few songs and let me listen to a few
10:29 songs but I'm older now I'm a lot wiser
10:33 so I'm able to communicate with my
10:37 father in a different way whereas I
10:41 would tell him things like stop arguing
10:44 went with social media don't don't worry
10:46 about these people because if you're
10:48 doing bad they're going to talk about
10:51 you if you're doing good they're going
10:53 to talk about you but we'd rather be
11:02 with me it's all about being relevant
11:04 hater to love it it's about being
11:09 relevant and I understand business you
11:11 can have another fight against it always
11:17 32 a note 1 32 32 knockouts but if it's
11:19 not in God's plan for him to be the man
11:36 whenever did you know certain things
11:41 that I would never forget when EJ Smith
11:44 wrote me a letter when I was in when I
11:46 was incarcerated and he wrote me a
11:49 letter and he said because one thing
11:51 about me I'm not embarrassed about
11:54 nothing that went on in my life cuz I'm
11:57 a man I'm always be able to stand on my
11:59 own two and I'm a fighter
12:09 to the day I died so EJ Smith wrote me a
12:13 letter I was sitting on I was sitting on
12:16 my bed reading a letter and I wrote him
12:20 back and I said a champ cuz imma call
12:23 you Jeff cuz we will make you world
12:27 champion someday working with guys like
12:33 Eddie Mustafa Muhammad Bose that works
12:37 these guys people don't understand what
12:37 it takes
12:40 these young fighters come in a gym at
12:44 4:00 and 5:00 in the morning and work
12:49 and bus they ass because their ultimate
12:53 goal is to surpass your legends because
12:57 they want to become legends it was
12:58 written in the history books for all of
13:00 us to be here today
13:03 fun for me to speak my mind and say what
13:06 I want to say for me to speak from the heart
13:11 I'm tve
13:15 no matter how you cut it wait I don't
13:18 care if you don't like it I'm the best
13:29 and they say they say well this guy he
13:32 said well this guy had 177 fights I said
13:34 I respect that cuz he's the fighter just
13:38 like me I respect that and he fought
13:41 nineteen world champions I said well you
13:43 know I did it in 48 fights and I say
13:45 another fight they say what is fighter
13:50 you know well he um they said well he
13:52 done crazy pay-per-view numbers I said
13:57 I'm a whether I can break his record he
14:00 said what they had to live it for the
14:02 live is gate they had them it was
14:04 unbelievable they done millions for a gate
14:05 gate
14:07 I said well watch what I do at the gate
14:09 I done over 77 million at the gate and
14:12 one fighting him pay-per-view our
14:16 average of a million homes and I'm still
14:19 looking to break records I'm still I'm
14:22 still trying to make champions I only
14:26 got 36 minutes left in the sport and if
14:28 I can break me in Pacquiao record
14:32 what are doing absolutely you guys are
14:33 the one that said this guy throw a
14:36 thousand punch the row you guys artists
14:39 you wanna say that he's on my level well
14:43 I'm going to let everybody know any
14:44 fighter that you guys think this
14:47 ordinate is extraordinary mayweather is
14:50 going to make him look ordinary because
14:55 the name of the game the name of the
15:01 game is to hit and not get hit when my
15:03 career is over I want to be able to
15:05 spend time with my family have all my
15:09 faculties be smart be sharp love life
15:17 some say the motivation is the belt
15:21 some say motivation is the trophy well I
15:30 because the money was able to put retire
15:33 my mother put my dad in a comfortable
15:36 uncomfortable position put my kids in
15:38 the best area I come from a rough
15:43 background I come from a rough area it
15:46 may not be Brooklyn but they shoot just
15:48 like they shoot just like they shoot in
15:50 my neighborhood the same way they make
15:55 the same guns they do the same thing and
15:58 I respect every champion here every
16:02 champion from the past every legendary
16:06 champion you guys paved the way for me
16:11 to be well mat today because now is is
16:16 DVD but back then it was VHS tapes only
16:17 thing I knew when I come home they say
16:20 you have to do a homework you know what
16:22 I said homework
16:26 put that box and tape on because I knew
16:29 what I knew what I wanted to do I knew I
16:31 wanted to Beach I knew I knew I wanted
16:36 to be champion and is the dream over
16:39 absolutely not we're going to be the
16:42 biggest company whether you like it or
16:47 not because if you think small small
16:50 things happen I always dream big I
16:53 always believe I believe in my team I
16:58 believe in these fighters wooden bar do
17:02 jack I hit with a good shot and he took
17:05 a loss it was nothing as a minor setback
17:09 for a major comeback and he's world
17:22 we have a we have great chemistry
17:27 in my boxing gym we call it the doghouse
17:29 and we don't box regular three minute
17:32 rounds a regular round is six minutes in
17:33 my gym
17:35 we don't box by no Bell
17:59 buzzer come up Eddy come up C this is
18:01 dip this award show is for us as
18:05 fighters so we're able to speak from the
18:11 heart we able to speak our mind yeah we
18:15 may all look nice got clean suits and
18:19 nice shades and all that but we kick ass
18:25 that's what we do we're fighters to the
18:33 mayweather staff and you guys everyday
18:39 work extremely hard every day and I
18:41 commend you Nicole
18:56 more water what is that what is that I
19:06 I'm gonna speak my piece y'all should've
19:22 never let me get the floor but we give a
19:25 round of applause for the fighters but I
19:29 want to I think you guys that support
19:32 boxing that's here that's supporting
19:34 boxing we need to give you guys a round
19:51 rich Mirada miss Corrales the city of
19:55 Nevada I was able to come to this city
20:00 and break records do record breaking
20:15 Leonard I want to thank you
20:23 we we've had a crazy crazy crazy year
20:30 but it was all worth it every day I say
20:34 to myself after my last fight I say this
20:39 is nothing but organized illegalized
20:43 street fighting that's all it is
20:48 organized legalized street fighting and
20:50 I said to myself I'm able to make
20:55 hundreds of millions but doing what I
21:10 in every and one fight that me and my
21:15 dad would watch every day I mean over
21:20 and over and over again Sugar Ray
21:23 Leonard and Marvin Hagler we were taught
21:26 we were argue about that fight all the time
21:26 time
21:29 sometimes he would say Hagler one and I
21:32 say ray one sometimes he would say ray
21:36 one and I would say Hagler one but all
21:42 you champions I mean Larry Holmes I mean
21:47 I mean I got was had the best job in the
21:50 business had the best job in the business
21:54 irrelevant
22:01 Rick wrong um thank you
22:08 Pistol Pete um my lawyer Shane I mean
22:10 there's so many people I can be thinking
22:14 that's out no audience but all the
22:18 champions and even taught rain it
22:25 but I'm always making calculated moves
22:28 when I went over to Todd Wayne I didn't
22:31 just want to be a fighter I don't want I
22:33 wanted to learn the business so I could
22:37 have my own business so I could have my
22:41 stable of fighters and remember this day
22:44 when I tell you this we will be number
22:49 one in the sport of boxing it's not far
23:01 very close a Showtime
23:09 a CBS I want to thank you guys for
23:12 giving me what are the biggest deals
23:19 then sports history Mayweather is not
23:23 exciting all mayweather is running yeah
23:26 I'm running to the bank I'm running to
23:34 the bank mr. and miss berry only thank
23:37 you guys for letting me train at your
23:45 gym before I got my own gym Rafael
23:52 Garcia I mean this list goes on and on
24:03 but it all started with the WBC the WBC
24:07 gave me my first chance and my first
24:11 opportunity the Suleiman family I got to
24:14 say thank you you know I've know I won
24:16 the World title
24:19 13:15 I don't know how many times but I
24:25 won the WBC belt more than any belt in
24:39 - my TMT team and to all the fans and
24:41 the people around the world
24:47 it all started everyone wants to know
24:52 how the money team started it started by
24:59 us my team me Leonard and Nicole Ricki
25:02 Brazil James being there taking our own
25:06 money and going downtown in Las Vegas
25:10 Nevada and feeding the homeless those
25:11 are the things that they don't talk
25:15 about about Floyd Mayweather or to clean
25:23 these four to clean these streets up in
25:28 Las Vegas us giving 50,000 to the
25:31 develop to the Nevada police department
25:33 or the Las Vegas police department
25:37 because that's what it's about we give
25:40 back but we don't look to to the media
25:44 to get praised as long as God know we're
25:46 doing a good deed because when I go do
25:49 deeds and I don't I don't glorify it to
25:50 everyone else
25:52 I get bless when I get in that square
26:01 that's what I have to tell every fighter
26:05 all you champions cuz you you don't have
26:07 to have a belt to be a champion in my
26:12 eyes to get something you have to
26:18 sacrifice something and what I did I put
26:22 everything aside my whole life boxing
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