WORLD BOXING CHAMPION Floyd Mayweather believes the NFL was wrong to extend Ray Rice’s suspension following publication of a new video which shows him allegedly assaulting then-fiancée Janay Palmer.
Rice’s multi-million dollar contract with the Baltimore Ravens was terminated without compensation on Monday and the NFL upped its original two-match suspension to an indefinite ban.
The video, published by TMZ, shows Rice punching Palmer during an argument in a casino lift in February. The two have since married and Janay Rice yesterday described her husband’s sacking as “horrific.”
Mayweather — who was jailed for two months in 2012 after he pled guilty to charges of domestic battery on a former girlfriend — said that the NFL should have stuck to their original ruling.
“I think there’s a lot worse things that go on in other people’s households also,” he said.
It’s just not caught on video, if that’s safe to say.
“I wish Ray Rice nothing but the best. I know he’s probably going through a lot right now because football is his passion. Football is his love.”
Mayweather is currently facing a civil suit from a former fiancée who alleges that the fighter beat her.
But the 37-year-old dual-weight world champion says that he has been accused falsely in the past.
You guys have yet to see any pictures of a battered woman, a woman that claims says she was kicked and beaten.
“So I just live my life and try to stay positive, and try to become a better person each and every day.”
Mayweather was speaking to the media ahead of his rematch with Marcos Maidana in Las Vegas this Saturday.
