Floyd Mayweather gets angry very little. He is more of the type who lets people talk around him to stay in the spotlight.
He is not unfamiliar with receiving criticism and comments, both in favor and against him, but precisely that dynamic is what has allowed him to make the millions he possesses, as his boxing, appearances, and trends turn into money.
Mayweather was present at Super Bowl 52 in Minneapolis, where the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the New England Patriots by a score of 41-33 in favor of the Philadelphia team.
As is customary for the boxer, he showed up dressed extravagantly, as he has done for many years.
He wore a gray chinchilla fur coat (an animal native to the Andes that has been in danger of extinction).
According to a post made by Floyd, the garment is priced at $100,000. But the real reason his clothes made the news is the following.
Apparently, he was compared to Frank Lucas, a notorious former drug trafficker in the 1960s who became an informant for the US law to hand over other mafia leaders.
Part of Lucas' attire in his glory days were these characteristic chinchilla coats. But Mayweather claims he would never copy anyone.
Here are the words he wrote on Facebook.
"I've seen some of you making comparisons between my $100,000 chinchilla coat that I wore last night and the ones Frank Lucas wore in his days. One thing is for sure, I've always dressed in luxury from head to toe. I have been wearing chinchilla since the '90s.
In fact, I wore chinchilla shorts in 2003 in my fight against Phillip Ndou. 'American Gangster' (biographical film about Frank Lucas, where Denzel Washington acted as the trafficker) was released until 2007, that was the first time I heard about the protected informant, Frank Lucas.
Now, I have been called many things in my life, but being compared to a legendary snitch is not one of them.
Honor and loyalty have been my code for life and will always be. I have never wanted to be anyone other than myself," concluded the former (¿?) boxer.
Does it look like he copied the American Gangster?
*Images from Mayweather's FB and old videos of both the gangster and Floyd's fight.