50 Cent has rinsed Floyd Mayweather, continuing their feud after the undefeated boxing champion filed a $340 million lawsuit.
Mayweather is arguably the biggest box office attraction in boxing, being involved in a number of big money fights and being paid nine figures for high-profile bouts with Conor McGregor and Manny Pacquiao.
Nicknamed 'Money', Mayweather claims he has made more than $1 billion from his boxing career.
But the 50-0 boxer believes he is owed even more money and has taken the significant step of trying to get paid, with TMZ Sports reporting that he is suing Showtime as he claims they were culpable in him missing out on huge sums of manager from ex-manager Al Haymon.
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Haymon was a manager and advisor to Mayweather for more than a decade but the 48-year-old is adamant that he is missing a "significant portion of his career earnings".
He is therefore looking to "recover hundreds of millions of dollars in the misappropriated funds and damages resulting from a long-running and elaborate scheme of financial fraud".
Deeming the money to be "'missing' and unaccounted for", he alleges that there was "substantial participation and aid" from Showtime and its former president "Stephen Espinoza.
He is therefore suing both parties for aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty, civil conspiracy to commit fraud, conversion, and unjust enrichment.
Interestingly Haymon is not the one being sued by Mayweather is seeking punitive damages from Showtime and Espinoza on top of the $340 million.
Rapper 50 Cent, a former close friend of Mayweather's before becoming his foe, weighed in with a typically brutal post on Instagram.
Sending a message to Mayweather, the 50-year-old wrote: "Oh no don’t cry now champ they beat you out of $320 million, you dumb a**. I told you let me read the contracts now lace up.
"You gotta look good fighting Mike. then maybe we can get Bud to beat your ass for some big money."
Mayweather retired in 2017 after beating McGregor to move to 50-0 but has continued to compete in a number of exhibitions, including bouts against Tenshin Nasukawa, Logan Paul, Don Moore, Mikuru Asakura, Deji, Aaron Chalmers and John Gotti III.
He is now scheduled to lock horns with Mike Tyson in a collision of two greats. An announcement and poster was confirmed in September before Tyson claimed it would take place in March and in Africa.
However, in an interesting development, 18-time world champion kickboxer Mike Zambidis put out a poster suggesting that Mayweather with also be fighting him in the summer.R
Commenting on the lawsuit, Mayweather's attorney Bobby Samini told TMZ: "Floyd is one of boxing’s biggest pay-per-view draws. He generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for Showtime. Mr. Mayweather now takes this fight to the courtroom to recover what he rightfully earned.
"Retiring undefeated at 50-0, Mr. Mayweather will go the distance in the courtroom just as he has in the ring."
Topics: Floyd Mayweather
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