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Brawl as Mayweather faces o with Youtube star Paul

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Floyd Mayweather was involved in a chaotic brawl on May 6 during the buildup to next month’s ght with Internet star Logan Paul as tempers boiled over at a press conference in Miami. The undefeated 44yearold former welterweig­ht world champion reacted angrily at the Hard Rock Stadium after Paul’s brother, Jake, grabbed his cap during a TV interview. Mayweather chased down the Paul brothers and punches appeared to be thrown in a melee involving a scrum of security sta. Mayweather unleashed an expletivel­aden tirade during the incident. Insults had already been traded in an earlier confrontat­ion, with Logan Paul taunting Mayweather by referencin­g his 2011 domestic violence case. Mayweather served two months of a threemonth sentence after attacking an exgirlfrie­nd. Mayweather, meanwhile, claimed he would ght — and beat — both Paul brothers on the same night before the event erupted into violence. Logan Paul had to be pulled away from the melee by his entourage while Mayweather continued to vent his fury before he too was hustled away. The ght, scheduled for June 6, will be Mayweather’s rst appearance since he appeared in an exhibition contest in Japan in 2018.

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