Things got Busy for Floyd Mayweather Jr after the Oscar De La Hoya Fight


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Things got Busy for Floyd Mayweather Jr after the Oscar De La Hoya Fight

By Johnny Benz (Nov 25, 2007) Doghouse Boxing

In a recent teleconference to help hype Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Ricky Hatton set for December 8, personal advisor to Mayweather, Leonard Ellerbe was on hand to answer questions from the media. One of the questions asked by the media was whether Mayweather Jr was up to the task due to such a busy schedule.

George Willis asked Ellerbe, "Hey, when you were at the press conference in New York Floyd was - actually seemed a little drained. He was talking about needing a vacation, and his schedule and this that and the other. And I was just

wondering how is his mental state? Do you think he’s maybe spreading himself too thin? He’s been doing a lot of things, Dancing with the Stars, now he’s training for a big fight. I mean how has he been able to cope with is schedule over these last four or five months?"

Ellerbe responded using Mayweather's fight against Oscar De La Hoya in his answer. Ellerbe stated: "Well everything is working right according to schedule. Obviously, after the De La Hoya fight, we went on a world wide tour to several major cities, Floyd speaking with kids, you know, giving back to the community. You know, the De La Hoya fight allowed us to use that fight as a platform to cross over into the mainstream world, to go off and do a number of different things that no other fighter has been able to do because boxing isn’t a mainstream sport. But, the attention and the focus that the De La Hoya-Mayweather brought to the casual fan, it was unbelievable."

"So from that standpoint, there were a number of commitments that we made after the fight and it was quite a bit that we were doing. Then, I got him on the dancing with the stars show and the whole objective with that was to bring more eyes to the spot. And, I think we were very successful in doing that. And we have every indication that this fight is going to be very, very successful. It’s a mega event. And with all of that being said, that I think that the timing of Floyd getting off

the show, it was right on schedule because it allows us right at seven-and-a-half weeks to prepare and that’s normally where we’re right on track with our preparation for any fight."

"So he’s well rested. He’s put in all of the work that he needs to put in. We had a great training camp thus far. We have tremendous sparring. We are working with two former world champions in Lovemore N’dou and Carlos Baldomir. So the preparation of this fight has been unbelievable. And we’re just looking forward to go on December the eighth."