Floyd Mayweather Jr. has opened up about his $100 million lawsuit towards Enterprise Insider and whether or not he’s broke or not.
Mayweather appeared on a panel for TheRealDeal’s NYC Discussion board 2025 to talk about actual property when he responded to a query about why he’s suing Enterprise Insider and journalist David Geiger.
“I’ve by no means sued a media outlet,” mentioned Mayweather. “The media shops all through my life has bashed me, talked dangerous about me, talked dangerous about my household. I’ve at all times been judged due to how I current myself when selling a struggle. Choose me for the person who you realize. You possibly can’t decide me when you don’t know me.”
“Somebody goes on the market placing lies on my identify, placing lies on me and my workforce, hurting my enterprise,” Mayweather continued. “We’re not speaking about hundreds of thousands. We’re speaking about billions of {dollars}. We are able to’t try this.”
“So that is my first time ever submitting a lawsuit ever towards a media firm for talking dangerous about my firm,” Mayweather added. “I’m not a liar. I’m lots of issues, however I’m not a liar. I work exhausting to construct my identify, to construct my fame, and I’m not going to let anybody go on the market and communicate my identify or speak dangerous about me, my household, or my corporations.”
Mayweather additionally addressed the rumor that he was going bankrupt since he filed the lawsuit. “Everyone is entitled to their very own opinion,” Mayweahter defined. “If we name having two non-public jets, proudly owning 100 buildings, and having the ability to do what you need bankrupt, then I’m fairly positive all people needs to dwell like that.”
Earlier this month, Mayweather sued Enterprise Insider and Geiger over the reporting that the journalist did about actual property offers the previous boxer mentioned publicly, together with an settlement to buy a 62-building Manhattan condo portfolio. In March, Geiger reported that there was “no proof there was a sale.”
In Mayweather’s lawsuit, he alleged the Geiger “launched into a marketing campaign of harassment and defamation, characterised by aggressive and deceptive journalism that not solely distorts the reality, however deems pushed by a deep-seated bias towards Mr. Mayweather’s success.”
Mayweather is in search of $100 million, a public retraction, and a ruling that prohibits Geiger from additional public harassment.