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Trainer Jeff Mayweather, the uncle of Floyd Mayweather Jr., has continued to speak his mind on Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe. In several recent interviews, Jeff criticized the work of Ellerbe as the company CEO. Floyd Mayweather himself was critical of Ellerbe in an interview fight Fighthype.com, stating that he wasn't pleased with Ellerbe's work on the September 13th Showtime Pay-Per-View from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
"Leonard, I think we're just getting to a point where we're outgrowing each other. I think I just see things my way and I think he sees things in another way. For example, this time around when I went out and fought, my WBC and WBA titles in both weight classes were on the line and I didn't approve of that at all. That's something I didn't approve of" Mayweather said. "Also, my daughter was sitting in the front row and her mother wasn't sitting next to her, so the ticket arrangements were totally wrong. It just got to a point to where everyone wants to do what they want to do instead of communicating and compromising like we used to. We got to this point by us communicating and compromising." There's just a lot of other things within our team that's just not right. Leonard wasn't in my corner, so, you know, it's not any hard feelings. It's just people outgrow one another. I'm not mad at him. There's no hard feeling like I hate the guy; not at all. No hard feelings whatsoever. People just outgrow one another, just like when people get a divorce. They're no longer on the same page mentally."
In the past, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer ran the promotional end of Mayweather's fights. After Schaefer left Golden Boy in June, Mayweather Promotions obtained a promotional license in Nevada and then Ellerbe, as CEO, took over as lead promoter for Mayweather's events - with September's rematch with Marcos Maidana being his first assignment in that role. "I think what the real thing with this is that Richard Schaefer was the guy that was actually doing all the work and Leonard wasn’t really doing anything in terms of being a promoter and being a CEO, other than just talking about it. Basically, I think that once Richard Schaefer had to step back and leave boxing alone for a little while, I think that Leonard had to actually put on his promoters hat and this was really his first time at actually having to step in that position and really take charge of it and I think he dropped the ball" Jeff told On The Ropes Boxing Radio. "Yeah I would say that [that Schaefer leaving exposed Ellerbe's lack of promotional skills], and I think that’s a fair assessment because I think that it’s easy to sit back and just talk, but once Richard Schaefer was gone, everything that happened was wrong. Like I said, something so simple — you don’t put up a belt to a guy that has never even fought in the weight class. Not only that, that’s extra money that you have to pay, the sanctioning fees, you have to pay for each belt that you put up. Don’t get me wrong, it was just the fact that he probably just really didn’t know, because he never really had to do it."
http://www.boxingscene.com/jeff-mayweather-leonard-ellerbe-dropped-ball--82511
"Leonard, I think we're just getting to a point where we're outgrowing each other. I think I just see things my way and I think he sees things in another way. For example, this time around when I went out and fought, my WBC and WBA titles in both weight classes were on the line and I didn't approve of that at all. That's something I didn't approve of" Mayweather said. "Also, my daughter was sitting in the front row and her mother wasn't sitting next to her, so the ticket arrangements were totally wrong. It just got to a point to where everyone wants to do what they want to do instead of communicating and compromising like we used to. We got to this point by us communicating and compromising." There's just a lot of other things within our team that's just not right. Leonard wasn't in my corner, so, you know, it's not any hard feelings. It's just people outgrow one another. I'm not mad at him. There's no hard feeling like I hate the guy; not at all. No hard feelings whatsoever. People just outgrow one another, just like when people get a divorce. They're no longer on the same page mentally."
In the past, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer ran the promotional end of Mayweather's fights. After Schaefer left Golden Boy in June, Mayweather Promotions obtained a promotional license in Nevada and then Ellerbe, as CEO, took over as lead promoter for Mayweather's events - with September's rematch with Marcos Maidana being his first assignment in that role. "I think what the real thing with this is that Richard Schaefer was the guy that was actually doing all the work and Leonard wasn’t really doing anything in terms of being a promoter and being a CEO, other than just talking about it. Basically, I think that once Richard Schaefer had to step back and leave boxing alone for a little while, I think that Leonard had to actually put on his promoters hat and this was really his first time at actually having to step in that position and really take charge of it and I think he dropped the ball" Jeff told On The Ropes Boxing Radio. "Yeah I would say that [that Schaefer leaving exposed Ellerbe's lack of promotional skills], and I think that’s a fair assessment because I think that it’s easy to sit back and just talk, but once Richard Schaefer was gone, everything that happened was wrong. Like I said, something so simple — you don’t put up a belt to a guy that has never even fought in the weight class. Not only that, that’s extra money that you have to pay, the sanctioning fees, you have to pay for each belt that you put up. Don’t get me wrong, it was just the fact that he probably just really didn’t know, because he never really had to do it."
http://www.boxingscene.com/jeff-mayweather-leonard-ellerbe-dropped-ball--82511
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