Floyd Mayweather has reportedly gifted $30,000 to a group of homeless men before being spotted courtside at a Clippers playoff game against the Dallas Mavericks in L.A. amid rumours that he’s ‘stuck in Dubai’ due to a lack of paying back his debts.
According to TMZ Sports, the 47-year-old retired boxing champion ran into many individuals on the street on Wednesday as he was walking from the downtown L.A. Ritz-Carlton Hotel to Cypto.com Arena for game 5.
That’s when Mayweather began interacting with the guys as he wanted to help them out, so he took out his backpack and ‘blessed each guy with 10 racks.’
‘I don’t want to show my face, but [Floyd] just gave us $30,000,’ Reynolds—one of the homeless men—said after his share of the five-figure sum.
According to TMZ, the guys didn’t want their snaps to go public, as they feared they’d become targets of local crime for carrying the cash.
‘We do not want to get robbed. We will go find a motel,’ one of the men said.
According to figures from the U.S. government, there are over 180,000 homeless persons in California as of 2023, making the state the home of the nation’s biggest homeless population.
There are about 650,000 homeless persons in the United States of America as a whole.
Mayweather, who saw Luca Doncic drop a double-double (35 points and 10 assists) against the Clips in the Mavs’ 123-93 blowout win to take Dallas up 3-2 in the series on Wed. night, has been rumoured to being ‘stranded’ in Dubai due to some alleged debts.
That’s according to Gervonta Davis, a former student of Mayweather’s who appears to be fighting with the 15-time world champion boxer once more. In the previous year, Davis claimed that Mayweather had barred him from using his gym and stopped him from preparing for his matchup with Ryan Garcia.
Davis posted a video of Mayweather on social media last week, which he claims was a jab at him.
In the clip, Mayweather said: ‘A lot of times what these fighters are looking at—they’re looking Floyd with the cars, they’re looking at Floyd being flashy. Man listen, I made so many sacrifices. Y’all are looking at the end results. And [when I was] champion having hundreds of millions in the bank, I still was on my grind in that gym.
Following the Clippers vs. Mavs game on Wednesday, Mayweather posted several photos to his Instagram Story on Thursday, showing himself and his surroundings back in Dubai. It’s unknown exactly where he is.
What does he think a homeless person would do if you gave him that kind of money? Would he find a place to live, buy some new clothes, scrub up and go look for a job and sort their life out, or get off their head with drugs and booze every day until it’s all been frittered away?
It won’t solve homelessness for any of them, but I do hope that it changes at least one of their lives, and it just doesn’t dissolve into more crack.
Mayweather does this and it’s all over social media. However, a guy like Keanu Reeves does stuff like this and you never hear of it, no publicity, I know who I would respect more.
It would have been better to donate to the local ‘Soup Kitchen’ to help the homeless or even use the money to build a proper shelter with people there to help them reinvent into society.
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