Fox Sports host Skip Bayless is calling BS on the chaos that ensued after Floyd Mayweather Jr. and John Gotti III’s exhibition fight on Sunday.
“The Floyd-Gotti ‘brawl’ after my man Kenny Bayless stopped the ‘fight’ was obviously scripted and staged,” Bayless wrote on Twitter.
The fight between Mayweather and Gotti III — the grandson of New York mob boss John Gotti — was stopped by referee Kenny Bayless with less than a minute remaining in the sixth round at FLA Live Arena in Sunrise, Fla.
Gotti seemingly said “f–k you” to Mayweather after he was disqualified for holding, leading to an all-out brawl in the ring with the fighters landing punches as their teams rushed in.
The bad blood didn’t end there, with Gotti calling Mayweather an “enemy for life,” and Gotti’s sister Nicolette allegedly threatening the Pretty Boy’s family.
“@floydmayweather your daughter was ran through by [an] animal with 12 different baby mamas – your little circus animal – [you’re] all a pack of zoo animals,” Nicolette reportedly wrote on Instagram. “I swear on my kids I’m coming for your daughter, it may be 2 years, 3 years from now but I’m coming c–t.”
The fight — and the ensuing mess — was a ridiculous idea in the first place, according to Bayless.
“Floyd’s being paid a whole lot of money to put on a show. You can’t really put on a show against John Gotti III,” Skip Bayless said on Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed.”
Gotti doesn’t have much to his name as an MMA fighter.
Mayweather, on the other hand, is one of the top pound-for-pound fighters of all-time.
“[Gotti] didn’t belong in the ring with Floyd Mayweather Jr. But, Floyd didn’t belong in the ring with him, either,” Skip Bayless added. “At some point, isn’t it beneath Floyd’s dignity, even for $10 million to do this?”