Mayweather calls Pacquiao ‘a desperate dog,’ hits on latter’s debt

Floyd Mayweather Jr took aim at Manny Pacquiao’s tax woes and back-to-back losses in 2012 in an interview with Ben Thompson of FightHype.com. Mayweather asserts that Pacquiao is begging for a fight with him so that he can rise out of debt with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the US and Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in the Philippines. “He’s got 68 million problems and he wants me to solve them,” said Mayweather, referring to the reported $50 million Pacquiao owes in the Philippines and $18 million owed in the US. Coincidentally, it was the IRS that compelled Mayweather to break a 21-month retirement in 2009. Two months before his September 2009 bout with Juan Manuel Marquez, the AP reported that Mayweather owed the IRS $6.4 million in taxes.

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