Floyd Mayweather and 50 Cent don't like each other very much for reasons that would take a whole article to recap. Suffice it to say that 50 had no compunctions about hitting Floyd with a low blow, challenging him to
read a single page from a "Harry Potter" book without stopping. He later revised it to simply "The Cat in the Hat":
No response from Mayweather -- until this past weekend, when he unleashed his greatest weapon: money.
Read this $72,276,000.00. God bless.
pic.twitter.com/dpwE3X7eLR— Floyd Mayweather (@FloydMayweather)
August 23, 2014 The funniest part of this is that evidently it's totally cool to write checks of 40 million dollars in pen. In fact, the Nevada Athletic Commission requires promoters to show they are paying the fighters with a physical check. Better not make a typo or transpose a decimal point -- that might lead to some awkward questions from accountants.