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Floyd Mayweather Jr. spoke out Tuesday, September 9, about Ray Rice's indefinite suspension from the NFL for knocking out his wife, Janay.
The football player was originally suspended for 2 games by commissioner Roger Goodell, before TMZ posted footage of the assault. Goodell and the NFL changed their stance after viewing the video by handing down harsher punishment. The Baltimore Ravens reacted by terminating Rice's contract with the team.
Roger Goodell (left) and Ray Rice
Mayweather Jr., who served 2 months in jail in 2012, after pleading guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence of his baby's mother, doesn't believe Rice deserved more discipline because of the video.
"I think there's a lot worse things that go on in other people's households, also," Mayweather told reporters at the MGM hotel in Las Vegas. "It's just not caught on video, if that's safe to say."
The boxing champion added that no woman has ever produced any evidence that he physically assaulted them.
"Like I've said in the past, no bumps, no bruises, no nothing," Mayweather said. "With O.J. and Nicole, you seen pictures. With Chris Brown and Rihanna, you seen pictures. With (Chad) Ochocinco and Evelyn, you seen pictures. You guys have yet to see any pictures of a battered woman, a woman who says she was kicked and beaten (by Mayweather). So I just live my life and try to stay positive, and try to become a better person each and every day."
Stephen A. Smith blasted Floyd and his comments on ESPN's First Take Wednesday, September 10.
"I'm disgusted by [Floyd's comments]," Smith said. "I'll be the first to say that. I know Floyd Mayweather Jr. pretty well. I know a lot of the personal demons that he's experienced. The bottom line is that a Las Vegas judge sentenced you to 90 days back in December 2011. You served your time in 2012, June, after you pleaded guilty to a domestic violence charge. And no contest to two harassment charges. You would think that there's a heightened level of sensitivity that he would have. In this particular instance I don't think that I'm hearing that here."
Smith goes on to say that maybe Floyd is guilty of some of the things he's been accused of by women because of his nonchalant attitude toward's Rice's situation.
Floyd's former fiancee Shantel Jackson alleges he abused her throughout their relationship. She filed a civil lawsuit last week seeking damages for invasion of privacy, assault, battery and defamation.
Head over to Deadspin to read more about Floyd's history of violence with women.
Sources: Associated Press, ESPN
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