50 Cent never lets a feud die, and he etched another chapter in his beef with Floyd Mayweather while trolling the boxing legend with a haymaker over his $340 million lawsuit against Showtime.
50 mocked Floyd Wednesday (Feb. 4) about his reading comprehension when it comes to contracts, and joked how the athlete need to get back in the ring with Mike Tyson or Bud Crawford to make up for allegedly losing out on a major payday.
“Oh no don’t cry now champ they beat you out of $320 million, you dumb ass. I told you let me read the contracts now lace up, You gotta look good fighting Mike,” he quipped in his Instagram post. “then maybe we can get Bud to beat your ass for some big money.”
The reading jab ties back to 50 in 2014, when the G-Unit mogul issued a public ASL/ESL reading challenge to Money Mayweather, daring him to read a full page of The Cat in the Hat or Harry Potter for 50 to donate $750,000 to one of the boxer’s charities.
Bow Wow had a laugh at 50’s latest pettiness, and left a skull emoji in the comment section, while another fan respected 50’s relentlessness when it comes to making his enemies miserable. “50 will never let his opps get a pass,” they wrote.
According to The Athletic, Mayweather filed a lawsuit with California state court on Tuesday (Feb. 3) against Showtime Networks and the ex-president of Showtime Sports. Floyd claimed the company siphoned millions away from him and played a role in executing a fraud scheme that cost him about $340 million in total.
“Floyd is one of boxing’s biggest pay-per-view draws. He generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for Showtime,” Mayweather’s attorney Bobby Samini relayed to TMZ. “Mr. Mayweather now takes this fight to the courtroom to recover what he rightfully earned. Retiring undefeated at 50-0, Mr. Mayweather will go the distance in the courtroom just as he has in the ring.”
In a statement shared with The Hollywood Reporter, a spokesperson for Paramount — who owns Showtime — said of the lawsuit, “These baseless claims lack legal or factual meri. We strongly reject them and will respond accordingly through the court process.”
Once upon a time, 50 and Floyd were close friends in the 2000s, until a 2012 financial dispute caused a rift in their relationship. Their feud has continued more than a decade later.
