A press conference promoting Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s upcoming exhibition bout against Logan Paul wound up with Mayweather getting into a skirmish Thursday with Jake Paul, Logan’s brother.
Jake Paul got in Mayweather’s face then pulled the hat off the veteran boxing champion’s head and ran away in the Miami Gardens, Fla., event. Mayweather pursued him, saying, “I’ll kill that (bleep).”
Jake Paul, a boxing YouTube star like his brother, posted online videos showing him saying in advance that he would steal Mayweather’s hat, then later saying, “It went good.”
Mayweather later told The Athletic, “I don’t want to be disrespected. You can’t keep touching me and disrespecting me.”
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