What is the difference between Floyd and Ray?

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What is the difference between Floyd Mayweather and Ray Rice? A video

Rice was sacked by his team and suspended by the NFL for punching his partner so why is Mayweather, a repeat batterer of women, earning $50m for a fight on Saturday night?

Floyd Mayweather Jr. in training for his fight against Marcos Maidana at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Photograph: Steve Marcus/Reuters

by  Alex McClintock

The NFL player Ray Rice’s savage assault on his partner Janay Palmer in February is now national news. Rightly, there is outrage at Rice, who has been let go by his team, the Baltimore Ravens, and suspended indefinitely by the league. A “national conversation” about domestic violence has been opened, according to some.

But really, the conversation is about the surveillance video of Rice knocking Palmer out. That video is awful and confronting, but it’s not surprising. The details of the case were already known. As Amy Davidson puts it over at the New Yorker: “That is what it looks like when a man beats up a woman.”

So imagine, then, if video existed of Floyd Mayweather’s domestic violence convictions. Imagine footage of Mayweather entering the house of Josie Harris and punching her in front of their children. Mayweather’s abuse of women is absolutely no different to Rice’s; it’s just that Rice was caught on tape.


“I think there are a lot worst things that go on in other people’s households also. It’s just not caught on video,” Mayweather himself told Tim Smith ofRing Magazine, displaying a stunning lack of self-awareness. The fighter added that he doesn’t think Rice should have been suspended and wished him “nothing but the best.” 

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Source:  http://www.theguardian.com/sport/queensberry-rules-boxing-blog/2014/sep/10/ray-rice-floyd-mayweather-video-tape

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