Mayweather on 105.1 trying to read

[bojangles1987]

Sports agents and managers and promoters have got to be the biggest scumbags on Earth, because they are out there taken advantage of athletes who grow up in hard conditions and needed sports to escape those conditions, kids who likely never had to learn anything in school because of their athletic gifts.

[BodiesInFlight]

I take it you have never tried to read a children's book to a child when you never read outloud. That would be real kids books like under ten while Harry Potter is much more of an tween to early teen book in terms of level.

That is not even taking into account the pressure of doing it with the lights on, which would mess most people up right there even if they practiced.

LOL

Reading out loud is not hard. At least it shouldn't be.
Kids do it in schools everyday so an adult shouldn't have any trouble.

I'm shocked people actually believe such basic things like reading are hard. is it because reading and learning is for "nerds" with you ****** folk?

[The Gambler1981]

Seriously, I can't imagine not being able to read. I love reading so much, and it was never something forced upon me. Being able to read opens up so much of the world that you'd be ignorant of otherwise. Can you imagine the things the leeches around Floyd responsible for his finances get away with if he can't read and understand what he's signing?

I'd think someone who makes the money Mayweather does and loves to brag about his business acumen so often would have used that money to train himself to a more literate level.

If he were to make a video of himself reading at a perfectly normal level to show 50 Cent up, that would make me very happy. Reading is such an important element of society's evolution and the acquisition of knowledge. No amount of money matters so much as knowledge.

Floyd has a real problems verbalizing stuff, we have seen it for years when he is confronted and he has to defend his position or he tries to make any kind of point.

I don't know that reading out loud is the right test for someone like that who clearly has trouble speaking to judge their reading level on.

He truly devoted his life to the pursuit of boxing, not the pursuit of knowledge like pretty much everyone else on Earth. It is kind of sad but that was his chosen path in life and pretty much did choose the correct path for him but there were very big trade offs he made to be what he is.

[The Gambler1981]

LOL

Reading out loud is not hard. At least it shouldn't be.
Kids do it in schools everyday so an adult shouldn't have any trouble.

I'm shocked people actually believe such basic things like reading are hard,

Is it because reading and learning is for "nerds" with you ****** folk?

I never read out loud and I certainly don't want to attempt to read something with silly words and names like Harry Potter on live radio.

It is doable but it is something you can look very bad doing no matter how smart you think you are. If Floyd thought about the difficulties maybe he wouldn't have made this mess~

[strykr619]

49ers rb frank gore had one of the lowest scores on the wonderlic tests of all time by a pro athlete, and apparently struggled to graduate high school.

the very gifted athletes can still succeed

Part of the 49er's Offense play book issues was they had to dumb it down so bad pre Kap that it was elementary because of WHO? you guessed it Frank Gore....

Now not so much since he is being phased out...

[E. O. Wilson]

Reactions to Floyd's reading level (or lack of) indicate so much about the demographics of this forum. First off, it is pathetic that Floyd is illiterate, but it is our problem, not his. What kind of a society are we that allow a person to go through school and remain illiterate?

Really? It's the responsibility of "society" to make sure a 37 year old American who makes 40 million dollars in a few hours and has the rest of the year off learns how to read?

hahahahahahahhahhaahahahaha

I didn't feel sorry for the jocks in the back of the class in high school who talked over the teacher's voice then didn't make the pro league and work at McDonalds. Why am I supposed to feel sorry for one who color coordinates his bugatti to his fur coat?

No, it's his problem. No wonder your life panned out the way it did, you subscribe to that "everything I do is society's fault" political marketing BS.

[radioraheem]

Reactions to Floyd's reading level (or lack of) indicate so much about the demographics of this forum. First off, it is pathetic that Floyd is illiterate, but it is our problem, not his. What kind of a society are we that allow a person to go through school and remain illiterate?

Second, I have heard some here willing to trade literacy for Floyd's riches, that is ridicilous! Once you cannot decode at a certain age, you will never have the level of understanding that a person who properly developed that part of the brain will have regarding language use. In a word you will go through life with a set of blinders on. Sure you can improve but you never attain the level of understanding that a fully developed individual attains.

People that claim they would trade in a master's level of education for floyds gifts probably never did a masters.....I would never trade knowldege for status and its worth noting that the man with the highest recorded IQ in recent times was a bouncer and ranch hand.

Financial success always comes at a price. those of us in the know prefer to enrich in a manner that does not enrich the slaver masters. Floyd wprks for the IRS and for the people he has to trust due to his lack....people like Ellerbe who do know. These people will support Floyd only while he is relevant. Thst means that in about five years or so Floyd will have almost nothing because....YOU CAN NEVER REPLACE KNOWLDEGE....It is too valuable for compensation.

People like Larry Holmes and Grandpa Hopkins know this....it is why they learned the mechanics of the power structure and who to avoid. People like Tyson learned eventually and people like Floyd are clueless.

All Floyds riches belong to the IRS he will eventually give them back, just ask the Bastard maker Holyfield.

It's just a reflection of a society based on getting money. Money is above everything. You shouldn't be surprised that people would exchange education for riches. Education is based on economics itself, and then acquiring education is done mostly for future monetary gain. Rather than for the sake of learning itself. Anyone saying they'd trade their schooling for riches is just being logical. Sadly, it's a more logical statement than saying otherwise.

Money is a permanent problem for people unless you have lots of it. Whereas education, that's a fixable problem. I don't agree that after a certain age people can't decode things anymore. That they're incapable of full understanding. The mind is a complex thing, and some learn very different than others. Einstein couldn't hack it in the school system, but he was later known to be a genius. (This last sentence has nothing to do with Floyd, I know how some people on the forum are, )

[BodiesInFlight]

I never read out loud and I certainly don't want to attempt to read something with silly words and names like Harry Potter on live radio.

It is doable but it is something you can look very bad doing no matter how smart you think you are. If Floyd thought about the difficulties maybe he wouldn't have made this mess~

That's you, and you shouldn't just measure the difficulty of a basic life skill by your own poor standards. Kids read out loud in schools when they're 8 (here in the uk at least) so there should be no excuse why a grown man cannot do these things unless he has dyslexia, and even then, dyslexic people can still improve.

[ThePrince]

Is it possible Floyd has a learning disability he hasn't made public, ie Dyslexia? Would explain a lot actually.

[radioraheem]

I never read out loud and I certainly don't want to attempt to read something with silly words and names like Harry Potter on live radio.

It is doable but it is something you can look very bad doing no matter how smart you think you are. If Floyd thought about the difficulties maybe he wouldn't have made this mess~

Yes, reading aloud is a skill that many can **** up. But Floyd wasn't reading that live on radio. They took him to another part of the studio/station to record it privately, off-air. The station had the entire session archived though. And Charlamagne got hold of the entire archived session and aired a portion of it. So Floyd didn't create the mess, not directly. It was never supposed to be aired like that.

We are in the 'WikiLeak' era, so no one is safe anymore.