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Floyd Mayweather Will Launch Boxing Gym Business With Plans For 500 Outlets
FLOYD MAYWEATHER
LeBron James Promotes 'Love' In Response To The Hate In Charlottesville
Boxer Floyd May- weather is renowned for his off-the-charts fitness level. While his opponents often tire during a bout, May- weather appears as fresh in the 12th round as he was in the first.
Mayweather is ready to reveal the secrets to his fit- ness success after he faces UFC king Conor McGregor Aug. 26 in the much-hyped fight set to eclipse current boxing records for gate re- ceipts ($72 million) and pay- per-view buys (4.6 million).
Mayweather will launch
Mayweather Boxing & Fit- ness with a training app next month where Floyd serves as the in-app digital trainer and will walk the user through his own workouts. The company’s flagship gym will follow in November fo- cused on group fitness box- ing workouts.
Mayweather and his team are thinking big with plans for 200 gyms within 24 months and 500 in five years. The third component of the firm is a virtual reality in- home workout set to be un- veiled in January.
For the second straight year, LeBron James used his foundation’s annual “We Are Family Reunion” event as a platform to promote social change, this time issuing a message of love in response to the hateful “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and President Donald Trump’s com- ments about it.
Speaking to several thou- sand students and family members involved in his Le- Bron James Family Founda- tion, which recently extended its pledge to provide financial and educational support for “at-risk” students in Akron, Ohio, through college, the Cleveland Cavaliers superstar dismissed Trump as “the so- called president” and pledged his support for “the innocent people in Charlottesville.”
The following is the con- clusion of his speech, via ESPN:
“I know there’s a lot of tragic things happening in Charlottesville. I just want to speak on it right now. I have this platform and I’m some- body that has a voice of com- mand, and the only way for us to be able to get better as a so- ciety and us to get better as people is love.
“And that’s the only way
LEBRON JAMES
we’re going to be able to con- quer something at the end of the day. It’s not about the guy that’s the so-called president of the United States, or what- ever the case. It’s not about a teacher that you don’t feel like cares about what’s going on with you every day. It’s not about people that you just don’t feel like want to give the best energy and effort to you. It’s about us. It’s about us looking in the mirror. Kids all the way up to the adults. It’s about all of us looking in the
mirror and saying, ‘What can we do better to help change?’ And if we can all do that and give 110 percent ... then that’s all you can ask for.
“So, shoutout to the inno- cent people in Charlottesville and shoutout to everybody across the world that just want to be great and just want to love. Thank you, and I love you all.”
Earlier on Tuesday, James tweeted in response to the president’s unhinged news conference — in which he equated the white nation- alists, white supremacists and neo-Nazis who marched on Charlottesville over the week- end bearing Tiki torches and chanting, “Jews will not re- place us,” with those who ral- lied against them, including Heather Heyer, a 32-year- old woman who was struck and killed by an alleged far- right extremist who drove his car into a crowd of innocent people on Saturday.
Floyd Mayweather, Conor McGregor To Wear 8-Ounce Gloves, Not 10-Ounce Gloves
FLOYD MAYWEATHER AND CONOR MCGREGOR
LeBron James
‘100 Percent’
The Nevada State Athletic Commission approved Floyd Mayweather's and Conor McGregor's requests for smaller boxing gloves on Wednesday, just 10 days be- fore their highly anticipated fight on Aug. 26.
The NSAC voted unani- mously in favor of a one-time exception that will allow both fighters to wear 8-ounce gloves in their 154-pound bout. Per NSAC regulations, any boxing match contested above 147 pounds mandates 10-ounce gloves.
Chairman Anthony Mar- nell, who strongly chastised
both camps for using the NSAC as a "pawn" for social media controversy to sell tick- ets, noted that while he holds a strong respect for the com- mission's rules, it must always "adopt it to current times."
The issue came to light on Aug. 1, when Mayweather (49-0, 26 KOs) wrote on Face- book: "Let's fight in 8 oz gloves."
Mayweather, 40, has fought the majority of his ca- reer in 8-ounce gloves. Mc- Gregor (21-3), the UFC's lightweight champion, is used to 4-ounce gloves in mixed martial arts.
Chris Sheridan was ahead of the crowd in 2014, reporting LeBron James would likely leave the Heat for the Cavaliers – which obviously happened.
But Sheridan called it a “90 percent chance,” a small – but large enough – hedge. He also said LeBron would announce the decision on LeBron’s per- sonal website. Of course, Le- Bron revealed his choice in a Sports Illustrated essay.
So, maybe Sheridan knows what he’s talking about. Maybe he doesn’t.
But the longtime NBA writer just fanned the flames of the al- ready hot LeBron-leaving- Cleveland rumors.
There have already been plenty of warning signs about LeBron’s relationship with Cavs owner Dan Gilbert, which didn’t restart in a great place.
It’s entirely believable Le- Bron would leave Cleveland, in large part due to Gilbert.
Leaving Cavaliers
Next Summer
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