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近日，梅威瑟接受ESPN的史蒂芬·史密斯采访，谈到了梅威瑟最后的一场比赛。很多拳迷对梅威瑟退役之战选择了贝托感到不满，因为贝托从2012年到2014年每年平均一场战斗，在过去六场战斗中失去了三场。
史密斯试图强调贝托是一个被击败的对手，这惹恼了梅威瑟，立马把他的老对手帕奎奥搬出来羞辱一番。
梅威瑟说；“如果我没弄错的话，贝托是两届世界冠军，是奥运会选手，他遭受了几次损失，但每次都能够反弹回来。帕奎奥打败的那个人我甚至都不知道叫啥，他可以，我打败了一个两届世界冠军就有问题。我认为，那场比赛根本就不应该出现在ESPN上”。
采访中最奇怪的事情是，史密斯是帕奎奥VS杰夫.霍恩比赛播音队成员之一，但一直无法准确地说出霍恩的名字。他称他为“乔·霍恩”，这已经不是第一次了。
Mayweather Feels Pacquiao-Horn Was Not Worthy of ESPN
Floyd Mayweather Jr. (49-0, 26 KOs) and ESPN's Stephen A. Smith traded some words over Mayweather's career-ending fight against Andre Berto in September 2015.
Mayweather announced his retirement after dominating Berto over twelve rounds at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. It was carried by Showtime Pay-Per-View.
Heading into that fight, there were a lot of fans and critics who were unhappy with the selection of Berto - who was viewed as an overmatched opponent who had seen better days. Berto had also averaged one fight per year from 2012 to 2014, and lost three of his last six fights.
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Smith tried to make a point about Berto being an overmatched opponent, which annoyed Mayweather.
"If I’m not mistaken, [Berto is] a two-time world champion, he’s an Olympian, he took a couple of losses, but he bounced back each and every time," Mayweather said.
When Smith tried to press the issue, Mayweather took some shots at Smith's employer, ESPN, televising Pacquiao's fight against 2012 Australian Olympian Jeff Horn.
Heading into that fight, Horn was a huge underdog and some predicted a mismatch. But Horn managed to pull off an unexpected shocker, when he defeated Pacquiao by way of a twelve round unanimous decision to win the WBO welterweight title. The contest drew a monster television rating for ESPN.
"So it was OK for Manny Pacquiao to fight the guy he just fought. But it’s a problem for me to fight a two-time world champion. The guy Pacquiao fight, we don’t even know. We don’t even know who he is, I don’t even know his name right now. OK ... that fight shouldn’t have even been on ESPN - at all," Mayweather said.
The oddest thing about the interview, was the fact that Smith - who was part of the broadcast team for Pacquiao-Horn and ripped the decision several times - was unable get Horn's name right.
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