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Floyd Mayweather‘s boxing career has earned him hundreds of millions of dollars, and now he’s taking aim at a news outlet that is contesting one of his biggest deals.

The champ is suing Business Insider for $100 million for defamation after claiming that a $400 million Black Spruce real estate deal he made was falsified.  

Now that it has been proven true, Mayweather sat on a The Real Deal news outlet panel to talk about his feelings behind the suit after claiming the BI reporter Daniel Geiger’s article was racially charged and harassed him and his family with hundreds of phone calls.

Mayweather says he’s never sued someone before, despite the media not approving of his fight-promoting benefits. Still, he feels they overstepped this time because badmouthing him can affect future business deals. 

“Someone is going out there putting lies on my name, putting lies on me and my team, hurting my business,” Mayweather said. “We’re not talking about millions. We’re talking about billions of dollars. We can’t do that.”

He continued, “So this is my first time ever filing a lawsuit ever against a media company for speaking bad about my company. I’m not a liar. I’m a lot of things, but I’m not a liar. I work hard to build my name, to build my reputation, and I’m not going to let anyone go out there and speak my name or talk bad about me, my family, or my companies.”

As the crowd erupts in applause, Mayweather then addresses the rumors that he’s bankrupt by flexing a bit.

“Everybody is entitled to their own opinion,” Mayweather explained. “If we call having two private jets, owning a hundred buildings, and being able to do what you want bankrupt, then I’m pretty sure everybody wants to live like that.”

One of Mayweather’s biggest haters, 50 Cent, took his attention away from roasting Diddy’s sex trafficking trial when news of the lawsuit dropped, also claiming the Black Spruce deal never materialized.

“Well, that case is going nowhere because you didn’t do the deal, champ,” he wrote on Instagram. “He must have named the writer separately to make him have to pay his own legal team. Champ mad.”

50 Cent Trolls Floyd Mayweather Over His $100 Million Lawsuit Amid Bankruptcy Claims  was originally published on cassiuslife.com