Can Someone Please Kick Floyd Mayweather’s Ass?

Even if you like him, or even if you can’t bring yourself to like him but you still appreciate his brilliance as a promoter, you have to admit—Floyd Mayweather probably deserves an ass whooping.

Tuesday afternoon, after Oscar De La Hoya and Victor Ortiz announced they wanted a rematch and claimed Floyd’s knockout punch was a cheapshot, Floyd took to Twitter. He posted a photo of De La Hoya in fishnet stockings, and then photos of “Victoria” Ortiz in his underwear and with a horribly swollen eye (which wasn’t from the Mayweather fight). Then he posed in front of the car above, telling Victor Ortiz to put his hands up.

He’s probably the greatest individual marketing machine sports has seen in a generation. As an athlete, he’s as impressive as anyone currently competing in anything, and has been for the better part of a decade. As a boxer, he’s fundamentally flawless, and maybe the greatest defensive fighter the sport has ever seen. And even when he’s talking trash, he’s clever about it. He’s funny. He’s got charisma. On just about every front, Floyd Mayweather’s a full-fledged superstar.

But even if you can appreciate Floyd as an athlete... As a human being, a regular dude, there are various ways to go through life. You can try to be a good person and care about other human beings, or you can decide, “Screw it, I’m out for myself.”

As a human and a character, Floyd really seems like the second guy. On just about every front. He’s the second guy who takes it a a step further, and goes out of his way to prove how little he cares about anyone else or how they feel.

That’s how he’s become one of the most polarizing athletes of all time, so it’s obviously been successful. But the exponential, simultaneous growth of Floyd’s cartoon dickishness and his bank account just makes the whole charade that much harder to stomach.

He made the choice to wear the black hat, and it’s made for great entertainment over the years, but you have to deal with consequences. Those are real pictures he tweeted Tuesday, and real racist slurs he hurled at Manny Pacquiao a while back. And ideally, the consequences of treating people like crap ends with an ass-kicking.

Or it should. From someone, somewhere, eventually. Especially considering he spends his life orbiting around a boxing ring, dodging other people’s punches and talking s**t the whole time.

Floyd’s getting older, he’s still undefeated, he keeps ducking Pacquiao and whining about disrespect, and all the while, he’s treating everyone else like crap. So I just feel this irrational yearning when I see stuff like Floyd on Twitter Tuesday, harassing guys like De La Hoya and Ortiz.

At some point, before it’s too late, can somebody please whoop his ass?