Leonard Ellerbe responds to alleged Floyd Mayweather flirting with K9 Bundrages Wife
*Photo Credit: The Detroit News
Roselle Park, NJ (March 6th, 2013)– Yesterday Real Combat Media Boxing Radio and The Detroit News broke a story about alleged flirting between Floyd Mayweather and K9 Bundrage’s wife, Shawana Bundrage during his championship fight with Ishe Smith a few weeks ago. Ishe Smith is promoted by Mayweather Promotions,which is run by Floyd Mayweather and Leonard Ellerbe. According to many witnesses at the fight, Floyd was touching, dancing behind and taunting Shawana Bundrage.
Below is the exclusive interview we did with K9 Bundrage about his side of this story on the Real Combat Media Boxing Radio show which was hosted by Jon Campbell and his co-host, The Boxing Maniac this week. K9 Bundrage was furious at Floyd’s behavior and called him out on our show.
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Mayweather couldn’t be reached for comment by Yahoo sports. However Ellerbe, who was promoting the Bundrage-Smith fight defended Mayweather. He said if Mayweather’s actions were so bad and out of line, Bundrage should sue him.
“We would defend this one, believe me,” Ellerbe told Yahoo! Sports.
“I was there and this is straight [expletive],” Ellerbe said. “I know what was said. I heard and saw what was going on. She said her fighter — and that’s the context we were dealing with her, as K9’s manager, not his wife — she said her fighter was going to whip Floyd’s fighter and then was going to whip Floyd’s ass. … I heard the back and forth going on, and I was part of it. This is completely irrelevant and stupid, believe me.
“Floyd said nothing harassing to her and he did nothing to harass her. He was trash talking her, but she was trash talking him. This was written by a hometown reporter who I guess was upset that the hometown boy [Bundrage] lost. There is no truth, none, in any of what he says. None of this was personal, and what that reporter didn’t write was that after it was all over, we all shook hands and [embraced] and left with no hard feelings.”
Shawana Bundrage did not comment on the incident, telling Foster of The Detrioit News via email, “I do not want to make any comments to glorify his actions.”
Ellerbe said it is stories such as Foster’s of The Detroit News that make Mayweather hesitant to appear in public.
“This all started at a press conference and it was a non-story at first because when it first started, Floyd wasn’t even there,” Ellerbe said. “It got blown into this big thing because apparently this reporter knows that someone is going to read what he has to say if he writes about Floyd. [Shawana Bundrage] seems like a nice young lady. This was all just boxing talk, trash talk, and to say it was anything more than that is a complete lie.”
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