Floyd Mayweather Called To Encourage Will Smith 10 Days Straight Following Oscars Slap: You Know You The Champ, Right?

Will Smith, Floyd Mayweather

Floyd Mayweather Called To Encourage Will Smith 10 Days Straight Following Oscars Slap: You Know You The Champ, Right?

Will Smith has had a tough year, but it seems some good has come about.

The movie star recently opened up about forming a relationship with boxing great Floyd Mayweather following his Academy Awards fiasco. If you recall back in March of this year, Will Smith, 54, underwent temporary exile from the entertainment industry after slapping Chris Rock on national TV. Rock, 57, made an insensitive joke about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith balding due to alopecia, prompting the hit.

During a private screening of his coming film “Emancipation,” Smith revealed that though he and Mayweather weren’t really friends, the champion athlete called him for 10 days consecutively to check in following the awards show. He stated:

“I want to say something also about Floyd….So, we’ve met each other, we’ve seen each other around, but we weren’t like, friends.”

Floyd Mayweather, Will Smith

He continued:

Authored by: Kay Johnson