Mayweather's ex-wife says she helped him develop his sucker punch, demands compensation
By ONANTZIN News
2011-09-19
Las Vegas, NV -- Floyd Mayweather's battered ex-wife, Josie Harris, is suing the polarizing boxer for knocking out Victor Ortiz with the patented one-two sucker punch technique that she helped him perfect. According to Ms Harris, the abusive Mayweather routinely practiced the cheap-shot technique on her when they were married, which she says entitles her to compensation on the grounds that she served as an indirect trainer.
"That cheap-shot muthaf*#a always punched me when I least expected it," said Ms Harris. "We'd be arguing, you know, and I would be in the middle of a sentence when, out of nowhere, BAM! BAM! He would give me the one-two sucker punch combination – the exact same one he used on Ortiz."
On Saturday night's boxing showdown, Floyd Mayweather caught victor Ortiz off guard and deliver two well-placed cheap-shots as the Ventura, CA boxer was looking at the referee for instructions. The blows KO'd the Mexican American boxer and set off a firestorm in the boxing community.
But while most fans argued and debated over the legality and sportsmanship of the cheap-shots, Josie Harris was busy with her lawyers studying replay of the fight.
"What struck me is the way in which Victor Ortiz fell to the floor," stated Ms Harris. "That's the same way I would fall when he punched me. I knew then and there that he was using the same technique that he had learned with me – a technique which I helped him perfect."
The law suit, filed in court this morning, seeks a percentage of Mayweather's multimillion dollar purse from the fight. The court documents allege that Mayweather's one-two sucker punch combination would not have been able to KO Ortiz – convincingly ending the fight in a mere 12 minutes and putting Mayweather out of harm's way - without the hours of training that Ms Harris gave Mayweather.
"At first, he couldn't even knock me out, but he kept getting better and better through practice," added Mr Harris. "He got so good at it that sometimes I couldn't even remember what had happened; I would wake up alone and disoriented in the living room, my head would hurt, and all I could recall was arguing with Floyd right before losing conscious."
If successful, Ms Harris could receive up to 10 million dollars for helping Mayweather hone in his cheap sucker punches.