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Floyd Mayweather, Jr. scares off the WWE

Floyd Mayweather’s situation with the Las Vegas police has scared off one of his biggest supporters, the WWE. The company formerly known for their “Attitude” and “Controversy” has put as much distance between themselves and Mayweather as possible.

With previous guest hosts, WWE would continue to hype up their appearances throughout the week on other WWE TV programming, WWE.com, and through the proverbial wrestling grapevine. A perfect example of this is Shaq’s appearance on WWE RAW.

Shaq’s appearance dominated WWE.com with multiple videos and articles. WWE put up a poll on the following week’s RAW asking who would win in a match between Shaq and Big Show. There were numerous reports of WWE attempting to get Shaq to return on RAW so he can continue his feud with the Big Show. Shaq’s appearance was also all over WWE TV programming throughout the week and even the mainstream media significantly covered the appearance.

All Mayweather Jr got was a 3 minute video clip and one article on WWE.com, a 10 second video recap of his guest host appearance on this week’s RAW, and a 5 second mentioning for his upcoming fight on this week’s RAW. That’s it. The mainstream media didn’t even care about the appearance because it was so insignificant. This was a man who wrestled at last year’s WrestleMania and his grand return has become nothing more than a Monday Night RAW footnote.

In addition to the lack of post-coverage, you can compare his appearance to other guest appearances and see how poor it was. Every past guest host was on at least the majority of their episode of RAW and had a major impact. Floyd was on WWE RAW for 10 minutes and was a minor part. Freddie Prinze Jr., Jeremy Piven, ZZ Top, and Seth Green were more important to their respective episodes than Mayweather. Next week’s guest host is Bob Barker and I’m willing to bet that an 85 year old man will have more impact than Floyd did.

It’s important to note that the WWE is in a transitional period. They recently announced that their programming will change to a PG content and become more “family friendly”. Mayweather’s police troubles caused shockwaves through the WWE because it endangered this change of image.

Now, WWE doesn’t really care about the “family friendly” part, they are more concerned with the investors and the larger pool of “family friendly” sponsors. Even if you put that aside, what company really wants to be associated with someone who’s having police executing search warrants for firearms and being accused of threatening to shoot someone at a “family friendly” place?

In the end, Floyd only hurt himself by being involved with an incident like this. In his return to boxing, Floyd’s early numbers for ticket sales and PPV buys are a huge concern. He needs all the help he can get to make people care about his fight. Unfortunately for Floyd, he lost a big supporter in the WWE.

Source: examiner.com

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