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Floyd Mayweather‘s jeweler tells TMZ Sports Jake Paul is fibbin’ about the way things went down in Miami earlier this month … saying there were nowhere near 50 guys in TBE’s entourage during their altercation outside of a Heat game.
Shuki International had a front-row view of the two fighters’ tiff in the South Florida street back on March 8 — as he attended the NBA game with the legendary boxer — and he says there were only about eight guys with Floyd at the time of the ruckus.
He also tells us Mayweather didn’t seek out Jake — saying their encounter was strictly coincidental.
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“Jake is exaggerating,” Shuki said. “We just finished the game, pulled out, and Jake was there. Floyd was with his eight bodyguards.”
“And [Jake] just run like a rabbit.”
Of course, Jake’s side of the story is a little different … he said Floyd waited outside the arena for him in order to confront him with several dozen other people — and he took off because he didn’t want to get jumped.
“I’m tough,” Paul said at the time, “I don’t need to prove my toughness, but I’m not f****** dumb. I’m not gonna sit there and try to fight 50 dudes.”
Shuki, though, seemed to imply run-ins like these might become commonplace between the two if Paul doesn’t issue an apology soon.
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The jeweler tells us Floyd’s still got beef over the way Jake took his hat during the Logan Paul pre-fight press conference in 2021.
“He’s gotta do the right thing,” Shuki says. “He’s gotta respect the world champion.”
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As for a potential fight between Mayweather and Paul — Shuki tells us he doesn’t think it’d even be a contest … expecting a Floyd KO in a matter of seconds.