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50 Cent Calls Out Floyd Mayweather Over $100 Million Bankruptcy Lawsuit

Rapper 50 cent may have reignited his beef with Floyd Mayweather after trolling him about a recent lawsuit.
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Apr 11, 2025; Sacramento, California, USA; Musical artist 50 Cent sits courtside before the game between the Sacramento Kings and the Los Angeles Clippers at Golden 1 Center. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images
Apr 11, 2025; Sacramento, California, USA; Musical artist 50 Cent sits courtside before the game between the Sacramento Kings and the Los Angeles Clippers at Golden 1 Center. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images | Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images

Rap legend and boxing icon 50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather used to be great friends.

Then, before Mayweather served a three-month prison sentence in 2012, he asked the rapper to take charge of his 'The Money Team' boxing promotion company. 50 Cent agreed and reportedly did what he was asked to do.

Once Mayweather got out of prison, 50 Cent reportedly asked for $1 million that he claimed he was owed from running 'The Money Team,' but Mayweather allegedly never paid him. This sparked a beef between Mayweather and 50 Cent, which came to a head with a viral video 50 Cent made that issued a disrespectful challenge to the boxing icon during the ice bucket challenge craze.

A decade later, 50 Cent revealed that while he and Mayweather ended their feud, their close relationship was never rekindled.

And it seems that their beef may have started again, after 50 Cent trolled Mayweather over the boxer filing a $100 million lawsuit against Business Insider. Reporter Daniel Geiger wrote an article that asserted Mayweather's 62-building Manhattan real estate portfolio, which he announced he'd acquired, never actually occurred, as the report stated there was no evidence a sale was made.

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Mayweather made a (now-deleted) Instagram post that reposted Mayweather speaking on a recent panel. When asked about the lawsuit, Mayweather said, "I'm 48 years old, and I’ve never sued a media outlet. But the media outlets, throughout my life, have bashed me, talked bad about me, spoke bad about my family.

"Now, I have always been judged because of how I present myself when I'm promoting a fight. You cannot judge me for entertaining the people when I'm promoting a fight. Judge me for the person that you know."

50 Cent's caption wrote, "Well that case is going nowhere because you didn't do the deal champ. 😆 He must must have named the writer separately to make him have to pay his own legal team. Champ mad. 😆"

We imagine this won't sit well with Mayweather.

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Grant Young is a Staff Writer for On SI’s Boxing, New York Mets, Indiana Fever, and Women’s Fastbreak sites. Before joining SI in 2024, he wrote for various boxing and sports verticals such as FanBuzz and NY Fights. Young has a bachelor’s degree in marketing and a master’s degree in creative writing with an emphasis on sports nonfiction from the University of San Francisco, where he played five seasons of Division 1 baseball. He fought Muay Thai professionally in Thailand in 2023, loves a good essay, and is driven crazy trying to handle a pitpull puppy named Aura. Young lives in San Diego and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.