- Floyd Mayweather walked right over reality TV star Aaron Chalmers in a boxing exhibition Saturday.
- The event came at a cost, though, as the American fears he may have broken his hand.
Floyd Mayweather fears he may have broken his hand during a routine exhibition involving British reality TV personality Aaron Chalmers.
The two swapped slugs Saturday at London's iconic O2 Arena, with Mayweather boxing rings around Chalmers, pausing his combat repertoire to dance, and even sitting on top of the ropes between rounds as if he didn't have a care in the world.
At some point during the exhibition, though, Mayweather damaged his hand.
"We razzle, we dazzle. I hurt my hand actually … when I was breaking with the hook," the veteran fighter said, according to Boxing Scene.
The 46-year-old added: "A lot of people don't know when I was breaking with the hook — that's boxing language — I hurt my left hand — bad."
Mayweather may know better than most what it's like to injure your fists in a fight. Issues with his hands became apparent in 2001, when he reportedly broke both during a thumping win over Carlos Hernandez. It wasn't the only time he incurred damage from landing his own punches as he was taken to a hospital shortly after beating Robert Guerrero in 2013 to assess soreness in his right hand.
"He has all the problems in the world with his hands," Mayweather's cutman Miguel Diaz once told New York magazine in 2015.
Fast forward to February 2023 when he's still trying to entertain in the ring, and Mayweather said his fist "could be broken."
He said: "We're not worried. I'm still able to use the left. You have to use the jab to set everything up. He was tough. He can take everything on the chin."
A broken fist may not have been Mayweather's only concern
Mayweather may well have had other concerns during the exhibition with Chalmers, as very few people could be seen inside the 20,000-capacity venue, possibly highlighting fading interest in his unofficial world boxing tour.
British tabloid newspaper The Sun posted photos on Twitter to highlight the apparent lack of interest in the event.
—Sun Sport (@SunSport) February 25, 2023
Even during the ring walks, hundreds of empty seats could be seen from the floor, with many sections in the arena seemingly obscured from the camera's point of view.
—Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) February 25, 2023
Insider contacted event organizers for comment regarding apparent low attendence but has yet to receive a reply.