FLOYD MAYWEATHER APOLOGIZES FOR MANNY PACQUIAO RANT!

Floyd Mayweather Jr. hasn't boxed professionally since May 1, and he doesn't have any fights lined up. To fill the void, he's taken up an ill-fated second career as a web show host on Ustream, where he unleashed a flood of racial invective against Manny Pacquiao on Thursday, labeling him a "whore" a "midget," calling him "Poochiao" and suggesting that Pacquiao is on performance-enhancing drugs.
The fallout was swift and predictable with columnists and the boxing community condemning the rhetoric as pathetic.

Apparently, Mayweather got the message because at 12:16 a.m. on Saturday, toward the end of a 50-minute video, he apologizes for his comments on another Ustream web show, accompanied by the TV personality Ray J, members of his entourage, and an unidentified woman who appears to be a hotel employee, whom Mayweather introduces as "Tanya, my new guest."

It should be noted that Mayweather doesn't apologize directly to Pacquiao but to anyone who was offended by his remarks.

"I do want to apologize for what happened the other night," Mayweather says. "I want to apologize to everybody because everybody thought that it was a racist comment that came from me. I don't have a racist bone in my body. I have nothing but love for everybody."

Mayweather, wearing sunglasses and broadcasting from a "remote location," which appears to be a hotel room in Las Vegas, can be seen on the video eating a stem of grapes, opening up a large plastic bag filled with money, comparing his "black diamond" watch with Ray J's, and generally engaged in good-natured ribbing with an assortment of friends. Mayweather goes out of his way to mention that there are people of different nationalities in his entourage.

"Some of my guys are Muslim, some of my guys are Jews. Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, whites," he says. "It doesn't matter. I got nothing but love in my heart. All I want to say is, if anybody was affected from what I said the other day, I apologize as a man. . . . I was just having fun. I didn't really mean it."

Mayweather goes on to give a half-hearted compliment to Pacquiao, saying: "Manny Pacquiao is a good fighter. He truly believes that he's one of the best. But the thing I know is that I am the best. He's one of the best but I am the best. To all the Manny Pacquiao fans, stand behind him, even one day when we meet up and I beat him."

Mayweather also offers condolences to his former promoter, Bob Arum, who lost his oldest son, John, in a mountain climbing accident last weekend.

"God bless to Bob Arum and his son because I heard that Bob Arum's son had a bad accident, so it's all love to the whole Arum family," Mayweather says.

Pacquiao was boarding a plane and couldn't be reached for comment, his spokesman said.