The FLOYD MAYWEATHER went from going to the private zoo of money kicks to closing a deal in a bizarre fight with a YouTuber.
Money Kicks – real name Rashid Belhasa – has been dubbed the ‘richest kid in Dubai’ due to his extravagant lifestyle.
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Son of billionaire construction mogul Saif Ahmed, 20-year-old Belhasa has been given a life of luxury.
This includes a £1 million trainer collection, supercars and a huge mansion with a zoo onsite.
Stars from the sports, music and celebrity worlds have all visited the zoo, including Mayweather himself.
It was in 2017 when the American legend first flew to meet Money Kicks, the pair even recorded a vlog as they toured the stunning campus.
Belhasa considers Mayweather to be his idol and has even outdone himself in the boxer’s ‘money team’ merchandise.
So when Mayweather, 44, announced in December that he was returning to the ring for an exhibition in Dubai, he turned to Money Kicks as a rival.
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Belhasa told SunSport: “Floyd has always been a respectable, quiet guy, a polite guy, and I always had a TMT merchant with me before I met Floyd.
“I took pictures and always wore his merchant. Always a respectable guy.
“When I met him recently, he said, ‘You are the man.’ I said, ‘Which man?’ And he said, ‘You are the man, you always support me’.
“I didn’t know he knew me. That was four years ago, five years ago, and he’s always shown love.”
Mayweather met Belhasa for the first time four months after officially retiring, following a tenth-round stoppage over 33-year-old ex-UFC champion Conor McGregor.
But he has made a comeback twice in showings against 23-year-old Japanese featherweight kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa on New Year’s Eve in 2018.
Then last June, he was distanced by 26-year-old US YouTuber Logan Paul, over eight rounds in Miami.
Fans believed Mayweather would step into the ring for the last time until his shock announcement at the helipad of Dubai’s Burj Al Arab hotel.
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Soon after revealing plans to fight on the helipad actually 700 meters above sea level, Mayweather called a meeting with representatives from Belhasa.
Money Kicks revealed: “Floyd had like a press conference on the helipad. I didn’t see it, but the next day Floyd’s team wanted to meet.
“I didn’t know what they wanted, we met, I brought my lawyers, I brought my team.
“We met and as I was leaving the meeting I saw Floyd saying, ‘I’d love to fight Rushed.’
“And then I posted it and it went viral – and now it’s with the lawyers. It’s too close too soon inshallah.”
Mayweather retired as the self-proclaimed ‘best of all’ with an unmatched 50-0 record and world titles in FIVE weights.
Whereas Belhasa has the boxing experience of just one year and two celebrity bouts beating Anas Elshaib and Ajmal Khan.
The vlogger is now ready to put the honor of her hero aside, at least until the last bell.
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He said: “When we enter the ring, you think this guy is going to try and knock me out and make me dumb.
“Then you have to fight back. I’ll respect that after the fight, but anything can happen in the middle of a fight.”
The two are still in talks, with lawyers overlooking contracts for a proposed eight-round exhibition.
Mayweather dismissed Nasukawa in just one round in Tokyo, but Paul was able to use his two stone weight advantage to avoid a late attack.
So Belhasa is ready to face any variant in the ring, but after the first shot lands the fun and the game ends.
He said: “You never know with Floyd, I saw Logan fight and he was going easy in the beginning and then he went crazy.
“I know if I engage with a strong punch, Floyd won’t like it.
“I saw that with the Japanese guy who used to fight Floyd, the kickboxer, that guy punched him, Floyd got mad, pounced, kicked him out.”
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