Now, Brandon Rios, all of them, they fight dirty, they test up dirty; nobody ain't saying nothing about this. They fighting dirty. Marcos [Maidana], he's fighting dirty. Ain't nobody said nothing about that. If Adrien would've did that, it would've been crazy. If Floyd would do something like that, they'd go crazy, but once they do it, it's okay and they call them a tough fighter. Ain't no way that you supposed to head-butt somebody like that. No way. He could've broke his jaw. Look at football; they fining people $30-$50,000 for an illegal hit. Why these referees and inspectors can't see that and fine these guys. That was illegal. Adrien, with that head-butt, he could've been out, broken jaw, messed up for the rest of his life, but they ain't saying nothing like that. You know what they saying? He got his ass kicked. That ain't right, you know. All they saying is that he got his ass kicked, but they ain't saying he got head-butt and everything; blatant head-butt. The referee took a point. Now you know it was blatant if the referee took a point. He should've just got disqualified right away. Then he came back with an elbow, you know. They could look at film and shit and see that and disqualify this guy. This guy didn't want to fight, man; he wanted to rough my guy up, you know. They're fighting, you know, I understand that, but that's why you got 3 people in the ring. You got people in the ring that's supposed to stop all that and Laurence Cole, he didn't stop it. He was looking one-sided, you know.
BT: Roger came out and said a lot of negative things about Adrien, but then you had Big Floyd saying he wanted to train him. Obviously if Big Floyd is looking to work with Adrien, he must see a lot of potential in him, so I would think that kind of contradicts Roger's statements.
MS: Right! Right! He want him just like he wanted De La Hoya. He want him just like Ricky Hatton. He want him just like he got all them other guys down there, you know what I'm saying. I mean, that's case in point. How you gonna train everybody? Now you got everybody down there, you gonna train everybody. You got Big Floyd down there; you need to train your son. How you gonna do all of that with good intentions? You know what I'm saying. Because he never did that before. I've never seen him train no group of fighters. I was Olympic coach. I train with two teams at one time. I was a two-time Olympic coach and a World Championship coach. You know, all the guys that he's training was in our camp, you know. So how in the hell he gonna train my fighter and have interest in him. Shit!
BT: So Adrien's okay? There's no issues with his jaw or anything?
MS: Nah. He got a CAT Scan and it was good. The reason why he didn't talk; people talking about, "Well why he didn't talk?" He couldn't talk. He couldn't even open his mouth. He was hurt from a vicious fight, which was a good fight which I think is candidate for Fight of the Year. You know, he finished out strong. He didn't lay down. All of a sudden now, they want to say he ain't this, he ain't that, you know. He finished strong. 24-year-old against a 31-year-old experienced man. They didn't give him no credit. All they're saying is that he got his ass whooped, you know, but if the shoe was on the other foot, it would've been different. They don't say nothing about Adrien except he got his ass kicked and he crying about the decision; crying about this and crying about that and all this bullshit.
Then when he walked out the arena, they threw all kinds of shit on him. Did they put anybody in jail? At a basketball game, if you do that, they'll put you in jail or ban you from the arena. Suppose one of those cups would've hit him in the eye. He would've been through for life. Here it is, you paying $100 for a ticket and then you throw a cup or something on somebody that's worth $3 million or $4 million, ruin they career, and you just paid $100 to sit in a seat. Come on, man. That's what we got ushers for, that's what we got security for, and they seen that. They want the worst for Adrien. Everything they doing is the worst, but they didn't realize that Adrien couldn't talk, you know what I'm saying. He wanted to go to the hospital; he thought his jaw was broke. As soon as he went straight to the back, he said, "I want to go to the hospital." He's tough enough; he never has said nothing like that. He even got hurt before in the gym and he don't never wanna go to the hospital. He was hurtin' inside. I done seen him almost hurt his hand and he never went to the hospital, you know what I'm saying. He was real concerned. That head-butt was real, real vicious, and then with the elbow right behind it. People ain't saying nothing about that. All they saying is he's crying about this, he's crying about that. It's just bullshit; straight bullshit.
BT: Obviously you're not already looking ahead to your next plans, but after a tough fight like that, do you want Adrien to take a longer break before getting back in the ring?
MS: We waiting on this decision with this investigation and all that stuff. As soon as that investigation is over, I'll talk to Al [Haymon] and we'll get everything together, but right now, we just waiting on the investigation. That's the next plan. Adrien's fine. He did a welcome party last night. Over 600 people came to see him and he had a nice time; he had a real nice time and people was congratulating him saying he was their champion. I tell you what, wasn't no cup and bottles thrown at him last night. It was a lot of love; a lot of love. Wasn't no beer bottles and all that stuff thrown at him; spit on him. Yeah, they spit on him and everything. It was the worst thing. They should never give a fight down there again until they have all those fans give an apology to the commissioner, because it's bad on the commission. And you seen people spit on him and everything, but are you seeing that in the news? Spitting on him and everything. Throwing cups and everything over a fight. And they just the spectators, you know. Shit. Over a fight; over a sport. They was trying to get him in a life and death situation. Just think if they had a gun or an object, they would've shot him. They wanted to kill him. That was real, real disrespectful. That ain't right. That is not right.
BT: Mike, I appreciate you reaching out to me to respond to those comments. Is there anything else you want to get off your chest before I let you go?
MS: With the Floyd thing, you know, I respect Floyd Jr. I knew him, you know what I'm saying, in the amateurs, knew him in the Olympic movement, and he's a good kid. But Floyd Sr. and Roger do not know my kid, you know what I'm saying. Floyd Jr. and Adrien have developed a good relationship. I don't know if they jealous of that relationship. They should just leave them be. Let them be friends, you know what I'm saying, and whatever comes out of it, comes out of it. You know, it's just like kids in a playground. You arguing with kids in a playground and next thing you know, the parents get in it, they arguing, and the next day, the kids out there playing. Now the parents looking stupid. Why you arguing over kids? No matter what Floyd Sr. say or Roger say, Floyd and Adrien going to be friends because they done developed a relationship. And even with some of the boxers in their stable, Adrien has developed a friendly relationship with these guys. It's not up to the trainers saying this and saying that; that ain't up to them because they don't know Adrien. They don't know the relationship with Floyd; they have developed a relationship. Them guys talk on the phone. We old guys, you know what I'm saying. I'm 57. I'm pretty sure Floyd is in his 50's. I'm pretty sure Roger is in his 50's. So why would you worry about what's going on with these kids, you know. Let these kids be kids because they gonna be friends when we dead and gone. Let the other kids coming up learn from these kids. Adrien got kids that love him; Floyd got kids that love him. Ain't no time for nobody to have no bad blood and be talking about nobody. We ain't got time to be talking about each other because boxing is a small state