Boxing

Gloves are off ... Floyd Mayweather is hitting Adrien Broner where it hurts -- calling him a broke ass "snake" who's become a real life problem.

Mayweather called in to FightHype.com and went off on his former friend ... ripping him for everything from AB's legal issues to his boxing record to his bank account.

It's brutal ... especially the part where Mayweather says AB stands for "Always Broke."

"One of my cars cost more than he made in his whole career."

Yeah, but one of your cars cost more than MOST PEOPLE make in their career.

Wanna see Matt Barnes beat the living hell out of Derek Fisher? Great, now you can.

A dude named Eric Bui turned the feuding NBA stars into characters in the new "EA Sports UFC 2" video game ... and let 'em battle it out in the Octagon.

It didn't go well for Fisher.

Enjoy!

Oscar De La Hoya says he's known Donald Trump for decades -- and says he "truly feels" his old friend's antics are simply an act in a diabolical plot to get Hillary Clinton elected.

He's dead serious.

Oscar joined the guys on the "TMZ Sports" TV show on FS1 -- and brought up Trump ... saying Donald inspired him to put together his upcoming superfight between Canelo Alvarez and Amir Khan because they both come from backgrounds that Trump has targeted in his campaign.

Amir is Muslim and Canelo is Mexican ... and Oscar says, "Let me put them in there and create this big mega event and show Trump that we belong in this country."

They fight in Vegas on May 7th.

Floyd Mayweather stopped a media tour dead in its tracks to shout-out a 15-year-old prodigy who's taking the boxing world by storm ... and Floyd says he could be the next Money Team fighter!

Mayweather was at the W Hotel in D.C. when he noticed Lorenzo "Truck" Simpson in the crowd ... and stopped an interview to call out the kid.

"I see it, that kid can fight!"

Turns out, his instincts were right ... Truck reportedly has a 145-2 record as an amateur and has SIX National Silver Gloves titles under his belt.

In the clip, Floyd said he wants to sign Truck "when he gets a little older" -- explaining, "Everything takes time. We ain't worry about that. We'll get there."

Afterward, Mayweather issued a statement to TMZ Sports saying, "[Truck] is a great amateur fighter. His is only 15 right now but I look forward to working with him when he turns 18."

Step aside Marco Rubio, legendary boxing promoter Bob Arum says Donald Trump is a "disgrace" and wants to take him down in a boxing match.

Arum thinks the other Republican candidates are going soft on Trump. At a boxing event Friday he vowed, "I'll handle him, not like these guys who don't hit him and treat him with kid gloves."

Watch the clip ... he's talking a big game.

Mayweather-Pacquiao would never have happened if a Hollywood waiter didn't get involved ... so claims the waiter who's suing to get a chunk of the financial windfall from the fight of the century.

Gabriel Salvador says he was a waiter at West Hollywood hot spot Craig's when regular customer and CBS honcho Les Moonves came in for a meal. Salvador, an avid boxing fan, says he told Moonves he could set up a meeting with Manny Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach -- which, he thought, would be the first domino in making the fight happen.

According to docs obtained by TMZ Sports ... Salvador eventually got all 3 men together at Scarpetta in Bev Hills in May 2014. For setting up the sit down, Salvador says he told all parties he wanted a "customary finder's fee" of 2% of gross proceeds earned by Pacquiao, Roach and CBS/Showtime from the fight.

In the suit, he says Moonves and Roach agreed to the terms and Roach even said, "You will never have to work another day as a waiter in your life."

Salvador admits he got a ticket to the fight, one night at a Vegas hotel and a $10,000 check to cover expenses.

After the fight, he says Moonves told him CBS didn't make any money on the fight, and he'd have to collect his fee from Pacquiao and Roach. But Salvador says Keith Davidson, an attorney for Manny and Freddie, tried to strong arm him into accepting $50,000 -- and if he didn't he would lose his job and never land any acting gigs.

Yes, like most waiters in this town ... he's also an aspiring actor.

Salvador, who's still waiting tables, is suing Manny, Freddie, Keith Davidson and CBS for his finder's fee ... which he estimates at $8.6 million.

Sources connected with CBS tell TMZ ... Salvador had nothing to do with setting up the fight and this is him trying to score a payday after the fact.

Nina Agdal is the latest model to head into a ring with a trainer, proving hot babes are to boxing what football players are to dabbin'... they're all doing it.

The S.I. 2014 cover girl hit the ring at the world famous 5th St. gym in Miami with owner Dino Spencer.

Dino says Nina's a regular who comes in and trains everyday when she's in town.

Her workout is no joke ... 3 minutes of heavy hitting followed by a minute of lunges, burpees and planks ... done 15 times.

Normally, seeing Nina with so much clothing would be a bummer, but check out her killer reflexes!

She a TKO.

The superfight at Jerry World is one step closer to fruition ... 'cause Oscar De La Hoya met with Jerry Jones Thursday to discuss Canelo Alvarez vs. GGG at AT&T Stadium.

As we previously reported, Gennady Golovkin's camp had been in touch with Jones -- who expressed great interest in hosting the fight at his mega-stadium in Dallas in September.

Well, Oscar reps Canelo -- and made the trip to Big D to push along the conversation ... and by the looks of things, it's going well.

There are two other venues in the running -- the MGM Grand in Vegas and NYC's Madison Square Garden ... but we're told both sides REALLY want to make this thing happen in Dallas.

BTW, we spoke with GGG earlier this week about the prospect of fighting at AT&T Stadium -- and the guy was PUMPED ... telling us it would be "HUGE" for the sport.

Magic Johnson is lashing out at Manny Pacquiao -- saying he'll NEVER watch another Pacman fight after he trashed gays as "worse than animals."

The NBA legend went to Twitter and wrote, "I applaud Nike for terminating Manny Pacquiao's contract after his derogatory statements that gay people are worse than animals."

"Fans of all walks of life including gay fans supported May/Pac fight putting $100M in his pocket. I guess to him their money is still green."

"I won't be watching another one of Manny Pacquiao's fights."

Multiple sources tell TMZ Sports ... Nike is preparing to cut ties with boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao after his latest round of anti-gay comments.

The two sides have had a relationship since at least 2006 -- but we're told Nike is particularly disturbed after Pacquiao said gay people are "worse than animals" ... and intend to drop the boxer for good.

We're told the move is not official yet -- but there have been multiple discussions and we're told it appears to be heading in that direction.

We reached out to Manny's rep -- so far, no comment.

By the way, it appears Nike has removed all traces of Manny from its online store.

Boxer Amir Khan says he was so serious about fighting Floyd Mayweather -- he offered to take the fight for FREE ... but Mayweather still ducked him because he's "afraid."

Khan was a in Pebble Beach for the Pro-Am -- when he dished about the failed negotiations to fight the legend ... and talked some smack at the same time.

Heavyweight champ Deontay Wilder says after he hangs up the gloves he might just pick up the collar ... and become the toughest preacher ever to walk the earth.

Wilder was at LAX when we asked about his pre-fight prayer ritual and whether or not he thinks it helps him successfully punish his opponents.

That's when the champ got all holy on us ... saying that not only does prayer work for him, but that he's gonna help it work for everyone else ... by being a preacher when he retires from the ring.

Ronda Rousey suddenly has more people wanting to train her than Anakin Skywalker ... first Chuck Liddell, and now boxer Andre Berto has offered his help to aid Ronda in bashing Holly Holm's face.

TMZ Sports spoke to Berto and he told us he agrees with Ronda's mom ... who blamed Ronda's current trainer for not having Rousey ready to throw hands with Holm. But Berto thinks he can change all that.

"Ronda isn't a pure boxer, Holly is. She needs to focus more on her boxing and cutting off the ring. I'd love to stop by her gym and give some pointers.”

It's obvious Ronda is on the comeback trail -- we saw her knocking the ring rust off with her trainer recently -- although it's unknown exactly when she'll make her return.

Andre can help Ronda no matter the opponent ... pointing out that his father and brother have both fought MMA so he knows his way around the octagon.

Jerry Jones is in the running to host a possible Gennady Golovkin vs. Canelo Alvarez fight at AT&T Stadium in Dallas ... Triple G's promoter tells TMZ Sports.

There are tentative plans for the two boxing superstars to fight in September (if contracts can be worked out) ... and GGG's promoter, Tom Loeffler, says one of the possible venues is Jerry's World.

"Jerry Jones has watched GGG's last few fights and he expressed a big interest in having the fight in Dallas at his stadium," Loeffler tells us.

"GGG will fight anywhere, but he's aware of Jerry Jones and the atmosphere in his stadium. Whenever Jerry Jones gets involved, he takes promotion to a new level."

"You hear 70,000 people screaming ... the huge video board... it's an amazing venue. And GGG understands the popularity of the Cowboys, the influence they have in the U.S. and around the world."

"I'd love to see that happen."

Loeffler says there are two other venues in the running -- the MGM Grand in Vegas and Madison Square Garden in NYC.

If the two fighters do manage to hammer out a contract, we're told the fight will go down on Sept. 17th. But first, GGG has to emerge victorious in his upcoming fight with Dominic Wade on April 23rd at the Forum in L.A.

Deontay Wilder is promising to give fellow heavyweight champ Tyson Fury a religious experience ... saying he's going to "baptize" the Irish brawler when they step in the ring together.

We got the bronze bomber leaving Super Bowl 50 and asked him what he has in store for Fury if Tyson can get past Wladimir Klitschko in their upcoming rematch.

Check out the clip -- Deontay seems confident he's going to beat the hell out of Fury if they ever step into the ring together ... saying he'd knock him out inside four rounds.

"You need to shave" -- Adrien Broner to stripper.

Some people would call it rude ... others might say he's considerate ... either way, the boxer was dishing out grooming advice to strippers at the booty club the other night and TMZ Sports has the footage.

Broner and his crew hit up Blue Flame in Atlanta where he threw out $10,000 in cash -- but everything came to a grinding halt when he noticed one of the ladies had a flashback to the '80s below the belt.

So, why is Broner so anti-fuzz? Might have something to do with a story he told back in 2013.