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Mayweather: NFL Wrong on Rice

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“A lot worse things.”

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Standing pretty much alone in the public sphere, Floyd Mayweather Jr. is saying that the NFL was too harsh on Ray Rice, and should have just stuck with the two-game suspension. "I think there's a lot worse things that go on in other people's households, also," the professional boxer said. "It's just not caught on video, if that's safe to say." Mayweather, it should be noted, has spent two months in jail after pleading guilty to reduced domestic abuse charges after attacking his former girlfriend while their children watched.

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