It doesn't take much to shock Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Still, the boxer was reportedly jolted by T.I.'s aggressive approach at a Fatburger on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday morning, reports TMZ.
The showdown, that included flying chairs and an exchange of blows between the rapper and boxing champ, was supposedly sparked by an Instagram photo posted by the "Rubber Band Man" rapper's wife, Tameka (Tiny) Cottle, on May 5.
"You already know!!!" she wrote. "There's nothing like being surrounded by 'THE BEST EVER!!! Champion s--t @floydmayweather @thatshekinah @thereallraye1 & @ikitchie #teammayweather"
majorgirl/Via Instagram The tension between Floyd Mayweather and T.I. apparently began weeks ago when the rapper’s wife, Tameka, posted this Instagram pic while in Las Vegas for the big fight on May 4.
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majorgirl/Via Instagram T.I.'s wife (Tiny) posted this photo with Floyd Mayweather’s 14-year-old daughter on Saturday before the boxer and her husband got into a brawl at a Fatburger on the Las Vegas Strip. Enlarge The tension between Floyd Mayweather and T.I. apparentely began weeks ago when the rapper’s wife, Tameka, posted a pic while in Las Vegas for the big fight on May 5. She posted another pic with the boxer's daughter over the weekend.
"I been knowing Tiny before T.I.," the 37-year-old fighter told celeb blogger Necole Bitchie in a phone interview, via Complex magazine, after the brawl. "I've never slept with her, I never kissed her, never touched her in no inappropriate way. Her friend Shekinah wanted to come to the (May 4th) fight, she brought Tiny with her. They came to the fight."
Mayweather told the site that Sunday morning's fight was not the first time T.I. approached him about the photo.
"(T.I.) came to me when I was in New York," he recalled. "He stepped to me when I was at a jewelry store like, 'Yo, let's go outside and talk.'"
Their initial conversation had T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, indicating that "these girls tryna play us against each other," and Money Mayweather questioned if he was talking about Tiny.
"Me and your wife don't have nothing … if you think so," Mayweather said he told the Atlanta rapper at the time.
Despite the tension, Tiny spent time in Sin City over the Memorial Day weekend and posted another photo on Instagram, this time with the boxer's 14-year-old daughter, Iyanna.
"Had to come celebrate with my new boo @moneyyaya," the reality star captioned the pic. "Happy Birthday bae."
According to Mayweather, after Tiny and her friend went his daughter's birthday party earlier in the day on Saturday, the "Dead and Gone" rapper's wife then attended a more adult party thrown by the boxer.
"Tiny and Shekinah was out here. They come to my party last night. They cool," he said. "We was at the strip club."
He thought "everything was cordial" until T.I. approached him again while he was eating at Fatburger in the early morning hours on Sunday.
This time around Mayweather wasn't so open to chat and told the 33-year-old rapper, "You need to get the f--k outta my face. That's what you better do."
Words were exchanged as their interaction became more heated by the second with Mayweather reminding T.I. of his profession as a boxing champ as a way to warn him to step away.
"You do it in the ring, I do it in the streets," T.I. responded according to the boxer, who shot back, "My man, I do it everywhere. You can find out if you want to."
Despite how out of hand things became, Mayweather did offer an apology to Tiny for telling T.I. to "control your b--ch" during the altercation.
"I don't want to say that about Tiny," he said. "So I do apologize to Tiny because she cool people. She never been disrespectful to me."
While T.I. did not go into specifics about what caused the fight, he did post a video on Instagram to dispel the rumors that Mayweather gave him two black eyes during the altercation.
"Two black what????? C'mon now," he captioned the clip. "Never in da history of n---a-dom. But nice try tho. Lol"
A rep for T.I. has yet to respond to the Daily News' request for comment.
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