Besides posing with his new pet tiger and wearing a ridiculous fur coat, retired American boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. is also breaking a Guinness World Record in Russia.
With 791 participants and about 3,000 spectators, the masterclass boxing session organized by the Russian Timber Group and State Corporation Rostecheld conducted by Mayweather on Friday in Moscow broke a world record. It broke the 2014 record with 508 participants.
Sofia Greenacre, judge of Guinness World Records, presented the retired boxer an award for breaking the world record, reports Fox. Many of the participants were Russian youth, reports Daily Mail.
While his Friday boxing clinic received the thumbs up from the Guinness World Records, his Thursday post on Instagram was criticized by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), an animal rights group.
PETA Senior Vice President Lisa Lange said in a statement, "Floyd Mayweather can have anything he wants, and what he should want is an end to the wild animal trade, not to be a facilitator of it." She points out that tiger are not good pets since it should belong to their native habitat and not in a cage in a celebrity's home or a trophy to be shown off.
Lange adds that when the tiger grows older and becomes too strong to handle, it would likely be thrown to a roadside zoo or a cheap circus. She says that wild animals kept as amusements do not have a fighting chance of a natural life. Because these beasts are torn away from their mothers, it could be violently beaten by trainers and deprive the tiger of what is a natural, normal and important to the wild animal.
PETA askes Mayweather to move his advanced Christmas present to a wildlife sanctuary.