Gerald Yaneza and wife Love Joy pose in front of The Mayweather boxing club.
LAS VEGAS–Not in our house.
A Filipino couple briefly got away with wearing a Manny Pacquiao shirt inside Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s boxing gym here Thursday afternoon before leaving The Money Team territory.
Gerald Yaneza, who was proudly wearing a “Pac-Man Knows” shirt, and his wife Love Joy visited the gym just off the Chinatown district here and weren’t content with just a photo in front of the gym and bravely made their way inside.
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With Mayweather seemingly skipping training–not a single fan or any of his hulking guards were present at the gym–security was a little loose and the Yaneza couple managed to waltz into the gym and even got close enough to try and start a conversation with Mayweather’s uncle-slash-trainer Roger.
“How you doing Roger?” Gerald asked, offering a hand to Roger.
All he got was a blank stare from Roger.
“I guess Roger saw my shirt and obviously didn’t like what I’m wearing,” Gerald, who has been living in Miami, Florida since 1997, said with a laugh.
Outside, around six to eight members of Mayweather’s large crew, wearing TMT merchandise from top to bottom, saw Gerald.
A man sporting a black do-rag called his attention, “hey we selling TMT shirts here, you wanna buy?”
Another man wearing a black TMT baseball cap also fooled around with Gerald, “This is our house, you don’t go here wearing that shirt.”
Gerald laughed it off as he and Love Joy, both registered nurses, walked toward their car parked nearby.
“I can’t wait for Pacquiao to knock Mayweather out,” he said.