All the boxer has to do is read “Cat in the Hat” on Jimmy Kimmel

Aug 22, 2014 10:13 GMT  ·  By
50 Cent uses the Ice Bucket Challenge to issue a dare and a diss, but also to do something good for a cause
   50 Cent uses the Ice Bucket Challenge to issue a dare and a diss, but also to do something good for a cause

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge making the rounds online is offering rapper 50 Cent the perfect opportunity to diss his longtime rival boxer Floyd Mayweather and do something good for charity. He did the Challenge but brought to it a whole new and unexpected twist.

Some hours ago, the rapper went on social media to challenge Floyd, with whom he’s been feuding since 2012 over $2 million (€1.5 million) he allegedly stole from him (Floyd from Fiddy, that is), saying that he would donate the impressive amount of $750,000 (€564,314) to any charity of his choice.

The only condition is that the boxer be able to read out loud an entire page of a “Harry Potter” book “without starting and stopping or [messing] up.” So no, Fiddy didn’t douse himself with a bucket of ice water, even though he had it nearby, at the ready.

A while after, he came back to Instagram to make another, even better offer to the boxer: if them fancy words in “Harry Potter” are too much, Mayweather can just read “Cat in the Hat” as long as he does it on Jimmy Kimmel’s show, and 50 Cent will donate the money.

As of the time of writing, the boxer is yet to respond to the challenge. Even if he’s hurt by 50 Cent’s not-so-subtle insinuation that he’s half illiterate, he will probably do it because the rapper is willing to donate big money to charity. Accepting would also paint him as the kind of guy with a healthy sense of humor, as opposed to turning the challenge down.