LA (DS) -- Floyd Mayweather Jr., the undefeated WBC welterweight champion of the world, stunned the sports world yesterday by announcing that he expects to be paid 20 million dollars for appearing in one WWE Wrestlemania match. In a related story, he then accidentally revealed that all boxing is fake.

"This is a really great opportunity for me. I'm tired of pretending to win boxing matches. What gets me up in the morning now is pretending to wrestle," rambled Mayweather during a press conference, before adding "Oh and the 20 million dollar paydays. Those are good too."

Boxing journalists were completely shocked to find out so bluntly that the once noble sport of kings is in fact just as fixed as TV wrestling and NASCAR. "To think that all of the great moments that made boxing great... Sonny Liston intentionally trying to blind Muhammad Ali during a fight, Mike Tyson biting off Evander Holyfield's ear, Sugar Ray Robinson killing Jimmy Doyle in the ring in 1947 ... that all those wonderful moments could've been fake!? It really makes me sad," weeped Bob Carlisle, writer for the Nevada Post-Gazette.

Responding to the news, a doddering old Muhammad Ali quickly shook off his fake Parkinson's and explained through his thick British accent that he didn't see what the big deal was.