Cornelius Bundrage and Ishe Smith meet Saturday for the IBF title (Tom Casino/Showtime)For years, Ishe Smith has been among the top boxers in the world, but he never fulfilled the promise he showed when he began his career by winning his first 15 in a row. Despite plenty of talent, Smith was more often than not on the outside looking in when it came to opportunity and production.

He was a guy blessed with a lot of natural ability but without a lot of direction. Things got so bad for him, Smith told Steve Kim of MaxBoxing.com in an emotional and very candid interview, that he contemplated suicide.

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Smith told Kim that his life hit a low spot in 2008 and 2009, when he began having thoughts of suicide.

Well, you're not living. It's like you're dead already because you're not even thinking about life during that time. It's like your body is alive and you're here but you’re dead mentally and I think that’s one thing I could be blessed with is to be with sound mind because I was dead mentally

Floyd Mayweather, hanging with Lakers guard Steve Nash, is bigger than big time. (Getty)

Tuesday's news of Floyd Mayweather leaving HBO for a monster six-bout, pay-per-view deal with Showtime created shock waves in the boxing world, but in the afterglow of the announcement it was something else that really stuck out.

Leonard Ellerbe, the CEO of Mayweather Promotions, was expounding on how Mayweather wanted to remain active and participate in fan-friendly bouts that promised excitement. And then he said this:

"Floyd could beat any of them guys, from 140 to 147 and from 154 to 160."

In what is typical of the Mayweather camp, Ellerbe then proceeded to soften the declaration.

"I didn't say he was fighting at [middleweight], just that he could beat all them guys in those weights. We'll see what he chooses to do."

Well, if it were up to Floyd -- who normally fights at welterweight (147 pounds) but whose last fight was at junior middleweight (154) -- he'd probably choose to wait until "all them guys" lost first or beat each other up, but we're more than happy to help with the

Mike Tyson today. (Getty Images)Mike Tyson is enjoying a career resurgence, a second (third?) chapter in his life in which the former heavyweight champion is proving to be far sharper and funnier than we'd given him credit for back during his boxing days.

He's reshaped his image with a memorable cameo in "The Hangover" (you can't hear "In The Air Tonight" without doing Tyson drums anymore, can you?), a one-man show ("The Undisputed Truth") and appearances on shows like "Law & Order." And now he's trying to address some of his financial matters. He's filed suit against SFX Financial Advisory Management Enterprises, a financial services firm owned by Live Nation, charging that one of its advisers embezzled more than $300,000 from him, as well as cost him millions in potential future earnings.

Tyson's suit claims that SFX has not given Tyson a complete picture of the embezzled money, and while SFX has returned some of the money, has asked Tyson to sign a nondisclosure agreement. Tyson's suit seeks more than $5 million