![](http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/b0ljzQBjw3cLbDxMLkjq3Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusnflexperts/yahoo_maywetherocho.jpg "Maywether and Chad Johnson in February. Hopefully, Floyd didn't bet the over on Chad surviving "Hard Knocks." (AP)")
Maywether and Chad Johnson in February. Hopefully, Floyd didn't bet the over on Chad surviving "Hard Knocks." …
Last week, reports came out that boxer Floyd Mayweather bet $3 million in a total of nine different sports books on the Alabama-Michigan game. Turned out that the reports were erroneous, but Mayweather confirmed that he did make a huge pile of scratch on the NFL's regular-season opener, a 24-17 win by the Dallas Cowboys over the New York Giants.
Mayweather laid $200,000 on the Cowboys in the second half, and came away a big winner when Dallas outscored the Giants, 17-14, in the final 30 minutes.
This time, Mayweather confirmed the win via his Twitter account:
Nice scratch, if you can lay it. (@FloydMaywether)
Not a bad little payday.
This wouldn't be the first time Mayweather bet big on sports, but the rumors of his gambling aren't always true -- he denies once dropping $1.8 million on a regular-season L.A. Clippers game, but he did bet a cool $1 million against Tim Tebow's Denver Broncos in their divisional playoff loss to the New England Patriots last season. He also has reportedly pocketed $900,000 on the results of a New Jersey (now Brooklyn) Nets-New York Knicks game.
"A $50,000 bet, or a $100,000 bet, that's a normal bet," Mayweather told MLive.com in April. "I don't really get like, into, 'Oh, I won $100,000,' at all. Once you've been involved with it for so long, if you lose a couple hundred [thousand], you'll be like, 'OK, let me wait for the right pick -- the right, right pick -- and I'll get a hundred from that.' Then wait for another right pick. Win a couple hundred, then you're up. It's about having more ups than downs."
Mayweather has had his share of both recently -- he was guaranteed a $32 million purse for his eventual win over Miguel Cotto in May, and then started serving two months of a three-month prison sentence in July on a misdemeanor battery domestic violence conviction. Mayweather, 2011's highest-paid athlete according to Forbes, was released on Aug. 3.