When trainer Jeff Mayweather told Shannon Briggs last weekend in Phoenix that he was leaving camp, they seemingly parted on good terms.

But Jeff being a Mayweather, he likes to talk, and Briggs isn't happy with what came out of the trainer's mouth.

Mayweather told Ryan Songalia, a reporter for the Philippines boxing site, PhilBoxing, that Briggs' camp was in "chaos" because Shannon had brought in Chuck McGregor last month to help with the training.

"There was just so much chaos and confusion going on from one day to the next, you didn't know what was happening," Mayweather told PhilBoxing. "It was just too much for me because we were playing musical trainers. I'll work one day, Chuck works one day."

I called Briggs in Phoenix today about the split and he was not too thrilled when I read him what Mayweather had said. (Nor was he happy with something Shelly Finkel said, but we'll get to that later.

"Jeff's a great guy, but I wish he had kept his mouth closed and not have said the camp was in chaos," said Briggs, the Don King-promoted heavyweight. "I don't want to knock him, but hey, he is a Mayweather and I guess saying shit like that goes along with the name."

Asked if what was reported was accurate, Mayweather told me, "Yes, it's all true. I just hope for Shannon's sake that this doesn't disrupt his preparation for the fight."

Briggs, who grew up in real chaos in the rough Brownsville section of Brooklyn, said he was cool.
 

Briggs also explained why he had moved his original camp from the Defense Institute in high-altitude Colorado Springs, to Scottsdale, home of Lyakhovich (who was training in Las Vegas).

"I was adjusting fine to the altitude, but we got hit with this cold weather front. Cold I can't take, so we moved to Phoenix, which had been one of our original choices," Briggs said.

Briggs probably developed his aversion to cold because he was often homeless as a teenager, and at times slept on trains or in back alleys. He now lives in Florida.

As for Finkel, who tinkled with – or was it on? – Briggs for two months while presumably negotiating a deal for him to fight Wladimir Klitschko, the manager blamed Shannon for the long delay.

In an interview with Michael Woods of TheSweetScience, Finkel said talks broke down over a rematch clause. "We wanted a rematch in Germany, because we figure if we lost in the Garden (site of Nov. 11 fight), which we don't think is a possibility, then a rematch wouldn't be worth that much here, as it would in Germany."

Briggs scoffed at the veteran fight manager's words.

"I read somewhere that Shelly Finkel was saying Klitschko was going to knock me out in the first round. So then why was he so concerned about a rematch? If I am just a bum to him, and Klitschko's going to knock me out, he doesn't need a rematch clause. Hell, I'd fight a rematch with Klitschko on the moon. That's just his crap. Same old Shelly," Briggs said.