Why do people keep saying Floyd needs to fight Martinez?

I'd say Floyd is a small welterweight. pacquiao, who everyone considers a small welter, in his last fight weighed more than Floyd ever has. Mayweather happens to have an elongated build.

 

I laugh at people saying Martinez is still a 154lber

i laughed when Paul Williams was a 154 and 160 for several years and people were ranking him as a welter and picking him over all these fighters and ranking him as a welter when he hadnt fought there in a few yrs and didnt plan to

Martinez wont move down and probably wouldnt comfortably make the weight

i could see him maybe bending to the almighty dollar to retire with a big check

if Floyd fights Martinez it should be at middle or at a catchweight like Oscar did vs Hopkins

 

But the Middleweight division has history, and prestige. Besides he's an Argentine. If he could I bet he'd like to be considered better than the great (greatest in my book) Middleweight Carlos Monzon! I don't think it's possible but I think he thinks it is. In his mind beating Mayweather will be like Monzon beating Nopales.

 

Yeah Sergio could make that easily. Only a hater would complain about this fight even with the the catchweight

Those extra 3.5 pounds are going to be the hardest to lose for the 38+ year old Martinez.
Don't get me wrong though, I do want to see this fight and preferably at 154. I hope I'm wrong about the weight

:yep yeah I feel you. Tbh, this fight is first on my wishlist. I have a bad feeling about history repeating itself again, but if Sergio offers the fight again to Floyd, he should accept.

 

LOL Im sorry but because he failed to make the weight with Marquez fight doesn't mean he is a small WW.

SRL says he is, and many others have too.....I will take their word over yours....it is a well known fact Mayweather doesn't drain and probably because he was off for 21 months got his weight wrong for the fight.

That doesn't mean he isn't a small WW when clearly he is.

Martinez fought at 154lb 4 years ago not 3. Yes he did weigh 157.5lbs and then rehydrated for the fight Floyd weighed in 151lbs for his last fight and lost weight for the actual fight! Even if you take the weigh in weights that is a disparity of 6.5lbs MORE on fight night!

 

No one else is claming to be the best fighter ever born.

Also, David Haye has been outweighed by 30+ pounds in his last 3-4 fights.

You're talking about 8 ****ing pounds.

 

JMM was a 135lb fighter that had NEVER fought north of that division.

Mosley was NOT a P4P fighter when Mayweather fought him. He wasn't even in the top 20

 

He doesn't need to. It would be really impressive if he did.

 

Margarito sucks.

 

What does that matter when you're the greatest fighter on the planet?

 

Truth

 

Marquez was weighing more than Mayweather on fight night ever since his 130 lb days.

 

I don't think the Haye comparison is legit. It's proportional. Weight is gonna mean less and less as you get higher in the weight divisions.

 

That's it. And as fans of course we're going to call for these guys to push themselves.