Roger Mayweather, "Floyd's Legacy Needs A Pacquiao Rematch."

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  1. abuffy

    abuffy Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Roger Mayweather: That’s what they should do[have a rematch]. If you’re going to give the fans a hundred percent of your performance, then you need to do that and go in the ring healthy and produce what you would have produced the first time, a good performance. That’s what boxing’s about. Floyd’s legacy is going to be good but he needs to close that legacy with Pacquiao. He needs to go back and him and Pacquiao need to do it again. That’s what I think. To close the door in terms of victory, that’s what he needs to do. That would put him amongst the greatest fighters, but Floyd had a good, long legacy anyways. He will be amongst some of the greatest fighters but he’s got to close the thing with Pacquiao before he ever does that, because that’s one of the known guys that people respect and I think that’s the guy that he’s gonna have to beat or have to show something with. I think that the people didn’t see the performance they should have seen. Since they didn’t get the performance that they should have seen, I think that Floyd and Pacquiao should do it again and close out what they have in a performance of what the people should have seen. That’s what I think."


    This is from Roger himself! What does this sound like to you? Sounds like hype to me.

    I don't think Floyd Mayweather himself will truly start hyping it up until after his next fight. There's no point. It's too premature at this time, but that's just my opinion. I think Floyd will deny, deny, deny rematch. Then, after his 49-0 fight, he will start hyping the rematch whether it's trash talk or playing the injury narrative, whatever. Though, his team seems to be doing it early.

    PS I don't believe Mayweather needs a rematch for his legacy.
     
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  2. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    Roger cashed that check and was like, "Ohhhhhhh!!!!!!"
     
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  3. nervousxtian

    nervousxtian Trolljegeren Full Member

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    Roger's more than bit punchy. Nothing he ever says is worth listening too, except for comedic purposes.
     
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  4. Jeff M

    Jeff M Future ESB HOF Full Member

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    Someone must have translated whatever he said into English. But essentially I think Roger feels like big Floyd in that they both believe Floyd could have hurt Pac or possibly stopped him.
     
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  5. abuffy

    abuffy Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Lol yup ^
     
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  6. counterstrike

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    :lol:

    He isn't wrong though. Well not that his legacy NEEDS it, but that it would improve his legacy with a rematch with both guys really giving it their all.
     
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  7. abuffy

    abuffy Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    You're right! Roger says he and others thought Mayweather would get the KO. He even went as far to say Mayweather was disappointed in himself that he didn't. However, Roger contributed that to hurt hands. He said Mayweather's hands were hurting and, in the rematch, he would knock him out.
     
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  8. Ducklerr

    Ducklerr Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    You say contributed, I say attributed, let's call the whole thing off.
     
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  9. abuffy

    abuffy Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    My bad you grammar nazi. I'll give you that one.
     
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  10. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    Floyd just got done tapping that two weeks ago and some people are still yelling about a rematch DESPITE those same people not giving him any credit in the first place. I genuinely do not feel that a rematch does anything for his legacy unless he loses, draws, or wins a robbery. Not even years down the line will a rematch victory matter. What would the rematch do for him that the first didn't?

    He cannot win peoples' hearts. If the shoe was on the other foot, nobody would be calling for a rematch. It's just that the bad guy won in a boring fight, everyone is upset.

    I said Pacquiao would be just like every other opponent as far as the hype, the preemptive damage control, the excuses, and then lastly the rewriting of history goes as far as limiting as much credit as possible to Floyd. I was correct.
     
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  11. Ducklerr

    Ducklerr Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    More of a diction Nazi.

    Oops, there I go again.
     
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  12. ryan_c

    ryan_c Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Even Roger knows that Floyd lost against Pac.
     
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  13. Jeff M

    Jeff M Future ESB HOF Full Member

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    The thing is, Floyd's hands aren't getting any better, rematch or not. If his hands hadn't failed him a long time ago he'd have some more KO's.
     
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  14. King Beterbiyev

    King Beterbiyev Member Full Member

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    No need for a rematch

    Mayweather should stop ducking King Khan
     
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  15. counterstrike

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    Regarding the bold, I was hoping for an epic trilogy :D

    You are right about almost everything in that last paragraph except for your implications about Pacquaio being like every other opponent in terms of level as well. He nullified Mayweather's offense, making his connect rate more like 20%, lower than ever before. But likewise, Mayweather nullified Manny's offense. They are both incredibly skilled fighters. The only credit I don't give is if you believe that Mayweather deserves credit for dominating Manny and showing that he was on a different level. Now I can't give that credit because that just wasn't the case.
     
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