Why Exactly Is Mayweather vs GGG Unrelistic?

here we go again , learn about weight classes FFS .

floyd fights at 147 , GGG fights at 160 and very likely moving to 168 in the very near future , the people that call for this fight are 1d1ots .

all the ridiculous interviews you hear from reporters that know nothing about boxing throw this question around a lot , the fighters just humor them by answering with "yea why not" when what they are really thinking is "man you suck at your job" .

 

As a massive Duran fan and someone who doesn't like Floyd much I'll give this a stab.

The fact that Duran started at a lower weight isn't really relevant because he turned pro at 16. By 19 he was already fighting at LW. Floyd didn't have his first fight at LW until he was 25. Duran also had a habit of putting on masses of weight in between fights, something that Floyd never does. This made it harder for Duran to continue to cut down to the same weight over and over again and so his "natural weight" started to move higher and higher over the course of his career. The Hagler fight was his first at MW and he was 33. Duran giving possibly the greatest MW of all-time all that he could handle in his first ever MW fight is one of the greatest things I have ever witnessed. Floyd is at the very tail end of his career and is not cutting much weight to make WW, if any. He would have to really bloat up and risk losing all the things that make him the fighter he is to get anywhere near 160 so that he could have the strength to contend with a natural and extremely powerful MW like GGG.

 

- Floyd is 38
- Floyd is a small Welterweight (weighed in at 148 going to jail, has never been recorded over 150 in the ring)
- GGG is not a massive name. I could see him fighting at MW if there was a mega-fight to be made, but their isn't.

 

The last point is also critical and something I left out. People forget Hagler was the A-side against Duran. He made $5mil to Duran's $1.5mil.

 

1. GGG fights on HBO. Mayweather fights on Showtime
2. GGG has never fought at 154 in his entire adult life
3. Mayweather is a small WW, who has fought a few times at 154 for big pay days.
4. GGG would outweigh Mayweather by 20 llbs in the ring.
5.Mayweather is 38 and fighting his last fight and should hardly be expected to fight a prime fighter from 2 divisions above him in a retirement fight.

Thats why its unrealistic

 

if floyd wants to fight him, it is easy for them to make it. size is not too far actually. floyd fought canelo, oscar and cotto. he can even beat him since he is fleet footed to avoid exchanges and just score points to win but it takes a lot to become an atg and not everyone has it.

 

the most floyd has weighed in at fight night was 152 for a 154 fight. ggg weighs in on fight night at 173 or 174. and its not like floyd should do it to please his haters and critics because they just move the goalpost, they have been doing it for years

 

Just a technicality, but GGG has weighed 173 on fight night once. He's usually 170. And as far as I know there was never a fight night weight given for Floyd/Cotto so we don't know if he weighed more than the 152 he was for the weigh-in.

 

In this time and age it,s all about the money....in the 50,s 60,s this fight would have been made. PBF will fight Cotto or khan ( low risk, high reward )

 

I was more surprised when people were suggesting Floyd go up to MW.

 

I understand why May vs GGG is quite unrealistic fight but not for business reasons. GGG is relatively good draw at the moment. Mayweather has fought lot of low caliber and unpopular fighter in the past years (Guerrero, Ortiz, Mosley). And he already made big money in his last fight.

And same time people are talking Lara as a realistic opponent for GGG. Lara is 154 pounder like Floyd - Do we need a double standards again? The real question is why Mayweather won´t fight Lara? At least they are in the same division.

 

Why do you say Floyd is a 154 lber? :think

He has 2 career fights at the full 154 lb limit out of 48 career bouts. One was 3 years ago and the other was 8 years ago and he weighed 152 and 150 at the respective weigh-ins.

 

Ggg has and Hbo exclusive contract.

Hbo and Showtime where willing to work together for the Pacquaio fight as it brought in so much money would they be willing to work together for this fight?