Floyd rarely fought anyone that was young and hungry

Yes saying hes ducking Khan is ridiculous. Keith Thurman was a legit duck. A much tougher opponent than old Pac. But I can't blame FMJ for taking the money fight.

Mayweather chose the least possible resistance to the most money possible. Which is a prize fighting philosophy.

Of course it is not just a business, but also a sport. And the competitors should want to fight Thurman and Williams and all the young fighters.

 

A 38 year old pbf could have retired in the ring after schooling pac he had nothing left to prove. We have already been down this road with margo blame arum pbf agreed to fight him but wanted oscar as well and arum said no.
Williams lost to quintana right after beating margo then he moved up no time for that fight to happen.
Spence was never going to get that fight back then he had no name.
Brook I have no idea but he was largely unknown to the american public.
Cotto arum wouldn't let cotto within 3 time zones of pbf when both were with arum back in the day. Cotto leaves arum and the fight gets made funny how that works.
Porter was trash back then no interest in that fight.

 

Thurman, Brook, Spence, Porter, Williams, young hungry fighters with no names. Isn't that what the thread is about.

Thurman was his mandatory he ducked him.

FMJ left 10 million on the table to fight Margarito in 2007. Who at that time was one of the hungriest fighters in the world.

Like I said FMJ chose the easiest way to maximize his profit. Whether that is right or wrong is up to interpretation.

 

Arum was the blame for the margo fight not happening and he didn't leave 10 million on the table he left 8 but he got paid 8 million plus ppv share to fight baldo which is more than he would have made to fight margo plus the lineal title at 147 as well. Thurman was not in the plan he fought canelo maidana and pac instead.

 

So he got paid more money to fight Baldo than Margarito. Which is what FMJ wanted. More money for less risk.

Maidana actually was young and hungry and gave FMJ a tough fight.

Thurman would do the same. I know Thurman was not in the plan. The reward did not justify the risk for him.

 

The wbc allowed pbf to fight canelo Maidana and pac they didn't enforce the mando with Thurman blame them they could have stripped pbf like they did canelo . They were happy with the big fights pbf had with them.

 

So up to age 30+ or what is young?

Hungry as in "hasn't ever gotten a unification or been on PPV" or what does hungry mean?

Name a fighter and the "young and hungry" fighters they faced for comparison if Floyd "rarely fought" any of those types.

If the standards are the people you named, then Floyd fought quite a lot of them.

 

Shawn Porter was a WW champ in 2013. No way in hell did Mayweather want a unification fight with Shawn Porter. Too young, too aggressive, too hungry. And wasnt a draw.

 

It's hard to say Thurman is near as good a fight as Canelo or Pac so there'd be an uproar if he did fight Thurman instead.

 

Of course they were happy. They are in the business of making money. As far as the sport is concerned not fighting Thurman is a negative.

 

He was busy fighting Canelo for lineal JMW in 2013.

 

Not really because we still got pbf canelo and pbf pac which were bigger fights than Thurman

 

Ok. He didnt unify with Shawn Porter. A guy so hungry to make a name for himself. It looks like hes chewing bullets in there everytime he fights.