For a great career and a wise decision. Hopefully he hold onto his money as he matures and becomes an ambassador for the sport and goes on to even bigger things. I would like to see him stay retired and go down in history as did Marciano as a legend. Boxing needs it and not another fighter who has too many comebacks like Louis, Robinson , Ali and Leonard.
:blood Very moving.You speak for us all; A bit of every one of us will die inside when he walks away.:roll:
I congratulate him too...on avoiding all the top competition at both 154, where he only defeated semi-retired Oscar by split decision, and at 147 where he managed to only fight washed up Gatti, old and slow Baldomir who had lost 9 times, midget Hatton, and the washed up pug Judah who had been KO'd many times. Somehow he managed to avoid all the undefeated and dangerous opponents in both these decisions and still get so many people to believe he was the best in the division. And now he is once again pulling his "Drame Queen" bull****. I guess he wants us to beg him to come back, so we can watch him carefully avoid real competition and fight a few more cherry picked opponents. It won't be too long before he melodramatically announces his comeback, because "of huge demand of his fans"....yea right!
I'm looking foward to tonight's HBO brodcast... I wonder if they will talk to either Mayweather or De La Hoya? maybe both? I am also looking foward to what they say (Crosses fingers & Hope's Merchant works tonight)