Retiring to avoid certain fights

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  1. santiagoraga

    santiagoraga Your Parents Sucked Full Member

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    Other than Floyd Mayweather Jr., can you name any other fighters who engineered a fake retirement, watched the best fighters in his weight class go to war with each other while they were at their best, then came out of this fake retirement to challenge the last man standing?
     
  2. raichu

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    nope. Everyone needs a team like Floyds.

    every man and their dog below 154 wanted floyd, cause he is and was the cash cow, numero uno, number 1.

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEYnKmV_qbk[/ame]

    now his the man who can pick and choose, wasn't like that moving up.
     
  3. chitownfightfan

    chitownfightfan Loyal Member Full Member

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    Seems Haye is in and out. Or talking bout it anyway.

    Vitali left in 04 after having to postpone his defense with Rahman multiple times due to lower back injury. Politics played a role as well. But he certainly watched the division reshape from the sidelines. And it seemed that had he forgone politics for a while, he could have made at least 6 highly intriguing, and even career defining fights.:think
     
  4. Boxalot

    Boxalot Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Sugar Ray Leonard.

    Only joking. Shut the **** up, you mong.
     
  5. santiagoraga

    santiagoraga Your Parents Sucked Full Member

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    Can someone decipher this for me?
     
  6. santiagoraga

    santiagoraga Your Parents Sucked Full Member

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    So that's a 'no'.
     
  7. oibighead

    oibighead G.O.A.T. Full Member

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    Actually, he retired to duck Hagler...

    But then came back and fought him
     
  8. timeout

    timeout Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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  9. oibighead

    oibighead G.O.A.T. Full Member

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    Leanord also retired to duck Pryor

    Pryor even called him out to his face

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKcIMjktBrU[/ame]
     
  10. PityTheFool

    PityTheFool Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I knew there's be one.:patsch
    Go read the original question before you respond with your predictable drivel which,incidentally,is not even a relevant answer and has nothing to do with the actual question.
     
  11. prelude

    prelude Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Floyd didn't retired to duck no one! I hope you ain't talking about Cotto and Margarito back in 08. Cotto lived in Pureto Rico so what's the point in fighting him. Also with Margarito they weren't fighting to see who the best was.
     
  12. MollyWhop

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    Floyd has more losses than Margarito. FACT.
     
  13. turbotime

    turbotime Hall Of Famer Full Member

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    Floyd was already an ATG. Coming out of retirement was just icing. Greats like Marquez and Mosley were lucky to have even gotten a chance.
     
  14. Florez

    Florez Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ducked Hagler in his Prime and waited until he slowed down.
     
  15. Atlanta

    Atlanta Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    please tell me you're kidding:rosstheboss