Did Floyd Mayweather Jr duck/is ducking anyone throughout his great career?

That's fine. But some still ee boxing as a sport. I personally care less if my fave was always tsaking the safest fight. I have no interest in seeing someone, in a sport like boxing, take the easiest routes for the most money. I don't see a dime of it, and watching a one sided exhibition isn't in my interest.

 

Yeah he asked for them and he couldn't get the fights, so that is why he made the decision to move up. Whether he could get the fights or not is another thing, but HE himself felt like he couldn't get those fights made. So that is why he decided to move up in weight, not because he outgrew the weight.

And I guess you could ask why he didn't fight all those people, but it'd be ignorant to just assume he was the cause. I can do that with a lot of fighters.

 

Read my posts, I said REGARDLESS of who's at fault. Never said Floyd was to blame. And all you have to go on is Floyd's words of "Asking for them." You think a popular fighter w/ a network and powerful promoter could not make ANY of those fights? And this was before Floyd became a prima donna. He wasn't on the position to be calling shot then. Fighter were much easier to make.

 

it was before became a "prima donna" and before he became a big name. He was still high risk low reward.

 

Those guys I listed who were in his divisions at the time, judging from their own fights, I doubt theyu gave too much a damn over a high risk/low reward fight back then. Freitas, Casa, Johnson, Tszyu...all fought tough comp.

 

Mayweather hasnt ducked anybody.
He has fought all comers and risen through the weights to do so.
Its shocking when you have a fighter that fights -
Hernandez, Manfredy, Rios, Hernandez, Chavez, Corrales, Ndou, Castillo, Gatti, Corley, Judah. Mitchell, Marquez, De la Hoya, Hatton, Ortiz, Baldimor and Cotto and someone says they are ducking people in their careers.
Floyd hasnt ducked anyone

 

With all these many belt holders and all the politics involved in Boxing nowadays you can't fight every single body. I know for a fact that Freitas had a showtime contract and couldn't fight any HBO fighters like Floyd. Tszyu had a showtime contract and couldn't fight any HBO fighters like Floyd, Gatti, Cotto. Remember Tszyu was desperate to fight Gatti because he couldn't because Gatti was signed to HBO. Johnston was never really in Floyds division. He was never a guy Floyd could really fight. After the Floyd vs Castillo rematch, Johnston was facing juan Lazcano in a WBC title eliminator. The winner would be Floyd's Mandatory. Lazcano knocked Johnston out. After this loss to Lazcano, Johnston was no longer relevant and he didn't end up fighting for another 2 years Because of injuries and a car accident.

 

I'm sure there's some truth to this. Competing networks refusing to work together is a huge hinderence. I've read that Kostya's deal w/ SHO was on a fight by fight basis. But still, there was the ability to make better fights then what we've received.

 

His real first preference is "Health comes first" that's why he dont
wanna risk with anyone he knows who can beat him.

 

Forget the thread question. My question is this: How do you duck someone that fights in 2 weight divisions above you? Sergio Martinez? WTF are you voters smoking on?

 

How about get some balls and just take the challenge? Isn't that what JMM did?

 

Kostya's Showtime contract was not on a fight to fight basis. It was an exclusive contract. Even after he lost to Hatton he was still under contract for a couple of fights but he chose to retire. The only reason Tszyu fought Hatton was because he had to because of his Showtime deal, Hatton was the only guy he could fight. Tszyu wanted the bigger names like Gatti, Floyd, Oscar but unfortunately because of his showtime contract none of those fights could happen. It's a shame the politics in boxing get in the way of so many fights.

 

Floyd ducked Margarito! Arum publicly offered Floyd the fight and Floyd chose to fight Baldomir, claiming he would make more money. I dont see how Floyd makes more money fighting Baldi over Margo. Margo had the bigger promoter in Arum, and had the bigger fan base which should equal more money.

 

Can't really confirm or deny any of this any more then one can what I said. But the fact remains, TOO many peers went the way of getting missed. That will hurt Floyd regardless of a network and exclusive rights. No one forces anyone into a contract like that unless they are fine with it.

 

I agree with this part. Too many of those questions.