You clearly missed the point I was making. The point was, Floyd doesn’t care what the public thinks. He never has. Floyd did not pass up the fight with Oscar due to how the public might have reacted. Has it ever occurred to you that we live on earth and not planet Floyd? If Floyd had granted his request, we could have seen the fight earlier. There was no reason to not grant Manny his request, which would have included an immediate after fight blood and urine test. Even when Manny did agree to everything, the fight still didn’t get made for ages afterwards. Floyd wasn’t sure about fighting Manny. He’s not as confident as his fans. Otherwise he’d have reached a compromise, he wouldn’t have demanded a C-W for Canelo, and he wouldn’t have needed an illegal IV that he had in secret.
BS! Who are you trying to kid? He was more than willing to do the testing, but he made a reasonable request based upon the Morales incident which had happened years earlier. Those are the facts. You’re unbelievable. How can you type up this BS and then turn around and say that Floyd did nothing wrong because Bennett said so, whilst ignoring a ton of facts that say otherwise? You are absolutely deluded.
Wrong! Pac wasnt sure about fighting pbf. Even roach said that he needed more time to come up with a gameplan for pbf. Pbf wanted pac and agreed to all pacs demands except testing. this was the same guy who couldnt beat jmm clearly and who lost to a faded em yet pbf had reservations about a flawed and limited guy like pac? Lmfao! Even you said you would've picked pbf to beat pac prime for prime. Canelo wanted pbf not the other way around and said that he was willing to go down in weight to make it happen. Pbf being the much smaller man took him up on his offer. And stop acting like canelo was a zombie he weighed 1 pound less than his previous fight against trout. It's not like the cw was at 149 or something. Canelo fought pbf at the right time not the other way around he was faded and it was supposed to be a passing of the torch fight and thats why it's arguably the best win of the last decade.
Pac didnt want random blood and urine testing to be given to both men with no cutoffs. Those are facts! He pulled out of talks because of it. It was his fault. Had pbf done the same thing he would've been crucified but the public likes pac more so they gave him a pass, like you're doing right now.
I would 100% have picked Floyd to have beaten Manny. But the man was not as confident as me and you. That’s a fact. Which is why we had to endure all of his other BS throughout his career. He agreed to all of Manny’s demands apart from the testing? Apart from testing? Ha! Great. Who’s acting like Canelo was a zombie? Floyd would have beaten ANY version of Canelo at that point. The point is, he made the unnecessary C-W demand, in the hope that Canelo would struggle so he could gain an advantage. Those are not the actions of a man who thought that a guy like Manny was easy. Wake up. The C-W was a joke. It was a JMW unification. He’d fought Oscar at the weight. He’d publicly said that he didn’t care what Canelo rehydrated to.
The ‘Money’ man who fights purely for business and not to see who’s the best, who’s also in the cheque cashing business, passed up a $25m cheque. Yeah, perfectly normal.
Had Floyd had done the same he’d have been crucified? Well, not by YOU. Because what Floyd did was much worse. Manny had a legitimate reason for wanting a cut off, which was supported by Morales. Floyd had an illegal IV with an illegal amount, in secret without reporting it, whilst giving a BS excuse as to why he needed it in the first place which wasn’t logical. But it’s all okay. Everything was fine, because Bob Bennett said so. If that had happened to Manny, you’d have gone MENTAL. If Floyd shot someone in the face tonight, you’d be on here tomorrow telling us all how it was the victims fault for getting in the way of the bullets.
He was not going to be dictated to again by a guy who he just beat who wanted the lions share of the purse. What's so hard to understand about that? He did the right thing and made more than that 20 million in every other fight after oscar. How can you argue this when pbf made more money than any boxer in history. This is a dumb point to argue move on.
Makes sense. Manny Steward said during commentary for the Pacquiao Vs De La Hoya fight that he was "supposed to be fighting a bigger fighter but instead he's just fighting a taller fighter. " Most fans go by the narrative that he was weight drained in the ring against Pacquiao and far bigger but in a dehydrated state. I always wondered if he lost a lot of weight due to drug issues considering he would eventually be in and out of rehab and talking about taking his own life. I've seen people say he only turned to drugs to deal with post retirement depression but you look at the way he declined and I would have thought the drug issue started before then. Also I think they said on the HBO broadcast he rehydrated something like 15-16 pounds over for the second Chavez Sr fight and he put on a great performance.
