Do you still consider Floyd Mayweather a "cherry picker"?

By the circumstances he found himself in.

Who else was he going to fight without being ridiculed.......remember all the backlash of PBF/JMM?

Pac was getting all the accolades(and rightly so) and there's no way PBF was going to top that by fighting a M. Hatton or Malignaggi type opponent.

 

They were talking about making this fight during the Pac negotiations. Pacquiao and Mosley were always the plan for Mayweather. Some would call it tying to make the best fights available, others would call it being forced to fight someone.

 

and others call it being forced to make the best fight available!

 

Please.

Backlash? Please. Ignorant fools who don't know what a tune-up fight is.

He didn't have to fight. He could have waited this out. He could have fought anyone at WW who was in the top 10. It still would have outdrawn Pac/Clottey.

Then you go on to mention the BS opponents with zero source. You hear that from the Pac-fairy? Team Mayweather never issued a statement saying who was on the list as possible opponents. If so, source it. If not? We can credit the Pac-fairy.

 

He could have done many things. Waiting until after Pac fought Clottey was one of them, this would have really made Floyd look good and Pac look bad in terms of who wanted the fight. And he agreed to Shane pretty quickly for someone who "didn't want it".

"Forced into" and opportunity/coincedence/perfect scenarios are different things.

 

*******s accuse me of being a ***** and *****s accuse me of being a *******

You're exactly the type of poster who have convinced everyone around here that *******s and Floyd nuthuggers are the worst groupies at ESB.

 

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I wouldn't know. The crap you are saying now is both false and not sourced. Like I said, drop the sources for this nonsense.

Man please. If you want someone not to call you on your BS I am sorry. This Mosely fight becoming available was a blessing not "forcing" Mayweather. People like yourself gloss over the numerous videos of FMJ asking for a fight with SSM.

 

What source? I never stated it was a fact just an opinion(based on facts). ....why so sensitive and defensive?

 

Wat is hearsay about this?

Fact: PBF chose to fight JMM instead of Mosley and his reason was because JMM is PPV attraction and Mosley is not, yet Schaefer predicts 3mil buys for PBF-Mosley and JMM-PBF only did 1mil.
Fact: Mosley was scheduled to fight Berto.
Fact: PBF was negotiating with Pac.
Fact: Due to an earthquake Berto pulled out of a fight with Mosley.
Fact: PBF did not predict an Earthquake.
Fact: The backlash on PBF would have been HUGE in the wake of Mosley's availability after the PBF-Pac negotiations fallout.

 

That's all true, but I'm not sure what you think it proves? He didn't want to fight Mosley in his first fight back after a 2 year layoff. He wanted to fight Pac. It didn't happen. The fight with Mosley came up and he jumped on it. It was signed and delivered with 3 weeks. Doesn't sound like a man who didn't want the fight. Sounds like a man who wanted the fight at the right time.

And if you sincerely think that he's fighting Mosley due to FAN pressure ask yourself how many fights Floyd has had in the past four years that the fans have clamored for? He's proven that he doesn't give a **** what people want to see, as long as he gets paid. If he's fighting Mosley it's because he wants to.

 

Please separate selling fights from truth.

-- JMM was a tune up and an appetizer for FMJ/MP
-- True
-- True
-- True
-- True, but Team Pac ended negotiations not Mayweather.

This crap doesn't even help draw a reasonable conclusion on anything.

Backlash for what? There was nothing officially announced.

 

Man I am just having fun banging on *******s.

You are using BS code words like "force" blah, blah, blah... Right. The most marketable fighter is being forced. By who? The fans? Mayweather could have fought any top 10 WW.

He is fighting Mosley because he is available and he want$ to.

 

You guys hang on to every word from PBF. PBF described PBF-JMM as a megafight against the no.2 p4p fighter in the world. His sole reason for fighting JMM wasnt that it was a tuneup, it was because he had a country behind him, a bigger ppv draw. He made absolutely no plans to fight Shane. Heck, even straight after the JMM fight, Shane called him out in the ring, absolutely no mention of fighting Shane from PBF...he mentioned Pac though, not Shane.

Not once has PBF ever mentioned Shane as potential fight recently. He was forced into it, Even Shane says Floyd was forced into it, he should know, he's the one who's been dying to get Floyd in there.

 

Like I said below, he has never mentioned Mosley as possible opponent except years ago when he was trying to make name, even after Mosley approached him on the ring, kenny, rugged man asked him about shane he dodged it. His sole reason for fight JMM was that he was no.2 p4p fighter and better sell than Shane. I could understand if after PBF-JMM when Shane called him out and Kellerman did, PBF showed interest, but absolutely no interest there.

This was a different kind of fan pressure, one he couldnt spin like he spun the JMM fight. The pac-pbf negotiations was in mainstream media for months, the letdown was huge and both fighters had a lot to answer for in terms of making it up to the fans. PBF would have been an absolute laughing stock had he not fought Shane after Shane became available at the perfect time.

Its almost as though Shane tricked him..."I'll schedule a fight on this date so PBF thinks he's safe, BOOO!, im free, available, fight me now *****, nowhere to run". lol.