Floyd Joy Mayweather, Jr. vs. Tenshin Nasukawa

Perhaps he thinks that his accomplishments are unassailable.

He may be right. His all time placement as a boxer probably isn't compromised any more than Ali's when the latter faced off in exhibitions against Inoki, or Louis when the Brown Bomber engaged in a few worked grappling matches post retirement.

 

Reasons Tenshin throwing the fight make little sense to me:
- Mayweather would have been an overwhelming favourite on all markets. Usually when a fight is fixed it will be for an unexpected result.
- Tenshin is a 20yr old fighter in a rich market. The damage to his brand from this I would imagine is large.

 

This is the biggest load of shyte I've ever read. who writes your material? learn how to score fights, you obviously don't have a clue. you're arguing that I let expectations be the scoring criteria ? If that was the case Floyd would have won every round. you're just bitter because I didn't have GGG beating Canelo. I don't give people rounds just for coming forward or for being Floyd Mayweather.

 

You know, I went and watched the fight on ut00b and was intending to come back and amend that post.

You know what I saw?

Floyd with a solid 40+ year old comfy gut grinning and giggling like he was playing Nintendo or something. That poor midget had no idea what he was getting into and probably saw nothing but a fat old man between him and infinite fame and fortune. Floyd got to beat up some cocky kid under the lights in front of cameras and a screaming crowd. Does Floyd need the money? Maybe, maybe not, but he's having such a good time at it, how can I blame him?

 

First and foremost, credit to Mayweather. He continually has people talking about him, regardless if it is good or bad. The man can draw publicity, without question.

Many posters on here, one's I respect are saying the fight was fixed??

Hmm I'm not so sure, the punches all seemed legit to me, especially when the opponents had a massive size differential.

Nasuwaka did fall about like he was in a movie, but with the weight difference that is probably no surprise. Plus the fact he ain't used to being hit by a boxer of Floyd's quality.

Strange contest yes but with Dollars to be made, nothing is a surprise.

 

Smartest thing said on this topic

 

like to see a rematch

 

Fake is a strong word.

Staged would be the right word. !!

 

Yeah, it was weird to see Floyd with the dad bod.

But, yeah... It was easy money, and while fans can b@tch about not being entertained, he seemed to be having fun.

I guess he could have stretched it out longer, but it was pretty apparent that the kid couldn't relax, and didn't have any idea to defend himself from anything Floyd decided to throw at him. In a sense, finishing him quickly was probably more merciful than toying with him for the full three.

 

Even staged is not right. Rizin were very naive to think Tenshin could become a star from fighting Floyd under boxing rules. Staged would have had Floyd carry him for 3 rounds. Rizin could then say 20 year old star of the company went distance with multiple world champion even at lower weight.

The idea that Rizin staged the fight so the guy they want to build the company around gets humiliated in 1 round is absurd. Let me make this clear, tenshin isn't just some mid carder. Rizin want him to be the star of the organisation. The aim was for him to look a million dollars.

Rizin would have been better having Floyd work the fight.

The way he lost is terrible for them

 

Others, including myself , don't agree. Been following Japan's mix martial arts sport for decades. This wouldn't be the first time a Japanese promotion staged an event.

 

Err.. obviously. Floyd agrees to make only 9 mill in a ‘contest’, yeah right. Floyd doesn’t train at all for that risk, yeah right.
Nobody takes an L, Rizn’ star gets some publicity, there was plenty of money made on betting. It’s obviously an acting job, so it doesn’t diminish the Rizn star profile in his actual sport and Floyd has some fun for 9 million and no risk.

It makes perfect sense if you have half a brain and take half a second to think about it.