Floyd Mayweather Jr: A Look Back at the Early Pre "Money" Days of Pretty Boy Floyd

Appreciation of his Early Days Thread
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is 5'8 37 year old Welterweight with a 47-0 record. Born Floyd Joy Sinclair(What a name) in Grand Rapids, Michigan now fighting exclusively from his homebase with his personal judges and refs in Las Vegas, Nevada. While admittedly I'm not a very big fan of Floyd, at one time I was, a long, long time ago, before he turned into the megalomaniacal coward cherrypicker that he is today, back in his SFW, LW and LWW days, when he fought the best and handily dominated most of them, with the exception of Castillo. His destruction of a shot past his prime Arturo Gatti was truly a sight to behold, even though Gatti was past it, it was still impressive, his obliteration of the late great fellow woman beater Diego Corrales was a thing of beauty. Back when, while still very defensively minded he was far more aggressive and actually went for knockouts and took the risky fights he was incredibly impressive to say the least.

Unfortunately what he's turned into is very depressing, while he ducked Martinez, Margarito, Cotto, Williams, Prime Pacquiao, Prime Mosley he could of at least taken some of these fights that were of some danger to him, but protecting his "0" has become his only concern. Now he hides, taking and struggling in fights against B and C level talent like Guerrero, Maidana and Ortiz, however he deserves a modicum of credit for fighting a young Canelo, although you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that while watching Canelo struggle against Trout a light bulb must have came on in Floyd's head, to fight him now while he's still relatively inexperienced with tons of holes in his game he can still exploit.


There's got to be a duality of doubt dancing in Money's head all the time, the fear and doubt that he feels asking himself can he actually defeat Manny Pacquiao, and the internal doubt he must feel about himself knowing that he has yet to face the other best of his era, that he will never answer that question he will always have gnawing at him " Am I truly The Best Ever?". But he seems content to live the rest of his life with the massive question mark lingering over his legacy, never having proved he's truly the best. Hopefully he'll man up sooner or later and prove to the world against a lighter hitting diminished version of Manny whether he's truly the best his generation had to offer, because as long as Manny is out there he will never be considered the number one. So Check Out Floyd when he actually fought tough opponents and systematically undressed and destroyed the majority of them. Relive the memories of a halfway brave Money May.:bbb:bbb:bbb:bbb


Postscript: Well he finally manned up now will his worst nightmares come true.:think


Educate Yourselves on Pretty Boy Floyd
Mayweather Vs. Corrales
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtuLTS-IpEY
Mayweather Vs. Gatti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5q57ZboGw0
Mayweather Vs. Castillo I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJv2q_5vmQI
Mayweather Vs. Chavez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2P6QkYr2VA
Mayweather Vs. Hernandez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7tUkeoqy6M
Mayweather Vs. Manfredy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0TQwby0Kfs
Mayweather Vs. Augustus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnkUmC5ilmM
Mayweather Vs. Rios
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS4uT14fY5s
Mayweather Vs. Garcia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur4hpiSzIfc
Mayweather Vs. Arroyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yltaWeHMxF4
Mayweather Vs. Juuko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_XIvrdUS7Y
Mayweather Vs. Vargas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dy_zLqM56w

 

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Floyd got mental problems and likes to beat his woman problems:nut But he was and is a damn fine boxer.

 

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Don't worry I'll do a thread like this that's critical of Pacquiao as well, I'm appreciating his early days, I don't appreciate his later days as much, I'm clearly not that big a fan of his but I figured I'd give him some credit, it would be disingenuous if I did a highly loving thread on him wouldn't it.

 

No I did one on Arthur Abraham praising his early work and criticizing his recent, my Valuev thread was critical, the Canelo thread was kind of critical.

Regardless Floyd is hard to like as a person and is impossible to not acknowledge that he didn't fight a lot of the top guys and specifically Pacquiao. He's an incredibly gifted but cowardly fighter, he's more complex than other fighters to assess.