Floyd Mayweather Jr....

Like a lot of great fighter Floyd belongs in the ring and when he isnt it goes crazy , I have seen it so many times.

Never feel sorry for Floyd, he has more opportunities than most.

 

Respect.

I just separate everything outside the ring with everything inside the ring, as I find it the only way to be fair, and I find Mayweather to have been the best since 1998 with Genaro. He will be remembered well in time. Most accurate recorded puncher ever, one of the very best defensive fighters ever, best undefeated fighter ever... He's not done yet.

 

About as fair as you saying Pac is on PEDs without any documentable proof? :think

 

He's actually done really well from a business standpoint compared to most boxers, most boxers get robbed blind and sign slave contracts riddled with hidden crap.

 

You must also give him the Mosely fight, cause literally EVERYONE wanted to see that fight (hindsight excluded).

So since Dela Hoya, he's had 3 fights. 2 of which people wanted (and were both top 5 p4pers at the time).

The other was JMM, although a top 2 p4per, was still a lightweight moving up to welterweight. In floyd's defence, this has been done many many times in history and he was also coming off a 21 month lay off. Proving something to Pac may also have had something to do with it.

Puts a different spin on the thread, although I did stop reading after the bolded part I quoted.

 

I understand where you're coming from and I agree with you for the most part.

When reading your thread, the first few paragraphs indicate that since dela hoya, Floyd hasn't fought fighters people wanted him to see.

I disagree with this.

That said, I'd be a fool if I also didn't want the Cotto fight before he retired the first time. Fighting Cotto after Hatton (with Cotto coming off his career best win of Mosely) would have been a perfect... And I'd be a fool if I didn't/don't want to see the Pac fight.

Can't blame Floyd for taking time off though. People can claim he was scared yada yada yada yada. Means nothing. The guy had been boxing since a kid, had numerous fights, make a ton of money and didn't really need to prove anything more to anyone.

Although I personally feel it was to help his body heal, but that's another discussion.

BTW - wasn't having a go at your post. It was just the impression I got from reading the first few paragraphs about May's most recent opponents since Dela Hoya.

Hatton and SSM were CRAVED fights (barring you obviously, and I'm sure a few others. But I'm talkin' the masses).

JMM was also a top 2 p4per who had arguably beat the top 1 p4per, and although a lightweight coming up to welterweight, it wasn't the first time in history. Not a meaningful fight, but decent money spinning sparring session to get back into the game. Against the second best pound for pound fighter in the world, no less. Coming off a 2 year retirement.

The Margo fight never interested me. The Judah fight was destined to happen, and after he lost to Balomir, that kinda forced Floyd to face him. The Dela Hoya fight was inevitable. So it was a choice between Hatton, Cotto (pre ssm mosely win) or Williams (as Marg just lost)

 

Again, not starting an argument with you or anything, just personal observations/opinions/debate.

i think the bolded part is an extremely overrated notion. There wasn't really "public outcry". The general public had no idea who Marg was. It was only the hardcore boxing fans and Mexicans, and they were still split pretty heavily in favour of Mayweather making easy work of him.

There was certainly a call for the fight from many people though, no doubt.

If only Judah beat Baldomir, Judah-Mayweather was for the undisputed title, then I'm 99.9% sure May's "Baldomir" fight would've been Marg to add the WBO belt.

 

Not saying the thread writer is one, but many Floyd haters are really fans of his who are bitter because he doesn't do or fight how, when, where, why and who they want him to. And thats the truth... Most of them can't keep his name out of their mouths or off their minds.

 

Enough with the floyd threads already there are 60 threads a day about aguy who is very inactive and doesnt give a **** about the sport. Why not talk about guys like martinez,donaire or the 140 guys.

 

brilliant post.

i too think floyd is p4p up theres somewhere.but since his welterweight career,hes been a bit of a let down,taking several long lay offs or "retirements".

i worry that he just wants money and doesnt care about boxing,he only comes back when he needs more millions.

the peoples hes not fought is quite a list.
and its not like he loses these,we just dont want to get matches fed to us that we know he cant lose,just show us an opponent who does genuinly posses ability to beat you and you go out and do more than just glide by on an easy decision,dig in and show us more skill,even for him to get down and get right back up to win in style would please me.

and its clear he wasnt raised right,his dads a drugs smuggler and his uncle a angry angry agressive man,hes not had good examples of how to behave.

and all this money persona is silly,shallow and disrespectful to all his fans who are poor and pay to see him fight once every few years only for him to flash the cash and mock them,in this current times aswell.

its clear money is not buying him happiness and stopping people hating on him.

He needs to get rid of these leeches,youde think leaches would at least stop these secuirty and stop floyd getting himself into trouble,they cant even do that!.thats how you know they are no good,they dont have his back what so ever.

its like tyson said though,he was happy to have dirty people feeding of him,sucking his blood away.maybe floyd knows and likes this.

its clear hes more decent than he acts when on camera and infront of his friends ect.

he needs some one like Tyson to give him a serious talk on how it really is and to stop now before he does actually go to jail in few months or escapes jail this time but carries on and does something really awful,ala valero.

he can redeem himself and be p4p no 1 ,all he has to do is beat pacman.

not fight a load of top welters, like pacman had,but just fight pac.and retire.

 

like many have said here I seperate the man outside the ring from the fighter inside the ring. I think he's a good fighter but not as good as most people think he is, and that if he had stepped up to the plate as often as some other fighters did, we would've seen that.

From a career management standpoint, I don't think that a guy with the ability that Floyd has could have done any better. He's made tens of millions and is ranked as an ATG and one of the three or four best fighters of his generation.

 

THats because FLoyd MAyweather is the face of ESB and all ****ing threads lead to Mayweather....And its mostly by people who claim they dont like him...They say the sport is bigger then floyd but since may of last year, floyd hasnt done **** dealing with boxing and thats all people talk about...I get sick of that ****...