Floyd Mayweather Says That He'd School GGG Even @ 40 Years Old...

And yet he'll never go near him. Even Cotto had more balls and fought Martinez. Floyd acted like he didn't know who Martinez was. Same old Floyd bs.

 

It isn't a question of whether or not Floyd has enough daring to go to 160; but more a question of whether or not Floyd will go to 160 and fight Golovkin WITHOUT insisting on catchweights or rehydration clauses.

 

He's supposedly the "Best Ever" but yet he can't fight at Middleweight, while other fighters that he's he's fought or are in his weight class (Khan Brook, Cotto, Canelo) have been fought at Middleweight. I mean I'm not criticizing Floyd for not fighting at Middleweight, but the guy calls himself the best ever and says he'd school Triple G, but says he can't fight at Middleweight". If you call yourself the best ever, then I don't see why you can't do something that other fighters in his weight class have done. Obviously it's hard to move up that high in weight, but if you can't do something like that then you probably shouldn't say that you would school Triple G or that fighting him would be easy. He also in the same breath said that he's not "looking forward" to fighting Triple G. I find Floyd's psyche fascinating in moments like this because you know interally he believes he could beat Triple G but at the same time has concerns about the weight.

 

If he avoided getting hit for twelve rounds then I'm sure he could but come on if the small Maidana had him going then think what a career long middleweight could do

 

But he calls himelf the Best Ever. Why should the Best Ever need shortcuts to winning. I mean if he need to drain a fighter to agree to fight him, then you're obviously not confident in your ability to beat him at their best, so how can you call yourself the best ever? The best ever can only be the best by beating fighters at their best. If you can't beat someone at their best weight, then how can you be considered the best ever. I don't know how beating that fighter would be "easy" like he said it would be to beat Triple G. This again goes back to not fighitng at Canelo at 154, but instead insisting on a 152 catchweight. Again, how can I consider him to be the Best Ever when he was unwilling to fight Canelo at his best or Triple G at his best weight? You can't become the best ever by needing to weaken / drain your opponents to fight them. If he's the best ever, and if beating Golovkin at 160 is supposedly as easy as he says it is, then he shouldn't have any problem fighting him at 160 and giving away weight to ensure he's beating the Best version of Triple G.

 

All I'm saying is proving that you're the best ever would be fighting him at 160, not 154. You don't prove that your the best by taking shortcuts like that, by only fighting an opponent if he agrees to weaken himself.

 

It proves Floyd, deep down, doesn't really want that work at 160 (probably because he's worried at losing his Zero), while at the same time he's trying to convince everyone that a fight with Golovkin would be an easy night for him -- without Mayweather himself openly mentioning any weights for a potential Golovkin fight. This leads me to suspect Floyd will insist on any such fight with GGG being at 154.

 

True. I don't recall Sugar Ray Robinson -- the REAL TBE -- ever saying to Light Heavyweight champion Joey Maxim, "Hey, pal, I'll fight you for that Light Heavyweight title ... but only if we fight at a 168lb catchweight." No, Robinson fought Maxim at the true limit of 175 -- Robinson fought the 173 lb while weighing in at 157.5 lbs at a time where same-day weigh-ins were still the procedure. Sure, Robinson fell short that night (despite being ahead on all three cards after 13 rounds when quit from heat exhaustion), but he was the greatest fighter who was trying to become even greater. If Floyd does decide to return to the ring, there's an object lesson in all of the above for him, if he chooses to take the risk that is.

 

Yeah the two statements are inherently contradictory. If he is unwilling to fight Triple G at 160, it's because he's obviously worried about Triple G's size and strength at that weight and presumably the additional punching power that would come along with that. To then say beating Triple G would be easy is laughable, because if it was so easy then he wouldn't have a problem fighting him at 160. In the same breath he said he wasn't looking forward to fighting Triple G, which can be interpreted as the opposite of it being easy.

Lets just say that he's not doing a very good job of convincing anybody that he'd have an easy time beating Triple G if he'd only fight him below 160 presumably only at 154 like you said. This is not representative of someone being the Best Ever. Floyd really isn't showing Triple G any respect, saying he's be easy work, while Triple G has a lot of respect for Floyd and repeatedly stated that he's willing to go down to 154 for Floyd. Shouldn't Triple G feel disrespected by Floyd for him saying that it would be easy for Floyd to beat him? I mean Canelo on the other hand has been nothing but respectful to Triple G, imagine if Canelo said beating Triple G would be easy work lol. I guess Floyd can get away with saying something like that about Triple G, it's quite humorous isn't it.

 

He couldn't even take on a green Canelo at 154 Golovkin would punch a hole through him at 160. Facts.

 

Lol, I think about 95% of the things Floyd says are all hot air and hype anyway. He seems to tie himself in knots and contradict himself in various interviews and quotes.

 

Yes but my point is people complained about about Brook fighting GGG yet they want Mayweather to go to 160.

Can't have it both ways. Either you want guys to jump two divisions to challenge GGG or not.

 

I'd favor the Floyd who fought DLH at 154 a decade ago to beat current Canelo or Triple G even if they were allow to weigh 160. Even with giving away all that weight, that version of Floyd I think could box his way to a decision. But a current 40 year old version of Floyd has more questions as to whether he could hang with Canelo or Triple G at 160, or possibly even at 154 or somewhere in the middle. I reckon the mid-30s version of Floyd from 4-5 years ago that fought Cotto and Canelo at or near 154 would be a 50/50 fight with current Canelo or Triple G at 160. I don't think anyone really believes that Floyd would have an easy time beating Canelo or Triple G in 2017.