Is Mayweather jealous of Canelo?

If you have to ask that at this point, not sure there’s much value killing a dead horse.

 

What I loved is seeing the entire boxing world come together to troll him. He turned out to be the sort of guy who can dish it out but not take it, the exact opposite of how he was in the ring.

It's another example of life being like boxing but boxing not being like anything else.

 

you could apply that to any of floyd's opponents.

 

Look at Floyd's record - No one could cherry pick that successfully at that level for that amount of time. He was the best of his era and it's not even close.

 

Everyone was so good until he beat them.

I was guilty of that at the time but I've tried to get past that perspective.

 

Yeah I've never been a fan of his boxing from a fan's point of view but what he does is hugely impressive. His ego or whatever it is that annoys so many people doesn't annoy me in the slightest cos he backed it up time and again then retired undefeated. If you can't have an ego at that point then what's the point of egos?

 

That’s the point. It’s a shame such a great fighter avoided his greatest challenges in such a consistent pattern.

 

you mean like canelo, oscar, corrales, castillo, marquez, cotto, mosley and pacman?

 

Yes. Canelo is young and relevant, Floyd is old and past it.

 

He avoided Pacman like the plague. He also avoided Khan after he did a poll asking the fans who he should fight and the fans chose Khan.

 

Yep, Floyd jelly. He jelly because he never was as popular with the people as Canelo is. He always tryin to exaggerate his win over Canelo. He said that was a "cakewalk" lmao and he said he was almost 40. 39 and a half is almost 40. 36 and a half isn't. The dude is super insecure about his win over Canelo, and he seems very bothered by the fact that Canelo is P4P #1 and he played the race card.

Floyd was a hell of a fighter in his day and he deserves credit for going 50-0 but let face it, he has a manipulative mindset and he only won some of his fights like Canelo or Pac by using underhanded tactics. Canelo : catchweight, Pacman : accusing him of streroids, waiting till he was KO'd, forcing him to have his blood drawn, etc.

Now Canelo has had catchweights but he never drained no one like Floyd did and he never ducked a fighter like Floyd did with Khan. Canelo had no problem fighting Khan after Floyd ducked him and knocked him out. You could say he ducked GGG, but he was moving up in weight and he did fight him within 1 year of when people wanted him to. Floyd ducked Pac for 5-6 years and waited till Pac looked weak to fight him, then made him weaker with needles. Floyd fought the whole latter part of his career in Vegas, where he was protected. Canelo fights everywhere, not just Vegas.

Floyd never fought a big puncher like GGG, Floyd never would dream of moving up to Cruiserweight and fight a guy like Makabu. Also Floyd only had one way of fighting, he was very defensive-oriented and refused to take risks. Canelo on the other hand can be defensive but can also be seek-and-destroy. It's a totally different mindset.

 

This isn’t about who had the better career etc. Floyd is jealous of Canelo. The same way ever retired boxer misses their name in the bright lights.

 

Yeah but it's different with Canelo because Floyd has experience with Canelo in the ring, and as a young lad Canelo pushed him to his limit and one judge scored it a draw that Floyd has never got over. Floyd never had no equals and on that night one judge said Canelo was his equal and that sticks in his craw. So on the one hand, Floyd tries to take credit for Canelo becoming the star that he has become, on the other hand Floyd doesn't want to see Canelo be "as big" as he was, because Canelo is doing things that Floyd never dreamed of and he wants to always feel like Canelo now was never at his level. So it's a love / hate relatonship, Floyd wants the best of both worlds, to live vicariously through Canelo, to be credited with being the only one to beat Canelo, but to not want Canelo to be praised "too much" so that the world views Canelo now as better than he was when he was in his prime.

 

Yeah I know what you mean. The more Canelo achieves the more backhanded compliments Floyd can pay him while patting himself on the back.

I think anyone that knows anything about boxing knows that the win means nothing. It was quite one sided but Canelo was still very young and the catch weight didn’t help either. He has come on leaps and bounds since then.

 

he reversed it because there was an outcry that the voting was rigged.