[url]http://www.examiner.com/article/espn-s-dan-rafael-goes-ape-over-mayweather-berto-floyd-rips-ronda-rousey?[/url] The only way to justify fighting Berto, as opposed to the qualified men mentioned above, is if he would've just gone through with the fight on CBS. His brilliant manager Al Haymon, who was never mentioned once (imagine that and let that sink in) during yesterday's presser, is reportedly at very strong odds over this Showtime PPV event. Nothing this man has done for Mayweather-- or any move he's made for that matter since assuming control of Floyd's career after jettisoning Top Rank in 2006, has proven to be a wrong one. Fighting an Andre Berto on PPV, who was beaten up by Victor Ortiz, Robert Guerrero and Jesus Soto-Karass, is arrogant and around the corner from obnoxious. To put this into complete context, Berto not only cannot beat Thurman, Khan, Bradley, Porter or Brook, but I'm not sure he'd beat recent Thurman victim Luis Collazo in a rematch of their hotly contested bout. Brandon Rios would pound him and Marcos Maidana would kill him. So incensed was ESPN's go-to-guy for fight coverage Dan Rafael, that I imagined him kicking buckets of popcorn around the room.
Floyd knows he's coming back for 50. So, he's just going to take a hit on this one, fulfill this contract and make a little extra in PPV. Who knows? The plan might be to come back on network TV for fight #50.
its a bad fight, but dan does not even touch on the fact he just beat manny pacquiao and that its floyds last fight ? he is right though the best way to have salvaged this fight was to put it on free to air tv, but putting it on ppv is going to be digging their own graves. no one is going to purchase it, it will flop and cost haymon
There are people who box... there are reporters who have not boxed... there are people who are world champs hiding behind their keyboards who talk a lot of **** and have never been inside of a ring(me).. but I never disrespect boxers on here.. just talk about their antics... Mayweather does not get destroyed by a writer