The Mayweather effect...

the OP is not criticising pbf skills or fighting style.

its his resume. can't you comprehend the stuff he was saying and just automatically shut down your brain and transform to defend-pbf-mode?:rofl

 

Floyd is good for the sport....the early estimations of the ppv numbers tell the story.....and if you can't appreciate pure boxing....then why call yourself a fan.....

guys like mayweather, paulie, and calderon catch so much **** because they aren't KO artists.....very narrow-minded "fans"....

 

The real Mayweather effect is when a fighter makes it to the top, everybody who wants a big payday can call him out. Everybody wants to fight Floyd, but realize that once they get in the ring with him, that he is actually as good as his record shows. He can't fight everybody. He takes the fights that will make him the most money. In his position, you would too!!

 

I disagree, I think Cotto would have made him more money !!! He takes the easy road plain and simple.

 

I think the problem here is that you and Floyd have two very different objectives. Floyd's objective is to get paid. Your objective for Floyd is to have him fight all the fighters you think can possibly contest his greatness to secure his legacy regardless of how financially viable that may be. Floyd is absolutely not willing to reconcile the two . . . and, after all, why should he? He's the one takin' the punches in the ring and if he's gonna do so he's doing it for top dollar. Can you blame him? What good is "proving" you're the greatest when you literally won't even be able to say it by the time you hit 50? What good is it to tar and feather every chump in the building only to die destitute like Joe Louis or Sugar Ray Robinson? Legacy doesn't pay your bills. But wise decisions do. Legacy doesn't maintain your health. But wise decisions do. Mayweather's a businessman first, boxer second, as any good fighter should be, because there's been way too many horror stories reported by guys who did it the other way around. So Mayweather's all business, and very astute at it, too.

Some of these fights you think Mayweather is not interested in taking are fights that I'm fairly certain he is interested in taking but is waiting for their earning potential to mature to their zeniths, a la Sugar Ray Leonard, before he signs on the dotted line. People seem to heap their expectations upon Floyd because he's such a tremendous talent but they also must bear in mind that it's possible that he never sought to fulfill YOUR expectations in the first place. So while you may view his career as disappointing or frustrating, he may view it as intelligent and focused. And who's really to judge? And since he's actually doing what he wishes to do, any disappointment or frustration with Floyd's decisions can be attributed to a deficiency on your part as opposed to his.

 

:good:good

 

Floyd just needs to beat the guys he should've been fighting the last few years campaigning as a Welter. He should fight Pac, but he also needs Cotto, Mosley, and probably Paul Williams to cement himself as a top 10 ATG imo. I personally will hold it against him that he didn't fight Margarito, he probably wouldn't have come back if Mosley hadn't have beaten Margo, but I don't think it will hurt him in the eyes of most now.

 

Floyd dosen't get any credit. I can see him beating Mosley and getting crucified for cherrypicking a 38 year old, beating Pac and getting crucified for beating a guy too small, or beating Cotto and getting crucified for cherrypicking a shop-worn fighter. No matter who he fights, he'll get no credit, unless he fights the winner of the super-six tournament........nope, then if he wins, then he won't get credit because the tournament took too much out of his opponent and he was easy-pickens!

 

First off, Shane Mosley doesn't have any earning potential. Shane Mosley only resonates with boxing fans. He does not have any large group of people behind him . . . unlike the two other fighters you named in your post who have countries behind them. Now a clash with Hatton or Marquez has very good earning potential, Mosley . . . not so much. If you would have read my post and actually understood it I wouldn't have to lead you by the hand to this conclusion. And, by the way, Mosley does have 5 losses (all 5 of them legit, too, and some would argue a 6th) and Floyd would whoop his ass so it's not as if he's actually lying when he says this.

And you should know that any time you step in the ring with any opponent, especially a world champion, you stand a chance of losing. But, lets's be honest, when does Floyd ever go into a fight not saying that he's gonna whoop the guys ass? You're over here saying that Mayweather wants you to believe that "he stands a chance of losing vs Hatton or Marquez." How do you figure? He says the exact opposite. He steadfastly claims that he will whoop the guy's ass . . . and he does so. ****, you even had Team Mayweather calling Ricky Hatton a club fighter before the fight so I don't understand how you can conjure up the notion that he wants you to believe "he stands a chance of losing." That's a figment of your imagination. So if anybody conned you it was yourself. Once again that's a deficiency on your part, not Mayweather's. Every interview I see him in he says he's going after fights that make money. Flat out, point blank. Money Mayweather. The only person not seeing this is you. And Floyd's not robbing any banks . . . figuratively, literally, theoretically, metaphorically or any other way you wished to mean it. He's earning a living and a pretty damned good one and he's doing it the American way. Pardon him if he allows his intelligence to overshadow his bravado while he's doing it.


P.S. Don't think the little spat with Shane Mosley at the end of the Marquez fight wasn't orchestrated. PBF is a whole lot smarter than you give him credit for. That was one of the most popular things about that fight. Mayweather was cultivating some earning potential for a fight w/ Mosley so it could change from Mayweather vs Mosley - moderately interesting - to Mayweather vs Mosley: the grudge match - a tad bit more interesting. That should be simmered to a boil right after the Pac vs Cotto fight. Gives the man some financially viable options.