Let me start by saying this isnt a knee jerk reaction to some piece of TV or a news paper article . Firstly Floyd jnr , if this man was from anywhere else apart from the US he would be considered just another Sven Ottke , his career resume is littered with contradictions , Kop outs and the odd gift decision. Now if he didnt keep referrring to himself in the third term , and the self proclaimed greatest of all time, then i wouldnt mind a career filled with washed up fighters , fighters outside their weight class , or simply mandatories which kept real fights from happening , BUT he does call himself the greatest , and therefore these names needed to be in there , and they were all available and were the top names at the time - Freitas, Casamayor - 2001 (SF), no problem in 2002 - I thought he went 1-1 with Castillo, Move to LW in 04 /05 no Tszyu , but Brussels and a slugfest with Corley, WW 06 the legends that are Mitchell , Judah and Baldomir, at this point Sugar shane had to go up to LM to get real fights with Vargas . Margarito was fighting Paul williams and Clottey, then move onto his so called Mega fights , really i thought it was Oscar and Hatton that brought all the fans , by this point Oscar was fighting once a year if that , and Hatton 'the man who called you out' was and always will be a life LW. So if a MW calls you our Floyd will you go up there? I dont think so! Then the Big come back , the lowest level Floyd could go to would be a Luis Collazo level , a test but real !! not JMM a life 126 lbs who came up to find fights at 130 and tops 135 , but 147 , would love to have been in the HBO boardroom on that one ! Lastly Snr and Roger , Snr trained hatton for an orthodox fight (watch any pad work between the two) and has him sparring 5 9 light middles who were taking his head off , for a Pacquiao who is 5 6 and a southpaw. Roger who doesnt win with fighters unless they are his newphew , and i think I have given enough reasons above why he wins. thanks Out.
yes you are doing a knee jerk reaction.. To say floyd career is FILLED as you say contradiction, cop out and gift decision ? Yet out of all of these gift decision you can only name his close decision in first fight with Castillio. Where are the rest of these gift decision you are talking about. Then you go on this tangent about him going to 140 and fighting Brussels and corly but no Zoo, when Zoo camp elected to fight hatton not floyd because networking issue between Showtime and HBO. but you leave out the interesting fact that Hatton the undisputed liner champ at 140 and cotto the WBO champion are not ready to face a former 130 pounder name floyd Maywether.. Then you get into a tissy about floyd fighting Baldi the true liner ww champ, who Floyd didn't want to fight anyway but did the public demanded it .. were are all these cop out your talking about? Then you spit out this non sense that Shane move to 154 because it was the only place he could get a challenge ?!?! Really ?!?! shane found a challenge in a Shot Vargus atsch yet turned down a fight with Floyd right after beating a shot and Flabby Vargus. Margarito was fighting williams because he had skipped over the man twice as a mandatory. Margarito then has a opportunity to flight floyd but fight gomez due to some long ago promise, and Gomez was not even a ranked fighter..
The public demanded the Baldomir fight ???!!!!, and not antonio , and dont give me that Linear Champ garbage, Zab has a bad night and floyd jumped on the band wagon , floyd just hasnt beat the best of his generation , thats all i am saying.
147 Floyd iz weak. 140 he wuz ducked nd at 35 nd below, he kicked azz. He's a VERY smart biz man. More hustla than Ring King.
No more than any of the lying politicians of the world. No more than the actors people slobber about. No more than the dump truck lawyers that rob you and lie. Wake up and see Boxing is plenty full of hype and the above professions are full of ****.
The thread starter is spot on. That's why the thread is full of emoticons from the thick as **** members here who just look for the smallest of mistakes because they don't have the brains to counter the argument.