Yo, Floyd Fans..."Keep it Real!!" How many of you were NERVOUS as hell...

Heart was in my lap when he buckled...but when Floyd shook it off and kept coming I was back to normal

 

I am sure the idea of their hard earned baby sitting money being lost at the hands of mosley was a worry for them... I was actually begging Mosley not to stop him and just batter him from there on out...

 

Come on Pimp...you aint that cold! haha...you didn't think for a second he was goin down?

 

I feel where you comn from 100%...it's kinda like seein A.I. career end like it has.

 

stopped mid sentence.......:scaredas:

 

The fight was fair...9/11...not so much!

 

In Farmboxer's view, 9/11 was real but the Mosley/Mayweather fight was fixed. Same as all other fights with Mayweather. Guy is a proven racist and says the dumbest things, which is why i ignored him.

 

I think there's not always a racial element to it, though.

For example, I think that him acting the role of the arrogant twat could be perceived as an insult to the intelligence of the boxing fan. There's an element of that character which is undoubtedly him, for sure, but he's obviously playing up to the media as well. But his whole "love to hate" thing is old-hat. Coupled with the fact that he's no Carl Weathers as far as acting is concerned - it just doesn't work that well.

He persists in doing it though, which means to me that he either

a) trusts the hardcore boxing fans to be smarter than the average casual TV-watching moron, and to accept it as a ruse to sell PPVs to said morons, or else he

b) thinks his audience really are a bunch of neanderthals who need to have their buttons pushed so that they buy the PPV in some kind of Pavlovian response.

I tend to think it's option a), but I could see how people might go with b).

Whatever his rationale, I think it's too obvious to be smart, and too cynical to be stupid. But it's counter-productive, and all it seems to do is annoy well-meaning people who would quite probably watch him anyway, and for no good reason.

Furthermore, is it really good TV? I mean, if someone follows boxing and the media circus surrounding it because they want to see someone acting like an arrogant *****, there's a million reality shows for that market. And if they want to see the ***** get some payback, they can watch WWE or an endless list of other morality plays on TV for that, because they ain't seeing it happen with Floyd, not yet anyway. He's trapped in a game with limited duration. You can only sustain that anticipation for so long before it becomes clear you're just a *****-tease (no homo) and people switch off.

I could understand Hopkins being attacked with thinly-disguised racism because he lowered himself to that level by going with that "I'd never let a white boy beat me" ****, which was lowest-common-denominator stuff, really cheap. He got away with it in my view, because Calzaghe was such an arsehole in most of his interviews that I kind of wanted Hopkins to win - pity that the old man gassed out and ****ed up by fighting such a shitty, cynical fight, really.

I dislike what Mayweather does, not who he is. And I'm sure it's the same for a lot of other people. But boxing has always been full of a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing, so maybe I'm too hard on him. Is that racial? I don't know. I think it's more that I get angry that he seems to regard a lot of his audience as moronic. But I'm more angry that they seem to live down to his expectations.

 

atsch...yeah, he's a dumb ass.

 

I wasn't too concerned.... I figured Mosley was going to land some hard effective shots.
Mosley is a veteran. Floyd don't lose his cool.

 

I can see where you are coming from, but it is what it is. The media likes their blacks quiet, humble, and just happy to be...back in Ali's time they compared him to Joe Louis...they held Joe Louis to the standard of what a black man should be to them. Not an arrogant loud talker who didn't give a **** about the status quo. I personally don't care about the whole thing until people play dumb to it...it's the American Way.

 

That's the standard that a man should be held to, whatever his melanin count. If there's something that merits kicking up a fuss about, as in Ali's time, then fair enough, shout away. If it's just empty bravado and self-promotion, then please don't bother to give me an earache. I get enough of that during the advertising breaks.

 

I can't lie. I thought Mayweather was going to get knocked out in that second round. I think what made me nervous was that if Floyd did get knocked out in the 2nd round, his image, reputation, and even legacy would have shattered. If Floyd got knocked out in the later rounds, it wouldn't seem so bad.

 

Why be nervous.
Anyone with any basic boxing sense would have known that Shane Mosley had no chance of beating Master Boxer, Floyd Mayweather Jr. #1 P4P fighter in the world.
Mosley is just a more polished version of Mayorga and never has been in the same league as Mayweather.

 

Yeah like he did when Roy got KTFO...(that ****en hater:twisted