Who could Floyd Mayweather Jr have fought...

Jom didn’t call shit. No one did. As you said, among fans it was pretty much 50-50

 

You think any version of Oscar could have beaten BHop? Lol

 

I called it. YOu can go find the old post. It was obvious that DLH was not a serious fighter at that point

 

No, but the way he quit in a probably fixed match showed the guy was now a scam artist, and not a legit boxer

 

Nobody did. It was a business transaction.

It was only made more clear in hindsight like everything else in this world.

 

It Was an Obvious Money Grab Sly...To Characterize it as Anything BUT is the Epitome of Nuthugging Bruh.

Wow!








REED

 

There’re money grabs and then there are money grabs. This was obviously about money, not denying that, but it’s not as though he took on butterbean or Chris brown or something. McGregor was a highly touted MMA champion who was known for striking and was in his prime and bigger and taller than Floyd and thought to be a puncher. Of course anyone that knew boxing knew it was probably a mismatch....but considering Floyd was OLD and mcgregor supposedly had power and was going and in shape, it still took courage to show up to that fight

 

REED has more patience than me... he handles this Floyd cock locker with kid gloves.

 

No it Didn't Bruh, You're Just INCAPABLE of Criticizing Floyd...

Truthfully, the Fight NEVER Should Been Sanctioned by the Nevada Commission...You Don't Put THE Best Boxer of his Era, 49-0 in a BOXING Match w/an 0-0 Novice...You Just Don't...No Matter How Many MMA Fights the Novice Has...As a Former Matchmaker, REED's Had MORE Competitive Bouts than Floyd-McGregor DECLINED by the Texas Commission Based on Discrepancies in Experience...

But MONEY Talks...

Even MMA Fans KNEW McGregor was Toast and the ONLY Bit of Suspense was If Floyd Could Stop Him...Those That Tuned in Did So Out of Morbid Curiosity, NOT Because They were Expecting a Competitive Fight...

You're the Homey and All, but it's Fucking DISGRACEFUL to Even Pretend it Took "Courage" for Floyd to Fight McGregor...Don't INSULT the Intelligence of Your Fightbeat Brethren w/that Shit Bruh...We DESERVE Better Than That...









REED

 

Ok bra I concede that point. Truthfully it was more about money than anything else...I was just seeing how far I could stretch that particular narrative before someone lost their cool

 

Sly was REALLY Bullshitting w/that Last Post...

Embarrassing...







REED

 

I don't blame PBF for the Mcgregor fight. He fooled a ton of suckers and made gazillions of dollars fighting a regional level fighter at best. It was a brilliant move business wise, even thought it exposed in all its vacuity the putrid current state of occidental civilization

 

Floyd vs. Conor isn't any more farcical than Foreman fighting five schmoes in Toronto, to which ABC wound up getting 30 million people to watch it

 

Floyd said it himself (about Conor) on Instagram, "Easiest 9 figures I ever made!"

 

Floyd could have fought the likes of Margarito, Williams, Cotto, and Martinez at 154.

Those fights were quite makeable at the time Floyd chose to “retire”. His resume would look a helluva lot better but he simply chose to not take the risk.

Same situation with AJ and Wilder and Thurman and Spence. The fights are makeable but there are other agendas. Floyd deserves criticism for his resume if those other guys get criticism for fights they are avoiding.

 

Great business move. Like I said a few posts back...every other fighter in history would have done the same thing for that kinda money.

 

Floyd fought Cotto when Cotto was still prime...so please remove Cotto from your list of “shouldas”.

Asking Floyd to fight Williams and Margarito instead of De La Hoya is like asking Leonard to fight Nunn and Benn instead of Hagler. Same stage of career.

You see...different rules seem to apply to Floyd for some reason.

 

Instead of having the rematch with Hearns when Hearns was still dangerous, Leonard instead elected to fight Lalonde and waited for Hearns to be knocked the fuck out by Barkley and look shit against Olagide before making that fight. That’s far more shameful at that stage of career than Floyd coming back and fighting hatton and Mosley.

Leonard proved that he was a shrewd matchmaker in his 30s and at the higher weights

 

100%

 

Hummmmm I don't think Leonard waited for this.
No-one sits back and predicts "Oh, yeah. I'll wait until the most feared one-punch KO artist gets shocked and stopped....then I'll make my sneaky move"

 

Leonard certainly wasn’t going to fight hearns again at that stage of his career if hearns was still looking in shuler/roldan/andries form. Hearns had been calling him out the moment he came back.

 

Sly, how do you figure:
* Mayweather turned down $8m to fight Margarito and he fought Baldomir for a claimed $12m instead in 2006
* fighting a 15lb heavier Marquez going up to 147 instead of Williams coming down from 154 in 2008

Thoughts?

 

Baldomir was the lineal and undisputed welterweight champion. Every fighter in history would have gone after the title also. When a champion moves up in weight he does so with the intent of fighting the champion at that weight....whoever he may be.

Marquez was his first fight in a few years....everyone is entitled to a warm up fight after a period of inactivity. No different to Ali taking on Quarry in 1970. May weathers very next fight was Mosley though...and Shane in his most recent fight had fucked up Margarito something serious

 

Cotto hasn’t been prime since the first fight with Margarito.

Floyd could have fought Margarito, Williams, Cotto, and Martinez after after he fought Hatton but chose to take a leave of absence from the sport.

That’s all on him.

 

Why would Canelo beating GGG more than 5 years after PBF fought him, prove that he was in his prime at the time. Whetehr you like it or not, Canelo was a guy who was struggling (and barely beating) against Trout and Lara.

It's clear that the guy PBF beat at the time wasn't a legend level talent.

Still a great win, considering the weight and age disparity, but not the kind of win that elevate you to TBE status

 

Cotto went on the beat Margarito in a rematch and stop Martinez at 160...so whether you want to use the term “prime” or not, Cotto was still a formidable world beater and top talent P4P when Floyd faced him.

The leave of absence only “hurts” his accomplishments in the minds of his haters. He had earned a leave of absence with all of his successes prior (5 titles in 5 weight divisions). He had nothing left to prove at that point....still he came back and fought the likes of Cotto, Mosley, Ortiz (who had beaten Berto for a title), Canelo and Pacquiao.

How many fighters have fought in that many title fights, over that many HOF talents, over that many years and remained undefeated? Unheard of

 

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Lol