I'd love to see Floyd go up to 160 and win a title. Someone of floyds height and build to win a strap at middleweight would be truly amazing. Pacquiao next followed by Martinez at MW and Floyd will be up their with the ATG and no1 would be able to debate that
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Floyd Mayweather: "Do I want to test the waters and one day fight at 160? Yes"
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Originally posted by 4CornersKid View PostI highly doubt Floyd will ever fight at 160. I hate when I hear people say "Leonard fought at 160, why can't Floyd???". Floyd is MUCH smaller than Ray, Floyd started at 130. So, if Floyd were to go to 160 and beat Sergio Martinez, it'd have to go down as one of the greatest wins of all-time. If Floyd-Sergio does happen, which is still unlikely, it'd happen at 154, which is good. If Floyd were to fight Sergio at 154, I don't see how anyone could say he's afraid of Manny Pacquiao at 147.
Still, highly doubt Floyd fights Sergio at 154, but at least it's sort of possible. But Floyd vs. Sergio at 160.....no way that happens. The only way I see Floyd going to 160 eventually is if someone like Peter Quillin upset Sergio along the way, and than Floyd went up there to fight Quillin or something.
Floyd is too small for 154 really, and at 160, he'd be tiny.
Floyd would lose to Sergio at 160, and Sergio would get ZERO credit for that win, because it was a tiny Mayweather fighting him at 160 lbs. If Sergio were to beat Floyd at 154, where he's fought before, he'd at least get mad credit for beating Floyd.
Sugar Ray Robinson when below the welterweight limit regularly fought middleweights giving away 15-20 lbs. He did it with LaMotta all the time. When he fought Joey Maxim for the Light-heavyweight title he weighed about 157, giving away 16 lbs or so. When he collapsed from heat exhaustion at the end of the 13th rd. he weighed only 147.
So........
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Of course Floyd can fight at 160. All he got to do is eat more, it works for Pac.
SRL fought at 160 and higher, Duran did as well. Floyd is long limbed so should carry the weight well.
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Kirkland vs. Alvarez needs to happen before Floyd fights on of them. Whats f**ked up is that Kirkland has to go through tough fights in Angulo, Molina, and Vanes, just to get his shot at Canelo, who has only fought Rhodes, Cintron, and Mosley. It's laughable.
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Sergio couldnt beat floyd at 160. The only chance of Floyd getting beat is it he gets clocked by a lucky shot. Technically Floyd's style is the best defensive style to ever grace boxing. Some of his punch accuracy in fights is unreal. Martinez is extremely experienced and talented, but he took 11 rounds to get rid of an average middleweight in Barker who was walking to Martinez! Floyd at the present moment is too defensively sound for any fighter and YES im including MANNY.
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Originally posted by KingKhan1 View PostSergio couldnt beat floyd at 160. The only chance of Floyd getting beat is it he gets clocked by a lucky shot. Technically Floyd's style is the best defensive style to ever grace boxing. Some of his punch accuracy in fights is unreal. Martinez is extremely experienced and talented, but he took 11 rounds to get rid of an average middleweight in Barker who was walking to Martinez! Floyd at the present moment is too defensively sound for any fighter and YES im including MANNY.
If the guys that Martinez is beating are average, how come they are all undefeated or with only 1 loss? Remember Pavlik outweighed Martinez by 11 pounds on fight night and was like 4 inches taller...Martinez still beat him down.
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damn, i hope so. i'd take mayweather/martinez at 154. beat cotto, go to jail, beef up, come back and fight martinez at the end of 2012. if successful, go back down to 154 and get the wbc belt (if alvarez still has it, i'm assuming he'd have faced the kirkland/molina winner by then). then if arum says pacquiao's cut has fully healed by mid-late 2013, get that fight made and retire. what a plan.
late 2012 is going to be very interesting (when floyd gets out of jail).
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Originally posted by mathed View PostSergio would beat Floyd to pieces at 160, you kidding me? He'd have Floyd up against the ropes in short order teeing off on him when he doubles up his punches. That straight left would be a nightmare for Floyd too.
If the guys that Martinez is beating are average, how come they are all undefeated or with only 1 loss? Remember Pavlik outweighed Martinez by 11 pounds on fight night and was like 4 inches taller...Martinez still beat him down.
I still think Floyd beats Sergio though. Yes, Floyd would have a tough time no doubt, and it'd be a really close fight in my opinion, scores all close, but I wouldn't bet against Floyd. Sergio's last fight was bulls**t. The wins over Pavlik, Williams, and Dzinziruk were all good wins no doubt. Barker was a bit of a joke. I mean Lou and Sergio have the nerve to say "Who has Pirog beat besides Jacobs???", but then turn around and fight Barker, who'd beat no one. And now we have Macklin, a very good fight. Macklin beat Sturm in all reality and should be the MW champion right now.
Whats interesting is that Sergio still looked quick and fresh against Barker, but wasn't blowing Barker out of the water like he should have. He was beating Barker, but Barker seemed to catch Sergio with some punches, far more than I thought he would.
The only guys I'd really be interested in seeing Floyd fight above 147 lbs are Cotto, Kirkland, Alvarez, and Martinez. That's it.
I want to see the Kirkland-Molina winner vs. Vanes in July and than who ever comes out of that against Alvarez in November or December.Last edited by 4Corners; 03-04-2012, 08:33 PM.
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