Read This & Give me your thoughts. Its not as long as it looks :D Also remember by in favor I just mean that your ok with it. It may not be your 1st choice but you still think its a good fight.
I Love & Hate this fight so much. I think these are easily 2 of the elite fighters in the game today and I love watching pure boxers so I really love this fight. I have also said that Spinks is the most underrated guy in boxing and no matter who he beats, he never gets any credit for it.
I hate this fight for that same reason. Its a lose/lose situation for Floyd because 90% of the writers & fans now seem to hate Spinks and thinks he sucks. I think Spinks easily beats Rivera, beats Margarito, & beats Mosley. There is no way they will be able to stop him from boxing there shoes because they arent lefty like Zab & they arent extremely tall with crazy long arms like Karmazin.
Margarito is good but he's too slow to beat Spinks. If Santos gave him mad problems then Spinks would really give him problems. Most will say that Shane's power would KO him and he has the speed. Thats true but Spinks Southpaw stance would make him look bad.
I didnt want Floyd to fight Spinks now because I wanted Spinks to kick Rivera's ass 1st to make believers out of these non believers and then the fight wouldve been bigger. On the other hand I think it wouldve been a bad idea to fight Spinks later because Floyd has just fought 2 lefties in a row and this would be the best time to fight Spinks instead of fighting a righty or 2 first because then Spinks style may confuse him. I also think it is good for Floyd to have this fight because Spinks has only had 1 fight at 154 & Floyd can get used to the weight for the Oscar fight.
As for the fight itself. I have been 50/50 on this fight the whole time. Part of me thinks that Floyd can just walk him straight down & tag him all night. I think Spinks is a better boxer then Zab but he doesnt have Zab's power so Floyd wont be as cautious as he was against Zab. Although Spinks did seem to hit harder early against Karmazin. The other half of me thinks that Spinks will give Floyd more problems then anyone. That it could look like the 1st few rounds of the Zab fight but for the whole fight. I think his lefty style can give Floyd problems, he is much bigger then Floyd, and has great speed. He is also the best boxer Floyd has ever faced and Floyd may struggle at this weight. I honestly wouldnt be shocked if Floyd killed Spinks & I honestly wouldnt be shocked if Floyd lost this fight.
In closing I will also like to add that this is a tough fight and Floyd should get alot of credit for it. I also want to add that Floyd is a straight beast for so quickly going from 135 to 154. That shit is unheard of now days and its even more special because Floyd is Super small. Everyone knows he should be fighting at 140 right now and I think he still could fairly easy make 135. He was the smallest 140 pounder out there, by far the smallest WW, so you know he will be super small at 154. I think he wanted to fight there so he could be used to the weight for Oscar. This fight also makes the Winky fight a reality now if Floyd looks good. This is bigger then people think.
i aint even arguin with these haters today , you all pathetic
It's not being a hater, it's giving you the truth.. if you want to ignore it, that's your decision
If the belt really matters that much.. then you're happy about this matchup for all the wrong reasons (and you'd be happy about it as a 'Floyd' fan if this is the excuse)
spinks is NOT a 'top 3 super-welterweight'.. that goes to Ouma, Mosley, and De La Hoya (or even a couple other foreigners in the division that you've probably not heard of (yet))
Spinks has a belt... fine.. but, i'm sorry, the bottomline is it shouldn't be "credit-deserving" whatsoever
OG Loc is better than Ouma, you have to at least give him that.
ok listen people
cory spinks is a top 3 super-welterweight , a former undisputed welterweight champion , also it gives him a belt , so when he has the oscar fight its a unification fight come on people
If the belt really matters that much.. then you're happy about this matchup for all the wrong reasons (and you'd be happy about it as a 'Floyd' fan if this is the excuse)
spinks is NOT a 'top 3 super-welterweight'.. that goes to Ouma, Mosley, and De La Hoya (or even a couple other foreigners in the division that you've probably not heard of (yet))
Spinks has a belt... fine.. but, i'm sorry, the bottomline is it shouldn't be "credit-deserving" whatsoever
completely against it.. this fight is about as meaningless as any of his last seven, it's the easist opponent possible for him and he's getting 0 credit from me for it if this is it for Nov. 4
You don't get credit for chasing belts.. you get credit for chasing competition. (i.e. Wright, Pacquiao, Barrera, and other deserving P4P fighters)
If this was elementary school, i'd make Floyd stay after and write this on the chalkboard like 1,000 times over..
Spinks is a decent fighter.. but NO WHERE near Mayweather's calibur as far as boxing is concerned.
It's a cheap way out of this year as far as i'm concerned for Floyd.
Floyd looked to the wind with a grin in his eye
and said if he had to move up, he'd surely die
so many pounds from the place of his home
that he could be a British bank with savings and loan
So if he must move up, he thought to himself,
If he must move up to preserve his wealth,
With health in mind, and safety the first
He'd fight a man who back at the birth
of his boxing career so many years gone
was fighting in weight from which Floyd had been spawned
So with a nod of his head, he signed the deal
The fans were the ones, who his haste would feel
For his fight would be against a man with a belt
A title was his at a weight Floyd hadn't felt
Yet the only reason he inked his name
was for when Oscar de la Hoya
came back to the game.
Floyd Mayweather and Corey Spinks
Another pointless matchup that surely stinks
Its the big money matchup some folks will say
49.95 youd be a fool to pay
That kinda cash to see Corey the Corny Clown
A man with feathers of fist get thouroughly beaten down
Kevin Cunningham screams "corey youre gettin wrecked"
"Shit im a 6 round fighta, what da fuck ya expect?"
Spinks is goin down sometime, maybe minus a tooth
But that still dont prove Mayweathers the truth
So keep your money in your pocket, im tellin you son
If you're lookin for a fight, this aint the one!
Who wants to bet that floyd will fight at Middleweight after Light Middleweight. :p
And I'd be willing to bet Floyd gets put in the hospital by Jermain Taylor.
I'm just not a big fan of this fight. I know the crap that will spew from Mayweather's mouth from here, and those who take his word as gospel will repeat it, "I am the man from 130 to 154. No other fighter living today can fight at all those weight classes. I will fight and beat any man all the way to 154."
Even as someone who likes Floyd...this is a bit much. He's going to add a win at 154 to his resume over a fighter who has not done too much recently and add a notch to his ego belt.
The only benefit to this fight, as I sit and try to stew it over so I can watch it, is that it gives Floyd a fight to get used to 154 before Oscar...but if he messes up and loses against Spinks...the fight could end up never happening.
PBF is pfp 1 ..no doubt....but i just get the feeling its another legacy fight...all be it a cheap legacy untill he consolidates each division he passes thru...if he does that then he can truly be an all time great fighter perhaps even the greatest..
I'm foreal..mayweather has took a dangerous opponent to fight at 154. maybe even more dangerous than margarito at 147
I really believe that Floyd is crazy for taking this fight and its much more dangerous then the Margarito fight
OMG..................very stupid
and tell me one thing stupid about it, bitch. I hope you dont dare think that a Baldy fight makes more money then Spinks. If yoiu think that then your so fuckin dumb. Every writer was just saying how Floyd-Baldy shouldnt even be PPV and yet you think Baldy makes more money then Spinks? Baldy has to take every fight in the other guys backyard because he cant make any money. Get real
its not MY opinion its a FACT, i could really care less go look at the ring rankings...........
i dont understand why everybody thinks ring is the boxing bible, there has biased as anybody else and i dont need to look at no magazine or have nobody tell me whats what, im a fan i make my own decisions i dont let a magazine tell me whos #1 and whos not, if u are that easily persuaded then so be it, but thats not me, i think for myself, cause thats what my brains for, its certainly not made for commentators, so called experts, or magazines to tell me what to think...
Floyd fighting Baldy or Hatton would make way more money than anything outside of De La Hoya. The TV revenues from Argentina or the UK.
I know the Hatton fight is big but Hatton doesnt want it yet. As for Baldy, there is no way that fight makes big money. If that fight made so much money then Hatton would probally try to fight him hiself. Spinks makes more money then Baldy. Spinks has the bigger name, has some hip hop influence, and comes from a famous family
Why do you guys always throw out Cotto & Hatton's name when you guys know they wont fight Floyd right now. He couldve fought Baldy but the money just wasnt right because you know Floyd would think that he should get a boat load & Baldy wouldnt want chump change anymore after his last 2 wins
Floyd fighting Baldy or Hatton would make way more money than anything outside of De La Hoya. The TV revenues from Argentina or the UK.
I'm not in favor of it, first off it would not be the most entertaining of fights, secondly there are so many better, more significant, more entertaining possible matchups than Spinks. To name a few, Cotto, Hatton, Baldomir.
Of course Hatton, Cotto, and Baldomir are all from other countries. Fighting them would make more money than fighting Spinks but I think one of the factors in Mayweather's descisions in who to fight is who he wants to make money for. Like his last opponent judah, he and mayweather are supposedly friends, all that shit talk was likely just to promote the fight, he's probably friends with spinks as well. I think Corey Spinks might the voice of OG Loc in GTA San Andreas.
Why do you guys always throw out Cotto & Hatton's name when you guys know they wont fight Floyd right now. He couldve fought Baldy but the money just wasnt right because you know Floyd would think that he should get a boat load & Baldy wouldnt want chump change anymore after his last 2 wins
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