Maybe Floyd Can’t Pull The Trigger Any More

Thats valid, but you dnt think floyd has ever faced anyone of the same caliber of clottey,mosely or marg? not at WW. Yeah all of them have different fighting styles but they do have something in common. They are the top WW contenders. While those whom Floyd fight are who? top contenders of LW/JW? what do you think?:thinking: exactly

Saving his hands for a 2 Mill PPV fight with Pacman :) He may not have been able to KO Marquez but he displayed skills.

what a great honest article. After the win, too much heavy praise for a 32 year old undefeated welterweight champion former 154 lb champion taking on a career featherweight 36 year old 55 plus fight lightweight champion. Im glad to see a lot more boxing scribes come to their senses in analyzing & putting the win vs marquez in its proper context. Had Floyd fought and won in this fashion against the WW elite it would be understandable but he could have and should have got Marquez outta there. How many think any of the other WW elites would have let Marquez go the distance? I think only a few on here would say that.

can you name Floyd's previous opponents who fight like clottey, mosley or marg? All three of them have differnent fighting styles so wtf you talkn bout.

Thats valid, but you dnt think floyd has ever faced anyone of the same caliber of clottey,mosely or marg? can you name Floyd's previous opponents who fight like clottey, mosley or marg?

for starters cotto: mosley, clottey, margo (the only guy he ducked was pwill) Thats valid, but you dnt think floyd has ever faced anyone of the same caliber of clottey,mosely or marg?

Who has??? for starters cotto: mosley, clottey, margo (the only guy he ducked was pwill)

I'm not saying floyd isn't a great fighter, nor that he might be the greatest fighter of this generation... but he hasn't been fighting a murders row of opponents. surely you must acknowledge this. Who has???

Then why has he been given so much praise thoughout the boxing society? Has he fought overmatched opponents all the way to the 5 differnet weight classes? Why was he the P4P king for nearly 5 years straight? If a casual boxing fan like you could come to this conclusion about his career, then surely boxing pundits and analyist should feel the same way. I'm not saying floyd isn't a great fighter, nor that he might be the greatest fighter of this generation... but he hasn't been fighting a murders row of opponents. surely you must acknowledge this.

floyd pulls the trigger fine... it's just that he only pulls the trigger against overmatched opponents. Then why has he been given so much praise thoughout the boxing society? Has he fought overmatched opponents all the way to the 5 differnet weight classes? Why was he the P4P king for nearly 5 years straight? If a casual boxing fan like you could come to this conclusion about his career, then surely boxing pundits and analyist should feel the same way.

floyd pulls the trigger fine... it's just that he only pulls the trigger against overmatched opponents.

Maybe Mayweather knows, deep down, he is a celebrity business boxer now, completely incapable of competing with a full fledged prime welterweight beast like Cotto, Pacquiao, Mosley or Williams. So when did Pac become a full fledged welterweight beast?

nice read!

Do you guys know who Scoop is? If you thought Dougie had it out for Floyd, Sccop is 10x worst. He rips Floyd constantly and blast him no matter what happeneds. What makes him a clown is before the Hatton fight he said that Hatton would kill Floyd. After the fight he owned up to it and aknowledged Floyd's greatness and he said that if Floyd wanted to retire then it was fine with him and he should be held in high regard. Ofcourse like 2 weeks later he was back to ripping him non stop again. He's also dumb enough to say that Floyd wants none of Pac and that he will try to negotiate his way out of a Pac fight because Pac would kill him. Thats dumb because anyone with a brain knows that Floyd wants a Pac fight more than anything

For whatever reason, he let the LW champ go 12 in a WW fight. But 'let' is the keyword. He coulda KO'd him if he felt like it.

He just wanted to get rounds in, make money, and look better than Pac did against JMM. He infact did all of those things, there was really no need for him to hurt JMM too badly, it wouldn't have made him look better. I guess you mean that he would look like a bully. IMO, he was already a bully even before the fight ( weight, contract stipulations, etc...). I have mad respect for pbf's skills but as of late, he is more concerned over fight negotiations rather than level of opposition. The latter is more important to me.

I agree if he went all out he stops him and Pac fight vaporizes , I reckon he wanted the rounds and was having fun , anybody that thinks he was in top gear is brain dead , I dont reckon he hit 2nd gear . He is top gear with a guy with almost all the disadvantages. Can he get to that 2nd gear should he need it??? If he will up his opposition, he will need that competitive spirit he once demonstrated in the lower weights. As for the bold, pac would still fight pbf even though jmm was KO'd. The only thing that is truly in the way for a pac-pbf showdown is money.

I think he carried him, honest opinion. Me too but he should have carried him for 10 rounds and then tried to KO jmm. Problem is ,IMO, he never even tried to take the necessary risk to KO jmm. Pbf has two problems 1. undefeated record 2. pretty face ( as per pbf himself) Both are very important to him. To me, as a fan, it gets in the way of great fights.

Published by Scoop Malinowski on October 5th, 2009 The shills keep calling Floyd Mayweather’s performance against Juan Manuel Marquez “spectacular”, “virtuoso”, etc. but to my eyes it was a disappointment. Marquez is 36 years old – well past his best, prime years – and he boxed in a weight class two above the one of his last fight. Mayweather, with enough advantages already, refused to reveal his weight on fight night, suggesting he had something to hide. Some insiders speculate he possibly weighed 160 pounds vs. Marquez. Why not just let the world know? What’s to hide? So with a fading 36 year old lightweight as his handpicked opponent, everything was set for Mayweather to look spectacular. But he failed to pull the trigger and got out with another impressively dominant but boring, uneventful points win. Did you see the less than enthused looks on the faces of HBO’s Ross Greenburg and Mark Taffet? Put it this way, they looked like they could have been waiting on a long line at Motor Vehicles. Could it be possible that Mayweather at just 32, can’t pull the trigger any more? Yes, it’s very possible. As usual, Floyd had all the advantages over Marquez. With those advantages in height, speed, youth and strength, Mayweather still boxed like a timid man. Whenever Marquez attacked, Mayweather’s number one intent was to avoid all the punches first, before striking back. He looked scared of being hurt or knocked down by a lightweight. When Floyd launched his own assaults, he primarily threw one at a time, so as to avoid getting caught with anything wild. Sure it was a good display of hit and not be hit over an overmatched, 36 year old. But the sporting consumers expect more than that, they expect Hagler vs. Hearns or Cotto vs. Margarito. The fact is, there are enough formidable challenges out there for Mayweather. Cotto, Pacquiao, Williams and Mosley would provide much action and adventure than Marquez. And there is no doubt those dream fights would amass much more revenue than the little known Marquez ever could. Give credit to Shane Mosley who tried to shake things up when he challenged Floyd as he spoke after his win with Max Kellerman. Shane was attempting to secure a big payday for himself while adding some drama and pizzazz into the sport, in his own way. Not quite like Cassius Clay with Liston or Mike Tyson vowing to eat the children of Lennox Lewis, but he tried. And everyone now wants to see Mayweather vs. Mosley, with the winner to face the Cotto-Pacquiao winner. Everyone that is except for Mayweather, who seemed scared and uncomfortable with Mosley. Mayweather, accustomed to having everything his own way, having everything choreographed and set up in his favor by his advisors and managers and protectors, became upset that Mosley dared to challenge him on live TV. But it was hypocritical in essence, because Mayweather took pleasure in being publicly challenged on HBO by Hatton and Marquez. Mayweather is also hypocritical in the way he castigates Pacquiao and Cotto for not being their own boss, for having to discuss their decision-making with their promoter Bob Arum. When Mayweather is confronted by dangerous challenges he does not like, he evades answering tough questions by using the cop-out that “It’s up to Haymon and Ellerbe,” which is a blatant double standard. Didn’t you say you’re your own boss, Floyd? But that’s the way it is in the world of Mayweather, where all that matters is staying undefeated, even if it entails ducking and dodging all opponents that can knock him out. What’s really going on here is a continuing fraud of the sporting public with handpicked mismatched business exhibitions under the guise of world championship boxing. Maybe Mayweather knows, deep down, he is a celebrity business boxer now, completely incapable of competing with a full fledged prime welterweight beast like Cotto, Pacquiao, Mosley or Williams. Paul Williams is unquestionably the top welterweight in the world today, whether he gets paid like it or not. Williams would not only beat Mayweather, he’d “put him in a cemetery,” laughed one member of Team Williams who did not want his name associated with that explosive quote. Williams knows he’d beat Mayweather too, as he recently told me his blueprint to do it, “I would love to get Mayweather,” says Williams who is 37-1, (27 KO’s). “But a lot of people don’t realize with Mayweather, you can’t stand there and box that guy. He’s too fast for that. You gotta fight him. You gotta make him fight the whole three minutes, the whole fight. Make it a fight. And you got your best chance of beating him.” That’s exactly what you could easily imagine Cotto, Margarito and Mosley doing to Mayweather, non stop aggression and relentless assaults. Constant pressure. Of course, they were each ducked. Williams understands that Mayweather lacks what it takes to ever fight him and has given up any hopes of landing such a lucrative assignment. “When we had the 147 belt and we were calling out Mayweather, he went into retirement. So when we go up in weight, he comes out of retirement. So I’m not saying he’s ducking me but that fight’s not going to happen.” A lot of key welterweight super-fights have not happened and will not happen. Why not? Because Mayweather can’t pull the trigger any more. good article dude has nothing but good points!

Man, what a great article to read!!! Good shit man! Green K to you my good sir =) Listen, I still think Floyds got "IT" but its that '0' that's holding back and not going for those great fights!