Floyd Mayweather said he would make "easy work" of reigning IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin at 160 pounds, despite the fact he'd struggle to make weight for the bout.
In video captured by FightHype, Money questioned how he could be expected to make middleweight when he struggled to fight at 147 pounds before swiftly adding he'd defeat Golovkin nonetheless (h/t Allan Fox of Boxing News 24):
"I can barely make 147, so how am I gonna fight at 160? Triple G, not being disrespectful, but he's straight up and down, no special effects. That's easy work. With the Pacquiao fight, you know, 10 rounds to two, that was a blowout."
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Mayweather said he'd make "easy work" of Golovkin.
Here's Mayweather's response in full (Warning: Contains **** language):
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It's been five months since Mayweather defeated Andre Berto via unanimous decision to claim his 49th career victory and bow out on a high, but Golovkin has been tipped as an opponent that could tease Mayweather out of retirement.
Any hopes of seeing the superfight look likely to be stunted, however. Mayweather rarely featured above the welterweight limit of 147 pounds during the latter years of his career.
That said, Fox reported Golovkin said he'd "be willing to come down to 154 to fight Mayweather," opening the option for both fighters, although GGG has never fought for a title outside middleweight.
Mayweather, on the other hand, successfully defended his WBC light middleweight title against Marcos Maidana as recently as 2014—the same title he took from Oscar De La Hoya nine years ago.
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Golovkin's record stands at 34-0, with 31 of those wins by knockout.
There appear to be many obstacles preventing this fight from coming to fruition, however, the most obvious of which is that Money remains retired.
Pitting the undefeated Golovkin against Mayweather would make for a potentially massive matchup, though, one that Guardian boxing correspondent Kevin Mitchell ranked as one of his five most-desired fights for 2016:
It's also worth noting light middleweight was the same division in which Mayweather defeated Canelo Alvarez to retain the WBA crown in 2013, therefore Golovkin may not be the stretch some suggest after all.
Golovkin is scheduled to meet Dominic Wade on April 23 in the hopes of taking his record to 35-0, but Mayweather's taunt may be the push needed to make this dream fixture materialise
You're making a logical fallacy and you know it.
Castillo gave Mayweather problems because his hand was injured. No hand, no counter without pain. Pain distracts you; May got caught.
But people are making it out like it was domination - it wasn't. If anything I'd give Castillo 1 round over Mayweather and I would definitely have supported a SD or MD in favor of Castillo or Mayweather.
We're not talking KO or stoppage. That's your problem and many people's problem - all you care about is knockouts.
There's only thing that matters - WINNING. Doesn't matter if it's SD, UD, MD, KO, TKO, RTD...WIN the fight by whatever means.
That's what Floyd does. WINS.
Against GGG, you acknowledged yourself that GGG's handspeed is nowhere near Pacquiao. No handspeed, he's not catching Floyd. That's my point. It doesn't matter how strong a guy is if you're missing punches all night long. Floyd by UD, people whining about how he "ran".
You talking two different weight classes, dude. That's an equivocation fallacy.
In the heavyweight division, David Haye is faster than Deontay Wilder. Is he stronger? Don't think so. Deontay Wilder is vulnerable to punches, which means if they fought, there's a good chance of Haye being able to KO Wilder. however, Wilder on the backfoot all night means Haye gets gassed in the later rounds. Wilder goes for a KO and likely gets it. Wilder by late KO. That's how he always fights since becoming champion.
In the welter division, Tim Bradley stopped Brandon Rios. Tim Bradley's beaten everyone he's faced except Manny and Chaves, where he got robbed. Many people, including myself, would tap Tim as one person who would have a chance at beating Floyd. Why?
Bradley would stay busy and Floyd couldn't keep him off if he tried. But Bradley's not sloppy like Maidana with punches. He's not flat footed like Cotto. He's not straight up like Canelo. He's not tentative like Manny.
GGG fails three of those four tests.
That's why Floyd beats him by UD in a very dull fight.
Styles make fights. Golovkin/Monroe taught us that GGG is only amazing against a specific type of fighter.
Gonna respond to you last time cause I don't think you get what you sound like. You just reiterated that ggg won't catch Floyd cause he's slower but then I brought up other boxers who's slower and then you use different weight classes as an excuse. You somehow think ggg and Floyd is in the same weight class? At what point is big too big? Imo ggg too big for Floyd and for some reason people under rate his skills.
His logic is retarded. I wouldn't be arguing with him anymore. By his logic Pac hand speed was faster than kov. Pac couldn't hit Floyd. No way kov win. Kov loses to Floyd. Pac hand speed is faster than wlad... That's how he's going to compare everything with is Pac hand speed. So basically Floyd can never lose a fight because he beat Pac.
Lol I think your right
So by your logic Castillo was faster than Pac because he gave Mayweather a very difficult time in the first fight and caught him multiple times? (many people thought Mayweather lost that fight). Cotto, Maidana, and even De la Hoya all landed more cleanly than Pac against Mayweather, do you think their faster? Your focusing on hand speed only and cant see the bigger picture. Pac for all his handspeed and power is quite predictable coming in, Mosely had a lot of success in making Pacquiao miss also.
GGG has slower handspeed but is better at closing space, he's used to fighters trying to pot-shot him and fight on the back foot.
Your argument about handspeed still doesnt explain how Mayweather would KO or stop GGG at 160?
His logic is retarded. I wouldn't be arguing with him anymore. By his logic Pac hand speed was faster than kov. Pac couldn't hit Floyd. No way kov win. Kov loses to Floyd. Pac hand speed is faster than wlad... That's how he's going to compare everything with is Pac hand speed. So basically Floyd can never lose a fight because he beat Pac.
Math, dude.
Pac is faster than GGG. Fact.
Floyd schooled Pac. Fact.
It stands to thus reason that Floyd would make easy work of GGG, because if the fastest couldn't catch him, GGG won't.
Get it?
So by your logic Castillo was faster than Pac because he gave Mayweather a very difficult time in the first fight and caught him multiple times? (many people thought Mayweather lost that fight). Cotto, Maidana, and even De la Hoya all landed more cleanly than Pac against Mayweather, do you think their faster? Your focusing on hand speed only and cant see the bigger picture. Pac for all his handspeed and power is quite predictable coming in, Mosely had a lot of success in making Pacquiao miss also.
GGG has slower handspeed but is better at closing space, he's used to fighters trying to pot-shot him and fight on the back foot.
Your argument about handspeed still doesnt explain how Mayweather would KO or stop GGG at 160?
GGG would destroy Mayweather at 160lb!
To be fair though, all Champions live with the belief they can beat all other fighters. That's the response Mayweather is supposed to give.....when's the last time you heard a boxer (Champ) admit to being inferior to another fighter?
Joe Calzaghe.
GGG would destroy Mayweather at 160lb!
To be fair though, all Champions live with the belief they can beat all other fighters. That's the response Mayweather is supposed to give.....when's the last time you heard a boxer (Champ) admit to being inferior to another fighter?
He's rather vague about why he cant fight GGG though isn't he? Doesnt want to discuss cw or anything just says he retired.
He can after all priove what he says he csan do. Just fight him. Khan could say he'd beat GGG and we can say he's deluded just like we will say Floyd is!
Be the Fotd by beating ggg. Or just last the distance, its all good. Now we will know if it really is the zero
I think you proved my point right there, his last knockout was the sucker punch on Ortiz 5 years ago. How then would he make GGG quit at 160 when you yourself admit he is uncomfortable at 154? Mosley wobbled Mayweather twice, watch the fight again. The rest of your post I cant be bothered to answer, i'm not a Pacquaio fan so i'm not sure why you keep mentioning/attacking him when were talking about a completely different fighter in GGG.
Still salty from May 2 I see...
I don't get it... he can't fight at 160, but GGG is easy work... but he can't fight that high up, but he's easy work... but he can't..... but.... what.
GGG would destroy Mayweather at 160lb!
To be fair though, all Champions live with the belief they can beat all other fighters. That's the response Mayweather is supposed to give.....when's the last time you heard a boxer (Champ) admit to being inferior to another fighter?
Knockouts at Welter/Light welter:
- Ortiz
- Hatton
- Gatti
- Mitchell
- Bruseles
As far as 154 he's only fought there three times - Canelo (close), De La Hoya and Cotto. All three got decisioned at a weight uncomfortable to Floyd.
I think you proved my point right there, his last knockout was the sucker punch on Ortiz 5 years ago. How then would he make GGG quit at 160 when you yourself admit he is uncomfortable at 154? Mosley wobbled Mayweather twice, watch the fight again. The rest of your post I cant be bothered to answer, i'm not a Pacquaio fan so i'm not sure why you keep mentioning/attacking him when were talking about a completely different fighter in GGG.
Floydette reminds me of this small ass chihuahua dog barking at bigger dogs from behind the fence, knowing he's safe anyway
we all know he'd be making 1000 different excuses to avoid GGG if he was still active
Bullseye lol
REAL talk Dunn!!...Floyd says this about everyone
Did the mods bury that thread about Lil G wanting to break Hop's MW title defense record?!?..I don't see it...I guess it got buried smh
Pacquiao landed clean in two rounds. Other than that, he was hitting nothing but air. And arms.
When Floyd went for a counter straight, it connected beautifully. Happened twice. After that Manny went into coma mode. I think Floyd could have done that all night, but didn't need to.
Manny fight was less than a year ago and he danced circles around Pac.
First Maidana fight, Floyd fought in the trench to disprove this notion that Maidana was anything special after beating Broner. All that fight told me is that Broner is effectively a bum. Add a poor ref in Tony Weeks and you round it out.
Second Maidana fight, Floyd showed us what he COULD have done in the first fight, dancing circles around Maidana all night long.
Floyd fights how he chooses to fight. Look at how he fought Berto. Throwback to how he fought Burton.
A prime Mayweather makes GGG quit on the stool. Mayweather/Corrales. Stylistically the same match up as Mayweather/Golovkin.
Too small to withstand what power?
You guys are making this dude out to be Deontay Wilder or something. People are on record saying Cotto hits the hardest of everyone they've fought, Floyd took his shots without going down, took his body shots without going down. Maidana caught him flush at the bell with an overhand and Floyd not only didn't go down, but went on to give him a boxing lesson. Floyd's chin can't be denied.
It's moot anyway, you can't hurt what you can't hit. I challenge someone to tell me GGG is in any way faster than Manny Pacquiao.
Lol, thats good stuff.
If khan can fight nelo Floyd can fight GGG. He we wont though.
But Floyd only has to survive 12 rounds, surely Floyd is up for that and can do that! That is better than anyone else has achieved!.
Surely Floyd must think that's doable? To be 49-1 would be an improvement on his resume because at least the loss was a points loss. That's better than anyone so far has done against GGG.