Frightened Into Retirement!

[-EX-]

When both Hatton and Floyd were at 147, Hatton got exposed and ran back to 140. Mosley could have fought Floyd in November but he didn't want to. Floyd beat 4 fighters at 135. Floyd likes to move up in weight and accomplish beating fighters at higher weightclasses. By the time he got to 147 he was the best in the sport, and was not going to waste time on average guys like Margarito. Some fighters choose to clean out divisions(like Hopkins) while others like to move up and fight like Floyd, Oscar, etc.

Margarito is not a missed opportunity becuz Floyd made 8 mil fighting Baldomir. THE SAME AMOUNT.

[Pandaman64]

When both Hatton and Floyd were at 147, Hatton got exposed and ran back to 140. Mosley could have fought Floyd in November but he didn't want to. Floyd beat 4 fighters at 135. Floyd likes to move up in weight and accomplish beating fighters at higher weightclasses. By the time he got to 147 he was the best in the sport, and was not going to waste time on average guys like Margarito. Some fighters choose to clean out divisions(like Hopkins) while others like to move up and fight like Floyd, Oscar, etc.

Margarito is not a missed opportunity becuz Floyd made 8 mil fighting Baldomir. THE SAME AMOUNT.

1) Floyd had no business going up to 147 without fighting hatton at 140. Period. Everyone he fought at 140 was a joke, done only to look good on paper. Even floyd pointed out what should've been obvious, "Gatti is a C class fighter".

2) Floyd moved up in weight far too quickly, and as a result missed out on many of the aformentioned fighters. He's retired as less than 40 fights for god sakes! I believe that PBF had enough in him to both clean out divisions AND move up in weight. Maybe you don't think he was good enough, but I do.

3) Before he got to 147, the fight TO SEE at 147 was margarito vs judah. Now, seeing as PBF beat judah, the logical thing to do was to go on and beat margarito.

4) Margarito was still a missed opportunity. Who says he couldn't have fought BOTH margarito AND baldomir? I think with the way Margarito looked vs clottey, PBF would've beaten him so easily in the summer that he'd have been able to still be ready for Baldy in the fall. Better career, shut up critics and an extra 8 million in the bank. Sounds like a missed opportunity to me.

[-EX-]

Let's see fight Margarito or Oscar De La Hoya?

Who's the better fighter: DLH
Who will get me more green: DLH

I think that sums that up.

Would you really want to see Hatton-Mayweather and watch Hatton get picked apart. That's probably why he asked for an outrageous amount of money at 140. Then he wanted to do it in England...

I think he was good enough to beat all of those guys.

If Floyd beat all those guys and never fought DLH or Judah. People would say his resume isn't all that.

[deuce_drop]

Move Biatch!

Just gonna take that spot.

Amazing.



Frightened Into Retirement!



Enjoy your retirement!

Here is a sound clip of Floyd saying bye.

http://www.digital-sledgehammer.com/superchicken/sounds/battlecry.wav

;D

if floyd wants to be considered great then he has to beat the rest of the guys on that list that he hasn't already beaten. plus throw hatton on there too......

floyd does that and retires i can say that he was one of the best if not the best of this era, and then can throw him in the top 50 of all time. the reason i say top 50 instead of 20 or 10 is because there were guys that have fought more and tougher fights than floyd in a shorter period of time in between fights, and those guys didn't have any luxuries like floyd and fighters today.

fighter back in the day were tougher and had it rougher, and fought more often and didn't make excuses why not to fight someone, they fought as much as possible only trying to get better, money was the icing on the cake for them. they got smaller pay for riskier fights, more dangerous fights, so they had to fight often to put food on the table.
if fighters back in the day fought like they did now, we wouldn't have any real great fighters to talk about. the history of the sport would be so limited, boxing probably wouldn't have survived this long if it were like today.

[Pandaman64]

Let's see fight Margarito or Oscar De La Hoya?

Who's the better fighter: DLH
Who will get me more green: DLH

I think that sums that up.

Would you really want to see Hatton-Mayweather and watch Hatton get picked apart. That's probably why he asked for an outrageous amount of money at 140. Then he wanted to do it in England...

I think he was good enough to beat all of those guys.

If Floyd beat all those guys and never fought DLH or Judah. People would say his resume isn't all that.

You seem to be under the impression that if he'd fought margarito, he'd never have gotten to fight DLH. Why? He could've fought all the guys I said and STILL fought DLH and judah.

He could've gone Margarito in August 2006, then Baldy in Nov-dec of 06, And finishing off with DLH in may. Hell, just for career/warm-ups sake I would have liked PBF to beat Spinks in the Feb of 06. Now that's an amazing Year for one's boxing career!

HELL YES I WANT TO SEE HATTON GET PICKED APART. I would've loved to see PBF go to england, fight hatton at 140, and pick him the hell apart (If he can). Do you even need to ask? I hate hypotheticals.

[-EX-]

Most fighters don't fight that many times a year. And no I'm not saying he wouldn't have been able to fight DLH. When Floyd fought Baldomir in Nov, Margarito fought in December. I doubt Margarito would have fought in January or February. The Oscar fight was May 5th.

We can sit on here all night, but regardless of what anyone says I think Floyd Mayweather Jr is the best fighter of his time, and at least top 30 or top 40 of all time. And accomplished what many could not or can't do. Just because he made it look easy doesn't mean the other fighter wasn't good.

[boxingfan4life]

Who the hell cares!? The man is retired for now. Lets focus on the current fighters now. I mean i use to talk about floyd too but I realized its time to move on. I know some of you are upset that he didn't fight certain fighters before he retired. Oh well what can you do about it, nothing. I know some of you felt he was boring, you shouldn't have watched his fights then. I know you still felt Oscar won, oh well the fight happened its over now. I'm not a floyd fan at all but its getting old with all these floyd threads. Just accept what he did in boxing whether you like it or not and roll wit it. This **** is getting ridicolous.

[Alien_Tanks]

Most fighters don't fight that many times a year. And no I'm not saying he wouldn't have been able to fight DLH. When Floyd fought Baldomir in Nov, Margarito fought in December. I doubt Margarito would have fought in January or February. The Oscar fight was May 5th.

We can sit on here all night, but regardless of what anyone says I think Floyd Mayweather Jr is the best fighter of his time, and at least top 30 or top 40 of all time. And accomplished what many could not or can't do. Just because he made it look easy doesn't mean the other fighter wasn't good.

Does Floyd use vasiline or does he **** you dry?

Margarito fight was on the table with 8 million dollars and there was no Baldomir fight. That little punk Floyd made Tony wait and wait.
The people were demanding this fight and Floyd peed on himself.

Floyd then went onto not fight against Baldo. He ran like a little biatch.

He then does not fight ODLH and the fight is a bore and a discrace to the sport.

**** FLOYD.

[Alien_Tanks]

Who the hell cares!? The man is retired for now. Lets focus on the current fighters now. I mean i use to talk about floyd too but I realized its time to move on. I know some of you are upset that he didn't fight certain fighters before he retired. Oh well what can you do about it, nothing. I know some of you felt he was boring, you shouldn't have watched his fights then. I know you still felt Oscar won, oh well the fight happened its over now. I'm not a floyd fan at all but its getting old with all these floyd threads. Just accept what he did in boxing whether you like it or not and roll wit it. This **** is getting ridicolous.

Let me ask you this.

Is Floyd the GOAT?

Is he the greatest ever?

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Most fighters don't fight that many times a year. And no I'm not saying he wouldn't have been able to fight DLH. When Floyd fought Baldomir in Nov, Margarito fought in December. I doubt Margarito would have fought in January or February. The Oscar fight was May 5th.

We can sit on here all night, but regardless of what anyone says I think Floyd Mayweather Jr is the best fighter of his time, and at least top 30 or top 40 of all time. And accomplished what many could not or can't do. Just because he made it look easy doesn't mean the other fighter wasn't good.

as trained as floyd is and as much damage he takes in a fight, he could fight that many times in a year. old school fighters fought within weeks of their last fight all the time and they would also do it hurt, not saying do that but you get the picture. fighting that much while you are young, in good shape, and not war torn is very easy. these guys get paid too much to be hungry anymore. but it is possible for a fighter like floyd to fight at the very least 4 times a year. at the very least.............