Floyd looks fit, sounds tired. (Article)

[Easy-E]

Floyd is at 147...is it fair to analyze him as such? They guy is 5-8 72 inch reach, he belongs at 147. At 147 he has shown little balls or power. He refused to finish off a broken de la hoya. Judah has better speed at 147. Hatton, well he has spent the VAST majority of his career at 140 and has shown unbelievable lateral movement. Floyd has never shown much of a need to move laterally, he is more in and out. They are both good, but Hatton has showed unearthly side to side movement.

You scored that fight for DLH though, didnt you?

And Floyd belongs at 135/140.
You know, where he spent the majority of his career.

[Wiley Hyena]

by David Mayo | The Grand Rapids Press
Tuesday December 04, 2007, 9:03 AM

LAS VEGAS -- Some of my favorite times with Floyd Mayweather have been the daily hand-wrapping sessions. In what only can be taken as a sign of maturation, he now agrees.

Our reasons are different. For me, it's 25 minutes, every day of his gym life, that he consistently sits still and focuses on an interview, virtually without interruption. He ordered the three-minute bell turned off in the gym while we talked Monday. He ordered the hip-hop music muted, too, which is pretty serious stuff around here, wrapping without rapping.

For him, it's the easiest 25 minutes of a difficult daily grind.

"This is the best part of training, right here, the hand-wrapping," he said. "That's when you know it's time to re- ..."

He stopped short of uttering the R-word.

"... take a vacation."

Five days until the rumble, and the welterweight champion and pound-for-pound king of boxing is tired. He also is fit, and ready for Ricky Hatton Saturday night.

He still loves to spar, and if he could satisfy his commitment simply by lacing up gloves and dicing up opponents, no problem.

It's all the rest of it -- the roadwork after midnight, striking the bags, the weight training, the hundreds of sit-ups -- that burdens him now. Yes, the physical strain factors in, but the real intrigue is his dulled mental acuity for the sport at large.

He rarely watches fights. He says he has better things to do than watch inferior practitioners attempt his craft. He would not describe himself as a boxing fan.

These hand-wrapping chats first started when he was a teenager, when he loved every second of his brilliant future. Today, at 30, two decades in boxing and vast riches in the vault have made their impact.

"I enjoyed it as an amateur. I didn't mind going to the gym," he said. "But now, when I come to the gym, yeah, I'm going to train, and I'm going to train hard -- but the thing is, getting me to the gym. Before, nobody had to come wake me up, like, 'Floyd, let's go to the gym,' because I'd be the one waking them up and saying, 'Yo, let's go to the gym.' Now, they've got to come wake me up, and say, 'Floyd, you know you've got to go to the gym today.' It's been like that for a while.

"I get up in the morning, I look around, everything I've got is paid for, eight figures in the bank, and I'm like, 'What do I want to keep doing this for?' "

He says there is no magic number of victories that appeals to him. Larry Holmes got caught up chasing Rocky Marciano's record, Julio Cesar Chavez got caught up chasing 100 wins, and both ended up losing undefeated records along the way.

Many more fighters lose because the appeal of the money and fame is too alluring.

Mayweather said he and his mother, Deborah Sinclair, discuss his retirement frequently.

Mayweather said he was reminded of her feelings when he went to a movie Sunday night, "Awake," in which a man undergoing surgery meets his mother in some pre-death netherworld, and gets a good dose of I-told-you-so.

"She just thinks I've done enough in the sport, and made enough money in the sport, and I should give it up," he said.

He sounds like a fighter looking for the exit door. He insists he hasn't walked through yet.

"Hell yeah, I'm still dedicated to the training, because I know that these young kids are trying to knock me off the block," he said. "They're trying to knock me off the throne. Everybody wants my spot."

He hurts. He's rich. He wants to retire.

And as Rafael Garcia put his finishing touches on yet another hand-wrapping session, Mayweather admitted that's exactly the image he wants to leave with Hatton.

"That's the weakness I want him to chase," he said. "Everything is a trap. It's just like a mouse trap. We want him to eat the cheese and go in the hole."

lmao.........oh god. What a load of horse****!

Yeah, the old battle worn warrior getting up for one last finale! What a fraud.

[DLT]

Floyd is at 147...is it fair to analyze him as such? They guy is 5-8 72 inch reach, he belongs at 147. At 147 he has shown little balls or power. He refused to finish off a broken de la hoya. Judah has better speed at 147. Hatton, well he has spent the VAST majority of his career at 140 and has shown unbelievable lateral movement. Floyd has never shown much of a need to move laterally, he is more in and out. They are both good, but Hatton has showed unearthly side to side movement.

You always say that and I totally disagree. Your just going to keep standing by that because he is 5'8 with a nice reach? Look at him. Anyone can see that he natually looks like a little kid. He has height but he has a very small frame. He cant put on weight. How can you say that he belongs at 147 just because he's 5'8? Him coming into the ring on fight night weighing 146 pounds should easily tell you otherwise. So your trying to tell me because he's taller and has more reach then Hatton then he is the bigger man and should be at a higher weight? Anyone can see that Hatton is naturally much bigger.

I always say that not only is Floyd the P4P best in boxing but he's also easily the P4P smallest man in boxing. He's just fights at these weights because his skill level is so high that he can get away with it but he definatly should be at 135-140 like the other guy said. He shouldve stayed at 135 until around now and just now be moving to 140 to finish his career with a few fights. If he had did that then everyone would be calling him one of the All Time greats and one of the most exciting guys in boxing but instead he wanted to chase the big money Oscar fight which forced him to unaturally move up

[Amir K Shareef]

Well thats an opinion depending on who u ask.

no its a fact.. ya dig

[Cobrita]

nice 2 know

[Allucard]

by David Mayo | The Grand Rapids Press
Tuesday December 04, 2007, 9:03 AM

LAS VEGAS -- Some of my favorite times with Floyd Mayweather have been the daily hand-wrapping sessions. In what only can be taken as a sign of maturation, he now agrees.

Our reasons are different. For me, it's 25 minutes, every day of his gym life, that he consistently sits still and focuses on an interview, virtually without interruption. He ordered the three-minute bell turned off in the gym while we talked Monday. He ordered the hip-hop music muted, too, which is pretty serious stuff around here, wrapping without rapping.

For him, it's the easiest 25 minutes of a difficult daily grind.

"This is the best part of training, right here, the hand-wrapping," he said. "That's when you know it's time to re- ..."

He stopped short of uttering the R-word.

"... take a vacation."

Five days until the rumble, and the welterweight champion and pound-for-pound king of boxing is tired. He also is fit, and ready for Ricky Hatton Saturday night.

He still loves to spar, and if he could satisfy his commitment simply by lacing up gloves and dicing up opponents, no problem.

It's all the rest of it -- the roadwork after midnight, striking the bags, the weight training, the hundreds of sit-ups -- that burdens him now. Yes, the physical strain factors in, but the real intrigue is his dulled mental acuity for the sport at large.

He rarely watches fights. He says he has better things to do than watch inferior practitioners attempt his craft. He would not describe himself as a boxing fan.

These hand-wrapping chats first started when he was a teenager, when he loved every second of his brilliant future. Today, at 30, two decades in boxing and vast riches in the vault have made their impact.

"I enjoyed it as an amateur. I didn't mind going to the gym," he said. "But now, when I come to the gym, yeah, I'm going to train, and I'm going to train hard -- but the thing is, getting me to the gym. Before, nobody had to come wake me up, like, 'Floyd, let's go to the gym,' because I'd be the one waking them up and saying, 'Yo, let's go to the gym.' Now, they've got to come wake me up, and say, 'Floyd, you know you've got to go to the gym today.' It's been like that for a while.

"I get up in the morning, I look around, everything I've got is paid for, eight figures in the bank, and I'm like, 'What do I want to keep doing this for?' "

He says there is no magic number of victories that appeals to him. Larry Holmes got caught up chasing Rocky Marciano's record, Julio Cesar Chavez got caught up chasing 100 wins, and both ended up losing undefeated records along the way.

Many more fighters lose because the appeal of the money and fame is too alluring.

Mayweather said he and his mother, Deborah Sinclair, discuss his retirement frequently.

Mayweather said he was reminded of her feelings when he went to a movie Sunday night, "Awake," in which a man undergoing surgery meets his mother in some pre-death netherworld, and gets a good dose of I-told-you-so.

"She just thinks I've done enough in the sport, and made enough money in the sport, and I should give it up," he said.

He sounds like a fighter looking for the exit door. He insists he hasn't walked through yet.

"Hell yeah, I'm still dedicated to the training, because I know that these young kids are trying to knock me off the block," he said. "They're trying to knock me off the throne. Everybody wants my spot."

He hurts. He's rich. He wants to retire.

And as Rafael Garcia put his finishing touches on yet another hand-wrapping session, Mayweather admitted that's exactly the image he wants to leave with Hatton.

"That's the weakness I want him to chase," he said. "Everything is a trap. It's just like a mouse trap. We want him to eat the cheese and go in the hole."

That's true right there. Floyd retire, don't let them inferior haters get you. Listen to your mother, no one cares more. Don't listen in the money direction and always be su****ious of the evil ones.

[moin126]

huh did you guys even read the article....^_^

Idiots, i wont even explain it.

[Horus]

You always say that and I totally disagree. Your just going to keep standing by that because he is 5'8 with a nice reach? Look at him. Anyone can see that he natually looks like a little kid. He has height but he has a very small frame. He cant put on weight. How can you say that he belongs at 147 just because he's 5'8? Him coming into the ring on fight night weighing 146 pounds should easily tell you otherwise. So your trying to tell me because he's taller and has more reach then Hatton then he is the bigger man and should be at a higher weight? Anyone can see that Hatton is naturally much bigger.

I always say that not only is Floyd the P4P best in boxing but he's also easily the P4P smallest man in boxing. He's just fights at these weights because his skill level is so high that he can get away with it but he definatly should be at 135-140 like the other guy said. He shouldve stayed at 135 until around now and just now be moving to 140 to finish his career with a few fights. If he had did that then everyone would be calling him one of the All Time greats and one of the most exciting guys in boxing but instead he wanted to chase the big money Oscar fight which forced him to unaturally move up

If Floyd was at 135-140 right now, The division Wouldnt stand a Chance...
I think after he beats Cotto he should go back down to 135 or 140 for one last fight.. And Try to finish off Close to where he started....

[Horus]

I totally disagree. How can he not have balls when he's fought alot of tough guys in different weight classes? You say that Hatton has better lateral movement? This has to be a joke. How can he have better lateral movment then Floyd? Dont think just because its his style to jump from side to side, means that he has better lateral movement then Floyd because he doesnt. Then you say Zab has more speed and Floyd has no power. Thats not fair at all because your watching a guy who has fought in 5 weight classes and has moved up unaturally. Alot of your so called power guys would lose all there power if they did that and speed. Now go back to 130. Did Floyd have alot of power there? Yes. Was Zab at 147 faster then Floyd at 130? No. Dont just say stuff without telling the whole story.

Again, you may say that some of the guys at 147 can beat Floyd but we all know the only reason why they even have a chance is beause they are way way way bigger. If all these guys were near the same size then no one would give them a snow balls chance in hell to beat Floyd

Truth...!!

[ml2niceguy]

cuz its like when you're at the top of something and you watch boxers that you just know you'll **** up its like who cares lol