New York Times Mayweather article

[pesticid]

Floyd can never make as much as he's making in boxing.
I mean right now Floyd has put himself in such a position that even if he were to rematch Sharmba he'd be getting more than 10 mil. That's a DLH kind of deal. If he has to face Cotto he'll demand more than 20 mil.

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

He is bad for the sport. Besides, The New York Times is not a credible newspaper

[Sweet Pea 50]

New York times. Next time Mayweather comes out, he needs to be bumping this...



Call me a *****. The dude made it. And that little ****er writing those snide comments probably lost his wallet on Gatti.

[Sin City]

He is bad for the sport. Besides, The New York Times is not a credible newspaper

Because you get front page news on a paper doesn't necessarily mean you are doing good for the sport..

[Gonzalez_Boxing]

Good article.

Why fight Oscar again when Mayweather could prove he’s the best by fighting the best?

Mayweather snorted in disgust and looked to Ellerbe, who stepped in close to me and said: “A fight has to make sense. The other guy has to bring something to the table.” In other words, the opponent must prove that he can attract a pay-per-view audience. “We’re the industry leaders,” Ellerbe said. “People are going to take shots at us, but it’s like if there’s a crap game and Floyd has a million dollars and these guys have $200, why’s he gonna play with them? How can Cotto say he has a fan base when he fights on pay-per-view and does 160,000 buys with Zab Judah at Madison Square Garden?” (HBO, which televised the fight, says that figure is low.) Mayweather sat up on the bed and said, “If Cotto’s such a big guy, why doesn’t he fight in Las Vegas?”

This section has me wondering if Mayweather will indeed fight Cotto. What happens after Mayweather/De La Hoya 2, Cotto is never going to have De La Hoya type numbers.

[deevel79]

"There are good welterweight boxers to fight, and Mayweather the entertainer isn’t fighting them. Even when he does deign to box, he has been taking big-money fights against relatively easy opponents like Oscar De La Hoya, who is popular and long past his prime, and the undersize, overmatched British scrapper Ricky Hatton. But “to be the best, you got to fight the best,” as Shane Mosley, an elite welterweight, says. Mosley and other critics ask how Mayweather can call himself the best fighter, or even the best welterweight, when he has not fought even one of the current top men in his weight class. First among them is the no-nonsense Miguel Cotto, from Puerto Rico, who is unbeaten, too, but there’s also Mosley, who’s as quick and tricky and experienced as Mayweather, and there are others in what may be the sport’s deepest division. Mayweather can require them to battle for the right to meet him, and Mosley concedes that “you don’t knock him for trying to make a little extra money.” But at some point his refusal to fight other top welterweights begins to undercut his claim to superlative greatness as a boxer, and the cachet of Mayweather’s brand rests on that claim."

[Ray*]

Because you get front page news on a paper doesn't necessarily mean you are doing good for the sport..

Didnt dios say this?


Quote:
Originally Posted by DIOS DOMINICANO
He is bad for the sport. Besides, The New York Times is not a credible newspaper

[Sin City]

Didnt dios say this?


Quote:
Originally Posted by DIOS DOMINICANO
He is bad for the sport. Besides, The New York Times is not a credible newspaper

He wa being sarcastic.

[snoopy360]

Its a long read 6 pages worth. Basically its saying the same thing we all have been saying. When is Mayweather going to take on Cotto.... When is he going to clean out the division and put some names on his record in the welter weight division. Then it goes on to say, who are we the fans to ask so much from a fighter that has given us so much. I thought it was a decent article and I side with most of what the writer said. As a Cotto fan I'd love to see them step into the ring against each other but if Mayweather doesn't want to do it then who am I to flame him if he decides to move on. But if Mayweather continues to fight and avoids Cotto then I'll have a hard time putting him on the all time great P4P list.

[Sweet Pea 50]

Its a long read 6 pages worth. Basically its saying the same thing we all have been saying. When is Mayweather going to take on Cotto.... When is he going to clean out the division and put some names on his record in the welter weight division. Then it goes on to say, who are we the fans to ask so much from a fighter that has given us so much. I thought it was a decent article and I side with most of what the writer said. As a Cotto fan I'd love to see them step into the ring against each other but if Mayweather doesn't want to do it then who am I to flame him if he decides to move on. But if Mayweather continues to fight and avoids Cotto then I'll have a hard time putting him on the all time great P4P list.

Like Cotto doesn't have enough to worry about?
Mayweather owns this ****ing forum. Any doubts about this have just been erased.