WHY DID MOSELY TURN DOWN A FLOYD FIGHT?? (Truth only)

[JAB5239]

So I guess you feel the same way about Sugar Ray Leonard who never fought Pryor and made Hagler wait 6 years?

Do you really want to question Rays credentials and resume compared to Floyd?

I guess You feel that way about Roy Jones, Joe Calzaghe, Oscar, etc
All these fighters made other fighters jump through hoops in order to fight them and all of them avoided certain fighters.
Nobody can say they didnt avoid people and set circumstances and conditions in order for fighters to fight them.

Nobody is saying that. But with the exception of Calzaghe both Oscar and Roy cstepped up and faced tougher challenges as their careers progressed. Floyds has actually stalled in that department in order for him to chase the biggest money fights.

This didnt just start with Floyd and it wont end with him.
Shane duck Floyd for his entire Prime years where is your outrage about that?
Cotto duck Floyd at 140 and is ducking Paul Williams @ 147 where is your outrage at that?

Shane ducking Floyd is a matter of opinion and who you believe. What is fact is that shane, as he moved up, took on tougher and tougher challenges. Cotto's camp turned down May because they knew they were to green and admitted it. When they thought they were ready Floyd didn't want it. As far as Williams goes.....if you say Cotto is ducking him, so is Floyd. But the last I checked Paul was fighting at 154, no?

NO hate, but if your going to go by a certain set of standards for one fighter please do it for all fighters.

NO hate back at you, but if you're going to go by a certain set of excuses for one fighter please do it for all fighters. Peace.

[a-raines21]

NO hate back at you, but if you're going to go by a certain set of excuses for one fighter please do it for all fighters. Peace.

excuses?
dude seriously, the man was completely ducked at 135-140
how about bringing that up?
your favorite fighter has flaws, ur simply upset that u cant find flaws in floyd.
and weather u admit it or not, u know deep inside that floyd would easily beat any ww u can name

[JAB5239]

excuses?
dude seriously, the man was completely ducked at 135-140
how about bringing that up?

By who? Casamoyer, Frietas, Johnson and Forbes?

your favorite fighter has flaws, ur simply upset that u cant find flaws in floyd.

You don't know who my favorite fighter is, first off. Second, Floyds biggest flaw is not seeking out the toughest fights since 135 because they don't bring the money he thinks he deserves. Am I wrong?

and weather u admit it or not, u know deep inside that floyd would easily beat any ww u can name

Lmao!! This is a joke, right? If I really believed this I would be nuthugging just like you are now. GTF outta here with this ****!

[a-raines21]

Lmao!! This is a joke, right? If I really believed this I would be nuthugging just like you are now. GTF outta here with this ****!

yes, by casamyor......... and yes who ever your favorite fight is, he has flaws in is style, and no im not joking

[Ishy Aytan]

who really cares?

Mosley wanted a De La Hoya fight rather than a Floyd fight. Doesnt that make sense to you guys. Mosley didnt duck Floyd, just wanted a bigger fight.

When Mayweather was looking for opponents before Baldomir, Mosley was taking a break from the sport, hence couldnt fight him.

This sort of stuff happens in boxing, its not ducking. Boxers will look for the biggest paydays, which their intitled too.

And its not like the Mosley-De La Hoya fight didnt dissapoint.

[JAB5239]

yes, by casamyor......... and yes who ever your favorite fight is, he has flaws in is style, and no im not joking

Im gonna let you in on a little secret, son. EVERY fighter has flaws. Its just harder to see some fighters flaws when they carefully pick and choose who to fight based on money instead of who the biggest challenge is.

And you even trying to proclaim Mayweather as flawless is a joke, and flushes much of you credibility down the toilet.

[Ishy Aytan]

Im gonna let you in on a little secret, son. EVERY fighter has flaws. Its just harder to see some fighters flaws when they carefully pick and choose who to fight based on money instead of who the biggest challenge is.

And you even trying to proclaim Mayweather as flawless is a joke, and flushes much of you credibility down the toilet.

Floyds toughest opponent will be a guy with relatively similar speed as him. Pacquiao and Mosley are the only guys that can beat him. I still think Pacquiao will come closest.

[DA1CATAS]

hmm... so basically its tit for tat..

You make me lose money back then i get you back by not fighting yu now and you lose even more money.. Forget who's the best.


and i think an active paul williams still has the complete best chance against Floys Mayweather Jr.

[Horus]

Mayweather in no hurry to return for Mosley

Thursday, January 29, 2009
By David Mayo


Shane Mosley is making noise about fighting Floyd Mayweather again, both with his mouth and his fists.

Perhaps he hasn't been listening.

Mayweather might be willing to come back for the biggest fight in boxing. Or maybe not. He has not wavered from his position of the past several weeks, that if he felt guided to return to the ring for the sport's biggest possible event, he might. A definite maybe.

Problem is, Mayweather-Mosley isn't the biggest possible fight.
Make no mistake, Mayweather's return would be the biggest event in boxing. No debate about the overloaded welterweight division is complete without speculating about the Grand Rapids native's potential for a comeback. He is the highest-earning American in the sport, outside of Oscar De La Hoya, whose star power was dulled by last month's lopsided loss to Manny Pacquiao.

Boxing could use a comeback by the undefeated Mayweather. And the longer he stays inactive, the more his ardent pursuers come to view him as vulnerable, which only increases the outcry.

Like from Pacquiao, the man who assumed Mayweather's pound-for-pound mantle.

Or from Ricky Hatton, the man left pancaked on a Las Vegas canvas, courtesy of a walloping left hook, last time Mayweather was seen in a ring.

But Mosley?

Mosley staked his most recent pursuit of Mayweather with a dominating ninth-round knockout of Antonio Margarito on Saturday before the largest crowd ever to fill Los Angeles' Staples Center for any event. Not even the 2004 Pistons-Lakers championship series drew like Mosley-Margarito.

Keep in mind, however, that both Mosley and Margarito entered the fight with five losses. As impressive as Mosley's power display was, it isn't as if beating Margarito hadn't been done.

It also is worth remembering the interminable delays Mosley caused for Mayweather on at least two occasions earlier in their careers, when the fight made all kinds of sense, only for Mosley to shy away.
Ten years ago, when a fight between them would have matched two of the brilliant, rising stars in the sport, Mosley balked. He and his father and then-trainer, Jack, were at Van Andel Arena the night Mayweather brought Grand Rapids its first championship fight, after which Jack Mosley was asked to assess his interest in the matchup.

For $10 million, his son would take the fight, Jack Mosley said, knowing that Mayweather had earned a $150,000 base purse for that night's lackluster decision over Carlos Rios, and that Mayweather-Mosley wasn't worth eight figures even if the purses were combined, then multiplied by two.

They traveled divergent paths for years thereafter. Mosley moved up to welterweight and defeated De La Hoya, only to lose twice to Vernon Forrest. Another win over De La Hoya boosted him again, only to fall victim to a pair of losses to Ronald "Winky" Wright.

It took until mid-2006, after Mosley scored consecutive knockouts over Fernando Vargas, before Mayweather-Mosley made sense again.

Mosley decided to take a vacation instead, leaving Mayweather to fight Carlos Baldomir.

So what would encourage Mayweather, whose eye is on bigger prizes against other marquee opponents, to agree to such a fight now that it benefits Mosley?

Probably nothing.

Richard Schaefer, chief executive of Golden Boy Promotions, said after Mosley's victory that he intends to open talks with Mayweather's representatives.

That phone might ring a while.

Mayweather-Mosley would be enormous. But fill in Mosley's name with someone else's -- someone who didn't hold up Mayweather's career, back when it mattered -- and that doesn't change.

Mosley, at 37, scored a big victory. That doesn't mean he is the person to lure Mayweather out of retirement. That fight could have happened on several occasions. Mosley opted out every time.

As much as Mosley might want to opt in now, the only opponent Mayweather should wait out is the Hatton-Pacquiao winner in May, assuming he is waiting

[BMWM3P]

Mosley turned down the fight because Mayweather refused to add two bathrooms and a bedroom to Mosley's yatch.