Serious question. Why didn't Floyd rematch Oscar? It's the only thing that bothers me about his career.

[pasawayako]

i have the fight 7-5 for dela hoya just like floyd sr score cards and dela hoya wanted the rematch to be at 147lbs but floyd got scared that hoya might be too much for him at 147 that's why hoya pick pac as a replacement but PAC annihilated him and the rest was history.

[Cobra Curry]

Maybe after so long in the sport he just got tired of it, it happens a lot with high-level guys as there is so much pressure on them 24/7 that they just get sick of it and want-need a long break then after a few years the hunger burns again and they come back.

Its easy for the forums armchair champs to say all sorts of BS but in reality, they have no idea what's it like to compete let alone at his level of the sport for 20 yrs.

Yeah, perhaps. The whole retirement thing just struck me as a bit suspect at the time.

[Roadblock]

Yeah, perhaps. The whole retirement thing just struck me as a bit suspect at the time.

Always does when any great from any sport walks away because the rumor mill will invent so many juicy reasons to feed the masses so they something to hang off or get a reaction out of.

When you are in the celebrity spotlight you can be accused of anything and everything and be innocent of any of it, such is the media, I would like their money but I don't envy the pressure they got to live with, the back slappers and liars, yeah they can have stardom and all the plastic BS that goes with it.

[QballLobo]

The fight was set for December 2008. But then Oscar announced that Floyd Sr. would be training him.
Then Floyd “retired” until fall of 09 when he pulled up Juan Manuel Marquez to Welterweight then still cheated him on the scales.

[Monzon99]

Mytheory is Oscar threw the fight to Floyd - stopped using his most effective punch the jab - and was supposed to win the rematch but floyd fraudweather fake retired to duck the loss.

[Monzon99]

the fight looked like a rigged soft sparring session where neither was allowed to go full intensity. terribly boring sparring session.

[GrandpaBernard]

Mytheory is Oscar threw the fight to Floyd - stopped using his most effective punch the jab - and was supposed to win the rematch but floyd fraudweather fake retired to duck the loss.

Floyd’s jab stopped Oscar’s jab

Floyd out jabbed the jabber

[Lomadeaux]

Floyd’s hardest opponents
Maidana
JLC
Cotto
ODLH
Zab

Make a strong case for winning 5 rounds and he would rematch is the pattern

JLC was most challenging. You also forgot Burton.

[GrandpaBernard]

JLC was most challenging. You also forgot Burton.

Single fight JLC was hardest

but Maidana did better than JLC in their rematch

Burton came to mind but left unlisted. Dunno where to rank it. I remember he made Floyd FIGHT. Didn’t keep track of the rounds won

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

First of all, a long and excellent career. Fighers could only dream of having even half of such a decorative and accomplished career as Floyd did.

With that being said.... Now that he is long retired, there is one thing that has always been gnawing at the back of my mind.

Why was there never a Oscar rematch? He had no problem rematching Castillo and Maidana when he was nearly 38 years old, so why no rematch with Oscar?

I could understand if he was up there in age when they fought, but he was a young man in his prime when they fought, so what gives?

The fight was close. I mean really close. I just think that fight needed to be settled once and for all with no doubts at all just like castillo and maidana.

That's the only thing that bothers me about Mayweathers career........................

Probably came down to $. Even though Floyd won, Oscar was still the much bigger star and draw so therefore would have remained the A side.

I was very surprised it never happened as the second fight likely would have sold just as well if not better than the first fight. They both left a lot of money on the table not securing the rematch.

It’ll probably end up happening on f***ing triller or some sh** like that anyway.