Comments Thread For: Ex-champions weigh in on Oscar De La Hoya's view that fighters are to blame for boxing's ills

[djtmal]

He never once backed out of a fight with Pacquiao. Nice attempt at trying to re-write history. Manny backed out due to the testing protocol.

Floyd didn't want the fight so he was the one to implement unheard of ost's to back out at the 11th hour. Floyd had already had a track record of backing out of fights last minute against Wright and Margarito

Tons of people share the same sentiments.

Floyd's ducking whole divisions, cherrypicking, stalling fights, backing out of fights etc set the tone for boxing's sad state of affairs now. Just look at Tank Davis his protege talking about retiring and he hasn't done much yet