Comments Thread For: Floyd Mayweather May Think He Will Lose, Says Merchant

[lcheezy]

alicassius or whatever your name is.you have to be a complete idiot to every sense of the word to think floyd won't last six rounds with that southpaw midget.it will be the other way around.pac can't do anything against this kind of fighter.easy work for the real p4p king money mayweather

[check hook]

Are you trainer? Who do you train? You should give those fighters a call and train them...

Truth be told his advice would have helped Cotto. Cotto tried to outmuscle Pac and he essentially got outboxed. Pac has been boxing his way through ODLH, Hatton and Cotto. He's not brawling. ODLH and especially Cotto were getting some ****ty advice from their trainers. They essentially tried to outmuscle him and he took the opportunity to counter thei one or 2 punches with 5,6 ot 7 of his own. Having the fights at a catchweight also meant it would be harder for them to use their advantages.

Cotto would have fared much better against Pac if he fought him the way he did margarito......hit and move....do not exchange.....Pac is too fast to stand and exchange with...........

[Laborer]

Larry is misguided if he thinks Floyd can lose.Manny is VERY EASY TO BEAT,I REPEAT VERY EASY TO BEAT.Anyone with a boxing brain knows how easy Manny is to analyse and Mayweather will be too much for Manny.Manny has 2 key positions he uses when fighting that's why anyone who moves is difficult for Manny.Manny has 2 shots from 2 positions.Everything else he does is geared towards landing those 2 shorts.Time will not allow me to go into depth but Manny Pacquiao is a very basic fighter.Apart from Marquez everyone else who lost to Manny should fire their trainer.They have ******s in their corner because Manny is a very basic fighter

oh, look who's talking, calling those trainers whose fighters lost to Pac as ******! LOL, now that's what i call BS! You'v just exposed yourself, look in the mirror and see who's the ******.

[Amadla Ngawethu]

oh, look who's talking, calling those trainers whose fighters lost to Pac as ******! LOL, now that's what i call BS! You'v just exposed yourself, look in the mirror and see who's the ******.

Have you ever heard of information assymetry and bounded rationality?

[jrosales13]

Truth be told his advice would have helped Cotto. Cotto tried to outmuscle Pac and he essentially got outboxed. Pac has been boxing his way through ODLH, Hatton and Cotto. He's not brawling. ODLH and especially Cotto were getting some ****ty advice from their trainers. They essentially tried to outmuscle him and he took the opportunity to counter thei one or 2 punches with 5,6 ot 7 of his own. Having the fights at a catchweight also meant it would be harder for them to use their advantages.

Cotto would have fared much better against Pac if he fought him the way he did margarito......hit and move....do not exchange.....Pac is too fast to stand and exchange with...........

But, is easy to look back at it now since we saw what happened. Did we really believe that Pac was going to take Cotto punches well even suffer a busted eardrum yet not get fazed? Who believe that was going to happen before the fight took place?

I could be the greatest trainer of all time if I watch a fight sees how it plays out and then give my advice. You know what I am saying. My whole point is easy to look back at it now...

[jrosales13]

alicassius or whatever your name is.you have to be a complete idiot to every sense of the word to think floyd won't last six rounds with that southpaw midget.it will be the other way around.pac can't do anything against this kind of fighter.easy work for the real p4p king money mayweather

So you don't like to talk about boxing huh? You just like to talk about Mayweather....

[jameshepenstall]

Larry Merchant i think is wrong, Floyd is a bloody awesome fighter and if he does his homework(he says he never has and never will but probably just talk) just like Manny(Freddy) will do his and the fight is 50/50. Both fighters are already great and whoever wins will BE boxing.

[Laborer]

floyd came back for pac.he used pac nenesis(JMM) to set up this fight.plus he knew that it would be big and in money too.thats why he chose pac to defeat cotto.so why would the hell he would'nt fight pac in fear of losing when this is the whole plan in the first place.larry please retirepld caveman

is that right? JMM as a setup for Pac? and he planned it, how JMM called PBF cuz of the apparent duck from Pac? PBF planned how he would come back from 2-yr retirement, beat JMM and called out for a different and specail test just for Pac? how did he see it, that Pac's team would refuse it? then why the hell would he be demanding for it if he really wants to fight? to level the playing field against a smaller man? why don't he try 140 instead?

[Xeraser]

Truth be told his advice would have helped Cotto. Cotto tried to outmuscle Pac and he essentially got outboxed. Pac has been boxing his way through ODLH, Hatton and Cotto. He's not brawling. ODLH and especially Cotto were getting some ****ty advice from their trainers. They essentially tried to outmuscle him and he took the opportunity to counter thei one or 2 punches with 5,6 ot 7 of his own. Having the fights at a catchweight also meant it would be harder for them to use their advantages.

Cotto would have fared much better against Pac if he fought him the way he did margarito......hit and move....do not exchange.....Pac is too fast to stand and exchange with...........

Everyone can be a genius AFTER THE FACT.

[cherokee]

Larry Merchant i think is wrong, Floyd is a bloody awesome fighter and if he does his homework(he says he never has and never will but probably just talk) just like Manny(Freddy) will do his and the fight is 50/50. Both fighters are already great and whoever wins will BE boxing.

nowhere in the interview did larry say anything that made you conclude about floyd not being 'awesome'

i think floyd is. but for some reason maybe there is a slight chance that floyd thinks he 'might' (not certainly) lose!