Comments Thread For: Mayweather-Mosley is a Non-Title Fight, Says Schaefer

[daggum]

one of the first actual good ideas he has ever had. these belts are trash and the sooner people ignore them the sooner they will go away. but he will probably be sad he can't say 5 division 7 time champ now.

[mrjoeblive]

Mayweather doesn't want the belt because he doesn't want to have to fight who the WBA or any other sanctioning body wants him to fight. Floyd doesn't want to fight the young, hungry kid who has come up through the ranks and is rated the #1 contender. Floyd only wants to fight big money fights. He can say belts only collect dust all he wants but in reality he is really saying screw mandatory title defenses. I want to fight who I want, where I want, when I want, for this amount of $$$....

All of you guys who feel more fighters should follow suit obviously don't care about the young, upcoming fighters either. How are they going to get title shots when no one wants to fight them? The system we currently have that ranks the fighters forces the champions to have to defend their belts against these challengers. I think that the sanctioning organizations need to be revamped and the ranking system obviously needs to be tweeked (how can a fighter be ranked by one organization and not ranked by another) but feel the way things are done now is good for the sport. Prizefighters fight for purses (money) but the main goal should still be to get to the top of your division and win the hardware (belts). If this is your goal you're going to make money. You can still fight other challengers that might not be your mandatories because you only have a few mandatories a year and have plenty of time to schedule big money non-mandatory showdowns.

good post, but i dont blame floyd. he has already paid his dues and at this stage in his career he should only go after big money, high demand fights. when floyd fights mandatories he gets boo boo'd for "ducking" at least this way he can fight high value targets and make a truck load of money.

[el malo]

Why is there a rematch in the clause if no belt is on the line?

exactly. im gonna order this fight but its lame that it aint a title fight.

[Pretty Boy Greg]

Bloody Floyd pay the damn fee and stop hoarding your money, make it a title fight. Thats the only thing i HATE about Floyd, he doesnt respect boxing enough.

why do you care what another man does with his money?

[el malo]

one of the first actual good ideas he has ever had. these belts are trash and the sooner people ignore them the sooner they will go away. but he will probably be sad he can't say 5 division 7 time champ now.

i agree belts are trash but how do we determine who's the number 1 ww?

[mrjoeblive]

Floyd doesnt want to defend the belt if win this. If u got the title, everyone will have their crosshairs on you and which means u have to take on the #1 Contender. Floyds another excuse to DUCK, DUCK and DUCK the best.

floyd already has a target on his back as boxers will make the most money fighting floyd than anyone else

[Pretty Boy Greg]

I guess when you think about it at this point in floyd's career what will another belt do for him. So why spend the money i mean he has lately been saying all belts do is collect dust. So if floyd wins the title becomes vacant right? That means cotto should be gunning for that lol jk jk

lmao u know damn well cotto will be all over that ****!!

[mrjoeblive]

I wonder if floyd comes in over 147lbs?

FYI floyd has never came into a ww fight over the wt limit of 147

[Pretty Boy Greg]

It doesn't matter... It is for the lineal belt that is all that matters.

how does this make it lineal jro? i thought pac was #1?

[gqjohnb]

lmao u know damn well cotto will be all over that ****!!

lol Man cotto is my dude but he do be jumping on those vacants like its free burrito day at chipotle's.