Comments Thread For: Larry Merchant on Floyd Mayweather, History and Legacy

[amayseng]

floyd had a rough childhood and all he's trying to do is secure his children's future if that means being an ******* to sell ppv's then so be it. there's a lot of rich people who do a lot worse thing to get to the top. what floyd is doing is not hurting anyone. people can say whatever they want about floyd. but at the end of the day floyd and his family will be taken care of. do you think anything else really matters? and as far as boxing legacy he will get his credit when he's long gone from the sport. people can only hate for so long.

i guess you are right. teaching his kids the proper way to behave and be respectful and carrying the sport which made him great and rich beyond comprehension does not matter to him.

for all of you who are not parents then you dont get it.

i have an 11 year old son whom i have raised alone his whole life and not in one ****ing second would i act like that because when you have kids whom you love more than yourselves you understand how important it is to be a good role model


floyd is talented enough to act "right" and still make 40 million dollars


tell me no

[Tweezy316]

Hey keep it real I don't give two ****'s what you say about Mosley Hoya Hatton or anybody else.What ****'s Mayweather up is the lack of respect he shows to the Sport of Boxing and too those who came before him.Do you think in anyway that May goes threw the same racism that Ali went threw or even worse Jack Johnson?These man pave the way my brother and for Mayweather to say aloud with his ranting is a disrespectful act and as a black man you should feel a lil ashame that he is taking like that on T.V.

Racism nowadays can be just as strong as it was then. Just because people aren't really gettin lynched now doesn't mean it's any different. But i'm not gonna get into that because it's hard to understand if you're not black. Mayweather doesn't owe anyone anything. It's funny how we always tend to think that these celebs owe us something lol. If Mayweather wants to say he's the best of all time so what? get over it. that's how he feels. then that's how he feels. I think he's the best complete fighter of all time. so what? you wanna disagree then disagree. why do you guys gotta get all sensitive over this ****.

[Rome-By-Ko]

i have no problem( as stated for months) with floyd thinking he is the best ever, he should be confident..

however, um.....no. no way. and as rome has been saying floyd took himself away from fighting the elite fighter and prime fighters to put his stamp on that,
so he cant argue that because he didnt fight all the best he could have to make that claim

like i said, floyd is frowned upon because he crosses the line with a mans family no matter what sport or job that **** is wrong.

add into the fact he acted like a 16 year old punk big mouth and it just rubbed people the wrong way

it was ****ing annoying

and embarrassing

here is the best fighter in the sport, the ambassador of the sport, the man carrying the torch of this great sport, and he is running his mouth like a punk thug



if you guys cant understand that then you werent raised right

I don't even care about him talking about the guy's fam nothing t do with me and it puts butts in the seats so hey.But this sport is great and has history and pride.So when you saying you are better then the guy's before you it is showing lack of respect to the ones who pave the way.What if Jeter or Arod said I'm better then The Babe people would tear into them let them have it and not cause of skin Color either because of lack of respect for the ones who pave the way.

[Rome-By-Ko]

It would've been cool to see that fight @140 also.

Not really Cotto was still green IMO and his body look better and stronger when he moved up.

[Tweezy316]

i guess you are right. teaching his kids the proper way to behave and be respectful and carrying the sport which made him great and rich beyond comprehension does not matter to him.

for all of you who are not parents then you dont get it.

i have an 11 year old son whom i have raised alone his whole life and not in one ****ing second would i act like that because when you have kids whom you love more than yourselves you understand how important it is to be a good role model


floyd is talented enough to act "right" and still make 40 million dollars


tell me no

did you not see how floyd is with his kids on 24/7? the floyd we see and the floyd they see are two different people. let's get that straight. So don't act like floyd is a bad dad because frankly you don't know. you're just going off of what you see on tv which is what floyd wants you to see so you can buy ppv to see him lose. except for he doesn't lose you just make him richer. is that why you're bitter?

[amayseng]

I don't even care about him talking about the guy's fam nothing t do with me and it puts butts in the seats so hey.But this sport is great and has history and pride.So when you saying you are better then the guy's before you it is showing lack of respect to the ones who pave the way.What if Jeter or Arod said I'm better then The Babe people would tear into them let them have it and not cause of skin Color either because of lack of respect for the ones who pave the way.

absolutely

my take is that he is disrespecting the sport as well


just like these baseball players, hitting a homerun and walking and strutting to first base like a douchebag


respect the game and act like you have been there

i guess i am raised from the old school because i had many athletic accomplishments and my dad told me no matter how good i was if i ever acted like that or disrespected the sport he would never come to another game/event of mine.


he never missed one because i respected the game

[Tweezy316]

I don't even care about him talking about the guy's fam nothing t do with me and it puts butts in the seats so hey.But this sport is great and has history and pride.So when you saying you are better then the guy's before you it is showing lack of respect to the ones who pave the way.What if Jeter or Arod said I'm better then The Babe people would tear into them let them have it and not cause of skin Color either because of lack of respect for the ones who pave the way.

so basically emmit smith shouldn't of broke the all time rushing record to show respect to payton? look someone better always comes a long. they thought that there would never be another better than jordan then along comes kobe and lebron. look this is something that you're gonna have to get over. I do believe that Mayweather is better than those greats and when his career is finished and we can finally compare I think more people will agree. But I have no problem with him saying that he's better. If he gave boxing his whole life then damnit he has the right. Don't try to take away the man's freedom of speech. or is that still a right in this country?

[amayseng]

did you not see how floyd is with his kids on 24/7? the floyd we see and the floyd they see are two different people. let's get that straight. So don't act like floyd is a bad dad because frankly you don't know. you're just going off of what you see on tv which is what floyd wants you to see so you can buy ppv to see him lose. except for he doesn't lose you just make him richer. is that why you're bitter?

uuuuuh.... why am i bitter?

i have a good job, blessed with an outstanding and healthy kid

why would i be bitter about this?


anyone can be an angel in front of the camera with their kids man come on

not saying he is good or bad

hell, come over to my house ill show you for 4 minutes what a wonderful father i am to my boy as i tell him i go to work for him 5 days a week and that i do it for him and love him

[amayseng]

so basically emmit smith shouldn't of broke the all time rushing record to show respect to payton? look someone better always comes a long. they thought that there would never be another better than jordan then along comes kobe and lebron. look this is something that you're gonna have to get over. I do believe that Mayweather is better than those greats and when his career is finished and we can finally compare I think more people will agree. But I have no problem with him saying that he's better. If he gave boxing his whole life then damnit he has the right. Don't try to take away the man's freedom of speech. or is that still a right in this country?

bad analogy

[amayseng]

did you not see how floyd is with his kids on 24/7? the floyd we see and the floyd they see are two different people. let's get that straight. So don't act like floyd is a bad dad because frankly you don't know. you're just going off of what you see on tv which is what floyd wants you to see so you can buy ppv to see him lose. except for he doesn't lose you just make him richer. is that why you're bitter?

has nothing to do with what he did at home

he is a pro athlete and public figure

he is displaying that to his children as well

come one now

you guys would argue every single point till the end of ****ing time