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

[waxfondler]

HAHAHAH the only athletes that took it are Olympians + Shane + Floyd.......That isnt even 1% of the athletes out there so stop stretching the truth

LOL. indeed. put him in his place.
this guys apparently thinks USADA is part of the amateurs. HAHA.
i wonder who would pay for the testing?

[amayseng]

floyd chooses to fight a 39 year old past his prime mosley then complains that people say he is fighting a 39 year old past his prime mosley............

prior, floyd fights a 135lb jmm then comes in over the contractural agreement... jmm has no chance, none, hits mayweather with a straight right and didnt even phase him. no chance for jmm.

floyd fights zab after zab loses to baldomir, brian kenny calls him out and floyd gets heated saying zab is the ww champ, kenny tells him he is a paper champ, floyd says he has the belt,

but now floyd wont fight an elite for a belt, because he dont like belts.

then he fights baldomir,---------do i have to comment about this?

so floyd can only be mad at himself, not the boxing fans.

if he fights sergio at 154 or paul williams who are both real threats then he would gain more respect.
i think he boxes pwill to death and the martinez fight would be more competitive because sergio is slick as well

pac will never happen, even tho i think may beats pac

my point is floyd brings this upon himself, if he wants to fight for money then cool, but dont come out and say you are the best ever when you wont fight the best.

he had a chance to fight an elite cotto, margacheato and shane, but didnt

[switchsouthpaw]

which is why people wasnt him to get tested

right..............

[HyperUppercut]

The expectations for Pac were different, those fights were expected to at the very least be competitive, since he was new to those weight classes. What he did against Hatton,Cotto and then Clottey surprised many. He was able to carry both his speed and power against naturally bigger men and knocking them off in fashion, that's impressive considering the weight classes he competed in less than 2 years ago.

When is the last time pac fought somebody coming off of a significant win??? See, people will NOT answer this question, because this question will reveal how much of a fraud their boy-boy is. He didn't do anything to clottey, clottey was there to lose and I honestly believe that there was some foul play in the setting up of that fight. Hatton and Cotto were catch weights and damaged. He gets very minimal props for those wins. When he beats somebody that has a head of steam in their career and that is a real threat without the steroids then he gets props. Shid, its sad that he was going after margorito, which will be another fighter he faces that is not coming off of a significant win but yet a devastating loss. Just like hatton and cotto.

[HyperUppercut]

floyd chooses to fight a 39 year old past his prime mosley then complains that people say he is fighting a 39 year old past his prime mosley............

prior, floyd fights a 135lb jmm then comes in over the contractural agreement... jmm has no chance, none, hits mayweather with a straight right and didnt even phase him. no chance for jmm.

floyd fights zab after zab loses to baldomir, brian kenny calls him out and floyd gets heated saying zab is the ww champ, kenny tells him he is a paper champ, floyd says he has the belt,

but now floyd wont fight an elite for a belt, because he dont like belts.

then he fights baldomir,---------do i have to comment about this?

so floyd can only be mad at himself, not the boxing fans.

if he fights sergio at 154 or paul williams who are both real threats then he would gain more respect.
i think he boxes pwill to death and the martinez fight would be more competitive because sergio is slick as well

pac will never happen, even tho i think may beats pac

my point is floyd brings this upon himself, if he wants to fight for money then cool, but dont come out and say you are the best ever when you wont fight the best.

he had a chance to fight an elite cotto, margacheato and shane, but didnt

first of all, there is no such thing as an elite margo. As margo is not elite at all. cotto was protected by Arum, arum said himself that cotto is "too green" to get his ass whipped by cotto. Shane ducked floyd. Get your **** straight.

[catalinul]

Excellent interview by Merchant.

[cortdawg25]

floyd chooses to fight a 39 year old past his prime mosley then complains that people say he is fighting a 39 year old past his prime mosley............

prior, floyd fights a 135lb jmm then comes in over the contractural agreement... jmm has no chance, none, hits mayweather with a straight right and didnt even phase him. no chance for jmm.

floyd fights zab after zab loses to baldomir, brian kenny calls him out and floyd gets heated saying zab is the ww champ, kenny tells him he is a paper champ, floyd says he has the belt,

but now floyd wont fight an elite for a belt, because he dont like belts.

then he fights baldomir,---------do i have to comment about this?

so floyd can only be mad at himself, not the boxing fans.

if he fights sergio at 154 or paul williams who are both real threats then he would gain more respect.
i think he boxes pwill to death and the martinez fight would be more competitive because sergio is slick as well

pac will never happen, even tho i think may beats pac

my point is floyd brings this upon himself, if he wants to fight for money then cool, but dont come out and say you are the best ever when you wont fight the best.

he had a chance to fight an elite cotto, margacheato and shane, but didnt

shane is 38 and was the #1 WW by beating a prime maragarito!

How u gon knock floyd by using Kenny as an example and then knock Floyd for answering or doing exactly what Kenny asked or was criticizing him for? i don't get it!

[Russian Crushin]

LOL. indeed. put him in his place.
this guys apparently thinks USADA is part of the amateurs. HAHA.
i wonder who would pay for the testing?

Lol people keep saying EVERYBODY has taken OST, when only Olympians take it and it only takes place every 4 years for a few weeks.

And yea who could afford a 20k dollar test?

[CharliesRecords]

Finally! Someone tells it like it is...hope you "monkey" mayweather fans get it now....."better than sugar ray robinson" my ass....

[waxfondler]

You mean in 1999 when shane was the P4P king and Floyd was a contender and had no name? Yea thats "ducking" a fighter.

Its the same thing as Khan and Malinaggi calling FLoyd out right now, so Floyd MUST be ducking them right?

on point again, sir.
tim bradley, p-will, etc. have already called floyd out.
so floyd should not hesitate to fight them regardless of name recognition... we dont want floyd to be labeled a ducker right? lol... also, im sure there are plenty of super middleweights that would love a huge payday and move down to meet floyd. so lets see floyd move up to MW to fight bigger fighters.