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

[HyperUppercut]

pac wont be the biggest challenge for floyd? so youre telling me, a fighter who throws 4-5 punch combos from all angles, has amazing foot work, great chin, great head movement, darts in & out with endless pressure, and matches floyds conditioning, DOESNT pose a challenge for floyd?!?!?! youre too biased homie...

logically, i slightly favor floyd SD over pac... but i dont see it as easy work for floyd... contrary to what most of you believe, pac has a pretty good jab... watch the cotto fight again, he used it effectively to set up miguel...

i agree, larry merchant is being a little TOO biased as an analyst... but lets not forget he has seen the greatest fighters in the ring. i totally understand his lack of interest in a floyd UD.... especially since he's seen hagler/hearns, leonard/hearns, etc.... anybody who witnessed sugar ray leonard in action will obviously find floyd anticlimactic.... floyd cant finish off an opponent the way leonard finished of floyd sr. HAHA.

although floyds a boxing genius, he tends to sap the energy out of the building. LOL. people were leaving after the 10th round @ floyd/shane.

hell no pac won't be the biggest challenge for floyd. Pac has never faced anybody who is a defensive wizard like floyd. You will not see the same pac who throws ultra combos when he is in that ring with floyd. Why do you think roach needs soo much time to develop a gameplan with manny?? Because he knows manny is one dimensional and that his current style will get him carved up like a phillipino jack-o-lantern. I am not too biased for floyd, i see stuff for how it is and spit the actual factuals up in this bit**. And we will see how much conditioning Manny has when he isn't able to use them damn PED's . his energy will be sapped when he finds himself swinging at air and getting countered to the afterlife.

[switchsouthpaw]

how did floyd chose when majority of the public was saying that's the man he was ducking?

funny how you left out that brian kenny also told floyd that he was ducking baldomir then he went on to beat baldomir now you guys are mad about it.

I think if anyone deserves a shot at Mayweather it's Kermit Contron. The man can fly like Iron Man and he knocked out a scorers table, he deserves it.

[Russian Crushin]

de la hoya was so dehyrated in that fight that he should have went to the hospital before they even fought. He weight in at 143 then came in after eating and drinking at 142. C'mon buddy, he didn't even fight ODH, he fought ODH's skeleton.

Whoa the contract was at 147, Manny came in at 146 and DLH at 145.5. Dont make up numbers. But whos fualt was it that DLH wasnt able to manage his weight correctly? He should have weighed in at least 155 fight night but couldnt even reach 150 because of his own fualt

[switchsouthpaw]

hell no pac won't be the biggest challenge for floyd. Pac has never faced anybody who is a defensive wizard like floyd. You will not see the same pac who throws ultra combos when he is in that ring with floyd. Why do you think roach needs soo much time to develop a gameplan with manny?? Because he knows manny is one dimensional and that his current style will get him carved up like a phillipino jack-o-lantern. I am not too biased for floyd, i see stuff for how it is and spit the actual factuals up in this bit**. And we will see how much conditioning Manny has when he isn't able to use them damn PED's . his energy will be sapped when he finds himself swinging at air and getting countered to the afterlife.

Who is a challenge for Floyd, besides your mouth on his nutsack?

[amayseng]

you clearly referred to cotto, margo and shane as elite. But i'll let it slide so that you can change up your argument.

Its on video with shane ducking floyd after the second vargas fight. On video, you must be new to the sport as I have been a fan of this sport since 1991.

And yes, arum said cotto is "too green" to fight floyd. If you don't know this ****, then you must be knew to the sport .

so because an announcer asked about a floyd fight and shane said he has a loose tooth and wanted a break because he had tough back to back fights means that shane ducked floyd?????

are you effing kidding me?

did floyd reach out to shane for negotiations?

no

bull****

arum stated that when? two years before cotto was prime and there to fight floyd?

[Bee Keepz]

Spot on.

Special request for Pacquiao...

[cortdawg25]

OK, I see what your saying there, but before you were criticising him for fighting judah and baldomir - in 2005/06, they were the two leading ww's in the division at the time. he beat them both and collected the belts, but now those two are not at the top anymore, everyone gives him ****, saying he hasn't fought the best at ww. they were both higher up the ladder then cotto, margarito etc. at the time. that was what i was taking issue with. call it a truce, but i'm firmly in the camp that mayweather doesn't get the credit he deserves.

ask him who was the best that he avoided? And he'll say margarito or Cotto and completely leave out that margarito beat cotto and Mosley decapitated margarito....but Floyd still hasn't foguth the best!

[Rome-By-Ko]

My view will be if this fight don't go off it will be that of May did not want it.Making Mosley take the test is one thing Mosley admitted to using PEDS before.Manny never was suspected or accused of being on anything so were did this Manny being on Peds come from?I like both these fighters but truth be told I don't believe Manny is on anything and if I was him I would not take the test.Having said that I hope he takes the test so we can All see history.There is no fight bigger or better then Pac vs May IMHO.But i have to agree with The Legend Merchant if the fight don't go off it will be look at as May's fault.

[Bee Keepz]

Floyd is asking for a PED's test on a 5'6" LW that can't even crack Welter.

[Russian Crushin]

can you provide any proof of shane calling floyd out before the marquez fight?

your just making up stuff man an it's funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhpObxNl_6Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAhWB7Rb6pM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zkc6ZEFeZc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WEM6-LLlxE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggdq6RANHXo

How about those?