Countdown to Mayweather vs Baldomir

[KingTito]

That was a good countdown. You know, it's funny how people wanna bash on Floyd and not give him credit for fighters he's fought, especially this fight, but when you watch it, everyone talks about how big of a challenge this would be. Yea, some may have wanted him to fight certain fighters, and I'm one of them, but he has a good resume and he's capitalized on every opportunity. He's managed his career very well, and he has taken risks. He shouldn't get criticized like he is on here. You can pick out any fighter today, and name a few fighters you wish he'd have fought. Enough is enough, and people need to learn to respect Floyd for the great fighter he is and be thankful that we get to watch one of the best of all time.

[The Tase]

before this fight people were saying baldo was a real threat to floyd..brian keeny even accused floyd of ducking baldo

so brian kenny speaks for the whole boxing population?

Notice how everybody that's hatin' on him now (Bert Sugar, Merchant, Steward, Lampley and etc) were ****-eating him real heavy back then...smh

Of course they had to ****ride it. they were showing the fight on hbo ppv. you want your employees badmouthing your product? are you guys that ****ing ******? they work for hbo, hbo was showing the fight on ppv. they had to toe the company line. it wasnt up to the announce who floyd fights. whoever floyd fought they had to

Is this thread really trying to ligitimize Baldomir as a worthy challanger to Floyd?


Because if it is all I got to say is...

Who were these people? The majority of the boxing community knew it was a wash for Mayweather.

exactly.

they want to take a couple of people's quotes & use it as defense for floyd & act as if the whole country felt the same way. pathetic really. i would like to know what where the vegas odds for that fight. im pretty sure it wasnt in favor of baldomir.

vegas odds are the real reflection of what people think of the fight.

*****s act like "ohh brian kenny & jim lamley said it was a tough fight" it must be true.

these *****s are quite demented in their thinking really.

Emmanuel Steward
"this was the first time Mayweather has fought a real champ"

ohh now you want to quote emmanuel steward for truth when it comes to support your agenda for mayweather, but when emmanuel steward says something about pac he's a crazy old uncle tom who knows nothing about boxing huh?


red k given to the TS for putting people on ignore with opposing views. real b*tch move check.

[pistol whip]

He was the undisputed WW champion at the time. And he had an easier time with a prime Judah than Cotto did with a faded Judah. I think he deserves much more credit than ppl give him.

Because he beat a modern day Jimmy Braddock? Sorry but I have higher expectations for a fighter that is considered opne of the best in the last 20 years.

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

Very good countdown series.

[pistol whip]

Emmanuel Steward
"this was the first time Mayweather has fought a real champ"

Of course he's gonna say that Horus he has a fight to help sell for HBO.


*** Horus you think HBO is gonna let Steward torpedo the fight and come out saying "Baldomir has no chance"?

Horus use your head because Steward does this for every fight he calls on HBO. He talks up the underdog before the fight and by the middle of the fight when the underdog is getting blasted he starts say "this is exactly how I saw the fight going".

[pistol whip]

Very good countdown series.

If you mean very good at selling a non competative fight then yes you are right.

[check hook]

You sited "one" example, I recall ring magazine giving Baldo almost no chance against Gatti and they were even more adament about it when he fought Floyd.

"sited" ??

[Sweet Jesus]

People **** on Baldomir but he beat a prime Judah and knocked out Gatti. His resume ****s on Clottey's, and *******s really hype Clottey up as a challenge. You wanna talk about size? Baldomir weighed 160 on fight night.

[Iceta Lives]

I don't give Floyd a whole lot of props for this win even though the fight may have been a necessity. The dude went on to lose to Forrest in a one-sided boxing lesson like the one he got from Floyd.

[MoneyMay77]

Pretty good episode. Still amazes me to this day that Baldomir was able to pull out the win against Judah.