Originally posted by Hottamale
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Statistics are like a bikini.....
they give you a rough idea whats going on, but they hide all the good stuff.
I keep it simple.....
Mayweather has NEVER included a clause in any contract stipulating that his opponent must fight UNDER their best weight. Marquez was allowed to weigh whatever he wanted.
IMO Mayweather never intended to make the agreed upon catchweight in the Marquez fight. He paid his way out of it, instead of having to come in under his best fighting weight. What a ridiculous contractual agreement that was. Arum would have never let that happen.
It was fkn lame, because as I said many times before the JMM/May fight.....
because he is a superb technician Marquez had two chances to be even competitive in that fight. He needed to take some of his power and most of his speed with him to 147, and Floyd needed to be less-than-his-best, possibly affected by the layoff and the 2lb catchweight. Neither of those two things happened.
It was a wise decision of Mayweather to pay the 600k rather than disrupt his usual preparation, but he should have never been given that out.
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