Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Zab Judah

[GhostofDempsey]

smh...the fight was only to take place if judah beat baldomir, since he did not it was dead. they even made a new contract after judah lost to baldomir please do some research instead of pretending floyd was forced to fight him which he was not. he chose to because it was an easy fight against a guy who had just been exposed.

you seriously thought baldomir was good? come on man. that was an easy mark and so was judah after being exposed. too bad he couldn't fight margarito who had been #1 for 3 years instead opting to choose a guy who had one good win then lost to a bum and then that bum instead of a proven champ. oh and sharmba mitchell for some reason. floyd defense force!

Baldomir had 9 losses when he fought Floyd. Highly overrated. What is pathetic is that when Mosley had just 4 losses to his record, Floyd used those losses as an excuse not to fight him, same way he did with prime Pac.

[Larry the boss]

smh...the fight was only to take place if judah beat baldomir, since he did not it was dead. they even made a new contract after judah lost to baldomir please do some research instead of pretending floyd was forced to fight him which he was not. he chose to because it was an easy fight against a guy who had just been exposed.

you seriously thought baldomir was good? come on man. that was an easy mark and so was judah after being exposed. too bad he couldn't fight margarito who had been #1 for 3 years instead opting to choose a guy who had one good win then lost to a bum and then that bum instead of a proven champ. oh and sharmba mitchell for some reason. floyd defense force!

how the hell was Margarito #1??? Spinks was lineal, then Judah then Baldo then Mayweather....explain Margarito was NEVER #1

[Larry the boss]

Baldomir had 9 losses when he fought Floyd. Highly overrated. What is pathetic is that when Mosley had just 4 losses to his record, Floyd used those losses as an excuse not to fight him, same way he did with prime Pac.

Could have sworn he was chasing Mosley, but Mosley had to go to the dentist

[djtmal]

you seriously thought baldomir was good? come on man. that was an easy mark and so was judah after being exposed.

i bet ms. travesty is combing 2008 threads trying to see if i said floyd was ducking baldimir, and then call it a cherrypick...

[djtmal]

Could have sworn he was chasing Mosley, but Mosley had to go to the dentist

i remember when larry merchant asked floyd about the winner of mosley/cotto after he beat hatton, and floyd said he had to go on vacation....when margarito, cotto, shane, and williams hadn't been touched up yet....

[BoxingTrav]

So many threads, so many threats, all beaten and bested. This guy will get his credit years after his death. Such a difficult sport that your night can be ended by a single punch, for a guy to go 21 years undefeated, untied, never been on his @ss, never been dominated, on a world championship level in the public eye. That will never happen again. All that said he even beat the sleazy promoters, became his own boss and made the most money in the history of the sport.

As a professional athlete you can not do better than what Floyd Mayweather did in his career

[GhostofDempsey]

Could have sworn he was chasing Mosley, but Mosley had to go to the dentist

Mosley was chasing Floyd at 135, where Floyd didn't want any. As for the dentist, Mosley asked for a one month extension to make the fight and Floyd refused. Ran with the toothache excuse for years after. Typical.

[Larry the boss]

Mosley was chasing Floyd at 135, where Floyd didn't want any. As for the dentist, Mosley asked for a one month extension to make the fight and Floyd refused. Ran with the toothache excuse for years after. Typical.

how was he chasing him at 135??? Mosley never asked for a extension...you are now just making up stuff..please post proof as i have

[GhostofDempsey]

how was he chasing him at 135??? Mosley never asked for a extension...you are now just making up stuff..please post proof as i have

Exclusive Interview: Shane Mosley
by Geoffrey Ciani - Sugar Shane Mosley is currently the top dog in the welterweight division. His impressive destruction of Antonio Margarito earlier this year left no doubts about it. In recent weeks and months, Mosley has made his intentions clear—he still wants to take on the best in the division, whether it is a fight with Floyd Mayweather, a fight with Manny Pacquiao, a rematch with Miguel Cotto, or a battle with any of the other top contenders in the 147 pound weight class. I was recently afforded the opportunity to have a nice chat with the welter weight champion. Here is what he had to say:

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Q: You were in attendance for the Floyd Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez bout. What is your evaluation of Mayweather’s performance?

A: Well, I really couldn’t evaluate it because he fought a junior lightweight and the lightweight champion. I couldn’t tell if he actually improved or anything because he was so much bigger than the guy, but from what I had seen he looked like he has his speed back, he looked pretty sharp, but look at the opponent he was facing..

Q: After the fight you actually challenged Floyd Mayweather and many observers, according to what I have read, noted that Mayweather appeared intimidated by you. Did you get that impression at the time?

A: Well, I’ve always known that Floyd is intimidated by me. I mean, I see him out at different places and he’s intimidated, he doesn’t really want to fight me. He would much rather fight guys that he could handpick and get victories from and basically just get money. He can make money fighting Marquez, make money fighting (Manny) Pacquiao, and make money fighting the Ricky Hattons of the world, but when is he going to get in there with a welterweight again? With a real welterweight? I mean, there’s myself—the number one welterweight—and there’s (Miguel) Cotto,(Joshua) Clottey, and (Andre) Berto. We have four welterweights that he hasn’t fought.

Q: After you challenged him, a week later, Mayweather wished you good luck in your career which seemed to indicate he’s not interested in fighting you. He also mentioned that he challenged you twice, and he claims that you turned him down back in 1999 and again in 2006. Did you really turn him down?

A: Like I said, he’s really a liar. He likes to lie a lot. In 1999 there’s a film where he’s fighting in Michigan when he was fighting at 130 and I was fighting at 135, and I asked him, like when HBO does the prefight analysts talk to the fighters before they fight. I talked to him, and hopefully it’s recorded somewhere—I think it was on FX—I asked him, “Are you planning on coming up to lightweight to fight me?” And he said, “No,” He had no intention of coming to lightweight to fight me, he wanted t beat Carlos Monzon’s record. He didn’t want to come to lightweight. That’s when I jumped from lightweight to welterweight to fight Oscar De La Hoya. That was the first incident that he’s talking about, so he turned me down in 1999.

Now, the other time he’s talking about is when I fought three times—one, two, three, back-to-back-to-back—and they tried to rush me to fight him right away, like two or three months later. I said, give me a month, and we’ll do it like, I think it was in January—I said, “We’ll do it in January”. They wanted to do it in like November or December, and I said, “Give me a month and we’ll do it in January or February.” They didn’t want to do that. So they chose to fight Oscar De La Hoya. I said, “Go ahead and fight Oscar, and if you beat Oscar, then let’s get busy. Let’s do this.” He beat Oscar—he didn’t want to fight me.

He’s been turning me down. I hate when he continues to say, “Oh, he turned me down because of a tooth ache”. Yeah. I got head butted in that fight that and my tooth was loose that night. They asked me to fight Mayweather and I said, “Give me an extra month, and I’ll fight him.” He didn’t want to fight me, which was cool. He could go and fight Oscar because that’s more money. Okay. That’s cool, but after that fight if you win—fight me. He didn’t want to do that. He chose to retire or fight somebody else. I’m getting tired of that lie! They need to wipe that lie out of there. The reporters and stuff, they keep saying it, so that lie needs to be talked about.

[uppercut510]

why are all these Mayweather threads popping up???? we got fights coming this weekend to hell with that guy he had his time.