Comments Thread For: King Rips Golden Boy Over Mayweather's Treatment

[Frank Ducketts]

Floyd is going to find out that just about all of the promoters in this business are shady and dipping into each others pockets lol...

[Frank Ducketts]

BINGO.

That's been the source of the problem since the begininng- Floyd never wanting anything to do with Pacquiao and GBP/HBO trying to force him to fight against his will. After GBP made him tens of millions of dollars, making him one of the highest earning athletes on the planet, this ***** feels 'disrespected' because they tried to make him $50-$60 million for 1 night's work? So he runs off to Daddy Warbucks King to change his diaper and give him his bottle? I thought Floyd was his own boss, why is King doing ALL the talking for him, especially after Top Rank and Pacquiao have made him look like the world's biggest pu$$y the last few weeks, just outright calling him out while the man claims he doesn't want to even think about boxing and would rather go into hiding then set revenue records and enhance his legacy?

But like you said, it all came down to Floyd's unwillingness to fight.

"Like I said, Mayweather has the key to making that fight happen." -De La Hoya

You don't have a clue as to what's going on. GPB's tried to negotiate a fight with Pac without Floyd's permission not knowing if uncle Roger would be on trial or in jail. If you can't see that, then you won't ever have a clue about the sport. The hate for Floyd by you bandwagon PAc fans who will be out of boxing the minute Pac retires is so comical to read. It reads phony too lol... PAc could've killed all of this by agreeing to the first negotiations...

[ptw1]

People in the ****** can't afford lobster.

And **** you if you can't handle a silly joke. Getting all offended on someone else's behalf.

First of all, when you talk tough online, hiding behind your computer screen, it proves you're a p***y. Finally, when you make a joke about race, you offend each and every sensible person on this forum.

[Check_hooks]

this is who mayweather grew up with



hahhahahaha

[ColWallace]

I must be missing something because King claims Floyd speaks ******-ese and that somehow means King is being respectful to Floyd?

I know. I thought "******-ese" were little white pills with playboy stamps you buy in an alleyway somewhere.

[Tobi.G]

OMG King just wants a piece of the big Mayweather cake!! Hes not a big thing in boxing anymore but getting Mayweather would help!

[ColWallace]

First of all, when you talk tough online, hiding behind your computer screen, it proves you're a p***y. Finally, when you make a joke about race, you offend each and every sensible person on this forum.

You'll have to clarify where the racist joke is. Perhaps you don't speak ******-ese either?

[ThePrince]

You don't have a clue as to what's going on. GPB's tried to negotiate a fight with Pac without Floyd's permission not knowing if uncle Roger would be on trial or in jail. If you can't see that, then you won't ever have a clue about the sport. The hate for Floyd by you bandwagon PAc fans who will be out of boxing the minute Pac retires is so comical to read. It reads phony too lol... PAc could've killed all of this by agreeing to the first negotiations...

Ah, so you're running with the uncle excuse. The taxes bandwagon full? So if Roger is sentenced to say 5 years in jail, does that mean that Floyd won't fight until he gets out? I mean, it's not like he has other World-class trainers in his family who can take over Roger's duties, right? Hell Ellerbe was his trainer for the Baldomir fight when Roger was in jail for... you guessed it- beating women. But now all of a sudden he can't fight without Roger because...

Roger that: Mayweather moves forward without trainer

While Floyd is battling Baldomir, Roger, 45, will remain locked up in the Clark County (Nev.) Detention Center, where he is serving a six-month jail sentence for committing battery with substantial bodily harm against the grandmother of his infant son in July 2005.

"I figure I should be able to go out there and conduct myself in an orderly fashion and put on a hell of a performance for 45 minutes," a confident Mayweather said when asked about Roger's absence from the corner.

Even if a jury hadn't needed less than hour to convict Roger, he wasn't going to be available to work his nephew's corner.

The Nevada Athletic Commission had already revoked Mayweather's trainer's license for his role in igniting a 10th-round melee during Floyd's April fight against Zab Judah.

Roger, who was also fined $200,000, can't apply for a new license until April 2007. He entered the ring with five seconds left in the round because he was angry at Judah, who had hit Floyd with a blatant low blow followed by a right hand behind the head, both illegal and dangerous punches. Roger's intrusion set off a brawl between the fighters' camps that lasted several minutes and was seemingly moments away from escalating into a full-scale riot.

With the conviction, Roger also missed Floyd's training camp.

"The main thing is I miss his presence. I like having him around, I like being around him. I'm comfortable with him," said Floyd, who is as loose and calm this week as he has ever been before a fight. "Things happen in life. There are certain obstacles. That's an obstacle that God put in front of him that he has to cross, and without him being in my corner, that's an obstacle that I have to cross."

While it will be the first time in six years that Roger hasn't trained his nephew for a fight, Mayweather's team has insisted throughout the promotion that his absence won't be a problem and that all the questions haven't been a distraction.

"It's really business as usual," said Leonard Ellerbe, 41, Mayweather's close friend and adviser who is filling in as his trainer. "If Floyd was a young fighter instead of a veteran fighter, maybe we'd be worried."

Said Floyd: "Everything that Roger has taught me has stuck with me. I already know what to do. After being in the sport for so many years, you know what you have to do. Roger don't have to tell me to throw the jab. I know I have to throw the jab."

Ellerbe, who has been an assistant in Mayweather's corner for nine years and for all 15 of his championship fights, was fined $50,000 and had his license suspended for four months because he jumped into the ring after Roger during the melee. However, his punishment was much lighter than Roger's because the commission ruled that Ellerbe had acted as a peacemaker.

Ellerbe and Rafael Garcia, the sage 77-year-old who has wrapped Mayweather's brittle hands and served as his cutman for several years, will also be in the corner.

"We went over the game plan before Roger had his unfortunate incident. I've been in contact with Roger a lot. We know what the game plan is. We're just going to go out and execute the game plan."

"The No. 1 thing is to remember that Floyd is the best fighter in the world," Ellerbe said. "I equate this to when Michael Jordan was playing and maybe Phil Jackson had to go out for hip surgery and [assistant coach] Jim Cleamons fills in. Just give Michael the ball and let him go. That's what I equate this to.

"We went over the game plan before Roger had his unfortunate incident. I've been in contact with Roger a lot. We know what the game plan is. We're just going to go out and execute the game plan."

Although Floyd said he has not spoken to his uncle or visited him in jail, he said that Roger recently wrote him an inspirational letter.

"He wrote me a letter and just told me what to do and the game plan," Mayweather said. "The game plan is always to hit and not get hit. The less you get hit, the longer you last in the sport. That's what he mainly talked to me about.

"He told me, for instance, 'Floyd, you know you got to go out there and use your jab. Don't let this guy touch you. Take control from the opening bell. Approach it like you do every day in the boxing gym. This ain't nothing but the boxing gym.' That's what he always says."

During the training camp, Ellerbe said there were not many differences from a typical camp with Roger, the only difference was that Ellerbe watched the bulk of the videotape to analyze Baldomir.

"I've always watched tape. I just watched more," Ellerbe said. "Me and Roger always watched tape, but now it's just been me watching all the videotape. We are prepared. The fight won't be decided on who is working the corner. Baldomir and Floyd will decide what goes on in that fight. It's not even going to remotely come down to who is in the corners."

ESPN

So Floyd was fully willing to fight the great Carlos Baldomir while Roger was in jail for beating grandmothers, even go so far as to have the love of his life Ellerbe as his trainer... but he can't do that now because...

You should probably just stick to the 'vacation' excuse, it's getting hard to keep up with all the different bull**** stories for Floyd ducking.

[spoonwars]

Why have so many fans assumed that Manny Pacquiao is now a full-fledged welterweight, thus negating the possibility of a third bout with Juan Manuel Marquez? Pac fought three of his last four bouts at 147 because they were the most lucrative fights out there for him and not because it is the weight at which he is strongest. He probably walks around at or below 147 after munching down on stacks of his favorite goat lamb chops. A showdown with Marquez at 140, where Pac held his last RING championship, would make so much more sense than the preposterous bout against disgraced Antonio Margarito for a bogus 154 belt cooked up by Top Rank to keep it all in the family.

Pac walks around some lbs over 150.

[Ravishing]

Golden Boy doesn't understand Floyd's "****** ese"?

LMAO...this is turning into a coon fest, straight up lol.