Wright vs. Mayweather: More Hype Than Reality

[ProBox1]

A little over three weeks ago WBC light welterweight champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. issued challenges to Shane Mosley, Zab Judah and any other fighter who holds a title below heavyweight. As of this writing, none of Mayweather's challenges have been accepted. In a lot of the cases it's the business of boxing that's preventing these fights from being realized. As most know, unless the fighter is named Sugar Ray Leonard, Oscar De La Hoya, Roy Jones or Bernard Hopkins, he has no say about who he fights.

When Mayweather didn't get any takers from the previous mentioned fighters, he surprised everybody when he issued a challenge to former undisputed junior middleweight champ Winky Wright. I even read one writer who described Mayweather challenging Wright as, "A guy who could easily make the 135-pound lightweight limit called out the world's best middleweight." Winky Wright the world's best middleweight? Could it be the writer never heard of Jermain Taylor, the undisputed middleweight champion? Or how about the fighter who many still think holds that claim, former champion Bernard Hopkins, the fighter Taylor won a split decision over to capture the title? [details]

[STEELHEAD]

lotierzo your proffesional insightfullness blows me away.if you're ever in eureka i let you eat all the spaghett,meatballs,ravioli,barbequed porksteaks,deep fried lingcod and cabezone cheecks,and cheeseballs you want at my restorante for two and a half days FREE.

wow did you break it down about the fantasy pbf/winky fight.

i had some slight differences with you on your relevent pertaining thoughts on taylor and hopkins but had problems with this site switching back and forth from article to me writing my reply fast enough to keep the thought.

thanks for conscising your thoughts so insightfully.

reeno give him a raise!!

p.s. hope you guys cover the harrison and the andres' fights aug.18 at the sharktank in san jose.pedro sez toney's going to be there signing autographs an hour before fight time. very interesting.would like to see some pics of toney to sees how he's doing.
thanks
thanks

[Tha_Greatest]

Great Article, ive written basicaally almost the same thing in old post threads only to be called a hater but the people who called me hater were Mayweather fans, I appreciate the fact you are sincere and speak honestly. Once Again, Great Article

[BadMagick]

First of all, there were people who took that fight seriously? You have to be slightly less than intelligent to actually believe that Mayweather was looking to fight Wright.

I agree about the overhyping of both fighters, Wright moreso than Mayweather, but I still disagree with a couple of things from the article.

Floyd Mayweather is no fool. He was hurt by Jose Luis Castillo, which is something that has been cleansed by his victory over Gatti. In 24 rounds fought over two fights with Castillo, he never had him off his feet. In reality he should be 1-1 against him. There were more than a few, including myself, who scored the first fight for Castillo.

So because some people scored the fight for Castillo, that doesn't mean that others couldn't have scored for Mayweather? I scored the fight something like 7-4-1, or 7-5 for Mayweather. Why? He only had to win two of the last seven rounds, because he quite clearly won the first four, everyone agrees to that, and I had him winning round 5 as well. That'd mean that Castillo didn't lose a single round beyond round 5. Did he lose at least one round? Yes he did, so at the worst, Mayweather was going to get a draw.

Based on how they won their last fights, I think Winky Wright and Floyd Mayweather have been getting a little more high praise than they should be getting. Despite Mayweather being seen as Sugar Ray Robinson's equal after beating Arturo Gatti, I don't see any way that he can beat Wright. Wright's too big and good of a fighter to lose to a fighter who can't hurt him and isn't nearly strong enough to out box him. The only thing more unrealistic than thinking Mayweather would beat Wright is believing that he really wants to fight him.

Since when did strength have anything to do with boxing ability?

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A little over three weeks ago WBC light welterweight champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. issued challenges to Shane Mosley, Zab Judah and any other fighter who holds a title below heavyweight. As of this writing, none of Mayweather's challenges have been accepted. In a lot of the cases it's the business of boxing that's preventing these fights from being realized. As most know, unless the fighter is named Sugar Ray Leonard, Oscar De La Hoya, Roy Jones or Bernard Hopkins, he has no say about who he fights.

When Mayweather didn't get any takers from the previous mentioned fighters, he surprised everybody when he issued a challenge to former undisputed junior middleweight champ Winky Wright. I even read one writer who described Mayweather challenging Wright as, "A guy who could easily make the 135-pound lightweight limit called out the world's best middleweight." Winky Wright the world's best middleweight? Could it be the writer never heard of Jermain Taylor, the undisputed middleweight champion? Or how about the fighter who many still think holds that claim, former champion Bernard Hopkins, the fighter Taylor won a split decision over to capture the title? [details]

Winky is the best middleweight and he will prove that when Bernard or Taylor or both unless Bernard retires like he has promised either way he will be middleweight champ.