Comments Thread For: Mayweather Jr. Accused of Striking Security Guard

[adp023]

funny how the haters chose to believe that this poking incident is another excuse for Folyd to duck Manny. this amazing news made me thinks that the guard is a Pinoy. Just joking! More likely he's a ******* who cries at the slightest offense.

The report says that Floyd came out of his house to berate the security guard and poked his face lol. Now why even do that when he's already in trouble with the law?? Maybe coz Floyd the spoiled brat is upset that Pacquiao is in the news getting lots of attention? Remember the last time Pacquiao was in the news announcing the Margarito fight, Floyd beat the **** out of the mother of his kids! Obviously, this is becoming a pattern...

[Check_hooks]

Ummm, yes he can get him fired because Floyd is a customer of the security guard's employer.

All Floyd would have to do is call whoever it is. Discuss the grievance.

If Floyd moved away it would be a big loss for the community/high roller real estate firm and with the property market not too busy it wouldn't be easy to sell.

Apparently this isn't the first time the security guard has had issue with Mayweathers parking. They wouldnt have grounds to fire him because hes doing his job the way its supposed to be done. And Floyd has said "my mansions and cars are paid for," meaning he owns it outright. If he were to move out than its his loss because the real estate market in Las Vegas right now is the worst in the country. He would likely have to sell it at a loss. The "high roller real estate firm" would love to have his house on the market because they get a fat comission on that house as opposed to getting nothing if Floyd stays there and keeps it.

To sum it up Floyd is in the wrong, the security guard cant get fired from this and real estate agents in Vegas would love to see Floyd move.

[JDezi4]

I guess Floyd doesn't want to fight Manny then since he has not fought since May. By your logic he's not fighting and that means he doesn't want to fight Pac.

Lmao, yeah by my logic Floyd doesn't want to fight Pac? Lol, u act like me saying that was somehow saying that he wasn't avoiding a Pac fight. I didn't say that. All I'm saying is why the hell would he go to jail to avoid Pac when all he has to do is avoid Pac.

People are saying he did this to not fight Manny because they are making fun of him. So be quiet about Floyd okay, I love ****

Lmao u guys just love that word ***** don't u? Everything has to lead to someone being *****. Well if u weren't too sensitive u would have seen that I said ANYONE WHO REALLY BELIEVES FLOYD DID THIS TO AVOID PAC.... Is it all coming back to u now? Is that specific enough for u? Or should I have clarified a bit more for ur overtly sensitive self? Why were u so offended? Is ur mom and sister the same person? Or r u one of those people that think Floyd really did this to avoid Manny? Those r the only reasons I see that made u so mad.

[rollycortez]

Mayweather should keep dodging Pacquiao

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/box/news;...-pacfloyd11410

For Mayweather, ducking Manny Pacquiao has never seemed so smart.

If Mayweather has any brains – and for all his fool’s antics, he most certainly does – he’ll keep dodging the superfight the world wants.

All the motivation he needs is to look at those busted-up cheeks of Antonio Margarito.

Pac-Man (52-3-2) won a unanimous decision Saturday here at Cowboys Stadium over a courageous but clearly outclassed Margarito. He won a title in his eighth weight class even though he didn’t bother to even get close to the contracted 150-pound weight limit. He officially weighed 144.6 and entered the ring at 148. Margarito was bulked up to 165 and the hour leading up to the fight had Pacquiao’s team accusing him of trying to take illegal stimulants.

Margarito may as well have snorted the 50-yard line. Nothing can stop Pacquiao and deep down Mayweather has to know that includes him. Step into the ring with Pac-Man these days and you leave a swollen mess (Miguel Cotto, Oscar De La Hoya, Margarito).

“I promote both Antonio and Miguel Cotto,” said Bob Arum of Top Rank Boxing. “Both of them got an ass-whipping from Manny. I ran out of my own guys. He’s beat all my guys.”

Mayweather (41-0) is a different class of fighter than those men. He’s a darting, defensive wizard who would offer the most formidable technical challenge to Pacquiao. It’s why everyone wants to see the fight made.

At this point, though, Pacquiao has separated himself and each hellacious beating he hands out serves as a new round of caution. Pacquiao isn’t just fast. He isn’t just skilled. He is a destructive force. And increasingly he’s shown to possess a formidable chin. If Pacquiao can put his back on the ropes and take the best shots of Margarito and Cotto, you wonder how the lighter-punching Mayweather could possibly hurt him.

“I can’t believe I beat someone this big and this strong,” Pacquiao said.

Pacquiao’s winning wasn’t a surprise (he was more than a three-to-one favorite). Margarito’s face being turned into a mangled mess as some fans screamed from ringside for the fight to be called was. Why the ref and ringside doctor allowed it to continue remains a mystery. Pacquiao disabled Margarito’s reach, height and strength advantage with barrage after barrage of swift, precise combinations. It was equal parts brilliant and brutal.


Manny Pacquiao's beatdown of Antonio Margarito was as brutal as it was impressive.
(Chris Farina/Top Rank photo)
“My opponent looked bad and I wanted the ref to stop,” Pacquiao said. “I didn’t want to damage him permanently. That is not what boxing is about.”

Margarito refused to quit – “I’m a Mexican and we fight to the end,” he said. His corner said they couldn’t throw in the towel on such a warrior. It was all so foolish; their fighter caught two or three extra rounds of savage punches.

“He has the worst corner,” said Pacquiao’s trainer, Freddie Roach. “It probably ruined his career by not stopping the fight.… He might never fight again. He took too many unnecessary punches.”

That’s the danger of stepping into the ring with this guy. He’s not just winning fights; he’s altering, if not ending, careers.

Mayweather has found a hundred ways to avoid Pacquiao and increasingly it all makes sense. He was right to demand strict drug testing. But as the Pacquiao camp moved significantly on that issue and agreed to a reasonable timetable, Mayweather ran out of viable excuses. His mouth has run too long and too hard to reverse course now. So instead we keep getting delays and excuses and self-destructive behavior.

“After this great performance, Mayweather needs to put up or shut up or move out of the country,” Roach said. “Face it, Manny’s way above him at this point. I remember when [Mayweather] was ducking Margarito. If he doesn’t fight Manny now we know this guy should retire.”

Both Arum and HBO’s Ross Greenburg said they’d reach out to the Mayweather camp again this week but why would this time be any different? The pile of money – maybe $100 million plus – remains on the table, but now both Mayweather and his trainer/uncle Roger are dealing with significant legal issues in separate domestic violence incidents.

“We wouldn’t want to be blindsided by something like a trial,” Arum noted.

Legal woes should serve as one more roadblock that Mayweather can use. If you’re Floyd Jr., what’s the rush anyway? How many opponents need to be sent to the hospital to try to avoid being the next one?

Mayweather has never faced a relentless force like this. They just don’t exist. Pacquiao threw an astounding 713 power punches and landed an equally astounding 53 percent of them. It’s what carved Margarito’s face to bits.

It was ugly. It was violent. It was an unmistakable message to the one opponent everyone wants to see next.

No one dodges a punch like Mayweather. And the best way to slip Pacquiao’s blinding combination is to keep finding a way to stay out of the ring.