Comments Thread For: Mayweather Picks Ortiz: Showing Us More Than Manny?

[Gypsy John Fury]

Good article; mirrors my own thinking. Mayweather fights boxers who are nearer their peak than Manny does. But don't blame Manny; that's Bob's fault...Manny would fight anybody.

[1prodz]

you are a clown nobody wants to see coward the guckweather fight anybody but sergio martinez or manny pacquiao(and the pacquiao fight is become a real dead subject). all these other fights are just plain trash. for the good of boxing lets hope ortiz pulls off the biggest upset in the history of boxing.

[1prodz]

the thing is ortiz is ok but everybody has been calling for martinez vs floyd the cowardly duck (but he's scared). floyd his terrible for boxing he consently takes the path of least resistance for the most amount of money and then waves our money in or faces and says see im the best. now eff all you mf's i'll see you you in another 1 or 2 when i need another 80 billion dollars until than ill wave your money in your face and there is nothing you could do about it . well i know what im going to do never order a fight that involves the cowardly duck umless it is with martinez or pacman.

[LeadUppercut]

it's been obvious for a long time and it wasn't only guys like Roach pointing it out, plenty of fans on this forum have been saying it. You only need to look at his performance. Berto arguably hits harder than Maidana, yet he took plenty of bombs and kept coming. His stamina was better and his punch output increased SIGNIFICANTLY.

He's been fighting at 143, 144, 142 etc etc in many of his recent fights.....it's no coincidence that this was happening. He is a WW.

How the *** can anyone bring this silly argument (and it walways has been one) that Floyd is fighting a smaller fighter. For the love of god the man rehydrated to 161 pounds one day after weighing 147. Floyd doesn't even weigh more than 160 when he isn't fighting at all.

Ridiculous argument......but i guess when you're in damage control you will latch onto anything.

Yep, he was much stronger, he had much better conditioning, and he took those shots well. The guy is a fkn beast, didnt anybody watch that fight?

I did not expect Mayweather to fight Ortiz straight after a layoff.

[LeadUppercut]

Mayweather might be showing us more than Manny is but Mayweather is his own promoter and manager. He himself decides. While Manny depends on Arum, Roach, Koncz and who else while he does his sidelines. Secondly, I think the Mayweathers have put a lot of thought in this and concluded that he can make as much money in this fight than against Pacquiao, and would rather lose to Ortiz than to Pacquiao. If Pacquiao was his own man (promoter), I have no doubt he would also choose the most challenging opponent for himself. He does love to fight. One just has to look at his early years to know that he comes to do war. Team Pacquiao is now in cruising speed and would rather put more emphasis on the dollar sign, because they feel he has already proven himself even without Mayweather.

" depends on " ?

What does that mean ?

Manny needs to take his depends off, and stop hiding behind Bob Arum.

[bluetuazon]

floyd vs ortiz is legit.....props to floyd for doing this..this is good for boxing... i hope that if both pac and may would win in their respective fights...they would give the fans the fight they always wanted...pac and may on 2012!!

[vince_13]

mayweather picks

gayweather picks ortiz bcoz it was an easier fight than pac its an easy payday 4 gayweather plain and simple. he is so afraid of pac he wil have all the excuses to avoid him

[kfcfloydiots]

Another Cowardly and Desperate act to avoid Pacquiao. We can see through the smoke and mirrors! No matter how you dress it up, Floyd is still ducking.

[aynoks]

ortiz will be the agressor and floyd will just run and run and look for precise opening to counter just like what he did to hatton.

[BillyBoxing]

Manny is doing greater than Floyd no matter what american "experts" and fans think.

Floyd is just fighting weak ass Ortiz, his only good win is Berto but who is Berto??
I thought he lost to Collazo.

Even a shot Morales did X times better than Ortiz against Maidana.

Ortiz isn't good, Berto always was a paper champ.
Ortiz vs berto was an hype job championship.

Ortiz only has a title fight, but yanks and *****s tries to sell it as a superfight.