Floyd Mayweather should fight James Kirkland next

[BoxerDood]

Kirkland has unfinished business with Ishida before this fight can be acceptable. He also needs one more good win, preferably a title fight.

[Dubblechin]

Kirkland has unfinished business with Ishida before this fight can be acceptable. He also needs one more good win, preferably a title fight.

I disagree. That's the problem with boxing. People put all these arbitrary roadblocks in front of good matches.

Mayweather-Kirkland is a great matchup right now. Nothing wrong with it at all. And it's easily made.

Why does Kirkland have to win a title first? I thought alphabet titles were meaningless? Why does he have to beat Ishida first? Did Andy Lee beating Brian Vera change everyone's perception of him? Vera's win is still valid. It erased nothing. It's just one more fight in the way of a better fight.

I'm so sick of fights being pushed back until other fights happen first.

I just want to see good matchups. If they can be made now, make them. People make this **** way more complicated than it needs to be.

[BostonGuy]

There's nothing ****** about it.

Kirkland just demolished the top rated WBC junior middleweight contender. He's got a style that would mesh well with Mayweather's style and provide fans with an entertaining bout -- much moreso than Andre Berto or Devon Alexander, who are frontrunners for a Mayweather fight.

Nobody is going to outbox Mayweather. You're going to have to get him into a war of attrition. Kirkland can do that. Berto won't. Alexander won't. Spadafora won't. Morales won't. Ricky Hatton's brother won't.

And it can easily be made.

I agree, Kirkland would stalk Floyd all night and be willing to take his hardest punches to land one, two, three...of his own. He'd probably get KO'd in the process but it would be entertaining as hell as long as it lasts...

Also, are people really still mentioning Spadafora as an viable opponent for Floyd? Spadafora does not have any name recognition with casual fans, nor hard core fans at that. It wouldn't sell, period...

[BoxingGenius27]

Kirkland has unfinished business with Ishida before this fight can be acceptable. He also needs one more good win, preferably a title fight.

I don't know about this man.

We all know Tyson should've rematched Douglass before Holyfield.

Khan should rematch Prescott.

Wlad should rematch Sanders.