Did Floyd "retire" in 2007 because he was shook by the 147 division heating up?

[HanzGruber]

freedom bumping old threads to feel better about golovkin

[Buckfever]

No he just didn't want to be forced to lick Oscar's ***** again. It wound up being a sound strategic decision to go on hiatus and shift the balance of power in his favor.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

"Men Lie, Women Lie, Numbers Dont Lie" - Floyd Mayweather.

[-Makunouchi-]

"Men Lie, Women Lie, Numbers Dont Lie" - Floyd Mayweather.

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[Buckfever]

No it was a financial decision. He was contemplating a rematch with Oscar and got pissed that he still wasn't given A-side status or at least not to the degree he felt he deserved and decided F this. He changed the narrative.

[Dip_Slide]

Try having an 11 year career with 38+ pro fights with 8 Oz. gloves with chronic hand, shoulder and elbow injuries while almost breaking your hand every fight and let's see if you could carry on. Almost all great fighters took breaks in their careers for various reasons and he has done what he had to do at the point, the only fight that made sense at the time was Shane Mosley since Cotto and Margarito were with Bob Arum, but Shane had a touth ache and the fight didn't happen. Shane KOs Margarito and then Floyd fights him, to me that was good enough.

[davef]

likely been mentioned in this thread before but some of these fighters were with top rank at the time and wasnt floyd still in a court case claiming money back from them? im not sure they could have been made at that point

regardless he faced cotto and sugar shane and won he beat shane after his win vs the mummy margarito and beat cotto at 154 who after the trout fight went on a nice run of wins so he was hardly shot either

i doubt floyd wanted any part of williams and as funny as that margarito video is floyd would have had him chasing shadows for 12 rounds

[Dip_Slide]

likely been mentioned in this thread before but some of these fighters were with top rank at the time and wasnt floyd still in a court case claiming money back from them? im not sure they could have been made at that point

regardless he faced cotto and sugar shane and won he beat shane after his win vs the mummy margarito and beat cotto at 154 who after the trout fight went on a nice run of wins so he was hardly shot either

i doubt floyd wanted any part of williams and as funny as that margarito video is floyd would have had him chasing shadows for 12 rounds

I haven't seen a fight where Margarito could cut off the ring on a top level boxer/moving opponent and forcing him to fight his fight except in the first Cotto fight, Cotto is nowhere near as fast on his feet as Floyd, if you want to cut off Floyd you need a good jab and you need to be able to feint up and down, down and up to get him on the ropes to do your work, Margarito would've probably been made to look like Baldomir after 6-7 rounds.

[bigjavi973]

Who's tunney?????

[Thraxox]

I haven't seen a fight where Margarito could cut off the ring on a top level boxer/moving opponent and forcing him to fight his fight except in the first Cotto fight, Cotto is nowhere near as fast on his feet as Floyd, if you want to cut off Floyd you need a good jab and you need to be able to feint up and down, down and up to get him on the ropes to do your work, Margarito would've probably been made to look like Baldomir after 6-7 rounds.

Why try to cut off the ring when Margo can just bull rush him using his size and work rate and punish him on the body? Floyd does not have enough pop on his punches and does not have enough punch out put to keep Margo enough from him, and MP used flurries to get out from Margo's body punches, and even then Margo was still able to bull rush Pac, despite his offense.