Why did Floyd retire?

[Szef]

during that time ww division was stacked with opponents and floyd needs to take a fake retirement (even cried his eyes out) for them to fight each other. came back after the fact that everybody on the division literally almost kill each other with pac taking the head hancho of the division as well as the p4p best.

And that's how Floyd's psycho haters were created.

[BUNGALOWS]

And that's how Floyd's psycho haters were created.

GOAT sig.

[Kuyukut]

And that's how Floyd's psycho haters were created.

that's what your stepfather told you?

[Beercules]

There was a thread on this " did Floyd retire in 2007 because 147 was heating up "

Then look at the poll

/thread

[FeFist]

He wasn't hungry, and to be frank retiring made him more of a commodity.

[Kuyukut]

He wasn't hungry, and to be frank retiring made him more of a commodity.

cool story, bro.

[QballLobo]

Cotto said that in 2005 when both were at 140, and the shane remarks came in 2006 before floyd was the #1 superstar,,

Floyd became the biggest draw in 2007 with wins over hatton and oscar, everybody wanted to fight floyd including shane, cotto, etc

when floyd and oscar could agree to terms for a rematch, floyd wanted 50/50, oscar did not, Floyd retired

At that time TR and GBP were making alot of fights together like shane-cotto, margs-shane, manny-jmm 2, manny-oscar, manny-hatton etc

When he was about to fight Pacquiao Oscar said that the Floyd fight was signed off on from both sides but that when Oscar announced that Floyd Sr. would be training him for the Forbes tune up fight and would be training him for Floyd Jr., Floyd backed out of the fight and refused to sign the contract.
No doubt that Floyd "retired" to keep that undefeated record. He knew that the public would be wanting him to fight Cotto, Pwilliams, Margacheato, and later Pacquiao and he wanted no part of it. Why else would a guy who calls himself money walk away from the sport at the peak of his earning power? The only he could have proved everyone wrong was to stay away. The fact that he came back and is still going years later shows that he never retired in the first place, just ducked the serious competition that awaited him....

[Pacquiao'd]

Most likely because of his hands and elbows breaking down. They needed a break to recover

[ADP02]

I know most will come in and say he retired to duck the topp ww's..but he fought Cotto and Mosley..Cotto even said he himself did not pursue a Floyd fight before and there is footage of Mosley saying he himself was going on a vacation and didnt want to fight Floyd then....

You forgot to say, he fought Cotto and Mosley 4 - 5 years too late!

Mosley said let's do it right after my PLANNED vacation (1 or 2 months later). Funny how you are OK and putting excuses for those super duper long vacations of Floyd and in the same breath saying Mosley, taking a month or so vacation AFTER A FIGHT, that he didn't want to fight Floyd. So THEN Floyd didn't want to fight Mosley , Cotto, Margarito, Manny, and so on ....

There are plenty of videos where Mosley said that "Floyd is growing feathers".... and Floyd admitting by saying NO and NO to wanting to fight Mosley in his interviews.

Also an interview of Floyd saying "Cotto trying to persuade me to come fight him but I'm not going to do that"

[Frank Ducketts]

I wasn't following boxing at that time so don't know the full details, why did Floyd retire?

He retired because of your serious rep power ALTon.