Comments Thread For: Maidana: I Didn't Get $1.5 Million To Wear Floyd's Gloves

[LoadedWraps]

You know what is said is these uneducated 20 or 30 year old fans with no knowledge about boxing honestly believe Floyd Jr. is great. Maybe about 10 years ago. No great boxer cries about gloves, cries about taking drug tests, etc. to avoid other fighters because they will do damage to you. The sport is boxing, not square dancing. Hell, TI almost beat his ass.

It's always the ignorant of the sport in question that fall into the "this guy is so good, he's the best right now...he MUST be the best ever" trap.

I hear lebron getting the unwarranted hype in basketball, people forget or ignore history.

I hear Messi getting the called the goat in futbol, people forget or ignore history.

I hear people calling Aaron Rodgers or Peyton the best ever, people forget or ignore history.

The remarkable thing is that with boxing, it's different, boxing isn't a growing sport looking at the sport from beginning to now, it's dying, slowly, and it won't go anywhere in the long run, but for lack of a better word it's dying in that the talent pool/knowledge/quality is shrinking. I have to constantly remind people that the golded era of boxing is in the past, not in the present or future. Calling anyone from this era the best ever is illogical.

[-MARKAVELLI-]

I'm beginning to believed that it was Robert Garcia who received the $1.5 mil for himself!

Remember Ellerbe was on his gym surprising everyone why she was there?

And this weeks Glovegate charade? Hummmm?

[raymosr]

You call it mind games, I call it being a lil whining b1tch!

N ur a, dumbass

[raymosr]

Marcos Maidana has rejected reports that Floyd Mayweather Jr. paid him $1.5 million dollars to use a different pair of gloves for their May fight, which Mayweather won with a twelve round majority decision.

Following the official weigh-in, Mayweather rejected Maidana's selection of the Everlast MX gloves. According to Mayweather, the gloves had little to no padding around the knuckle area. After Maidana selected a different pair of Everlast MX gloves, and they were approved by the Nevada State Athletic Commission, Mayweather still rejected them. After a long standoff, Maidana was forced to cave and selected a different style of Everlast gloves.
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Listen you dumb fcks... if you know boxing history you would know that these type of demands and far worse have been going on for decades in championship prize fighting. Dhoya, Tyson, Holyfield, & Pacquiao, have all made these type of demands. At least Maidana still got to use puncher's gloves. Dhoya made Mayweather wear much bigger gloves. So shut the fck up you fckn morons.

[peplz]

How you figure? I watched all his fights, I paid for all his PPV since hatton, I defended him against the whole pacquaio drama, I call him the greatest fighter of our time, I defend (for lack of a better word) against other posters in other non Maidana/gloves threads, but Im not a fan huh cool but somethings I just cant support like this whole crybaby act has going right now and mayweather has hit that plateu with me.

FYI, a cry baby is usually defined by a person who DOES NOT get their way and then complains about it. Sounds a lot more like Maidana than Mayweather in this scenario.