Comments Thread For: Mayweather: I Don't Need 50th Win, I'm Okay With 49

[IMDAZED]

If the Black Community is depending on athletes to define their community, then they are/were ****ed long before Floyd Mayweather. When we judge the White Community, do we look to Babe Ruth, Max Schmeling, Rocky Marciano, or Gerry Cooney? The best fighters come from the bottom of society, and they often reflect the segment of society they come from. The Black Community should be defined by Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. DuBois, Noble Drew Ali, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Stokley Carmichael, etc., NOT Muhammad Ali, Tupac, Biggie Smalls, and Floyd Mayweather, and Oprah. There is a difference between Leaders and Celebrities! Ignorant people are the ones who don't know the difference!

You really think he knows who the hell Noble Drew Ali or DuBois are? He's talking about himself in that post of his since he clearly believes celebrities are role models.

[Bronx2245]

Bull crap Floyd cherry picked a lot of his opponents and ducked fighters and even the ones who people say ducked him he was more than happy to not force the issue to fight them when it mattered,to many dam holes in Floyd resume and to top it off he makes blacks look like ignorant fools, Floyd should be destroyed for promoting black stereotypes he is everything that wrong with black community

As far as the "cherry-picking" is concerned:

For the first 10 years of his professional career Mayweather was a part of Bob Arum's stable of fighters at Top Rank promotion company. During that time he became the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.

But in April of 2006 Mayweather turned down the highest purse of his career, $8 million to fight Antonio Margarito, and exercised a provision in his contract that let him become a free agent if he paid Top Rank $750,000.

Arum told ESPN's Dan Rafael at the time that before he left Mayweather had asked, among other things, for a $20 million guaranteed purse to fight Oscar De La Hoya.

"He wants $20 million for the De La Hoya fight? It's not there. Sometimes, my man, you gotta know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. We'll talk about things down the road," Arum said.

A year later, Mayweather made $25 million in a fight against De La Hoya that still holds the record for total pay per view buys.

After buying himself out of his Top Rank contract, Mayweather took unprecedented control over his career. Rather than getting paid a large guaranteed fee up front by a promotor like Top Rank — as is the norm across the sport — Mayweather stages his fights himself and takes a cut of the total revenue on the back end.

Greg Bishop described it like this for the New York Times in 2011:

"He earns a percentage of every ticket purchased, every pretzel consumed, every poster sold. He will earn from countries that paid for broadcasting rights and the theaters where the fight is shown.

"Mayweather, regarded as one of the best boxers in history, fights under a highly unusual financial structure, exchanging upfront risk for back-end profit while retaining total control."

After distributors and networks get their cut, Mayweather gets a bigger piece of the remaining revenue than anyone else in the sport.

Mayweather fought De La Hoya in 2007 and made $25 million. His earnings only grew from there, culminating in an $80 million payday for 2013's fight against Canelo Alvarez, which set the record for PPV revenue at $150 million. In that fight he made $41.5 million pursue, and then almost doubled that amount once PPV receipts came in.

Every move is designed to give him a larger piece of the pie. He left HBO and signed a more lucrative deal with Showtime in 2013. He got a Nevada promoter's license for his Mayweather Promotions company so he could stop co-promoting fights with Golden Boy in 2014.

Since Mayweather went pro in 1996 he has made over $400 million in career earnings, and the vast majority of it has come after he spent $750,000 to leave Top Rank in 2006.

Mayweather doesn't have a single endorsement, but he has been able to capitalize on his value to his sport more than any other athlete alive.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/floyd...#ixzz3doT7EZFk

[Larry the boss]

still trying to dodge Pac rematch it seems.

lol..............

[Mr. Philadel]

did you hear the ring announcer at the end of the fight?..."the winner by UD and STILL undefeated...Floyd Money Mayweather"....this is a bottom line type sport, no moral victories or a few good moments tops the final verdict....this is BOXING...do you know anything about it?

[Bronx2245]

Most ATG at the age of 35 had over 100 fights to their credit Mayweather doesn't even have half that. He is able to still be fighting at this level because of the wear and tear on the body.....why is it that quarterbacks can play at an all pro level til they are approaching 40 and most running backs are out of the league by age 30???? Age is important but not as important as they try to make it out to be. Wear and tear is the name of the game.

Most ATG didn't fight at age 35, and then we must look at WHO they were fighting! Sugar Ray Robinson's last title fight was in 1961, but he fought until 1965, at age 40. He had a helluva more fights than Floyd, but who was he fighting, and even more, should have he been fighting?

Because, of course, boxing's not so well kept dirty secret is that, financially, most fighters can never stop. No matter how outlandish a fortune they've earned inside the ring and out, most greats not only never get ahead, few can even manage getting out from under. They never put much distance between themselves and where they came from. With few exceptions, they all end up desperately needing one more payday. And then another. And then another. Most are forced to hang around so long their endings are consummated by the uglier, more sinister punch that they all saw coming a mile away. Joe Louis, at 37 years old, was never blindsided by the physical punches that Rocky Marciano landed to knock him helplessly out of the ring and the sport. No, the punch he never saw coming and what set him up for Marciano's right hand was debt — in his case, to the government. Louis owed the IRS $500,000 and had nowhere else to go and get it but back into the ring.

Nearly all the greats were forced to stick around for those last final beatings, the ones that did lasting damage to their souls as much as their brains. If "protect yourself at all times" is boxing's most vital rule to obey, surely the most devastating blow in the sport is the one you do see coming, the one you're simply helpless to escape its impact.

Why is it so many of boxing's greatest heroes — Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson — were forced to stare down this last tragic fate and await their inevitable descent into boxing's latest cautionary tale? In the so-called "red light district of sports," the only jungle where, as Don King's biographer Jack Newfield once pointed out, "the lions are afraid of the ****," why can so few great fighters walk away undamaged with any money in their pocket?

http://www.sbnation.com/longform/201...t-2013-profile

[johnm is...]

Literally every Floyd thread, no matter what it's about, turns into Mayweather haters crying like goddamn babies.

[Wizardsh]

If the Black Community is depending on athletes to define their community, then they are/were ****ed long before Floyd Mayweather. When we judge the White Community, do we look to Babe Ruth, Max Schmeling, Rocky Marciano, or Gerry Cooney? The best fighters come from the bottom of society, and they often reflect the segment of society they come from. The Black Community should be defined by Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. DuBois, Noble Drew Ali, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Stokley Carmichael, etc., NOT Muhammad Ali, Tupac, Biggie Smalls, and Floyd Mayweather, and Oprah. There is a difference between Leaders and Celebrities! Ignorant people are the ones who don't know the difference!

Looks like a lot of ignorant people in the black community, you don't watch the news do you? It a cold sad reality, so sad they would support trash like Floyd but quick to call Thurman and ward uncle toms and sell out. Pathetic

[Wizardsh]

As far as the "cherry-picking" is concerned:

For the first 10 years of his professional career Mayweather was a part of Bob Arum's stable of fighters at Top Rank promotion company. During that time he became the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.

But in April of 2006 Mayweather turned down the highest purse of his career, $8 million to fight Antonio Margarito, and exercised a provision in his contract that let him become a free agent if he paid Top Rank $750,000.

Arum told ESPN's Dan Rafael at the time that before he left Mayweather had asked, among other things, for a $20 million guaranteed purse to fight Oscar De La Hoya.

"He wants $20 million for the De La Hoya fight? It's not there. Sometimes, my man, you gotta know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. We'll talk about things down the road," Arum said.

A year later, Mayweather made $25 million in a fight against De La Hoya that still holds the record for total pay per view buys.

After buying himself out of his Top Rank contract, Mayweather took unprecedented control over his career. Rather than getting paid a large guaranteed fee up front by a promotor like Top Rank — as is the norm across the sport — Mayweather stages his fights himself and takes a cut of the total revenue on the back end.

Greg Bishop described it like this for the New York Times in 2011:

"He earns a percentage of every ticket purchased, every pretzel consumed, every poster sold. He will earn from countries that paid for broadcasting rights and the theaters where the fight is shown.

"Mayweather, regarded as one of the best boxers in history, fights under a highly unusual financial structure, exchanging upfront risk for back-end profit while retaining total control."

After distributors and networks get their cut, Mayweather gets a bigger piece of the remaining revenue than anyone else in the sport.

Mayweather fought De La Hoya in 2007 and made $25 million. His earnings only grew from there, culminating in an $80 million payday for 2013's fight against Canelo Alvarez, which set the record for PPV revenue at $150 million. In that fight he made $41.5 million pursue, and then almost doubled that amount once PPV receipts came in.

Every move is designed to give him a larger piece of the pie. He left HBO and signed a more lucrative deal with Showtime in 2013. He got a Nevada promoter's license for his Mayweather Promotions company so he could stop co-promoting fights with Golden Boy in 2014.

Since Mayweather went pro in 1996 he has made over $400 million in career earnings, and the vast majority of it has come after he spent $750,000 to leave Top Rank in 2006.

Mayweather doesn't have a single endorsement, but he has been able to capitalize on his value to his sport more than any other athlete alive.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/floyd...#ixzz3doT7EZFk

Yet he is on his way to going broke again isn't that pathetic.

[Wizardsh]

You really think he knows who the hell Noble Drew Ali or DuBois are? He's talking about himself in that post of his since he clearly believes celebrities are role models.

Larry you always make me laugh, I can always count on you for a good laugh

[lefthook2daliva]

Yeah.

I believe him.