Comments Thread For: Mayweather Announcement Getting Close, Says Espinoza

[Bigg Rigg]

Floyd die hards are like "the opponent knows already"

[LOWBLOW_CHAMP]

That would actually be awesome if you think about it. Nobody knows who the opponent is until he takes off a mask seconds before the fight.

lmao hell yea that would be epic like unlocking a mystery boss on mortal kombat or somthing. they should do it the ads would have floyd vs ?? and a blanked out space

[dilseyar23]

Wtf

Berto wtf?????

[PunchyPotorff]

"Mayweather Announcement Getting Close", Says Espinoza.

Well dang Einstein... here all this time I thought it was getting further away.
HA

Floydie is only creating grandiose drama for those limited little ones devoted to Floydiotdom. Some of us get bored watching the same track and field meet twice a year.

[Jc8804]

Floyd is a joke. Go away already you fraud.

[IMDAZED]

Its almost Sept. fu*cking H christ let your opponent know already.

The opponent knows, get a grip.

[PACBOY]

Its almost Sept. fu*cking H christ let your opponent know already.

[-Kev-]

Seriously, I don't care how many ppvs he's sold, he's awful for this sport.

"You gotta do this drug testing, wear these gloves, fight in this ring, in this arena, I choose the date, I get to pick my sparring partners first, oh and don't talk bad about me or might not let yu have the fight."

Retire already....

You realize every boxer in his position did the same thing before him right? And it won't stop after he's gone. Sugar Ray Robinson was also a diva. DLH did the exact same thing to Floyd, chose the weight, what gloves, the arena, the date, the size of the ring. GGG wants Ward to drop down to 164. Not like that matters, the A side (and even the non A side) always chooses the arena and the date. Tyson made Holyfield take extra testing. Like I said, the things Floyd has done, was done before him and it will be done after him. So might as well stop watching boxing. Floyd doesn't need to retire from the sport, you need to retire from watching this sport.

[QballLobo]

According to fat Dan the hold up is due to the fact that even though Jr. has said this is his last fight Showtime wants guarantees to the network for future fights in case he does come back.
Maybe they are afraid Haymon will use Jr.'s 50th to help with PBC and pay him under the table.

[BrometheusBob.]

I'm pretty sure the opponent knows and they're in training as well. Floyd just tells him to shut up because he wants to break the news. Floyd is pushing 40 and we still expect him to take on elite champs every time he's in the ring, what other boxer his age in any era was held to those standards. SRL was washed up at 38, so was Ali.

The standard is less to do with age and more to do with performance. Yes, this isn't prime Floyd by any means. But he is not washed up like SRL or Ali were. In no planet is the hands down #1 P4P fighter too washed up to fight someone with a pulse.

If he were retiring, I wouldn't be like "no wait he still has to fight so and so!" I'd say good for him, he's had a long successful career and will be remembered as a great. But because he's not doing that, then yes I will expect him to fight opposition that is reasonable.