Pretty Boy Floyd vs Money Mayweather

[Doctor_Tenma]

So when you say age do you mean that physically he has changed? I dunno, I think plenty of people become more conservative with age and it's hard to not see that in Mayweather's actions. Plus given his monetary success and the fact that since his first retirement he genuinely seemed like he didn't enjoy boxing quite the same, I really believe he isn't the same fighter mentally.

I mean just seeing him in that fight with Berto... his killer instinct is all but gone man.

It's physical and as for enjoying himself, against Berto that might have been the most I've seen him enjoy himself. He was all smiles every time he made Berto miss combinations. That and he made a pretty good attempt to get Berto out in the 12th. That said I believe his left hand was messed up and I'm just glad he's calling it quits or at least I hope.

[IronDanHamza]

Pretty Boy I think anyone can enjoy.

His fight with Jesus Chavez for example. How could anyone not enjoy that?

"Money" is more of an aqquired taste.

[The Big Dunn]

The difference between the two-one is a young man that thinks opportunities in the world are based on talent and hard work. The other is a grown man that understands opportunities in the world are given when you generate huge amounts of money for yourself and others.

[megas30]

Pretty boy Floyd was a fighter, while Money Mayweather is a business man. I personally preferred Pretty boy Floyd, though both have done things in boxing we have never seen before. For example, PBF would throw some punches, as Jim Lapley and George used to say, the boxing book has yet to record and name those punches. On the other hand, Money Mayweather has taken the business side to a whole different level with his recording breaking ppv numbers. At the end of the day, whatever his personality is, he has given boxing and the boxing world a whole lot.

[SplitSecond]

Money may fought almost all his career at a weight class higher than his natural weight class, so sometimes, though not always, he kept it safe and didn't take unnecessary chances. Money May is smart, he felt he's past prime and he knew his power has diminished plus he's fighting bigger stronger guys, so he felt that fighting toe to toe would always favor his opponent, so he fought his fight at his own pace and nobody could change that, which is a great accomplishment.

What a bunch of slurpy bullsht. From Mayweather's own mouth "I'm moving up to 135 because I can no longer make 130" another, "I feel much stronger and faster at 140 than 135 because I'm not draining myself"

Mayweather at 147, can't make the 143 catchweight.

[Ray*]

I was watching a re-run of his fights from day 1 three days ago, and i wanted to make a thread about it but was too busy. And to be honest i didn't want the thread to another one of those TBE bashing/loving threads. Whilst watching i was thinking to myself that am watching TWO totally different type of fighters here lol. What was amazing to me was the earlier version of him was more exciting than the latter version of him but that version didn't get the recognition that the latter version got. I found that weird.

[Ahmed_Ismail]

What a bunch of slurpy bullsht. From Mayweather's own mouth "I'm moving up to 135 because I can no longer make 130" another, "I feel much stronger and faster at 140 than 135 because I'm not draining myself"

Mayweather at 147, can't make the 143 catchweight.

Floyd, like all other fighters, should fight at a weight that's significantly lower than his fight night weight, most fighters rehydrate to 10-15 pounds between weigh in and fight night, Floyd rehydrates 3-4 lbs at 147 and almost nothing at 154 or even 152 cuz he never weighed in more than 151, which shows that by today's standards he should be fighting at 140 so that he's not much lighter than his opponents on fight night, which in a physical fight like the Maidana fight could make a lot of difference.

Do ur homework on Floyd's rehydration weight till the Pacquiao fight before u call bs on my post. And just because he moved up from 130 and 135 doesn't mean he has to fight at 147, his optimal weight by today's standards is 140, and Pacquiao should fight at 135, not making the catchweight was imo intentional cuz he didn't even try to shed off the 2 lbs and he rehydrated to like 149 or something, which means he could've made the weight if he wanted to, but he just didn't.

[!! Shawn]

Money may fought almost all his career at a weight class higher than his natural weight class, so sometimes, though not always, he kept it safe and didn't take unnecessary chances. Money May is smart, he felt he's past prime and he knew his power has diminished plus he's fighting bigger stronger guys, so he felt that fighting toe to toe would always favor his opponent, so he fought his fight at his own pace and nobody could change that, which is a great accomplishment.

PBF was a young man fighting people his size, he was faster and stronger than money May and hit harder than him, he also felt the need to give the fans a show so he got out of his element and slugged it out a couple of times to gain popularity, but even when he did that he still was always criticized and never got treated fair by the critics, Bob Arum and HBO, don't forget that he was also an active full time fighter, Money May took loooong layoffs between fights.

Don't act like he fought safe in all his fights as Money May, Dela Hoya, Hatton, Mosley, Ortiz, of course Cotto, Canelo and Maidana, these were all fights where he came forward a lot and didn't move so much, had he had a bit more power he would've stopped Cotto and Mosley, but I enjoyed these fights nonetheless.

Its not really fighting at a weight class higher than your natural weight, when you move everyone one of your opponents up from a lower weight.

[Sweet Jones]

People need to realise they're 2 different fighters. PBF was a hungry fighter, a BEAST and wasn't scared to brawl it out if he had to. MM is a worried fighter who's scared to get hurt. He's only worried about making $ the safest way. Can u imagine a star wide receiver who scores all the tds, but whenever he catches a pass he runs and drops to the ground so he doesn't get hit becuz he's scared of getting hurt.

Watched Torry Holt and Isaac Bruce do just that during the Rams' "Greatest Show on Turf" years.

Just saying.

[Larry the boss]

Im sure you would fight different at 38 then you did at 28 as well man