Comments Thread For: Lara's Coach: Mayweather Won't Return, Retired For Good

[FrankieBruno]

It's quite possible Khan did scare Mayweather into permanent retirement, taking into account the continuous ducking Floyd exhibited over the past 2 years.

seems like it

[nacho daddy]

For the sake of boxing I hope he never comes back

for the sake of humanity hope froid gets locked up for 20 years

[Cinci Champ]

Floyd would have to alter his spending habits in a big way if he plans on staying retired for good.

People get too caught up in his purse amounts. When it's reported that Floyd made X amount, that's the gross income before the IRS takes their 39.6% and in addition to haymons 15%. That right there reduces a 32 million dollar purse to around 14mil. From the reported 300mil he made from the pacquiao bout, he pocketed around half that. Yes it's still a tremendous amount of money but Floyd also blows a tremendous amount of money. Hopefully he learned not to make the mistakes from people like Tyson and Holyfield.

and u get too caught up in the money image

[hugh grant]

Bhop and Kovalev were in the same weight class and they weigh roughly the same on fight night. The two situations aren't comparable at all.

And before you bring in Sugar Ray Leonard and Duran, you won't be able to fool us either with those names. Sugar Ray began his career at welterwieght, he was obviously much bigger than featherweight Floyd.

Duran began his career at featherweight just like Floyd, but a key detail that haters/critics always conveniently leave out when making the comparison is that may weather was nineteen when he turned pro and Duran was sixteen. In other words, Duran is also naturally much bigger than Floyd, who has never weighed above 151 even for his three junior middleweight title bouts both on weigh in and fight night.

The excuses keep coming for Floyd, hes a charity case youd think the way his fans behave. Floyds fans always try holding Floyd back and they don't even really have to, because Floyd holds himself back all by himself with no help, he doesn't need it.

So Floyd is always trying to do as little as he can possibly get away with. Try to get as much credit as he can, with minimal effort as possible. Using the calculator to work out how much he has to go up in weight to equal what Pac has done, or what Duran or SRL or many others did before him etc etc.?

Look even ray Charles and Stevie Wonder can see Lalonde was much bigger than SRL as was Barkley much bigger than Duran. Hagler was much bigger as well. Duran was only big because he couldn't lay off the food, but he was naturally a slender guy just look at him as a light weigh not an ounce of fat on him. When he fought Barkley he wasn't in the best condition, yet still beat Barkley, but more importantly took risks.
Floyd should try bettering SRL, Pac and Duran, not try and be equal to them. He hasn't even equalled what they did anyway.. Fight GGG and you will be in the ballpark. Take a risk Floyd. Be the underdog. Fight outside your country as well...face some kind of adversity.

[ModernTalking]

He must know people on the inside, Floyd must have used the last of his IV bag during the Berto fight.

[VG_Addict]

Last time Floyd fought a prime, slick, fast, fairly technical boxer was Judah back in 2006 and he got dropped in that fight and schooled for a few rounds. What chance has Floyd really got with Khan? He'll get dominated like Alexander did, beat to the punch every time. There's a reason he ducked him for this long..

What fast, slick technical fighters were there?

And Alexander isn't in Floyd's league. Completely different level of fighters.