Comments Thread For: Floyd Mayweather: I Completely Changed The Sport

[TrueBoxingFan23]

I think he was a great fighter but i think now young fighters who are coming up with look at his money and possessions and think emulating him is the way forward. More fighters will try to take that extremely safety first approach because they think that's how you get to have what he has.

I respect what he did and he was a true master of his style but i have no desire to see anyone else fight like him. I found him entertaining in his own way because he was so good that it had to be appreciated, but a cheaper imitation will just be flat out boring.

Now your opinion I can respect! You spoke with logic even though I really don't feel like was ducking fighters. Like I don't think he ever had a fight like the Berto fight where the other fighter had nothing to offer whether it was record or champ. But I do respect your opinion and wish more could have logic and respect like yourself

[IMDAZED]

Ok good post I'll give you credit but I would have loved to see the pwill and Martinez fights at 154. Floyd could have possibly lost both by hey a a challenge it would have been!

Sure. I would've have loved to have seen Cotto, Pacquiao and others face them too. Whatever. Mayweather has the best resume among his peers so crying about ducking is really silly. I don't see you crying about Pacquiao ducking them in other threads. So stop talking about who's slobbing Floyd's knob because there's a thin line between love and hate and yours is blurred.

[big_james10]

I dont think so, you just benefited the most from de la hoya blueprint.But with your cherry picking and using your money you generate as leverage to pit the networks against each other to have a easy career did more harm to the sport than good. Now we have boxers who want multimillion dollar payday just to take a legit oppenent, Thurman is rumored to want 10 million to fight fucking porter lol.

WTF? You have no clue what you are talking about! De La Hoya didn't have a blueprint! Bob Arum had a blueprint for De La Hoya that included marketing his heritage to Hispanics, his looks to women, and the his mother died before he fought in the Olympicssympathy card to people who would feel sorry for him.

Mayweather had his own blueprint for success and it damn sure wasn't anything close to De La Hoya's blueprint!

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

WTF? You have no clue what you are talking about! De La Hoya didn't have a blueprint! Bob Arum had a blueprint for De La Hoya that included marketing his heritage to Hispanics, his looks to women, and the his mother died before he fought in the Olympicssympathy card to people who would feel sorry for him.

Mayweather had his own blueprint for success and it damn sure wasn't anything close to De La Hoya's blueprint!

YDKSAB just call it a day please.

[TrueBoxingFan23]

Martinez and pwill both could have made 154 and both were making noise. Who cares about being undefeated or what belts they have! You floydiots are fixated on that. I want what will be the biggest challenge for one of the most dominate fightes of this era. Who will give him a tough fight? Not no fawking Guerrero or Ortiz or Maidana. Only reason Maidana have Floyd probes is because h was getting old. Floyd two years younger schools Maidana worst than Baldomir.

I respect your post but what other fighters were doing the same in this era? It's not like those were bad fights at the time they happened! Scroll up and look at the post with the link. Many thought or were blinded by the Hype for zOrtiz and the zHate for Floyd that Ortiz had a chance. He damn sure was prime. Ghost had a belt, was undefeated, and Floyd is held to such a high standard that against that resume it was still a tune up! Not talking about you, but I wish fan boys would hold GGG to those standards! We could be getting GGG Ward, Gale, Charlo, Lara next year but instead we're going to get another slow footed, slow hands taxi driver! The Irony is pathetic! And once again, why didn't Pac make those fights? But I respect your post except the floydiouts slug! That's not me but I have to expose the irony

[big_james10]

I think he was a great fighter but i think now young fighters who are coming up with look at his money and possessions and think emulating him is the way forward. More fighters will try to take that extremely safety first approach because they think that's how you get to have what he has.

I respect what he did and he was a true master of his style but i have no desire to see anyone else fight like him. I found him entertaining in his own way because he was so good that it had to be appreciated, but a cheaper imitation will just be flat out boring.

Emulating Mayweather is the way forward. Mayweather was an extremely hard worker and entertaining fighter who fought and beat (most by knockout) the best fighters at 130 pounds. He fought and beat the best fighter at 135. He fought and beat one of the best fighters at 140 (Gatti) and called out the other top fighters at 140 (Hatton and Cotto's handlers turned down a Mayweather fight at 140 and Kostya Tyszu was fighting exclusively on Showtime). He also fought and beat the best fighters at 147 (Judah and Baldomir at one time) and later Hatton and Mosley and the best at 154 (De La Hoya, Cotto and Alvarez).

Today's fighters should emulate Mayweather's example of fighting the best fighters in their weight classes. Unfortunately, virtually all of today's fighters are focused only on money and not the desire to fight the best competition. The only exception to this rule of money is everything, nothing else matters mentality that fighters have today are Alvarez and Cotto.

[Rath]

Sure. I would've have loved to have seen Cotto, Pacquiao and others face them too. Whatever. Mayweather has the best resume among his peers so crying about ducking is really silly. I don't see you crying about Pacquiao ducking them in other threads. So stop talking about who's slobbing Floyd's knob because there's a thin line between love and hate and yours is blurred.

Floyd fighter of the decade? nope

Floyd fighter of the year? nope

Floyd " Best Resume Award "

[Rath]

Emulating Mayweather is the way forward. Mayweather was an extremely hard worker and entertaining fighter who fought and beat (most by knockout) the best fighters at 130 pounds. He fought and beat the best fighter at 135. He fought and beat one of the best fighters at 140 (Gatti) and called out the other top fighters at 140 (Hatton and Cotto's handlers turned down a Mayweather fight at 140 and Kostya Tyszu was fighting exclusively on Showtime). He also fought and beat the best fighters at 147 (Judah and Baldomir at one time) and later Hatton and Mosley and the best at 154 (De La Hoya, Cotto and Alvarez).

Today's fighters should emulate Mayweather's example of fighting the best fighters in their weight classes. Unfortunately, virtually all of today's fighters are focused only on money and not the desire to fight the best competition. The only exception to this rule of money is everything, nothing else matters mentality that fighters have today are Alvarez and Cotto.

imagine watching two Floyd's fighting...

[IMDAZED]

Floyd fighter of the decade? nope

Floyd fighter of the year? nope

Floyd " Best Resume Award "

He never won Fighter of the Year? Ok. I don't know how you're off my ignore list but with simpleton posts like this, you'll soon return.

[Robbie Barrett]

Floyd fighter of the decade? nope

Floyd fighter of the year? nope

Floyd " Best Resume Award "

When judging a fighters career the most important thing is resume and Mayweathers is better than Pacquiao's.