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Why would he? He already has more money than he will ever need and will find it harder to cheat with IV infusions, vampire-facials and delaying urine samples since he has been exposed. He doesn't really care about being recognized as the best because if he did then he would not have cheated inside and outside of the ring.
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It's a record in the sense of retiring undefeated and being the face of boxing over the majority of duration of caterer, I agree it's just the media hyping it up, some boxers had longer stretches of undefeated wins but didn't supposedly retire that way and was biggest draw in they era in boxingComment
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lol He'll be back. If not in 2016, then 2017. I can't see him waiting beyond that, but anyone who isn't naive knows he's just waiting for the right moment and the right opponent to come along (hell, perhaps for Pacquaio to heal up completely... if Manny not only wins his next fight but does so in an impressive manner, that'll make a rematch between them more enticing.)Comment
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49is just media hype and for Floyd's own ego as he never believed in his wildest dreams he would retire undefeated even with cherrypickingComment
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How can you say he never thought of going undefeated in his career? Isn't point of fighting is to win? Also every boxer in history of boxing have cherry picked so you say even your favorite fighter have done it so what's point of trying to discredit his accomplishments but then again your one of ppl screaming for him to fight lil gComment
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Hopkins didn't start taking chances until he got beat by Jermain Taylor and he was middle aged by then, and wanted Jones who already beat him to take 50/50 around 2001-2003
His competition at 160 is crappy and that's where he spent most of his career.
He lost to the best fighters he fought there too who were Taylor and Roy Jones.
didn't unify until he defended the ibf title 13/14 times....When he became the clear champion, he only had 6 defenses
Trinidad and DLH were not full fledged middleweights, who were his best wins there???? A shot Simon Brown or John David Jackson
Mayweather has far less fights than Hopkins and has won titles in more weight classes, defeated more champions, more lineal title defenses.
Hopkins is great but his moves were more calculated than even Floyd.....he fights Jones after getting KTFO, and not when he was cleaning up 175.......he finally fights Winky Wright at a catchweight of 170 where Wright never fought before or afterComment
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I honestly feel if Floyd doesn't come back in 2016 at all, he will never return to the ring. The hate will only last for so long, as time moves on, people will appreciate what he achieved a lot more, because let's face it, a lot of his accomplishments are pretty impressive.
Floyd will go down in boxing history, whether some fans like it or not, the hate will not stop him being inducted, or listed in the record books.
The 49-0 mark is a great American Sports accomplishment, but I do agree with Jeff, at the age of 38, dude was still prepared, he still had his skill set to be able to do things in the ring other boxing greats at that age were not able to do.
It's impressive to me that while he had so much hate, and so much outside ring things that could have negatively affected his career, it did not. With all the hate, all the media negativity, he could have crumbled, but he persevered and proved us wrong for 19 years. Not in any other sport, not any other athlete can honestly say that.Comment
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