Comments Thread For: Mayweather: I Wish Roy Jones Nothing But The Best

[mrjoeblive]

That is a complete and utter myth. I followed every single article and newsflash back in the day. Early on when people first started taking notice of DM, it was during the time when David Telesco was a hot, streaking contender with a great run. DM decided to market himself in America. It was announced that he would fight Telesco on ESPN and even Marty Mulcahey on fight news dot com had the fight listed on his regular boxing schedule. Team DM pulled out over money because he was a star in Germany making more and was not a household name in America. In sales, when a company takes less to market something where they can make much more money later, its called a loss-leader and team DM was not willing to do that.

Then HBO's Kerry Davis tried in vein to get a hold of Klaus-Peter Kohl numerous times as a comprehensive effort to make the fight and Kohl would not return calls. Then after some attempts HBO sent over a faxed offer for DM as a co-feature to a Jones card. Team DM declined claiming he can make more money and has gone on record as saying that he fights for money, not fame, or titles but team DM never gave Kerry Davis a number to work with. DM's claim about money is found on a yahoo article about the situation.

Murad Muhammed eventually travelled to Germany and met with Kohl and the offer that was on the table to stage the fight in Germany was for Jones to get a number that has been said to be between 50% and 80% of what DM would get paid. The #1 PFP fighter in the world was offered substantially less than DM for a fight in Germany. Not acceptable. DM went on to fight and lose to a Jones former victim, Gonzalez.

Good reserch rich!

[mrjoeblive]

Hell Floyd spoke more of Haymon than he did Roy lmaO

They were trying to bait floyd into saying something they could use to spark a controversy. But floyd easily sidestepped them and shamelessly plugged Haymon as the best person to sign with.

[MrRolltide91]

At the time roy was boxing he was roundly criticized for not taking risk.

You remember the roycott?

[Nomadic]

Retire Roy, and follow suit.

[TheOliverBrand]

It hurts to see roy fight on. It was painful to see that knockout. He needs to stop. Someone really needs to intervene, either a family member, close friend, or someone. What I want to know is who the **** actually is so cruel to waste time training him, putting him at risk of losing his faculties, or dying. The ones training also have to be held responsible. This is senseless...

[Tobi.G]

Buying 100 hyper-cars is realy a smart investment! It realy is! Those cars never get cheap because hes driving them like a ***** and he can sell some if needed.