Comments Thread For: Mayweather: Couldn't Fight Everyone, Must Make Business Sense

[b00g13man]

You know youve done a good job clearing out your divisions when the latest boogeyman haters have built up as a threat is amir freaking khan.

yeah sure, mayweather ducked khan. stay salty haters.

So much this.

[Raonic]

In what was did Berto make business sense?

[OctoberRed]

Mayweather vs. Berto = business sense, right time

[robbyheartbaby]

49 fights and retiring at 38 years old, you have to respect the man. He's a piece of s*** but he could fight, won't miss him though.

[Bandman]

TBE has nothing to prove.. haters just want him to stay active long enough to be KO'd, as much as they beg Roy to retire, thats the position they wanna see Floyd in. . in my opinion Floyds last "prime" year was 2007, you don't have to lose to be out of your prime..and you dont have to take punishment for your body to break down, hes been in a boxing gym since birth, those miles add up.

resume don't lie, he is TBE.

what df does beating khan or thurman do for his legacy? not a damn thing. the only guy supposedly on his level was pacquiao and he dominated him with just a jab.

next up : Andre Ward.

[Sledgeweather17]

you are seriously comparing margarito to guerrero? what a terrible false equivalency. guerrero who had 2 fights at welterweight vs the guy who was #1 for 3 years and never got a shot at the lineal title because they were busy playing hot potato? i don't remember floyd turning down career high paydays to fight guerrero either.

wouldn't you rather have a guy who was #1 for 3 yaers on your resume than mitchell? not to mention 7 million dollars instead of 3. oh well. wouldn't you rather have margarito instead of baldomir who everyone knows is a joke? wouldn't you rather have margarito at his best instead of judah coming off a loss to a journeyman? these are the questions you should be asking. i can understand taking some fights like hatton just for the money even thoguh hatton is nowhere near the level as margarito but all the others and for less money? come on. and the fake retirement? pathetic.

Number 1 for three years? When the **** was this? Stop talking ****! Zab Judah was the undisputed champ, he literally had all the belts, and then Carlos Baldomir beat him and took the wbc and ring lineal belt from him, didn't pay sanctioning fees for the other belts. Floyd moved up to welterweight and schooled both of those guys, and then he went up to face Oscar at 154, and came back down to face Hatton before he retired. When the **** was Margareto number 1 when he lost to Paul Williams, Pacquiao, and Shane Mosley, and Cotto, and Floyd beat three of those opponents.

Margacheato was an overhyped bum, nothing more, nothing less.

[Sledgeweather17]

Didn't even read da article by da way. .since it's da same all. .Floyd didn't ducked Margarito imo he just didn't want to stay with TR. ..there's nothing in Margarito skills that says he can even win a few rds vs Floyd...fans in general just didn't like da idea da Floyd retired at da time wen da division was hot..and his excuses for it were bull****...then he comes back n fights a shot cotto later on. .as for the Guerrero fight. .it was bull****..made no sense. .don't say it was bc he was da mandatory. .Lara was da mandatory for a long time. .he never considered him. .yes Lara not known. .but Floyd always said it's him that sells. He fought Berto b4 his mandatory Lara. . .Zab he fought after a lose. .just to throw that there since he says he fights guys coming off W..Mosley was done. .oohh he looked good fight b4..bull**** excuse. .as for da pac situation. .let's not even go to that. .look Floyd smart. .he just waited for da right moments to fight some guys. .ppl just didn't like how he always contradicted himself as to why he didn't fight some guys. .me personally I didn't like how he fought da same style 2nd half of his career. .but it was his way to get fans mad n make $ off of it. .since wen he was pretty boy Floyd and was a beast fans didn't bat a eye for him. Imo he should had fought Cotto and Da Punisher and not retired. .Lara at 154..should had never fought Maidana..even tho he gave him he'll. Floyd was great. .still say he got a few more fights left.

You criticising Floyd for fighting Mosley? Lmao! The HBO cast also criticised Floyd for fighter Marquez during the fight, and Jim Lampey for once said something smart, he asked the cast who were the best fighters at welterweight that Floyd could fight

And guess what? They ALL UNANIMOUSLEY agreed that Mosley, Pac, and Floyd were the best fighters at welterweight, and agreed that "any permutation of Floyd, Pac, and Mosely" would be the best and biggest fight at Welterweight. Floyd fought Mosley right after Marquez and schooled him, then the excuses came, just like they are right now from you.

Lol, and Erisland Lara? Lol, defaq is that ****! He fought Canelo right after fighting ghost, and schooled the mother****er, the same mother****er who went and beat Erislandy Lara after getting schooled by Floyd, the same mother****er yawl said Floyd was ducking and would never fight. Bet if Floyd defended his belt against Lara instead of unifying titles against Canelo yawl would have been spitting the same garbage, you'd only replace Lara's name with Canelo, otherwise everything else would be the same bs.

Fought Zab coming from a loss? Lmao! You dum mother****er you don't know **** do you? Floyd and Zab agreed to fight when Zab was still undisputed champ, Zab had to defend his titles against Baldomir though, so they agreed to fight after Zab-Baldomir, but Zab unexpectedly lost to Baldomir, so Floyd fought Zab anyway since they already had an agreement, and then went and got a shutout against the man who beat the man, Baldomir. He beat Zab and went after the guy who beat Zab, all the while, as he'd been doing for YEARS, calling out Shane Mosley and Oscar Dela Hoya.

All these mother****ers ducked Floyd. Floyd moved up to welterweight coz all the champs at 140 were ducking him, including Costa Tszyu, and he said after beating Henry Brusseles, in the post fight interview, that he was calling out all the top dogs from 154 downwards, anytime anywhere, and that includes Cotto, Mosley, Tszyu, and Oscar, and all he got in return was crickets from Tszyu, Cotto's team said he wasn't ready, Mosley said he had a tooth ache, and Oscar said low risk no reward.

Newsflash dum ass, Pretty Boy Floyd was the one being ducked, not the other way around. That includes Prince Naseem and Casemoyar, Floyd called them out after destroying Corrales in the post match interview, guess what Larry Merchant said? "There's no way those guys gonna fight you after what they just saw today?"

Floyd never got a response from those fools.

YAWL are just dum sheep, have no idea whatchu talking bout. Get some facts son.

[Sledgeweather17]

Yea, Berto and Maidana over Khan makes "business" sense.

Maidana was the wba champion and had just come out of his best victory against Broner to win the title.

Belts are a huge selling point there's no getting away from that. Unification titles are in even bigger selling point, and add the back story of Maidana beating Floyd's 'lil bro' broner and the 'revenge' for lil bro theme and you got the makings of a huge sell.

What had Khan done to earn the mayweather fight compared to that? What did he bring to the table?

Lets not forget that Khan lost three of the four polls that were out and the one that he did win was only coz he rallied his twitter fans to vote for him.

Get facts son, you're slipping.

[Sledgeweather17]

And Margarito

Khan and Margarito LMAO

Mentioning Khan is reaching badly, and quite ridiculous..... and that orphan Margarito now has so many daddy's he can't keep count.

Margarito would have been another Baldomir, easy work.

He was a C-level fighter with a great chin.

Castillo was the man, and possibly Tszyu, although I think Mayweather would have handled him. Oh, and Judah..... I think Mayweather is very lucky to get that win, Zab should most likely have got the nod, even though I do admit that Mayweather won the fight. That was absurd.

But overall, all things considered...... injuries/adversity/opposition/etc..... fkn impeccable, amazing really.

Zab should have got the nod? Lmao! You must have youtubed a highlights package or something, a biased one at that, coz you obviously didn't watch the fight if you spouting that bull.

[justinussery87]

I'm glad Floyd finally said that!! He used to be a ko artist. With his hand injury he had to adjust and couldn't punch as hard. Most "boxing fans" never had a hand injury and didn't understand why he held back on his punches. I fear Verdejo will suffer the same fate because of his nagging hand injuries