Comments Thread For: Floyd Mayweather Jr: No Comeback For Me - I'm an Old Man!

[KLockard23]

If you actually think that any professional boxer puts his life on the line for anything other than money, you are by far the dumbest fan on the planet.

99.9% of fighters are motivated by both legacy and money. Ironically, I'd put Floyd in the same category despite his nickname. No man who loses his cool and temperament so easily over feeling people aren't giving him "his due" is someone who doesn't care about legacy.

[champion4ever]

If you actually think that any professional boxer puts his life on the line for anything other than money, you are by far the dumbest fan on the planet.

Well maybe someone must have forgot to give Floyd Mayweather that memo because he hardly ever took any serious risks in the ring for fear of getting beat up. Unless of course he was challenging an over matched opponent like Arturo Gatti. That's why he ducked Manny Pacquiao for six years because he was afraid of putting his life on the line even after being offered a career payday at the time.. Not only that when he did finally decided to face a much diminished past his prime Pac;, He yet still refused to trade and exchange punches with him in the center of the ring. Even after his father exhorted him to do so by letting his hands go but he was too afraid of getting hurt and KO by Manny. His own father accused him of fighting scared for crying out loud. Instead, he simply chose to hug and run all night, while earning $300 mil in the process in order to do so and yet that was not enough incentive for him to put his life on the line by trading toe to to with a man with five losses and had been KO recently by JMM? So how do you explain that? After that Pac performance a disappointed Floyd Mayweather, Sr. had confirmed that yes, perhaps it would be best for son to retire because of his reluctance to take chances in the ring.

[ironfriend]

Good show champ. 49-0, you faced and defeated more champions than any fighter ever and you made more money than any fighter ever and went out on top! It does not get better than that! TBE. The hard facts are hard for the haters to hear, you left them hurting and they are still hurting. They will never get to see you lose. They hate your style because you embarrass the brawlers with the boxing brain and the speed of hand and foot. They hate the businessman who scrapped Arum's 'slave contract', beat DelaHoya and took the ppv model above and beyond where it ever will be again. PPV is officially retired now that you're gone. Then there are the racists who hate you like they hate Ward, Wilder, Cam, Barry, Serena, Tiger, Simone Biles, and on and on. The racists don't know it yet but your flamboyant success have inspired a whole generation of young black athletes to choose boxing as opposed to football or basketball. The trend fortells a new boxing heyday. The evidence is Easter, Commey, Spence, Crawford, Lubin, Davis, Williams and the current crop of olympians. All of whom esteem you highly and embrace your technically balanced approach to the sweet science. They are your legacy champ, they will surely build on what you have begun and insure that the race haters will have huge targets to toss at.

[Kigali]

Good show champ. 49-0, you faced and defeated more champions than any fighter ever and you made more money than any fighter ever and went out on top! It does not get better than that! TBE. The hard facts are hard for the haters to hear, you left them hurting and they are still hurting. They will never get to see you lose. They hate your style because you embarrass the brawlers with the boxing brain and the speed of hand and foot. They hate the businessman who scrapped Arum's 'slave contract', beat DelaHoya and took the ppv model above and beyond where it ever will be again. PPV is officially retired now that you're gone. Then there are the racists who hate you like they hate Ward, Wilder, Cam, Barry, Serena, Tiger, Simone Biles, and on and on. The racists don't know it yet but your flamboyant success have inspired a whole generation of young black athletes to choose boxing as opposed to football or basketball. The trend fortells a new boxing heyday. The evidence is Easter, Commey, Spence, Lubin, Davis, Williams and the current crop of olympians. All of whom esteem you highly and embrace your technically balanced approach to the sweet science. They are your legacy champ, they will surely build on what you have begun and insure that the race haters will have huge targets to toss at.

Truth be told....

[Doctor_Tenma]

I thought we knew. He doesn't fight for legacy, honor or boxing fans. He fights for money and unless, that well runs dry or his cash flow gets low; No we shouldn't expect him back in the ring anytime soon.

After all, he is a boxer and not a fighter. Remember, a boxer is ruled by his brains, He is wise and of the safety first variety who doesn't want to risk getting hit or hurt in the ring no more than he has to. but a fighter is the total opposite.

He is ruled by his balls. He possesses a true warrior's spirit and is willing to lay it all on the line and is prepared to pay any sacrifice in order to achieve personal honor, glory and dignity in the ring at whatever cost to his health. For these individuals money is the very least and last of their concerns.

Unfortunately, Money May isn't cut from that same cloth. I am not knocking him. I am just stating it as it is for what it is. That's the reason why he doesn't want to fight anymore because he doesn't like getting hit. Right now his main concern is his health, well-being and quality of life after boxing.

Only someone who hasn't really followed his career would say something this ******. If he had no warrior's spirit he wouldn't have beaten the crap out pf Corley after being seriously hurt, all in the same round. He wouldn't have walked Mosley down in the second round, fought with two messed up hands against Hernandez. He wouldn't have pressed forward after Pacquiao stunned him in both rounds 4 and 6.

This is why people suck at making predictions, don't even know what they're watching.

[My Low Place]

He will be back when he goes broke again to ****** to keep up with finances

if u gotta be that negative..dont ever reply to my comments again..this dude is doing nothing wrong in boxing right now like some others, and u come up with this ****??

[PAC-BOY]

Oh yeah don't forget your boy got put to sleep by the fighter Floyd played with for 12 rounds, lol. It was very exciting when he hit the canvas face first. At least Floyds boring style kept him from getting KTFO during his career.

You must be a pain freak. Floyd fights a guy that moved up 3 division in two fights to face Floyd whos been at WW for years. JMM Never a WW. Never a LWW. lol Fought 135 once. 130 twice but 126 for years. Again youre too ****** to see the logic.

You only ride Floyd clit because hes undefeated. Ignorant mother***ers like yourself see that as it must mean hes the best because he never lost. ******s usually have problems looking and thinking outside the box. So its apparent that youre just a Floyd cum slurper. Can you make any valid points without looking like a dumb shlt? :AOR:

[Young J]

all you Floyd azz crack lickers cant except that he fought hurt for 12 rounds. You too ****** to know he can still move just not as good. Hence the reason he threw less in the fight than he has done his entire career. lol So did Floyd. He too had a record breaking of lowest landed and thrown punches. If you are too ****** to understand and see the logic i understand. I mean you are a Floyd Mayweather fan btw. Which puts you in the category of ignorant already.

I think the honor of the least punches thrown and landed goes to Tyson Fury.

[champion4ever]

Only someone who hasn't really followed his career would say something this ******. If he had no warrior's spirit he wouldn't have beaten the crap out pf Corley after being seriously hurt, all in the same round. He wouldn't have walked Mosley down in the second round, fought with two messed up hands against Hernandez. He wouldn't have pressed forward after Pacquiao stunned him in both rounds 4 and 6.

This is why people suck at making predictions, don't even know what they're watching.

I'm willing to give the kid his due. Yes earlier in his career, he did opened up more offensively and took many more risks in the ring as you've stated in your post. In addition, he had a hunger, drive and determination that was unmatched by many. Moreover, he was willing to take on all comers; For example of his calling out of Prince Naseem Hamed, Sugar Shane Mosley and even Oscar De La Hoya. I am willing to concede those points to you.

While all that is true. However, one has to admit since 2006, Money Mayweather has been carefully cherry picking his opponents, while taking the path to least resistance in doing so.

For example, by 2007 the welterweight division was stacked with talent which included undefeated fighters like: Paul Williams, Miguel Cotto and even Antonio Margarito which he clearly ducked after being offered $8 mil to fight but chose to fight Carlos Baldomir instead; While running, dancing and prancing his way to victory for less money.

Yes, he ducked all of them by stating in his post fight Ricky Hatton interview with Larry Merchant, in December of that year. That he was taking a hiatus from boxing to concentrate on promoting fighters and not letting the sport of boxing retire him but instead retiring from boxing.

However in the following year of 2008, he was in secret negotiations to fight Oscar De La Hoya in a rematch. Subsequently those talks fell through and then he announced his retirement, just to come back some 21 months later to challenge a much smaller and over matched JMM in September of 2009; A former Featherweight.

This is what many boxing fans mean when they say that Floyd lacked honor, pride, glory, and self-respect and someone who didn't fight for legacy or fans. There were all these good and undefeated fighters in his own weight division but yet he chose to duck all of them in order to face a much smaller man.

Then there's the Canelo Alvarez fiasco, where he forced him into a catch weight before fighting him at the 154lb division because he perceived him as a threat; Something he didn't do against Miguel Cotto, where there was no catch weight. Boxers who cares about legacy, honor, pride and boxing fans don't do things like that.

[deathofaclown]

Well, if he's retired then good for him.

I was never a big fan as such but love him or hate him... he was the best of his time and that's all you can be in boxing.

This was his era and it will always be remembered that way. The man is retired and look how many threads are still made on him every day on this website. When you're still getting love and hate and people can't stop talking about you either way when you're not active, then you have made it and done something right.

Other fighters from his generation will be held in high regard such as Pacquiao, De La Hoya, Hopkins etc.. but the name Mayweather will stand alone when people look back and that's the truth.