Comments Thread For: Naseem Hamed Says Mayweather Was Smart Not To Fight Him

[TOBYLEE1]

Exactly. Most of them dudes wanted no parts of that work during the 'Pretty Boy' stage of Mayweather's career. Hamed included.

He had a low in his career, no big name opponents. I thought he was going to get wasted in the shuffle and never secure a named opponent. He had solid fighters in his resume but nobody spectacular.

After Castillo there was a low and then he got the Gotti fight that game him a lot of exposure

[M Bison]

Naz would have clowned him so bad it's a good thing they never fought absolutely agree with Naz on this one

[TheSurgeonMDMPH]

This thread will show the tools & trolls of the site. PBF ducked Hamed? STAN lingo

[youbeight]

wasnt hamed offered the fight at 128? and he turned it down ?

[Sledgeweather17]

Was that fight ever really on the table on the table????

I remember hearing some 128lb catchweight rumors back in the day iirc & they were both up & coming HBO guys around the same time with Hamed coming on the scene big in late 97 with the entertaining Kevin Kelley fight & Floyd with his late 98 wins over Genaro & Angel, but there never seemed to be much real talk since they were both still up & coming & in different divisions thus it had lil "superfight" value at the time.

If Hamed had beat Barrera I think its more plausible the fight could've happened in late 2001 or early 2002 before Floyd moved up, but outside of fantasy what if's I doubt either guy avoided that fight in any real way since it was never really in the pipeline or a serious consideration for HBO.

You must have not been following boxing at the time then, because no one who was following boxing missed the Floyd-Corrales fight, and everyone who watched that fight should have seen and heard Floyd call Naseem Hamed and Casemoyar out in the post fight interview. You say you heard whispers about 128 but failing to recognise that it was Floyd himself who brought up 128 in the post fight interview of the Corrales beatdown. Floyd clearly said he would either move up to 135 for Casemoyar or fight Naseem at 128lbs. But both fools ducked not unexpectedly and even Larry Merchant predicted that they would duck.

Yet people nowadays try to rewrite history and pretend Floyd is the one who ducked all those guys whereas everyone who isn't biased knows it was the other way around, and that includes Prime Mosley and Dela Hoya too.

[twosweethooks]

Mayweathers legacy will always include he was an ace cherrypicker and an ace avoider of big prime fights

[Eff Pandas]

You must have not been following boxing at the time then, because no one who was following boxing missed the Floyd-Corrales fight, and everyone who watched that fight should have seen and heard Floyd call Naseem Hamed and Casemoyar out in the post fight interview. You say you heard whispers about 128 but failing to recognise that it was Floyd himself who brought up 128 in the post fight interview of the Corrales beatdown. Floyd clearly said he would either move up to 135 for Casemoyar or fight Naseem at 128lbs. But both fools ducked not unexpectedly and even Larry Merchant predicted that they would duck.

Yet people nowadays try to rewrite history and pretend Floyd is the one who ducked all those guys whereas everyone who isn't biased knows it was the other way around, and that includes Prime Mosley and Dela Hoya too.

No clue wtf this rant is about. Again I said I don't think this fight was on the table legitly & a call out is hardly the fight being on the table legitly.

Also respect for knowing what got said in a post fight interview a decade & a half ago as I generally disregard that stuff before Sunday morning.

I also said I didn't think either guy ducked that fight so I really don't understand the rant about guys saying Floyd is ducking guys being directed at me.

[deathofaclown]

Hamed was half joking, that's his humour. He's on record as saying he feels Floyd could go down as the best fighter that ever lived, so that's how highly he rates Floyd.

Anyway Hamed was a very, very good fighter with great power but Mayweather would have been a stylistic nightmare for Hamed and he would have made Hamed look a bit foolish if they had fought.

The interview i was talking about..

[Johnwoo8686]

I agree with hamed. Floyd would have took an L


Key words:when I got to a certain point in my career= when I see fall off and I can cherry pick you into fighting me at a higher weight
Cause I carefully match make. .

Let's be real, you weren't even watching boxing at the time, let alone did you even know who Hamed was.

[Oluminati]

Pretty Boy Floyd was ducked until he became Money May, then everybody wanted that lottery ticket