Comments Thread For: Mayweather: Criticize Me, Not Gervonta Davis, For His Opposition

[MDPopescu]

I think Badou Jack is his only real success as a promoter, other than himself!

... sure... Edwards (who had 1 win in his last 5 fights) iced Jack in the first round...

[Ake-Dawg]

“Every time he has came to me,” Mayweather said, “when I say, ‘Who you wanna fight?,’ he say, ‘It doesn’t matter.’ So he don’t pick and choose. So, if y’all wanna criticize anybody, criticize me, criticize Leonard Ellerbe or criticize whoever.

Yeeeaaaaaahhhh do you wanna re-phrase that one lol So you asked him who do you wanna fight YET he doesn't get to choose lol 😂

Then why ask him lol I'm just talking sh** I know what he MEANT to say lol 😂

For the record...there is a difference between "getting to pick and choose" and actually "picking and choosing". Mayweather said "he don't pick and choose" and it appears that he, for a change, used the correct syntax.

[DuckAdonis]

So Mayweather is admitting that he is protecting Gervonta Davis ? Let the kid develop by fighting better fighters in his own weight class. He won't improve with only 3 round fights Everytime Floyd.

[Boxing Logic]

Uhhhh..........................

Lol....................


Don't blame Tank for cherry picking, cuz he don't give a **** either way. I'm the one who cherry picks for him. Tank is just good with the cherry picking that's all, so don't blame him!! He just signs off on it and agrees to it and ****, but that's it!!

Lol..........................

[jas]

Lol

Gervonta said he didn't like that Floyd wanted him to fight Loma and he didn't.

So this is bs

[Boxing Logic]

Whatever - They do what's best for them and try to make easy money.

Issue is WBA, that is suppose to ensure fair competition in the sport and legimacy of world title fights, best contenders getting their shots - are just running along with Mayweather promotions to leech money.
They should be the one saying: Wait a minute, You want to be world champion - so there's responsibility here. Fight Albert Machado or give the belt up for fighters who want to compete with the best.

Another issue is Showtime, that are suppose to provide best fights for it's subscribers... and They are selling crap instead.

As for Gervonta, at least call it as it is and stop pretending that You're trying to fight good fighters.

Exactly. Very well said all around. let's also remember Tank is complaining he should be P4P #1 not Lomachenko, but when they ask Tank in private who he wants to fight, he says he doesn't care. That's supposed to be Al Haymon and Floyd's job to mentor this kid and explain to him, if you want to be P4P #1, then you need to fight the best. But their entire business model would collapse if their fighters understood that. Their entire business model seems to be built on telling fighters they are victims and keeping them within the PBC bubble pumping them up telling them they are legends and all the criticism they get for fighting poor opposition is just because of PBC haters, not because it's true.

I do feel like more boxing fans are waking up to the bull**** though. Boxing is moving in such a positive direction lately with real fighters winning belts willing to unify and give good fair fights at the top level. The number of protected hypejobs is still significant on the PBC side, but at least now there is plenty of viable competition giving actual real top level fights to fans and not overly protecting their fighters. Hopefully the sanctioning bodies stop coddling Haymon fighters and reward the boxers willing to fight the best instead, because ultimately those are the ones who are going to deliver big fights and big sanctioning fees to the sanctioning bodies, not vice versa. Its very confusing why the WBA would want Tank to be their champ when he only fought once last year against a no name opponent and didn't generate big money for them. Maybe they're being paid under the table who knows.

But I think the best recourse is to just start ignoring boxers like Tank who are protected. Their promoters keep saying they aren't protected, the writers keep trying to justify covering Tank's career for example even though he refused to fight the best in his division Loma, but fans are wising up. Just ignore this guy, and ignore the writers articles about him or any comments or any of that ****, and just wait until he actually does something. Then, fair play to him, and everyone can pay him attention again, as would be fair to him. Im not trying to banish him to the silent treatment for eternity or anything. But if he's going to duck prime Loma like he saw his promoter do with Pacquiao, boxing has suffered enough from bull**** like that, so I highly suggest we all simply tune him out then and tell him fans aren't falling for that game anymore, and you're not going to get your shine until you fight Loma, and if you don't do it in the next 12 months or so before Loma declines, then even fighting Loma won't be enough after that point, and you will need to find another prime fighter on that level to prove yourself against and make up for ducking prime Loma, sort of the way I've been saying Canelo can only do by fighting Bivol now after how he waited for GGG to get old before fighting him. Canelo botched that opportunity, so now the only one left is possibly even more difficult, at least in terms of weight. Same could apply for Tank. There are no fighters his size coming up as good as prime Loma, so if he avoids prime Loma, how can he ever compensate for that in his career other than fighting someone nearly as Loma, but much bigger?

In any case, for now, the best option is to ignore the ducker, and his tiresome promoter.

[chrisJS]

Lol

Gervonta said he didn't like that Floyd wanted him to fight Loma and he didn't.

So this is bs

Yeah sounds like it. I don’t doubt he’s protected hell his competition proves it but his own promoter threatened him with that fight and he got really upset and wanted to fight bums instead.

Maybe they patched things up and they are both on the same page now? No tough opponents, no opponents in the same division, fight once a year etc;

[Boxing Hero]

They are both to blame

[MisanthropicNY]

Tonka Truck Davis clearly stated he wanted no parts of his Daddy Loma.

[HURTFEELINGS]

Yeah criticize floyd.....see how far that got you so far........

Manny has been saying this since his TR days up until last week, I wonder why?He wasnt criticized