Why didn't Floyd unify more?

[Dr. Frank]

Yet he wasnt afraid of the guy who beat the ever loving piss out of Margarito...seems legit.

Actually he shit his pants at the thought of fighting Paul Williams. Clearly YDKSAB you noob.

[Dr. Frank]

Yeah you’re right it was never realistic, Floyd called him out after he beat Corrales. Hamed lost his already scheduled fight to Barrera though and then effectively retired aside from a short one fight comeback in 2002 vs Calvo.

Roy jones ducked Sven Ottke doe

[sugar ray lenrd]

100% agree, why take a fight against some interim or chase a title ignoring whether the fight/holder would make money

As is nickname says, it’s all about the money, least risk vs highest reward

Wrong! His nick name was not money yet. It is what it is he didn’t go for it. Some fighters want to earned all the belts to show they are the best no exceptions.

[sugar ray lenrd]

Floyd wanted Tszyu.

When it couldn’t materialise he went to the next highest ranked guy which at the time was Gatti.

Where is your proof that he wanted Tszyu? Gatti was already damaged goods, he was beaten by Angel Manfredy.

[sugar ray lenrd]

judah was actually the last unifed undisputed lineal champ at the time by beating spinks who had the wbc/wba/ibf belts.(wbo didn't really count at the time)

judah lost the wbc belt to baldomir and floyd moved up to beat both judah and baldomir back to back, which essentially made mayweather the undisputed champ of the division even if he didn't have all the belts.

Sorry bro, you can’t make up your rules, in order to be the undisputed champ, you must have all the belts!

[sugar ray lenrd]

i don't remember tszyu vs floyd ever close to being made, it was just both tszyu and floyd saying they both wanted the fight but nothing came out of it.

mayweather was part of the tszyu sweepstakes i believe, so were alot of other names.

floyd was with hbo at the time, so realistically the only names tszyu could have fought were hatton, vivian harris and corrales since they could fight on shotime.

I don’t think Floyd’s people didn’t want that fight , I believe Tszyu beat his uncle Roger.... Tszyu was a bad Dude!

[sugar ray lenrd]

[QUOTE=w1cked;20939025]floyd chose to move to 147 after the gatti fight, wbo champ cotto and ibf champ hatton didn't really call him out at the time

Guys a fighter doesn’t have to call you out in order for you to fight him, if there’s another guy in your weight division who has a belt as well you fight him. You don’t need someone to call you out that’s nonsense.

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[sugar ray lenrd]

[QUOTE=IronDanHamza;20939547]Margarito was the WBO Champion, correct.
But Carlos Baldomir was THE Champion. Baldomir was ranked #1 in 2006 as he was the Champion.


Don’t matter Although I don’t like MargoCheato he was much better than Baldimir

[IronDanHamza]

Where is your proof that he wanted Tszyu? Gatti was already damaged goods, he was beaten Angel Manfredy.

Floyd made it very clear that at 140 he wants Kosta Tszyu. That’s the fight he wanted.

There were even talks of the fight between the networks back then, HBO and Showtime. But a deal wasn’t to be made.

Once those talks died he moved on to Gatti who was the next highest ranked fighter at 140.

[sugar ray lenrd]

Yet he wasnt afraid of the guy who beat the ever loving piss out of Margarito...seems legit.

Don’t matter he never fought Margarito... it is what it is, he didn’t want no part of him... it’s history now. Floyd retired when the division was hotter than the Welterwgt division that we have now. We had Margarito, Mosley, Cotto,Paul Williams & Floyd. And out of no where, he retires...