Did Floyd ever take a "Risk" in his career?

[pasawayako]

Boxing legends explained it all.

Floyd fought guys under his terms/watch....

[spytactics]

The biggest risk floid has taken in his life is riding in a car without a seat belt. Everyone knows that phaggot would never man up and face a challenge without rigging all of the variables to his favor

[Bravado]

You could fight like what?? 19 years, move through 5 weight divisions and never have taken a risk at any point of your career???

Sounds extremely hyperbolic

[blowblow]

The biggest risk floid has taken in his life is riding in a car without a seat belt. Everyone knows that phaggot would never man up and face a challenge without rigging all of the variables to his favor

so true! fighting only in vegas is taking no risk.. so it was answered now.. whoever he face in the ring as long as it was in nevada it's a very very low risk to non.

[thebrownbomber_]

Let's see

Mosley said he needed a vacation 2/06 after the 2nd Vargas fight..

Floyd vs Hatton 2007 when Floyd told Larry Merchant he needed a vacation. You said his hands was hurtin'. Shane said if he beats Cotto he wants Floyd if Floyd beats Hatton. Prime Cotto beat Shane and called Floyd out but the phone was off the hook.

Mosley beat Margarito 1/09. Again says he's ready for Floyd.
Floyd came off vacation and fought Marquez 09/09. Two years later. Brian Kenny questioned Floyd about cherrypicking lightweight Marquez when Shane was the champ. Floyd gets offensive and makes excuses. Postfight Shane just went ahead and got in the ring and called Floyd out. Actual fight took place 5/2010.

So Shane actually was ready to fight Floyd a year after taking a vacation. Took one loss to Cotto regrouped and Floyd still ducked him.

It took Floyd 1.5 years to make the fight happen.

You call this "facts"? Mosley chose to move up to fight De La Hoya in 1999 rather than face mayweather lol. Also, the two were supposed to meet in 2005, but mosle needed a vacation lol. This post is riddled with bias

[thebrownbomber_]

so true! fighting only in vegas is taking no risk.. so it was answered now.. whoever he face in the ring as long as it was in nevada it's a very very low risk to non.

Besides when he went to gattis hometown and destroyed him

[blowblow]

Besides when he went to gattis hometown and destroyed him (something pacroid could never dream of doing).

really? aside from that? what? he's a homeboy after all.

[-Kev-]

Floyd was on top for over a decade. He was the best. So EVERY fighter against him was the underdog. What else do you want him to do

And they act like everyone was heavy underdogs. Floyd wasn’t that big of a favorite as his critics make it out to be. His biggest fights, he was the close favorite. Nothing like Tyson-Douglas odds. We’re talking 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, even (Corrales), underdog (Hernandez), and underdog vs DLH on fight night.

He wasn’t even all that of a favorite against JMM, a guy coming up 2 weight classes. -360 isn’t much. You can still make good money on the favorite with those odds, if you have good money to bet with.

[01samuelc]

James Prince on JRE was saying he was initially against fighting corrales, even when the network was giving him a bigger contract if he fought him

[alexguiness]

Every fighter takes and accepts risks.

Floyd just made sure that he managed every conceivable risk to achieve the biggest reward.

By setting the terms - he controlled the whole event to favour him.
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He was shrewd as hell, also very well 'advised'.

People who hate Floyd for the above need to look beyond him as an individual and look at the sport itself.

Pro boxing was never an honest, open sport EVER. Its is literally full of every type of risk a human can face - injury, humiliation, bankruptcy, exploitation, legal action, etc.

I don't like Floyd's personality at all, but in terms of his approach to the business side of boxing...he was a dark master.