Did Floyd "retire" in 2007 because he was shook by the 147 division heating up?

[thuggery]

Anybody else think Big Dunn may be Leonard Ellerbe's boxingscene account?

That's a serious possibility. I heard Ben Thompson, the FloydHype guy posts here. He encourages the extreme Floyd fanboys to post on FightHype forums

[check hook]

Nope. Think about it logically, if he didn't retire, best case they would have spent six months building up an ODLH rematch for Dec 2007 or most likely Cinco de Mayo in May 2008, given Sept is too close for a promotion that size. Then would come Hatton in Nov or Dec of 2008. So he only really misses out of fighting Cotto pre Margo or post Margo. Not exactly missing alot of fights is he?

[daggum]

Nope. Think about it logically, if he didn't retire, best case they would have spent six months building up an ODLH rematch for Dec 2007 or most likely Cinco de Mayo in May 2008, given Sept is too close for a promotion that size. Then would come Hatton in Nov or Dec of 2008. So he only really misses out of fighting Cotto pre Margo or post Margo. Not exactly missing alot of fights is he?

think about it logically, cotto lives too far away!

[SlySlickSmooth]

Floyd could of been higher up on the ATGs if he fought 140 Cotto and 147 Paul Williams.

[Light_Speed]

Top Rank fighters = 147lb division

[tank17211]

Did Floyd "retire" after fighting the 140 boxer Ricky Hatton because he was shook at the idea of fighting all the prime welterweight at that time?

Mosley was still very good at that time, and he called Floyd out on ESPN in 2007. There were people like Margarito, prime Cotto, Clottey (who beat the former Floyd opponent Corrales), and Paul Williams.

Did Floyd "retire" to avoid those guys?

Floyd made Hatton move up to 147 and fight in his hometown, but Floyd would never consider moving up a weight division and fighting Vernon Forrest.

I think he retired because he did not want to rematch DLH. He won by a controversial split decision. I dont think he wanted to give Oscar another shot.

Mayweather definitely ducked Margarito. Margarito was the most feared man in boxing. Mayweather did not want to take that risk. That was one of the biggest ducks in boxing history.

[Djanxx]

Seems like the pac fanboys and their alts have had an effect on this poll

[junior gong]

Seems like the pac fanboys and their alts have had an effect on this poll

looks like 9 out of 10 people dont have floyd's nuts covering their eye sockets, more like!


Dont you think its a bit early after 12 posts and having only just joined to be talking about alts? Which flojob are you?

[straightleft]

Seems like the pac fanboys and their alts have had an effect on this poll

Not all boxing fans are a fan of Pacman or Floyd. It is common knowledge to all boxing fans that he cherry picked his fights and avoided those high risk fighters. There is one thread here recently showing in video how Floyd cherry picks his fights and most of his fans admitted there it was a common knowledge to them.

[cupocity303]

lightweight is now ranked number 2 ww in the division lmao.

Yes, in hindsight you can say that now, can't you.

Didn't look good on paper in 2009 now did it? That a 5'7 Lightweight was moving up two divisions, coming off of a TKO win where little Juan Diaz hurt him and gave him some trouble.