Floyd Mayweather Jr. retires?

Cotto must be pissed. He has sought out PBF more than once before. He deserves a shot more than DLH the 2nd time around. I'm not even a Cotto fan.
 
Also, I wasn't aware of the offers made to Hatton, could you give us some more info?
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Just google search it. Every Boxing Media website did stories on Ray Hatton saying his Son "wasn't ready" to fight Floyd.

You know who said the same thing and turned down an offer to Fight Floyd? Shane Mosley. He said he wasn't ready, and this was before he came back down to Welterweight.

So who is "ducking" who?

At the end of the day the questions still remain - should he fight the Cotto/Margarito winner? Yes. Does he want to? No.
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At the end of the day he doesn't want to fight ANYONE.

Also, there is simply no question that Floyd has ducked Margarito. He has, period; he turned down an 8 million dollar offer to fight him, and his next fight was for that very amount.
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At the time the offer was made Tony hadn't accomplished shit to garner a fight with Floyd. All he was doing was beating the war drum. Turning down $8 million to fight a nobody, but going on to fight Judah, Baldomir (who was THE legitimate WW Champ despite his limitations), and then what people were calling a rejuvenated DLH on the heels of knocking out Mayorga is somehow a bad move? I really think most Boxing fans don't understand the term "ducking" and how it's should be used.
 
BobbyBrez said:
Were you upset with the results at Belmont yesterday? Content? Ambivalent?
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I was quite pleased to see Dutrow's horse not come through actually, though I just wished another horse was running and would have been the one to do it.
 
BobbyBrez said:
Do it = winning the 3x?
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Nah, just the race yesterday, as I've been toting this av for a few weeks and was quite confident in his winning over Big Brown yesterday had Casino Drive ran in it.
 
If this stays true and he doesn't fight the winner of Cotto/Margiritto, then he will be severlly tarnished in my opinion.
 
Tarnished why?

If Cotto wins, I can see people being disappointed. It would be an interesting matchup, but there's always going to be SOMEBODY that people want him to fight.

If it's Margarito, what's the disappointment? Margarito has been beaten by guys that are nowhere near Floyd's class and it's arguable that he even deserves a shot at the pound for pound best in the world. He'd likely have to give Cotto a rematch first anyway.
 
Tam-Tam said:
Sorry dude. I defend Mayweather these kinds of place, more than anybody, but I'm the first to admit that his act is tired and annoying. He hasn't been the same fighter for the past couple of years and I for one and not interested in these "event" style fights.
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How has he not been the same fighter? I cant think of one dissapointing performance he has turned in as of late, ecspecially his sensational knockout of Hatton, who many had been saying Floyd was ducking, and how if they ever meet Hatton would destroy him.

Why does Margarito deserve to fight Mayweather? Because he lost to Williams? Who lost to Quintana? The only standout in that division is Cotto. And he has been matchmaked beautifully.
 
Fzubek said:
How has he not been the same fighter? I cant think of one dissapointing performance he has turned in as of late, ecspecially his sensational knockout of Hatton, who many had been saying Floyd was ducking, and how if they ever meet Hatton would destroy him.

Why does Margarito deserve to fight Mayweather? Because he lost to Williams? Who lost to Quintana? The only standout in that division is Cotto. And he has been matchmaked beautifully.
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how about a welterweight champ who fights..........................WELTERWEIGHTS.

if you fight in the ww division, and want to be an all time great, you clean it out. and right now, 147 is a damn good division. cotto, margarito, williams, clottey and others are all formidable challenges. all time greats fight them all.

if you want to argue hes a great talent, no arguments here. but his competition selection is sub par. we already saw Hatton couldnt hang at 147, Collazo smacked him around. DLH is a 35 year old part time fighter. Baldomir was a 9 loss fighter, Judah was coming off a loss to a 9 loss fighter, and Sharmba mitchell was the definition of shot. not exactly murderers row. you cant live off Chico and Castillo forever.
 
brother muzone said:
how about a welterweight champ who fights..........................WELTERWEIGHTS.

if you fight in the ww division, and want to be an all time great, you clean it out. and right now, 147 is a damn good division. cotto, margarito, williams, clottey and others are all formidable challenges. all time greats fight them all.

if you want to argue hes a great talent, no arguments here. but his competition selection is sub par. we already saw Hatton couldnt hang at 147, Collazo smacked him around. DLH is a 35 year old part time fighter. Baldomir was a 9 loss fighter, Judah was coming off a loss to a 9 loss fighter, and Sharmba mitchell was the definition of shot. not exactly murderers row. you cant live off Chico and Castillo forever.
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He did look damn near perfect against Corrales. Woo. I remember the built up to the fight and many thought Chico was going to knock Mayweather dead. I even believed it at the time. lol
 
Who really think Floyd won't fight Cotto in 2009? I don't think so.
The retire story can only increase the hype behind that fight imo.
Floyd cares too much about be remembered as a great of the sport (in my eyes he's already) so I think for the right money he'll fight Cotto.
For the guys saying nobody will miss him I'd say they're not true fans of the sport because Floys is absolutely a genius in boxing.
I definitely miss him.
 
He'll be back. When he's exhausted all he can do in the media being retired, he'll want to be in the center of attention again.
 
ValeTudoShogun said:
HW forum seems to think hes on his way to the ufc.
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He'd have to fight at 155. No way. He'd be at 145 or even 135, and that's WEC territory. Maybe they could bill it as a special WEC bout to give them some publicity, but I doubt he's signing. He'd need at least a year out to train, and even then he'd be nowhere near ready for anyone decent. Look what happened to Lesnar, and wrestling was his background, a much more MMA-ready sport.
 
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