Boxing please

[ibromurph]

I like both fighters but I wanted Floyd to win before I heard this. What he's effectively doing is paying 600k dollars to cheat and gain an unfair advantage.

It's basically a welterweight vs light-welterweight fight. Does Floyd need any more advantages? He's already the bigger man. Marquez looks a little fat at the weight already. He barely makes Lightweight let alone LWW. Floyd looks fit and ready to go. He could have easily dehydrated himself a little to make the 144lbs weight limit. But instead he'll pay the guy off to fight at a higher weightclass. What a farce. This is why boxing is losing fans and the respect it once had.

 

[SaintGeorge67]

Castillo did the same against corrales a few years back and absolutely tonked him in the second.

 

[Judge Jules]

[quote author=SaintGeorge67 link=topic=35435.msg946271#msg946271 date=1253370749]
Mayweather to win in 8 I'll say
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Agree about Mayweather but I'm thinking he may need a points win.

 

[ibromurph]

[quote author=SaintGeorge67 link=topic=35435.msg946282#msg946282 date=1253373693]
Castillo did the same against corrales a few years back and absolutely tonked him in the second.
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Yeah.. came in 3 and a half pounds over the weight limit, whilst Corrales killed himself to make weight. He went ahead with the fight away and got put away in the 4th round.

They were supposed to have a third fight aswell, but again Castillo came into the weigh-in before fight heavy (this time 4 and a half pounds over).. but this time Corrales decided not to go ahead with the fight (and rightly so) as it amounts to cheating.

 

[IGotALuvlyBunchOfCoconuts]

2 defensive styles. This fight will last all 12 and Mayweather on points.

 

[Stulikesdrums]

Is this fight on Sky this evening?

 

[SaintGeorge67]

yes

 

[FoxForceFive]

No. Tomorrow morning.

Remembered the smiley that time.

 

[ankreds]

What time is this match?

 

[livvy145]

In a minute

 

[Rosco]

Are we allowed talk about it yet ?

 

[ibromurph]

I think so.

It was a boxing clinic from Mayweather, as expected. Maybe now he'll fight someone his own size.

 

[Rosco]

Shane Mosley ?

I'm sure he'd knock him around the ring too.

 

[ibromurph]

Yeah.. I'd like to see him take on Mosley or Paul Williams. Now those would be real tests for Mayweather. Unfortunately, the don't 'sell' enough PPV for 'Money' so they're seen as high-risk low-reward fights.

 

[felly]

Was thinking if Mayweather won he would take on the winner of Cotto vs Pacquiao. Looks like Shane Mosely may off talked him-self into getting a fight now though.

 

[SaintGeorge67]

Shane Mosley is shit. I hope he goes for manny instead

 

[SaintGeorge67]

And as good as Mayweather was, the sky commentator was awful. Every sentance he was just inventing a new way to say how great Mayweather was and waiting for Jim Watt to agree with him, then repeating.

 

[Mors]

He's too fucking fast. I wish give someone a whupping though, he's more than capable of doing it. Reminds me of Lennox - In/Out/In/Out/In/out until we all fall asleep.

 

[Jürgen4PM]

I can't see anyone getting close to Mayweather unless he shows some balls and fights an opponent at their preferred weight.

 

[Jürgen4PM]

Ultimate respect to Marquez for going the distance.

 

[Judge Jules]

Absolutely. Tough as a tighthead's jockstrap.

 

[felly]

[quote author=SaintGeorge67 link=topic=35435.msg947117#msg947117 date=1253460030]
And as good as Mayweather was, the sky commentator was awful. Every sentance he was just inventing a new way to say how great Mayweather was and waiting for Jim Watt to agree with him, then repeating.
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Yeah mate, top performance by Mayweather, but i thought the sky sports fellas were going way overboard.

 

[FoxForceFive]

Mayweather's ace, like fucking smoke. I'd pay someone to pull the fuckers feet out from underneath him in the twelfth just so I could get one good smack in before the final bell. Not that I'd make it to to the twelfth, I'd be lucky to make twelve minutes.

The US commentary on my downloaded one just waxed lyrical for ages. All about stats of punches landed & how Mayweather was the greatest defence boxer of all time (a phrase used 7 times by the two commentators).

 

[SaintGeorge67]

Mayweather vs Gatti is still the best thing I've ever seen in boxing.

He should tell Mosley to fuck off as he's a no one anymore. Pacqiuao is where it's at (and Floyd will KO him, as smaller and slower people have done before).

 

[Mors]

[quote author=FoxForceFive link=topic=35435.msg947805#msg947805 date=1253564163]
Mayweather's ace, like fucking smoke. I'd pay someone to pull the fuckers feet out from underneath him in the twelfth just so I could get one good smack in before the final bell. Not that I'd make it to to the twelfth, I'd be lucky to make twelve minutes.

The US commentary on my downloaded one just waxed lyrical for ages. All about stats of punches landed & how Mayweather was the greatest defence boxer of all time (a phrase used 7 times by the two commentators).
[/quote]

Think I had the same commentry as you mate. I turned it down and watched it whilst listening to match of the day in the background lol

 

[ibromurph]

If Mayweather truly wants to be considered the best, he'd challenge himself by going UP in weight classes and fighting some of the best in the 147, 154 and 160 division.. and not just winning belts for the sake of them from paper champions such as Carlos Baldomir or a fading ODLH.

Sugar Ray Robinson first fought Jake Lamotta at a 16lbs weight disadvantage.. lost 1, won 4.

Sugar Ray Leonard went up in weights, from welterweight right through to Super Middleweight! Went up against legends like Duran, Hitman Hearns and Marvin Hagler.

Ali, well, is just Ali.. he couldn't go up in weight, but against all odds beat Liston, then the Government, then Frazier.. than of course, the killer that was Foreman.

Mayweather simply hasn't tested himself. He's taken fights at the right time against the right people, at the right weight. The only person he took any sort of risk fighting was Hatton, and we all saw how that turned out. Hatton wasn't all that he was cracked up to be (another fighter who was hiding behind an unbeaten record at the time).

Mayweather is far too much of a promoter/entertainer to be considered amongst the top echeleons of the All Time Greats.. whilst his natural talent could possibly be greater than all those listed above, his resumé certainly isn't. He's far too scared of losing his '0' to take any 'risky' fights, which is a shame because it really doesn't mean THAT much now that he's made a lot of money.

 

[Judge Jules]

Excellent summary. The ironic thing is that I reckon Mayweather would actually have a decent shot at coming through such tests. He hasn't proven it though, and I doubt he will now.

 

[SaintGeorge67]

He's moved up plenty of weight divisions

 

[Judge Jules]

Point is, though, he hasn't fought a REALLY serious threat all the way through.

 

[SaintGeorge67]

True