Even if Cotto worked Pacquiao, triangle theory doesn’t work in boxing. You can’t say Fighter C>Fighter A & B, just because Fighter A beat Fighter B, but lost to Fighter C.
Styles make fights. So you’ll still have people saying “Well, Manny has the Speed and the Power to give Floyd problems”. Even if he does lose to Cotto.
Fact of the matter is, there isn’t enough of Floyd to go around, to possibly appease every boxing fan there is. Every fighter he’s fought previously was supposed to be the guy to give him his first loss.
And even then like the guy above me said, you’ll have people saying" Well Floyd beat Cotto, but he’s ducking Margarito. Oh he beat Margarito, but what about Paul Williams"… Etc, etc…
He’s not going to fight every guy there is just to appease people that want to see him lose
on a side note, is it me? or do you think this whole floyd/shane deboggle was actually planned to create drama to plan the next big fight? pretty smart if u ask me. everybody wanna see floyd and shane fight now, u noe its gonna create that revenue.
Mayweather fights are usually a snore, from the beggining of the fight. Marquez didnt look comfortable at all. Even in sparring and training he looked nowhere near his usual self. Floyd is now a full-fledged welterweight and been fighting there or above from 4 years ago. Marquez was fighting at 126 3 years ago and only had 2 fights at lightweight, one where he struggled with Diaz. He jumped from 135 and looked slower, sluggish and had absolutely no power at that weight. The benefit of the doubt will be afforded him this time in that he’s been out of the ring sice Dec 2007 but he needs to fight a Mosley/Cotto/Williams or Pacquiao next in order to put a halt to the somewhat credible argument that, despite his obvious and overwhelming talent, he lacks the courage to fight elite fighters in their natural and best weight class.
After watching last night’s event, I’ll have to say that Pac is probably too small. Floyd is too damn vicious as a WW. I think that Sugar Shane would be the better fight. He’s fast enough, and he’s certainly big enough.
Floyd is a damn brilliant fighter, though. I hate his style with a passion, but it works, and it works… perfectly.
Come on weight does factor in a bit. Marquez has never fought above 135. He had to move two weight class, that’s probably why he seem so slow/sluggish with the extra weight. Mayweather probably packed in an extra 5-7lbs after the weigh in…Mayweahter just seem so much bigger & comfortable w/ his weight that he’s accustom to. He really didn’t need this as advantage as i think he would have won regardless. Still i dont think he would have been so dominate.
As when i say it was boring fight, it was boring. Come on two counter punch fighter waiting for someone to do a move is boring as hell.
marquez didn’t look any slower than hatton, judah or DLH so i don’t see how weight was the issue. if he was pounding the body to no effect, getting leaned on, etc… i’d see the point but as it stands he couldn’t catch mayweather the whole night.
rolls eyes
just like he didn’t have the “courage” to give gatti a shot? how’d that work out? or judah…or baldomir?
…oh that’s right then he fought DLH and hatton. as someone else said, there’s not enough to go around the only way people would be happy if he somehow cloned himself and then fought everybody up to 160.
thinking about it though, mayweather might just fight mosley bcuz of how much he dislikes arum. that’s one of the reasons he fought baldomir over margarito, granted the money was the same for those 2 fights.
It was more of a teasing. Mayweather hit Marquez a couple of times and then goes in circle and watches Marquez slow ass try and catch him. Repeat that for 12 rounds.
lol yeah pretty much. the best is cory spinks, i can’t think of a shittier fighter that people think is good. the image of him literally running away from jermaine taylor is burned in my mind.
He fought an old gatti…i dont count judah, since judah is pure trash. How come he didnt fight Mayorga a couple of years ago, or forrest? cause he was scared. There’s also a good reason why he didnt fight DLH again, its because DLH figured out his dumb ass shoulder shit, he was catching floyd with punches, just ended in a split decision, an old dlh btw.Mayweather gets next to no credit for beating Marquez other than the fact he looked quick, sharp and seems to have suffered no ill-effects of having been out of the ring for 21 months.Marquez’s limit of effectiveness is 135lbs, possibly 140lbs at a push.Mayweather knew exactly what he was doing in first picking someone with a slower fight tempo in Marquez as his comeback opponent. And second, deliberately forfeiting 600K by weighing in 2 pounds over the 144lbs limit.
I ordered the fight. I thought the undercard was very entertaining. I though the Floyd fight was very entertaining also. I was rooting for Juan but shit Mayweather is just too fast. Many might have a shot. I would love to see Sugar Shane go at it with him too. I don’t think floyd would want to fight him, though.
I’m going to the Chris Arreola vs Vitali Klitchko fight on saturday! I can’t wait. It’s going to be awesome.