With today being the day that Floyd Mayweather reports to jail for 90 days, as part of a plea bargain that he made, I thought I would be a great time to discuss his past achievements and options in the ring moving forward.
Floyd for me gets a lot of unfair criticism regarding his level of opposition and who he has and hasn’t fought over the years. Lots of anyalysts and fans say that he has fought big names at the tail end of their careers and fought guys in their prime above there normal weight class. Prime examples of this include the Oscar Dela Hoya fight and the Juan Manuel Marquez Fight.
In relation to the Dela Hoya fight, there is few that would suggest that Oscar was at the peak of his powers when he faced off against Mayweather, but if you look back over the history of that fight being made it is clear Mayweather was not at fault for this. Mayweather had been chasing Dela Hoya for years, from the time when there was a few weight classes between them in Dela Hoya’s favour , the same is very much the case for the Shane Mosley fight.
In regards to the fight with Marquez, a few things should be taken into consideration, it was Mayweather’s first fight back after ‘retirement’ as well as a chance to get one up on Manny Pacquiao. It was a fight the Mayweather won nearly every second of and if he wanted to appeared as though he could end it at any time. In Marquez last fight against Pacquiao, Stevie Wonder could see that they was only one winner on the night and that was Marquez, what fight the judges where watching I have no idea.
The third big criticism that has been labelled at Mayweather is that he has avoided fights to classic examples of this are Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito. However those in the know as this link shows http://www.boxingnews24.com/2010/12/mayweather-didnt-duck-margarito-or-cotto/ Mayweather duck neither. At the time Cotto was easily the biggest draw that Top Rank had and Mayweather wanted a guaranteed 10 million to fight Cotto and Arum only guaranteed him 7 million. Arum was willing to give May weather a guaranteed 7 million to fight Antonio Margarito. Arum was doing what all good promoters do protect their cash cow, but therefore along with his fighters take full blame for neither of those fights happening.
Now lets look forward to what’s next for mayweather he will be released around the 5th April 2012. He usually likes roughly an 8 week training camp, this means that his proposed fight date of May 5th is likely to be moved back, so how are the contenders to be in the opposing corner come fight night.
Andre Berto/Victor Ortiz
I put these two together because they are due to face off in a rematch early next month and the winner may way be the favourite to fight Mayweather next. From a pay per view sense both fights make sense people will tune into an Ortiz rematch with Mayweather because of what happened last time and Berto could be sold as an up and coming star.
Amir Khan
King Khan as the Bolton fighter calls himself was thought to be in pole position for a fight with Mayweather as he was planning on moving up in weight, but appears to have fallen away in the short term at least, following his lost to Lamont Peterson last month. Khan is still Crying over the decision and being deducted points unfairly. In my view it was a very close fight where Khan used the wrong tactics and made it a hard fight for himself, as for the points deduction they were never harsh or unfair. Khan was warned on numerous occasions to stop pushing etc and he refused, it does not matter if you agree with the ref or not you must obey his commands at all times.
Manny Pacquiao
The only other fight that makes sense at this time for Mayweather Is Pacquiao, however as Freddie Roach has already stated, Pacquiao will not be waiting for Mayweather to be released. Look for Pacquiao to face either Lamont Peterson or have a fourth fight with Marquez next.
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Floyd for me gets a lot of unfair criticism regarding his level of opposition and who he has and hasn’t fought over the years. Lots of anyalysts and fans say that he has fought big names at the tail end of their careers and fought guys in their prime above there normal weight class. Prime examples of this include the Oscar Dela Hoya fight and the Juan Manuel Marquez Fight.
In relation to the Dela Hoya fight, there is few that would suggest that Oscar was at the peak of his powers when he faced off against Mayweather, but if you look back over the history of that fight being made it is clear Mayweather was not at fault for this. Mayweather had been chasing Dela Hoya for years, from the time when there was a few weight classes between them in Dela Hoya’s favour , the same is very much the case for the Shane Mosley fight.
In regards to the fight with Marquez, a few things should be taken into consideration, it was Mayweather’s first fight back after ‘retirement’ as well as a chance to get one up on Manny Pacquiao. It was a fight the Mayweather won nearly every second of and if he wanted to appeared as though he could end it at any time. In Marquez last fight against Pacquiao, Stevie Wonder could see that they was only one winner on the night and that was Marquez, what fight the judges where watching I have no idea.
The third big criticism that has been labelled at Mayweather is that he has avoided fights to classic examples of this are Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito. However those in the know as this link shows http://www.boxingnews24.com/2010/12/mayweather-didnt-duck-margarito-or-cotto/ Mayweather duck neither. At the time Cotto was easily the biggest draw that Top Rank had and Mayweather wanted a guaranteed 10 million to fight Cotto and Arum only guaranteed him 7 million. Arum was willing to give May weather a guaranteed 7 million to fight Antonio Margarito. Arum was doing what all good promoters do protect their cash cow, but therefore along with his fighters take full blame for neither of those fights happening.
Now lets look forward to what’s next for mayweather he will be released around the 5th April 2012. He usually likes roughly an 8 week training camp, this means that his proposed fight date of May 5th is likely to be moved back, so how are the contenders to be in the opposing corner come fight night.
Andre Berto/Victor Ortiz
I put these two together because they are due to face off in a rematch early next month and the winner may way be the favourite to fight Mayweather next. From a pay per view sense both fights make sense people will tune into an Ortiz rematch with Mayweather because of what happened last time and Berto could be sold as an up and coming star.
Amir Khan
King Khan as the Bolton fighter calls himself was thought to be in pole position for a fight with Mayweather as he was planning on moving up in weight, but appears to have fallen away in the short term at least, following his lost to Lamont Peterson last month. Khan is still Crying over the decision and being deducted points unfairly. In my view it was a very close fight where Khan used the wrong tactics and made it a hard fight for himself, as for the points deduction they were never harsh or unfair. Khan was warned on numerous occasions to stop pushing etc and he refused, it does not matter if you agree with the ref or not you must obey his commands at all times.
Manny Pacquiao
The only other fight that makes sense at this time for Mayweather Is Pacquiao, however as Freddie Roach has already stated, Pacquiao will not be waiting for Mayweather to be released. Look for Pacquiao to face either Lamont Peterson or have a fourth fight with Marquez next.
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