Thread: PBF's next fight

Who do you think Floyd should fight next? For what could be the last fight of his career?

Fingers crossed for ODLH @ 147!

I'm going with Cory Spinks for the following reason's

1) I honestly don't think ODLH with fight him.

2) Spinks doesn't have much power for the 154 weight class.

3) It would be a 5th weight class for him to get a title in.

If you look in terms of what he calls "legacy" you notice it's not so much the people he's fighting,
but the fact that he's trying to get titles in as many divisions as possible.

Originally Posted by dasamm

Fingers crossed for ODLH @ 147!

Can ODLH make 147 now??

Originally Posted by killersheep

I'm going with Cory Spinks for the following reason's

1) I honestly don't think ODLH with fight him.

2) Spinks doesn't have much power for the 154 weight class.

3) It would be a 5th weight class for him to get a title in.

If you look in terms of what he calls "legacy" you notice it's not so much the people he's fighting,
but the fact that he's trying to get titles in as many divisions as possible.

Spinks lost to judah however, and it would perpetuate the whole "Floyd has never fought any greats" mentality that a lot of his detractors have. I like #3 though and didn't think of that.

Originally Posted by boozeboxer

Originally Posted by dasamm

Fingers crossed for ODLH @ 147!

Can ODLH make 147 now??

That's a good question...he fought mayorga at 154 right? Even if it was at 154 I bet pbf would still be weighing closer to 147..which would make it all the worse for oscar at a heavier weight because the speed factor would be even greater.

I hope its ODLH who fights Floyd because he is the best challenge I see out there, and second I would want to see Floyd vs. Mosley.

Originally Posted by killersheep

I'm going with Cory Spinks for the following reason's

1) I honestly don't think ODLH with fight him.

2) Spinks doesn't have much power for the 154 weight class.

3) It would be a 5th weight class for him to get a title in.

If you look in terms of what he calls "legacy" you notice it's not so much the people he's fighting,
but the fact that he's trying to get titles in as many divisions as possible.

I agree 100% I think he is going after the 5th title, it is something no one has ever done before reaching 30 years old so it gives him a some what dubious claim to being the greatest ever :P and some great bargaining power with Oscar

id say hatton and spinks are the weakest ,....so its got to be one of them.

hatton,.... acid test was collazo. hatton wouldnt have lasted 30 seconds longer than the final bell.... he was out on his feet.

spinks,..... no power as somebody else said earlier,... and his running match away from roman k . just to survive was pitiful.

i bet pbf goes for another 5/1 fighter.

sugar shane mosley at 154 would be very intresting.......i would like to see it


happy 600th post on floyd

Is this poll like realistically who we think he will fight or who we want to see him fight?

Of course we all want to see him take on ODLH. More realistically, he will go with Spinks because he can win yet another title in another weight class with minimal effort compared to if he were gonna call out Wright, Mosley, DLH, or Margarito. Personally I want to see him go out kicking ass on a really good opponent that presents a big challenge to him. If its really his last fight, im sure deep down he wants that too.

Originally Posted by boozeboxer

Originally Posted by dasamm

Fingers crossed for ODLH @ 147!

Can ODLH make 147 now??

I don't think he'd be willing to. I'm also not sure why that option's there, but there's no Shane 147 option, given that Shane has said repeatedly that he's coming back down to 147 and not sticking around for another fight at 154.

Originally Posted by shza

Originally Posted by boozeboxer

Originally Posted by dasamm

Fingers crossed for ODLH @ 147!

Can ODLH make 147 now??

I don't think he'd be willing to. I'm also not sure why that option's there, but there's no Shane 147 option, given that Shane has said repeatedly that he's coming back down to 147 and not sticking around for another fight at 154.

thats why i didnt vote next year Mosley will remind everyone that he is the best Welterweight on the planet

Well first off I don't take a "retirement" seriously in boxing.
But assuming he is serious, I'd like to see him fight Mosley for his last fight.
I think Shane's speed would give him the most trouble of any fighter listed there.
And that's the meal ticket if you want any chance against him.
Although the Oscar fight will bring in that fat fat paycheck, Floyd beating Shane in his last fight would answer more questions to me personally.
And then he'll come out of "retirement" for that big comeback fight against Oscar! Pretty clever marketing to sell himself after a less than fan pleasing destruction of Baldomir!

As for Hatton? Out of the question now. Floyd should've wiped him out a long time ago when the prospect of that fight was still juicy.

Originally Posted by meowza

Well first off I don't take a "retirement" seriously in boxing.
But assuming he is serious, I'd like to see him fight Mosley for his last fight.
I think Shane's speed would give him the most trouble of any fighter listed there.
And that's the meal ticket if you want any chance against him.
Although the Oscar fight will bring in that fat fat paycheck, Floyd beating Shane in his last fight would answer more questions to me personally.
And then he'll come out of "retirement" for that big comeback fight against Oscar! Pretty clever marketing to sell himself after a less than fan pleasing destruction of Baldomir!

As for Hatton? Out of the question now. Floyd should've wiped him out a long time ago when the prospect of that fight was still juicy.

CC, my thoughts exactly. I think Mosely is the only real challenge from 154 on down right now. But I don't think he's got it in him any more at his age (in real and ring years)--he looked great in the second Vargas fight, but Vargas looked worse than Baldomir in that fight. In the first Vargas fight, I thought Shane looked good but by no means as good as he used to look, and I thought he looked downright mediocre in his previous fight (against Cruz, maybe?). (This will of course be the PBF haters' refrain if the fight happens and PBF wins.) Still a better fight than anything else out there though.

Originally Posted by dasamm

Fingers crossed for ODLH @ 147!

that's what I Voted for....It would be huge!!!!!