Thread: So why is Floyd allowed to hand pick his opponents? Fair..?

Someone tell me why when all other title holders have to face their mandatory challenges etc.

Is this right or wrong that he can do this ?

who was his mandatory?

Originally Posted by smashup

Someone tell me why when all other title holders have to face their mandatory challenges etc.

Is this right or wrong that he can do this ?

Money! Floyd doesn't give a shit about titles and has no problem vacating them. However the organisations do because they want a cut of the money he attracts.

What's wrong with his opposition? He's fighting champions nearly every time out.

He went up in weight and fought the undisputed champ of the division, who is young and has about 20lbs on him. And he dominated him. If you're hand-picking younger, bigger champions, what's the problem with hand picking opponents?

Any fighter is "allowed" to, its just very few have the luxury of making money at the same time. Like SilkeyJoe said, the alphabet bodies wouldn't dream of stripping him when he is the highest earner in the sport, anyone he fights will guarantee more money for them than they'd get with anyone else holding their belt. What are some cases of mandatory challengers that he wouldn't fight anyways

"So why is Floyd allowed to hand pick his opponents? Fair..?"

That's like asking why HUMANS are allowed to be OMNIVORES and is it FAIR?

I've always considered a guy who did nothing but face mandatories was already hand picking his opponents.

finally, we have a fighter who is so well known, so talented and so dominating that he is bigger than, and has more credibility that the 'Alphabet Boys' who have presided over the division and decline of our great sport.

The general public know that Mayweather is 'the man', no matter what the crooked, grasping and venal so-called governing bodies say.

Brilliant and long may it continue.

Floyd has fought the best fighters around, with one notable exception. Free market economies state he can only continue to pick fights that the public will pay to see. The public are not stupid, so they will only pay for him to fight top class fighters.

This is how boxing used to be!

This is a retard thread!

He fights tough guys every time.

Funny that Canelo was "the best he could face" before the fight but now because he cake walked past Canelo it's "hand picked".

I haven't stated Canelo was the best out there because he isn't.
And Floyd chose to fight him, you miss the point and dont understand how boxing works do you?
Its a business first and a sport 2nd.
Bar Manny Pac , Canelo would have made him a bigger slice of the global ppv than anyone else. He's a mega star in Mexico.

We miss the point because there isn't one.

Really ANYBODY is allowed to hand pick opponents. There's nobody that holds a gun to your head telling you you have to fight someone (maybe thats the way it worked back when the mob controlled boxing though). Everyone has the right to say "yes" or "no" to a fight. If you're a champ and you refuse to fight your mandatory, you just drop the belt, which is nothing because belts mean nothing in this sport anymore.

It isn't a gun held at head situation, but it is handpicked and therefore bound to be criticised. Mayweather has picked and picked and waited or else timed his opponents at 140 and above. It is smaller men moving up, or unknown men, or men with almost double digit losses, or else as last weekend, a bigger man with a flimsy record who hasn't proven shit.

Mayweather is smoke and mirrors in terms of opposition and it isn't a crime to say as much. He is seemingly an impeccable boxer, so it is just a shame that he is so obsessed with the money and the 0, to ever put it completely on the line.

People then say, well what do you suggest? My answer to that is simple. I want to see him against someone with heart, with skills, with speed. Currently it is plodder after plodder and carefully, carefully chosen. Bradley, Pacquiao, or Golovkin at 154, are obvious fights to make.

Originally Posted by Gandalf

It isn't a gun held at head situation, but it is handpicked and therefore bound to be criticised. Mayweather has picked and picked and waited or else timed his opponents at 140 and above. It is smaller men moving up, or unknown men, or men with almost double digit losses, or else as last weekend, a bigger man with a flimsy record who hasn't proven shit.

Mayweather is smoke and mirrors in terms of opposition and it isn't a crime to say as much He is seemingly an impeccable boxer, so it is just a shame that he is so obsessed with the money and the 0, to ever put it completely on the line.

People then say, well what do you suggest? My answer to that is simple. I want to see him against someone with heart, with skills, with speed. Currently it is plodder after plodder and carefully, carefully chosen. Bradley, Pacquiao, or Golovkin at 154, are obvious fights to make.

Not a crime but it is pathetic.