Re: Floyd not fighting Pacquaio will bother him for the rest of his life
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ruthless rocco
But Floyd was the clean fighter who held out for fairness and an even playing field.
Manny was the dirty PED using fighter who all but admitted his cheating ways.
Floyd will have no regrets.
I think the early consensus was that since Floyd was demanding a stipulation that wasn't typical of your standard boxing match, that he was being the unreasonable party and was therefore at fault for the fight not happening. People don't care who's using what, they just want to see the fight happen.
Re: Floyd not fighting Pacquaio will bother him for the rest of his life
People believe what they want to believe, too, and most people don't care for Mayweather personally. They have their opinions and they won't be swayed by anything, even evidence that completely contradicts their stance.
I think it's silly when people say that Floyd never tried to make the fight happen, or never wanted the fight. They went through a shit load of trouble trying to get this made, they had mediators come in, promotional companies and lawyers going back and forth. Why would either party go through all that headache if they didn't want to fight?
It was a pissing match, Manny wanted a 24 day cut off date for testing, Floyd agreed to a 14 day cut off date (a time frame that would make it virtually impossible for someone to cycle on and off a performance enhancer), Manny refused and that was that.
Re: Floyd not fighting Pacquaio will bother him for the rest of his life
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Despite my comments I admire Floyd, as a boxing fan how can you not. I am more of a Manny fan, he strikes me as a little more real and in touch which I attribute to the life he had growing up. In all honesty I think this fight is still going to happen. Floyd senior made a comment that he thinks Manny has slowed enough where Floyd could easily beat him. Let's face it, both these guys have a business machine behind them and in the end neither side is going to walk away from what might be the biggest payday in boxing history. The problem is whoever wins or loses fans will be saying, well, if it happened ten years ago such and such would have happened but, and write this down, I am willing to bet Brocks left testicle the fight takes place next year and the hype will be like nothing we have seen. I'll even throw in miles right testicle and masters porn collection to show how sure I am this fight will happen.
Fair enough but if it happened 5 or 10 years ago the result would have still been the same.
Are we to believe that if it was 5 years ago floyd just stayed the same age at 37 and wouldnt be better?
Everyone seems to think because manny MIGHT have been better 5 years ago floyd just gets stuck in time and wouldnt be the same fighter whooping an undefeated hatton.
Shall we even bring up the 2 year retirement to come back and school a legend in marquez!!!
Think manny could take off 2 years and do that to marquez?!!!!
Come on!!!
You are missing something. I think Manny would win the bout. I'm just saying whatever happens people are saying it happened too late.
Re: Floyd not fighting Pacquaio will bother him for the rest of his life
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ruthless rocco
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Does not matter about the answer. The fact is they never fought and that is what people will remember.
You're right, all that matters in the end is that the fight didn't happen. Would have been the defining fight of the generation, but it didn't happen, and even if they do fight it will never have the same impact it would have back in 2008-2011.
Right or wrong, Floyd is the more powerful guy (as well as the less likeable guy), and people will say that he should have done more to make the fight happen.
But Floyd was the clean fighter who held out for fairness and an even playing field.
Manny was the dirty PED using fighter who all but admitted his cheating ways.
Floyd will have no regrets.
Floyd will pretend he has no regrets and did his best to get the fight made but he will deep down and he probably would have won the fight as well.
