MAYWEATHER CONTINUES TO RAMBLE ABOUT MMA AND CHUCK LIDELL

**SalTheButcher** · 04-10-2007 02:37 AM

http://www.mmanews.com/ufc/Mayweathe...k-Liddell.html

The following is an excerpt from an interview with Floyd Mayweather Jr. from DogHouseBoxing.com:

FLOYD MAYWEATHER: This fight is good for fighting. It’s not like the sport is going anywhere. Like I said before man, to be honest, you know, you’re going to see but a fad (UFC.) Anybody, like I said before, anybody could put a little tattoo on their head, put a little tattoo on the arm, plus the piercing and go out there and street fight. These fighters �" if they feel Chuck Ladell (ph) is so good, if Chuck Ladell (ph) weighed 207 pounds, I don’t know how much Chuck Ladell (ph) weighs, like I said before, if Chuck Ladell (ph), I think he weighs like 220 or something We should take Chuck Ladell (ph) and this is me, and we ain’t got to take the best heavyweight, we just need to take a good heavyweight and let Chuck Ladell (ph) fight a good heavyweight under Mayweather Promotions. And if Chuck Ladell (ph) beats him, I’ll give him $1 million out of my own pocket. And actually you’re going to see �" like I said, that stuff is nothing but a fad. Because most of them guys, they couldn’t make it in boxing, so they had to turn to something else. So they dig all of this different type of fighting come up.

If you’re real, we’re like layers (ph) from the past, we go from the shoulders. Why do you think the sport of boxing been here for hundreds and hundreds of years, and they try to do �" they try to get anything �" they try to do anything they can to, you know, to try to knock our sport. Boxing is the best sport in the world. Boxing is here to stay. And boxing is blood, sweat and tears.

mayweather is a douche...

also, im pretty sure that that greco roman shit (which is pretty much what mma is) was around longer then boxing

**Taeth** · 04-10-2007 02:56 AM

I don't see how this proves he is a douche. MMA sucks

. But seriously its stand up sucks. I would much rather watch K-1 or Boxing. Also I've heard boxing has been around 5000 years which is way before any other current martial art.

**Hairdoo** · 04-10-2007 03:12 AM

'Chalk and Cheese'

Dana White offered Floyd 2 million to fight a MMA match. PBF is just chasing more hype.

**Olympian904** · 04-10-2007 03:14 AM

A douche??lol...Greco Roman is wrestling...and up until a few years ago...UFC hadnt been very profitable.

**Bx730NY** · 04-10-2007 04:25 AM

He doesn't understand real men who are real fighters so of course he's goint to bash them.

**TheBESTP4P** · 04-10-2007 04:42 AM

i honestly think this is just hype to promote himself/cinco de mayo

**TheBESTP4P** · 04-10-2007 04:44 AM

on a similiar note i recall SSM on carson daily(now talk about douche now huh) and SSM was saying he was sparring and just messing around with 2 UFC cats i wanna say it was tito ortiz i believe and someone else. but who ever the other guy was did something to SSM wrist that almost broke it so SSM said he'd never F with them again? this is what i saw with my own eyes. but then again thats what i get for watching carson daily to begin with right guys? ahahaha

**DaxxKahn** · 04-10-2007 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by Taeth

I don't see how this proves he is a douche. MMA sucks

. But seriously its stand up sucks. I would much rather watch K-1 or Boxing. Also I've heard boxing has been around 5000 years which is way before any other current martial art.

Martial art's was around for thousands of years before even the Ming Dynasty.....Soldiers for the Emporer's were taught martial art's as a staple of hand to hand combat....I could not even begin to think how long Shaolin Kung Fu has been in existance

**Beanflicker** · 04-10-2007 01:59 PM

Who cares whats been around longer. The fact is that MMA, as a legitamite sport/spectacle, has only been around for 14 years in North America, and has only been popular for the last 2 or 3. Boxing has survived hundreds of years. It's survived the great depression and other huge blows to the economy. MMA is a great, seperate sport, but it doesn't have the history that boxing has and as of yet has not proved that it has the longevity that boxing has. So for Mayweather to call it a fad...that's understandable. FOr him to say "MMA fighters are people who couldn't make it in boxing"... well I personally don't agree with this fully, but in a lot of cases thats true. You can still make, on average, a lot more money in boxing than you can in MMA.

The average MMA fan DOES NOT understand the art of MMA like the average boxing fan understands the art of boxing. I've been an MMA fan a lot longer than I've been a boxing fan, and after posting on MMA boards for the past 6 years I've seen this. Not saying that MMA fans are all stupid, not at all, I'm just saying on average the boxing fan is more educated about his sport than the MMA fan, and thats a fact.

MMA is still a spectacle IMO. It is geared towards showcasing as much violence as humanly possible. Don't believe me? Look at the rules. If the fighters are on the ground and there is not enough violence or blood, the ref will stand it up and move them out of that position. When was the last time you watched a boxing match and the ref told them "there's not enough action, I'm going to restart you guys in the corner". Guys will get their pay reduced (or at least used to, under Pride rules) if there wasn't enough "action". Sure, that makes it more exciting for the fans, but at the same time if your sport is only concerned with providing as much ACTION as possible, you're just cheapening the sport and attracting people that don't understand the fight game, but just want to get drunk and see someone get their head kicked in.

Sorry for ranting, just throwing a few thoughts out there.

**TheBESTP4P** · 04-10-2007 07:12 PM

Originally Posted by DaxxKahn

Originally Posted by Taeth

I don't see how this proves he is a douche. MMA sucks

. But seriously its stand up sucks. I would much rather watch K-1 or Boxing. Also I've heard boxing has been around 5000 years which is way before any other current martial art.

Martial art's was around for thousands of years before even the Ming Dynasty.....Soldiers for the Emporer's were taught martial art's as a staple of hand to hand combat....I could not even begin to think how long Shaolin Kung Fu has been in existance

CC DAXXXXXXX its good to see not everyone is completely ignorant in the historical sense up on here. but it is all about us ASIATIC cats most of the western civilization still bites our shiiiiiiit son!

**Punisher136** · 04-11-2007 08:04 AM

I'm glad a boxer finally stood up and says mma is garbage and a fad because quite frankly it is. Anyone can win an mma match because all the fighters are technically sloppy. "Oh but they have to have a different blocking stance to defend against takedowns and joe rogans favorite: leg kicks" bs you side step away from a guy thats trying to take you down and punch them right in the face, their horrible blocking results in them getting ktfo and ding ding ding the boxer wins.

Mma fights are just pussified street fights (and dont tell me mma simulates real fighting because the number one tool in my arsenal is a pre-emptive headbutt). You either wanna see a street fight or a legit sport not a deformed hybrid. Lex Luther made the comments in response that he did because he still has sand in his vagina over being too much of a wimp to become a pro boxer.

**Hairdoo** · 04-11-2007 09:22 AM