Leave Floyd Some Feedback!

[bradlee180]

Yeah, Floyd Mayweather's website is asking for feedback with a comments section.
Here's the link:

I want to hear some feedback |

When you post, it says "your comment is awaiting moderation", and I didn't believe my comment would be posted because of the nature of it.

It's up now though, don't know for how long.

Here it is in case it gets removed:

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Dear Floyd,

Why didn’t you ever fight Miguel Cotto, Antonio Margarito, Manny Pacquiao, Paul Williams, Andre Berto, Joshua Clottey, Cory Spinks, the late Vernon Forrest, Kostya Tszyu, Joel Casamayor, Paul Spadafora, or Stevie Johnston?


When you were 130 lb champ, Prince Naseem Hamed was 126 lb champ, yet no fight with Prince Naseem, Marco Antonio Barrera, nor Erik Morales.


Why wait till Shane Mosley was almost 40 years old and completely shot before fighting him? Why call up an old career featherweight like Marquez 17 lbs to fight?
Muhammad Ali talked the talk but he walked the walk and fought EVERYBODY! Sugar Ray Robinson destroyed plenty of Hall-of-Famers, but where are your Hall-of-Famers? Undefeated means nothing if you don’t fight the best competition. Not much risk and not much legacy either if you never fight the best prime guys.


sincerely,


the bradguy
Fight-fan

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That comment over there is not intended to be disrespectful, but I think many fight-fans wonder about these questions. I see that comment as the voice of the unsilent majority.

It's not like I can just go get on a airliner to go discuss it with him personally, is it, I'm in a different country. I didn't write it in a disrespectful manner.

They're all relevant questions if a man publicly declares that he's better than Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Robinson, yet creates so many obstacles to avoid a 5'6" Filipino.

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[DaxxKahn]

Yeah, Floyd Mayweather's website is asking for feedback with a comments section.
Here's the link:

I want to hear some feedback |

When you post, it says "your comment is awaiting moderation", and I didn't believe my comment would be posted because of the nature of it.

It's up now though, don't know for how long.

Here it is in case it gets removed:

_____________________________________

Dear Floyd,

Why didn’t you ever fight Miguel Cotto, Antonio Margarito, Manny Pacquiao, Paul Williams, Andre Berto, Joshua Clottey, Cory Spinks, the late Vernon Forrest, Kostya Tszyu, Joel Casamayor, Paul Spadafora, or Stevie Johnston?


When you were 130 lb champ, Prince Naseem Hamed was 126 lb champ, yet no fight with Prince Naseem, Marco Antonio Barrera, nor Erik Morales.


Why wait till Shane Mosley was almost 40 years old and completely shot before fighting him? Why call up an old career featherweight like Marquez 17 lbs to fight?
Muhammad Ali talked the talk but he walked the walk and fought EVERYBODY! Sugar Ray Robinson destroyed plenty of Hall-of-Famers, but where are your Hall-of-Famers? Undefeated means nothing if you don’t fight the best competition. Not much risk and not much legacy either if you never fight the best prime guys.


sincerely,


the bradguy
Fight-fan

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That comment over there is not intended to be disrespectful, but I think many fight-fans wonder about these questions. I see that comment as the voice of the unsilent majority.

It's not like I can just go get on a airliner to go discuss it with him personally, is it, I'm in a different country. I didn't write it in a disrespectful manner.

They're all relevant questions if a man publicly declares that he's better than Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Robinson, yet creates so many obstacles to avoid a 5'6" Filipino.

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Good post surprised that it made the list after moderation..

Lets see if mine does

Why all of a sudden after your so called retirement did you come back and seek a fight with Juan Manuel Marquez? Are we to believe that he was the best opponent for you? He was undersized, he had only 1 or 2 fights as a lightweight before you decided to bait him into a fight over 140lbs. It is clear you used that fight to gauge Manny Pacquaio since JMM has been his biggest challenge over the last 5 years. Paul Williams, Cotto, even Bert were available and would have signed ASAP yet you did not choose to fight the best while claiming to be the best. You made ZERO defenses of your WW title outside Hatton.. Who stupidly called you out....How do you call yourself the best when you havent beaten a prime opponent since JL Castillo or maybe even Corrales.
For all your talent in the ring and fact that you would more then likely beat all the names mentioned and whoever else out there but Pacquiao is one you navoid? You claim it is because you want to be on an even playing field but when you jump up divisions or dominate opponets it is because you are great but if another fighter does it they must be doing PEDS or something similar. Is there a valid reason Floyd or are you just trying to convince yourself?

[Kel]

Done, I doubt mine will make it in though.

Retirement again? Anything to avoid the best, hey Floyd?
You retired when the Welter division was at it’s strongest, the ‘real’ fighters all fought each other, you come back and beat an ageing (like all your opponents) lightweight, even screwed him on the scales to add insult to it all.
Well done, I hope you retire and stay there, the sport is better without you. You will be known for making money, nothing else. Count how many hall of famers your resume has compared to Barrera, Morales, De La Hoya, Trinidad, Pacman….etc
You get the picture
Regards
Kel

[:::PSL:::]

Stop building alibis Floyd, and man the fukk up. If you really wanna be recognized as greater than Ali or SRR like you claim, then fight the available MOST THREATENING OPPONENT out there ASAP!!! Now that Pac agreed to your silly demands, and you're retiring again? What kind of shiit is that? Fight Pac or otherwise you'd be forever known as the greatest COWARD who ever lived.

[paddy448]

First of all floyd i want to start off and say what a great fighter i think u are and im a big fan. Always love watching ur fights and ur skill set is one of the best i ever seen.

Theres a video of u going around saying that ur going to retire again. I hope ur just saying that to fukk with people because the whole world wants to see you fight pacman.I hope u do end up fighting him because it could be the biggest fight in history.Not just that but i strongly believe u can whoop his ass.Beating Pacman is all that is standing in the way between U and being considered one of the top 5 if not the best p4p fighter to ever lace em up. Come on Floyd please fight this dude.

ps:u broke my heart when u knocked ricky hatton out u fukker

[DaxxKahn]

Stop building alibis Floyd, and man the fukk up. If you really wanna be recognized as greater than Ali or SRR like you claim, then fight the available MOST THREATENING OPPONENT out there ASAP!!! Now that Pac agreed to your silly demands, and you're retiring again? What kind of shiit is that? Fight Pac or otherwise you'd be forever known as the greatest COWARD who ever lived.

C'Mon Mate if you are going to post there don't hold back

[Mar]

The more people go to this pricks website, watch his shows, post about every thing he does online, the more popular and richer you make this dude. He's not fighting right now, and is even thinking about taking a break (more bs to build more drama) so screw him. Everyone knows my in ring opinion of the guy is that he's the best on the planet, but i refuse to join in on the games he constantly plays on the public.....Do any of us really really belive floyd or anyone within 500 miles of the guy really gives a crap about what we think about him ?? Those were all good letters you guys wrote to him....maybe one day when he's retired we really could get the answers to some of them.

[Manju]

"Why wait till Shane Mosley was almost 40 years old and completely shot before fighting him?"

"completely shot before fighting him" is a bizaare accusation and undermines the credibility of the post. It was not uncommon to find Sugar ranked as high as #3p4p when PBF fought him. He was coming off a brutal KO of Margarito and already had a HOF calibur career.

He was also bigger than PBF, with a height and reach advantage...ie possessed the very qualites PBF had vis avis another P4Per, JMM, that undermined the credibility of his lopsided victory in the eyes of his critics. At the time of the fight SugarShane was undoubtably a better welterweight than anyone Pacman every fought in that class. And then he was destroyed.

To be fair, he was nearing 40. It is possible that his success in the later years was due to PEDs and without them PBF knew he'd transform into an old fighter. But thats not PBFs fault and it only bolsters the credibility of his demands of Pacman. PEDs are ubiquitous in sports. Its almost certain that PBF is clean and thats an extrodinary accomplishment for such a dominant athlete. I don't blame him for being suspicious of his competition.

Either way, I think you'd have to have an agenda to try to minimize PBFs destruction of a future HOFer at a time when he was still a top-5 P4Per. Thats more than anything PAC has done at welter.

[blegit]

The more people go to this pricks website, watch his shows, post about every thing he does online, the more popular and richer you make this dude. He's not fighting right now, and is even thinking about taking a break (more bs to build more drama) so screw him. Everyone knows my in ring opinion of the guy is that he's the best on the planet, but i refuse to join in on the games he constantly plays on the public.....Do any of us really really belive floyd or anyone within 500 miles of the guy really gives a crap about what we think about him ?? Those were all good letters you guys wrote to him....maybe one day when he's retired we really could get the answers to some of them.

You're the one who has it exactly right. Floyd is baiting everyone, fans and anti-Floyd fans, into making him more popular and more of an attraction. Just leave him be. Stop listening and joining in on his games.

[Spicoli]

Dear Floyd...Day time TV has too many Divas....go away.The end.

[erik_corrales]

definitely made to build up publicity. you guys sent good letters though! hope it actually strikes a nerve.

[J_Undisputed]

Not for nothing guys, but the comments some of you sent kind of validate his holier than thou attitude and his obnoxious view of the average fight fan that is watching from the outside and doesn't have his insight into the fight game.
We all know he plays heavily on politics side of boxing and the business angle of it no matter what he says in the post fight interviews about giving the fans what they want. The fans don't get in the ring or having someone trying to take their head off for money...so He's never going to concede to the wishes of armchair Napoleons that watch the fight from home and shout things like "coward!" and "fake" and etc. or flame him on the Internet.
He shows when he does get in the ring what many people refuse to believe about his heart or his skills. There will always be doubters and people saying this one is better that one better... or trying to trivialize his accomplishments. (the comments posted have proved his point)
Now I'm not saying the guy shouldn't be taken to task for his shortcomings here or there or posturing when it comes to negotiations... but when he showcases his skills, people change their tunes for a few weeks.. wonder why doubted him and start to make excuses just like he said they would. Give the man his credit when he deserves it and not nitpick over every unfulfilled desire you had for him fighting every flavor of the year fighter that eventually got exposed. The ducking accusation are marginal at some points, because the perspectives are so different. People wanted him to fight everyone close his weight division that had a name coming up. For him many of those fights were just foregone conclusion ended with a win that couldn't even pay for the lifestyle he views himself accustomed to. Has he inflated that lifestyle and made it harder to fight certain fighters for the money being offered? sure. The market price has a hard time keeping up with his lifestyle and that sucks for the fight fan because theres so few attractions now. As a skilled fighter in an age of volume punchers, he's a rare commodity and unfortunately for us, he knows it and charges accordingly and more often than not outrageously.
To look at things from his perspective....Would you train for months to fight some hype machine you already know you can beat easily.. only to earn a few dollars after the expenses are covered... just so joe schmo sitting at home can think more of you. Not to mention more of the politics and subsequent moneys that can hinder upon this decision. (Would the TV networks buy the fight; whats to gain besides the money (rankings, extensions on mandatorys, risk losing fights with bigger or better names for more money that the same promoter wants to protect... or a lesser opponents promoter is willing to feed to you. Who is the other guys promoter.. will he only sign the deal if he can lock you down for a co-promotion and take a piece of the earnings for the next 2 fights?)
Most fighters are trying to do the smart thing now by fighting under their own promotional banner to protect themselves, keep more of the money that they get punched in the head for and spend those months training for. The days of fighters fighting for pride and little else every two weeks or so to prove who was the best while just scraping by financially, are long gone. I like braddocks cinderella man story too, but ask a guy like Mclennan, Page or their families, if they had it all to do again, would they play it more cagey when it came to compensation for competition if they could... and I think you'll have a better understanding of why Floyd plays the game the way he plays it.

[bradlee180]

It seems nowadays that many of his supporters (excuse-makers?) appear to have finally seen the truth and are finally turning on him.

Go give him a piece of your mind then.

[Taeth]

How can we automatically blame him? We have no idea what even happened during negotiations... I think its bullshit that people are leaving him out to dry when Arum couldn't wait three weeks to let him find out what was going to happen to his uncle. You guys are full of shit, and there is definitely more to this story, because Floyd certainly isn't scared of Manny, nor any other fighter. People conveniently forget that Floyd wanted to face Tszyu, but Hatton beat him too it. Floyd beat Mosley when he was the number one welterweight in the world, and beat the guy Manny wants to face next in Margarito.

How can you explain Manny facing Cotto again or MArgarito instead of Martinez or Berto or Paul Williams?

[UKPH]

I could agree here... a problem could be on their own promotional banner, whether who's gonna take control of the most the profit. But if some people want to drag Pacquiao to fight a full blown Middle weight fighters for an excuse for Floyd if he's not gonna signed to fight with Pacquiao that was totally insane

Oh btw if Floyd-Pac fails. Who's next for Floyd? People here are just talking too much WHO's the next in line for Pacquiao.