Quote Originally Posted by christianshreve View Post
Guess I wandered off topic.
Jones is a comparison point for Mayweather, to an extent, as he hid from his chief challenge for years.
An old announcer used to say that certain fighters had "the style to give others all they could handle." When referring to a proposed bout between Whitaker and Chavez, the man said "Whitaker has the style, and the discipline within the style, to give Chavez's type of fighter all he could handle."
Mayweather matches up favorably to Manny in the way Pernell matched up with Chavez.
This is all a moot point. Floyd didn't think he could win, and wasn't willing to try. So went 4 years.
Floyd is an absolute master, and I would have given him the nod 7 times out of 10 over the Filipino phenom , but the will to win exceeds the skill to win, and Floyd didn't accept Manny's challenge.
It seems probable that he wouldn't have faced Chavez, had he been Whitaker.
It seems inevitable that he will hide at 154 from Trout and Canelo.
Pity that. But he was a legitimate p4p champ for years on end and has the Hall-of-fame in the bag twice over.
I just wish he realized that he could have lost to Pacquiao in 11 seconds of the first round and been better off than this stand has placed him. Even people who don't follow boxing, like comedian Daniel Tosh, spout off about what they consider humiliating cowardice by Floyd Mayweather jr. No one who gives their best in the ring deserves to be called a coward, but Mayweather's "no mas" cry is more blatant than Duran's was in his second Leonard fight, because at least Roberto was wiling to get in the ring and try for a few rounds.
Whatever comes out of his mouth now about not really being terrified of "Pacman" all these long years strikes a false chord and no longer resembles analytical commentary.
Floyd has not fought a top rank fighter since leaving bob arum.

The same excuse you used has already been said about cotto, margarito and probably clottey! Lol

It really is getting tired now.

And here it comes, now its the case that floyd is going to duck canelo and trout?

Its all one way traffic. Floyd has just been sitting terrified in the corner all these years from all these fighters just because of what freddie roach and manny says.

Floyd should have done what duran did and just give it a go anyway and when he gets ko after 11 seconds he would still have been better of for it now??!

Crazy.

Are we to believe floyd is the same that he was 4 years ago and would have been just as ineffective against manny because manny might have been at his peak against non couter punchers?!

Then again, lets just listen to what tosh daniel tosh has to say...jeez.

The fact a pro fighter can take TWO years off and continue his dominance shows you how elite he is from every other specimen.