Quote Originally Posted by #1FightFan View Post
we can only hope and pray that this will be his last fight. then maybe we can get a champion in there who is willing to take chances and not fight only fighters he knows he can beat. this whole pacquiao fiasco is sickening. gayweather could prob/possibly beat manny, but as always, he wont even try the challenge. pathetic!

PLEASE RETIRE Floyd. us boxing fans are sick of your bullshit.
I'm no fan boy of Floyd but appreciate what he does which is make the elite look < elite. I was once a Floyd hater. After the Hatton fight I wanted to kill Cortez. I thought Chico would kick his ass. Its always good to revisit and look back with an open mind with the characters in this sport to preserve any sense of objectivity this sport has left. Its like a castle of crooks and charlatans. If not for what happens within the squared circle from time to time it would almost not be worth paying attention.

What I would like to know is who all of these people are that he has ducked? I would like to see a list with names and times? People keep saying he did all this hand picking and only fought those he could beat but there is little if any evidence of that. Any evidence is certainly subject to scrutiny. I mean starting with Castillo if Floyd was the ducker people claim he is/was then he would have never rematched him after such a tough fight. Inside his mind Floyd almost took the first fight as a loss and did what others before him did like Leonard and Robinson.

Speaking of Robinson, most peoples GOAT but not mine, he clearly ducked the crew that made up Murderers Row and specifically Charley Burley but somehow gets a pass. Moore who was also part of that crew was ducked by everyone and fought 160 times before he got a title shot. Many of his duckers are enshrined as atg's. Jack Dempsey never fought a black man and backed out of a Greb fight. I could go on....

So I'd like a list of the guys he ducked leaving out the ongoing circus. If you cancel out the other usual suspect in Margarito(like it or not is was soon after the split),there is no list. I'm eager to hear who they are. Btw, does anybody actually believe that Margareto ever had a chance at beating Floyd?

If you want to continue to call Floyd a ducker then apply some historic meat to it for context and validity instead of simply saying it. If you want to start a top 50 "ducker" list starting with the time Sullivan laced them on in 1882, I guarantee you Floyd wont even make the grade.