Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo
I've never understood why people think Floyd is ducking fighters

To my mind the only time you could conceivably say he took an easy fight was against Baldomir but he had the Ring belt and was the undisputed welterweight champion so it made sense to fight him.

If you guys would have actually bothered to watch Floyd's career you would know that since even before he moved upto lightweight to face Castillo the one fighter on his mind has been Oscar De La Hoya.

Watch his fights with Sosa, Ndou, Chavez, etc at the end of every fight he's calling out De La Hoya.

He knows that amongst the lower weight classes nobody has achieved as much, and has as big a fan base as the Golden Boy and his whole career has been a quest to get Oscar in the ring.

It's funny watching his fights from 4 or 5 years ago and Merchant and Lampley discuss him wanting to fight De La Hoya with Merchant saying that Floyd has about as much chance of beating Oscar as a flyweight world champ would have of beating Floyd.

Floyd has raced through the divisions in the past couple years to get his big shot with Oscar. So he didn't stop to clean out some of the trash along the way, so what?

Once he's beaten Oscar he's effectively proven he would have beaten all those other 'flavour of the month' guys too.

He will beat Oscar, and then look for his legacy defining fights with Mosely and Cotto no doubt being the two biggest targets.

But to say he's scared of fighting people is just stupid, he's not scared, he's just been focused on a particluar goal, becoming a 5 weight world champ and beating Oscar De La Hoya, the most popular fighter of modern times.
You don't really believe that Baldo is the only hand picked fight he's had so cut that out. Of course he's been calling out DLH. So has everyone else within 2 or 3 weight clasees of the Golden Boy. Money!!!! Plain & Simple.

You could actually make a case of DLH doing the same thing and not fightting some guys until after they were exposed or softened up or both but, he did take some serious challenges later on when his legacy was being questioned.

Meanwhile, Floyd is trying to crawl under a rock after collecting a major paycheck against a guy who has had 1 fight in the last 3 years and is no spring chicken anymore. He doesn't want to prove anything to his fans that are backing him so strongly. He'd rather walk away with his money and leave many unanswered questions.

That's an interesting legacy. Leaving the sport once the going gets tough.