Quote Originally Posted by SweetPea
Quote Originally Posted by Lyle
It's hard to pick out specific things when it's all he does....the walking away from a fighter, the head nodding at a fighter, the picking up a fighter so he could beat him up more...actually that was funny but it's still disrespectful.....I can't remember ANY respect Floyd ever gave ANYONE.....even his pops as a fighter he talked S*** about him.
And when has he done any of these things? I offered the one example of the time he kept patting his chin against Judah in the 12th round. That was definitely showboating, and I'm sure part of it was to embarrass Judah because Zab had hit him intentionally below the belt and in the back of the head.
Other than that I can't think of a single instance of Floyd showboating in the ring. There's a difference between trash-talking in the buildup to fights (which Floyd does all the time) and showboating in the ring. I'd say Floyd is a big trash talker, but in the ring he sticks to business, he doesn't clown around or showboat.
If he were that big of a showboater, I would think that people would be able to come up with at least 4 or 5 examples right off the top of their head.
Sweetpea, I don't think Mayweather's a showboater either, but let me help Lyle out with an example: talking to Jim Lampley while fighting someone in the ring. He's done it 2-3 times and once was so bad that Lampley had to stop talking to Floyd so Floyd would stop talking to him. Specifically, I think Mayweather predicted the Falcons would win a game against a team I can't remember now, Lampley said something else, and then Mayweather responded to that too. But that doesn't overshadow a whole career.