Mixed Martial Artist Miguel Torres Calls Out Floyd Mayweather

[BlackHawk]

Miguel Torres mouth got shut down!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llhQNUnjhW4

Respect Boxing next time!

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WEC bantamweight champion Miguel Torres is looking for a fight, and it’s nothing against his current opponent, Brian Bowles, but he believes a boxing champion needs to step up and compete in the true fighting art before he smack talks a sport that is sweeping the world.

Recently, former pound-for-pound boxing king Floyd Mayweather Jr., in an interview with CBS Sports, hounded the sport of MMA saying it was for “beer drinkers” and the reason the sport was created was because “there’s no white fighters in boxing that’s dominating.” Torres, who proudly hails from a Hispanic background, is ready to prove Mayweather wrong and he’s ready any time, any place.

“I’m not going to lie, I don’t talk a lot of (expletive). I did an interview for ESPN and they told me what (Mayweather) had done. I hadn’t heard his comment before that, but I heard that he was talking garbage about mixed martial arts, and he was being pretty racist on certain subjects, and that made me kind of angry because I love boxing. I grew up watching boxing,” Torres said in a recent interview with MMAWeekly.com.
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“I haven’t watched a ton of Mayweather’s fights. I know he’s a good boxer. I’ve seen him on 24/7 a couple of times. That’s the most I’ve seen of him, but he’s very flamboyant, he’s very cocky, he’s a bit of a prick, and I think he’s broke now because of whatever financial reason he has, but you can’t talk about a complete fighter when you’re not a complete fighter yourself.”

Torres has respect for what Mayweather has accomplished in his own sport, but believes that he would be a pawn in the game of chess that is mixed martial arts.

“I know he has a great camp and he’s lightning quick and has knockout power, but I think in a real fight, in a mixed martial arts fight he wouldn’t stand a chance against a mid-level MMA fighter, a B-level fighter, or even a wrestler at that because he’d get taken down in a heartbeat,” Torres commented.

Still, Mayweather may continue to talk so Torres is ready to throw out the challenge to the boxer turned pro-wrestler turned boxer, who at one time actually did consider a move to MMA after retiring from his own sport.

“I’d be the first one at my weight class to say I’d fight Mayweather, anywhere, any way he wants. If he hears this, whatever he wants to do,” stated Torres. “We can even do modified kind of rules, we can box for three rounds, do kickboxing for three rounds, and then fight MMA for three rounds. I would even do something like that so he could have a little more confidence.

“I think it’s totally wrong for any boxer to call out a mixed martial artist. Because you have so many different variables that are going to go on in a fight.”

The tendency for boxers to lash out at mixed martial arts seems to be a proven formula for athletes in the “sweet science” to get headlines from the sport that has been dominating the pay-per-view market over the last few years. Torres admits that boxing is a dying breed and taking pot shots at MMA may just be that they are trying to hit one last Hail Mary punch on the way down.

“It’s fear and it’s a lack of knowledge. They’re so stuck in their small world they have no idea what they’re talking about,” said Torres. “Even boxing fans that are huge fans of boxing, they’re talking to me about ‘well, if you were a real fighter you’d box,’ I’m like, are you serious? I tried with guys who just boxed, and if I give them a hard time just boxing, imagine if I could kick, elbow, and take them to the ground, it would be a totally different fight.”

With Torres scheduled for his next title bout on Aug. 9, and Mayweather slated to return to boxing in September, nobody should hold their breath that these two will ever see each other in a mixed martial arts fight, but the WEC champion still dreams of a day when he could finally silence “Money Mayweather.”

“The times that I’ve watched him box is to want to watch him lose, because I just didn’t like his attitude and the way he acted very much,” Torres said. “He’s never going to change. I think the only way he will change is if he steps in the cage and gets his mouth shut.”

[Rocky Balboa]

Michael Phelps beats Michael Jordan at swimming.

[OumaFan]

Just one guy responding to Floyd saying something stupid with some stupid quotes of his own.

LOL, he'd go 3 with Floyd boxing first then do MMA? Right. They wouldn't make it to the MMA part.

"I tried with guys who just boxed, and if I give them a hard time just boxing, imagine if I could kick, elbow, and take them to the ground, it would be a totally different fight.”



I like Torres but he wouldn't give elite or even decent boxers a hard time boxing.

All of this is just a response to Floyd being an idiot though. Floyd didn't respect MMA so I don't see any reason for boxing fans to get that upset about an MMA guy not respecting boxing.

[Majesty]

He should thank his lucky stars that wasn't Mayweather

[generalbulldog]

Watching MMA is like watching brokeback sex but with punching and kicking.

[Hulk]

Just one guy responding to Floyd saying something stupid with some stupid quotes of his own.

LOL, he'd go 3 with Floyd boxing first then do MMA? Right. They wouldn't make it to the MMA part.

"I tried with guys who just boxed, and if I give them a hard time just boxing, imagine if I could kick, elbow, and take them to the ground, it would be a totally different fight.”



I like Torres but he wouldn't give elite or even decent boxers a hard time boxing.

All of this is just a response to Floyd being an idiot though. Floyd didn't respect MMA so I don't see any reason for boxing fans to get that upset about an MMA guy not respecting boxing.

Agree with all of that.

I remember readin this article on yahoo last week and thinkin that they would not make it to the MMA part either.

Theres a big difference from bein an MMA fighter with good hands and holdin your own with amatuer or club level pro boxers in your gym and thinking you can go 3 rounds in a boxing match with the best boxer on the planet.

And yeah Mayweather started all this shit by running down MMA.

[KananKrus]

I saw the fight on versus, Torres got spanked really bad. Bowles can sure inflict punishment with his mitts, everytime he nailed Torres, the guy was on queer street. All this beating administered by Bowles on Torres, who was previously unbeaten for a while there, with a long string of victories.

[mattboxingfan]

Just one guy responding to Floyd saying something stupid with some stupid quotes of his own.

LOL, he'd go 3 with Floyd boxing first then do MMA? Right. They wouldn't make it to the MMA part.

"I tried with guys who just boxed, and if I give them a hard time just boxing, imagine if I could kick, elbow, and take them to the ground, it would be a totally different fight.”



I like Torres but he wouldn't give elite or even decent boxers a hard time boxing.

All of this is just a response to Floyd being an idiot though. Floyd didn't respect MMA so I don't see any reason for boxing fans to get that upset about an MMA guy not respecting boxing.

As would elite or good boxers have a chance against him in MMA. Floyd would get smashed in MMA, he would be so pritty after that!

[BlackRazor]

Miguel Torres mouth got shut down!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llhQNUnjhW4
Respect Boxing next time!

Link --> http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=y ... &type=lgns

The tendency for boxers to lash out at mixed martial arts seems to be a proven formula for athletes in the “sweet science” to get headlines from the sport that has been dominating the pay-per-view market over the last few years. Torres admits that boxing is a dying breed and taking pot shots at MMA may just be that they are trying to hit one last Hail Mary punch on the way down.

“It’s fear and it’s a lack of knowledge. They’re so stuck in their small world they have no idea what they’re talking about,” said Torres. “Even boxing fans that are huge fans of boxing, they’re talking to me about ‘well, if you were a real fighter you’d box,’ I’m like, are you serious? I tried with guys who just boxed, and if I give them a hard time just boxing, imagine if I could kick, elbow, and take them to the ground, it would be a totally different fight.”

With Torres scheduled for his next title bout on Aug. 9, and Mayweather slated to return to boxing in September, nobody should hold their breath that these two will ever see each other in a mixed martial arts fight, but the WEC champion still dreams of a day when he could finally silence “Money Mayweather.”

“The times that I’ve watched him box is to want to watch him lose, because I just didn’t like his attitude and the way he acted very much,” Torres said. “He’s never going to change. I think the only way he will change is if he steps in the cage and gets his mouth shut.”

It proves he's in his own little world too & doesn't know what he's talking about either. If boxing/striking is a component of MMA, why would that be dying? The very fact that having great boxing skills/power can help make being a top MMA fighter easier will ensure the need for top boxers & boxing coaches.

Fighters in the future may still choose boxing because they don't care for the wrestling aspect of MMA or the fact most/all MMA fighters have some terrible looking ears. For top boxers, can you really tell by looking @ their face that they're a fighter?

[Mar]

No way last week it was floyd isn't a star now one of mma's so called stars is calling him out ?? It's hard to keep up these days, everyone talks shit about apples yet everyone is shelling out cash to buy apple pie's. This sport is strange i thought everyone wanted to fight the best ??!!! Yet at the end of every retarded bad thing said about floyd these assclowns cry and gripe to get a fight with the guy they just said was crap. As a side note is mma running out of fighters or something ?? They seem way more concerned about whats going on in boxing instead of worring about thier own sport. If mma is so popular why are they and thier fans always riding the teet of boxing.

[BlackRazor]

No way last week it was floyd isn't a star now one of mma's so called stars is calling him out ?? It's hard to keep up these days, everyone talks shit about apples yet everyone is shelling out cash to buy apple pie's. This sport is strange i thought everyone wanted to fight the best ??!!! Yet at the end of every retarded bad thing said about floyd these assclowns cry and gripe to get a fight with the guy they just said was crap. As a side note is mma running out of fighters or something ?? They seem way more concerned about whats going on in boxing instead of worring about thier own sport. If mma is so popular why are they and thier fans always riding the teet of boxing.

You're right, they do seem to go out of their way to say boxing is dying. Why is that? If MMA is so great & popular, what do they care what boxing is doing, there's not room for both sports?

[generalbulldog]

No way last week it was floyd isn't a star now one of mma's so called stars is calling him out ?? It's hard to keep up these days, everyone talks shit about apples yet everyone is shelling out cash to buy apple pie's. This sport is strange i thought everyone wanted to fight the best ??!!! Yet at the end of every retarded bad thing said about floyd these assclowns cry and gripe to get a fight with the guy they just said was crap. As a side note is mma running out of fighters or something ?? They seem way more concerned about whats going on in boxing instead of worring about thier own sport. If mma is so popular why are they and thier fans always riding the teet of boxing.

I noticed that the MMA world is more concern with boxing than it is the other way around. In the boxing world you may have the occasional insult here and there but man the MMA world is always going on about boxing is dying, it's boring, the boxing stars are crap, blah blah blah.

Just go on any MMA website and half of it's content is about talking shit on boxing.

[VictorCharlie]

kind of like this thread on a boxing site talking trash about MMA I frequent several MMA sites and have to say I rarely read threads disparaging boxing.

[Kev]

Watching MMA is like watching brokeback sex but with punching and kicking.

haha hilarious!

I remember seeing another one recently where a guy was picked up and just sort of fell face first into the other guy's crotch. It's definitely a sport with some uncomfortable viewing moments at times.

[josef4334]

Watching MMA is like watching brokeback sex but with punching and kicking.

haha hilarious!

I remember seeing another one recently where a guy was picked up and just sort of fell face first into the other guy's crotch. It's definitely a sport with some uncomfortable viewing moments at times.

yeah man... i saw that once too and im like "hmmm.. these grown men like to slob around each others sweaty crotch?.." i like the whole martial arts things but i cant stand the grappling and wrestling part. thats why i like cung le and the other stand up fighters.. its more interesting when people stand there and trade blows than being on the floor feeling each other then try to brake each others fingers after they're done groping each other.