Floyd to take 2 years off to rest...again?

[Gandalf]

thing is i'm not sure he has thought this out too well... in the olden days he was young enough to wait for his foes to become shot before facing them not sure that will work this time

it could be just talk like his retirement statement he did to get the best deal out of DLH.

i know one thing thou the fight with pac fell throu last time because floyd wanted Pac to take the test... pac didn't start making any demands.

speaks volumes when you think about it logically

I think quitting now without going through with a fight with Pacquiao harms his reputation immensely. Floyd already has a name for avoiding the toughest fights in the higher weight classes and now wants to leave again after fighting a bloated LW and a long dormant Mosley? Surely this should be Floyd just warming up to the big fights. To call it quits now would look REALLY bad. There is a mega fight just waiting to be signed and Floyd can't make that kind of money outside of boxing. To walk away from that when all you care about is money is insane.

I find it a downright strange thing to say and then say the same thing with a straight face two or three times more.

[paddy448]

i hope this isnt true

[KananKrus]

This smokescreen is not gonna sell like the previous ones...

[Master]

He is too old to take time off again and will back worse off from the lay off. Do not beleive it in any case.

[boxingbantz]

Floyd isn't stupid. He only made that comment so people about it/him. Yet more publicity to sell the biggest fight of all time.

[HattonTheHammer]

He is too old to take time off again and will back worse off from the lay off. Do not beleive it in any case.

agreed

would be like 34 when he came back and for someone who relys on speed he`d be attempting career suicide by getting back into the mix

Should just have 2-3 more fights over the next 18months and at the end of 2011 he can call it a day and if he does manage to put pacquiao away could quite feasibly claim the title of greatest of all time

[Gandalf]

He is too old to take time off again and will back worse off from the lay off. Do not beleive it in any case.

Right, I'm not so sure I buy it either. You can't just walk away from a huge fight and pretend nothing happened. "Oh, I just feel like taking a couple of years off. You know how it is. La di da". It's absurd and the backlash from the fans would be huge. Surely he knows that this is the fight that will define his career. No way he can walk away from it so easily.

[killersheep]

It looks like he's had a come to Jesus moment. I think this will last until he blows all his money again which should be in the next 3-4 months.

[C-Lo]

It looks like he's had a come to Jesus moment. I think this will last until he blows all his money again which should be in the next 3-4 months.

Nice!

I really think they're going to drag all this hype along. I'm starting to care less and less about the fight the longer they delay this BS.

(I say that now but when it's announced I'll be excited as hell!)

[Majesty]

Doesn't everyone see this is a ploy? It makes the Pacquiao fight bigger if Manny takes the tests.


Because he can put the "this is my last fight" storyline added on to it.