Why Blame Floyd For Being Smart About Business?

[generalbulldog]

Boxing is a business, and Floyd is being smart within this game. Why fight Mosley, Cotto, Pacman (catchweight), when he can fight a 35 yr old lightweight at 15 mil? Why take a high risk fight when he can still make very good money if he fights let's say a Ricky Hatton again or Amir Khan at a catchweight? The British public would buy it up in terms of PPV sales like crazy, not to mentioned the American public would put in a few hundred thousand sales.

None of those guys are threats to defeat him plus he makes bank. Low risk very good financial reward fights. Hell just make it at Wembley Stadium and it's all good to go. Make it seem like guys like Hatton or Khan has a good shot and talk s-hit on HBO's 24/7. Then call it a career with a big fat 0 in the loss column. Why take a high risk fight that can only get you a few million more? There's no way JMM beats Floyd and for 15 mil it's his 3rd most bankable fight.

Can't blame Floyd. For this is a business. Floyd should fight Hatton again then fight Khan and call it a career. Both fights should net him more than 30 mil with a percentage of the PPV profits.

[Kel]

He still says he is the best mate that's why I can't stand the guy at times.

[Pavlik]

He still says he is the best mate that's why I can't stand the guy at times.

Agreed!!! I am not bothered that he is just in it for the money because everybody is but what's sickening is him stating he is still the best without having fought the top 5 welters out there. Shame on him when a smaller man than him actually fights Shane and Cotto first.

[JazMerkin]

He still says he is the best mate that's why I can't stand the guy at times.

Agreed!!! I am not bothered that he is just in it for the money because everybody is but what's sickening is him stating he is still the best without having fought the top 5 welters out there. Shame on him when a smaller man than him actually fights Shane and Cotto first.

Really?? Please tell me which smaller man is stepping up to fight Shane because I don't see one. Also don't believe Cotto has yet signed to fight anyone, & I doubt he will be fighting any smaller guys at 147.

Floyd hasn't yet fought Hatton or Khan so that's a moot point & since going to 140 up his opposition has at times been questionable, but if he beats Marquez, and then fights any one of Pacquiao, Cotto or Mosley, will we move on from this 'Floyd doesn't fight the best stuff'?

[Majesty]

He still says he is the best mate that's why I can't stand the guy at times.

Agreed!!! I am not bothered that he is just in it for the money because everybody is but what's sickening is him stating he is still the best without having fought the top 5 welters out there. Shame on him when a smaller man than him actually fights Shane and Cotto first.

Really?? Please tell me which smaller man is stepping up to fight Shane because I don't see one. Also don't believe Cotto has yet signed to fight anyone, & I doubt he will be fighting any smaller guys at 147.

Shane is trying to get a Pacquiao fight as is Miguel Cotto and his promoter bob arum. Why isn't anyone bashing Shane or Cotto?

Because its easier to hate Floyd. And I'm pretty sure if it was Judah that hit Clottey in the back of the head or that it looked like he fell down because of a shove from, that no one would be defending him.

Boxing fans choose rules for who they like and do not like what they bash one fighter for they will defend the other for.

[Kel]

Agreed!!! I am not bothered that he is just in it for the money because everybody is but what's sickening is him stating he is still the best without having fought the top 5 welters out there. Shame on him when a smaller man than him actually fights Shane and Cotto first.

Really?? Please tell me which smaller man is stepping up to fight Shane because I don't see one. Also don't believe Cotto has yet signed to fight anyone, & I doubt he will be fighting any smaller guys at 147.

Shane is trying to get a Pacquiao fight as is Miguel Cotto and his promoter bob arum. Why isn't anyone bashing Shane or Cotto?

Because its easier to hate Floyd. And I'm pretty sure if it was Judah that hit Clottey in the back of the head or that it looked like he fell down because of a shove from, that no one would be defending him.

Boxing fans choose rules for who they like and do not like what they bash one fighter for they will defend the other for.

They have both been fighting each other and the rest of the best at Welterweight, neither duck anyone either so that's probably why no one is having a go at them.

[uwey]

They all Cherrypick. They ran Paul Williams out of the division because of it. Floyd,Cotto, Margo did not even want a avenge rematch. Please dont say Floyd is the only one. By the way Paul can still make 147 so dont use that excuse. The man was and is simply too dangerous for them to mention, 154 and 160 also. A great fighter with no one to fight, how shameful. Most of u people wont even speak out about it. THEY ALL CHERRYPICK

[SweetPea]

He still says he is the best mate that's why I can't stand the guy at times.

Yep. This is it.

I have no problem with a boxer being smart business-wise. It's a dangerous sport, so a fighter should try to make as much money as possible with as little risk as possible.

However, if you're going to claim that you're one of the best of all-time (as Floyd does) then you open yourself up to having your list of opponents questioned.

[C-Lo]

Really? You're supporting this behavior?

[C-Lo]

He still says he is the best mate that's why I can't stand the guy at times.

Also a big reason why I'm losing respect for him. You can't call yourself an ATG if you're not fighting the best. Don't get me wrong, he is one without a doubt, but when it comes to his place in history you can downplay him because he handpicks his opponents now-a-days

[blegit]

Well, I don't blame him as a businessman but as a fighter he is no longer fighting the better competition. He is much like DLH was in the latter part of his career. They are now just businessmen who happen to fight. Floyd just happens to be spectacular at it. Could be the all time best but we'll never know. Thats what riles fans up. Even the ones who push for him want to have something more to cement their claim for him.

[generalbulldog]

Really? You're supporting this behavior?

From a business point of view I would fight guys like Marquez for 15 mil than fight guys like Cotto, Pacman (catchweight), Mosley for a few mil more that can take away my 0 from the loss column. Mark my words it's going to be Hatton-Mayweather 2 at Wembley on HBO PPV or Khan-Mayweather at a catch weight. He'll be making over 30 mil easy for those 2 fights with PPV percentage he receives.

This is a business, point blank. Floyd has nothing to prove. 6 time champ in 5 divisions. That's his resume. He's the best pound for pound fighter of this generation. Boxing history will say that. They're not going to say anything about his opponents. They'll look at that big fat 0 next to his loss column and argue that.

How important is that big fat 0? Take Rocky Marciano for example, fight fans are still saying that he would beat a prime Ali and that he kicked Joe Louis ass and beat up Ezzard Charles, Jersey Joe Walcott, and Archie Moore. And that he is the greatest heavyweight champion ever or arguing that. But what they don't see was that everyone of these boxing greats were well past their primes. Only hardcore fans see that. Casual sports and fight fans just know that Joe Louis got his ass kicked but they didn't know that Joe Louis was basically shot with no handspeed, accuracy, endurance, quick reflexes that he lost at age 37. Even boxing historians hardly mentioned that. They just say Marciano kicked his ass and knocked him through the ropes.

That's how important that big fat 0 is. It forms a different perception. All Money Floyd has to do is take fights like Marquez an blown up featherweight kicked his ass and say I beat an all time great that gave the other p4p champion of that era all kinds of trouble. Ain't no one going to argue that 20 years from now. They will just look at the big fat 0 and the 6 time champ in 5 classes.

[Quinito]

I'm not sure a fight being cancelled because of very poor ticket sales is a 'smart business'.

[Quinito]

Floyd will eventually realize that he is now a garbage. He'll always be known as a guy who avoided threatening opponents in his league to keep his record and untarnished.

[dee_z_r]

because its bout boxing not buisiness