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Published by Scoop Malinowski on March 18th, 2011

 

Its coming, people. You know it is. Floyd Mayweather wants back in and is going to eventually announce his return to the ring and it is not going to be against Manny Pacquiao or Sergio Martinez.

 

Floyd wants it to be against a disadvantaged, aging and fading handpick, for easy HBO money. Same as it always was.

 

Floyd is getting up in years, 34 now, and his future goals as an entertainment star are not going to happen unless he puts the gloves back on and gets in the ring and into the public eye.

 

Right now Floyd is, metaphorically speaking, laying on the canvas, beaten up and knocked out by the persona of Manny Pacquiao in the ring of public opinion. Everybody knows Floyd is faking this current retirement because he’s deathly afraid of being slaughtered and humbled by the vicious fists of Manny Pacquiao. Floyd Mayweather is an open joke right now, even Mike Wilbon regularly refers to Mayweather as a “coward” on ESPN’s PTI.

 

Floyd is willing to endure these insults in the meantime as it’s only a temporary suffering. Because nothing could be worse and more destructive to his ego and career than being brutally knocked out by Manny Pacquiao in front of the eyes of the world. That would be the end game of Mayweather. Checkmate, case closed.

 

Floyd is being patient and waiting for the Pacquiao storm to pass over. Eventually the public will move on and grow tired of waiting for the biggest boxing event in history, Pacquiao vs. Mayweather to happen.

 

That’s when Floyd will emerge from hiding and attempt to return to the ring. I strongly suspect the secret plans are already underway to match Mayweather with someone like a Pauly Malignaggi, who was signed last year by Golden Boy but has been kept curiously inactive (although Malignaggi recently was sparring at the Wildcard Gym in LA against Rashad Holloway).

 

Malignaggi is the perfect handpick choice for Floyd – he doesn’t hit hard, he’s a B fighter on the decline who wants to cash out, he’s got a name and a colorful personality. And best of all, he’s considerably overmatched.

The time is not right now as the public still is clamoring to see Pacquiao vs. Mayweather. HBO, apparently and presumably, still aspires to make that fight. But the longer Floyd stonewalls on fighting Pacquiao, eventually HBO may weaken – and become susceptible to accepting the reality, and just say, “What the heck, some fights just aren’t meant to be made, we tried our best but Pacquiao vs. Mayweather just isn’t gonna happen.”

 

I suspect and believe Floyd’s protectors Al Haymon and Richard Schaefer are biding their time on behalf of Floyd, patiently waiting for Ross Greenburg to give up his plans of producing the biggest event in boxing history.

 

At that time, what could happen is this: Haymon and Schaefer will pitch Greenburg on the idea of the Floyd Mayweather comeback fight, against a Malignaggi, and Greenburg will have to accept. “Hey, Floyd in the ring is better than Floyd not in the ring, HBO still feels Floyd is a star and we want to showcase him on our network,” is the way Greenburg will rationalize this decision.

 

But Greenburg has got to hold strong and firm. He must not weaken and surrender his principles as a network programming executive to Haymon and Schaefer and Mayweather. HBO absolutely can not and must not reward and finance a “coward” boxer who ducked the biggest fight in the history of boxing.

 

If HBO surrenders and decides to finance Mayweather against yet another handpick like Malignaggi or Spadafora, it could have a negative effect on the future of the sport in America. Every powerful advisor and promoter will know, by the example of Floyd Mayweather, that it’s possible, if he plays his cards right, that he can just pick and choose opponents – and the weakness inside the big office at HBO will give in eventually.

 

And with an overabundance of protected American fraud fighters out there, who feast on handpicked, disadvantaged opposition, we may never ever again see a great American fighter like a Tyson, Holyfield, Hopkins, De La Hoya, Mosley or Jones Jr, ever again – or for a very long time (after the current regime of powerbrokers are removed). It will just be an assembly line of boxers like Andre Berto and Adrien Broner, matched perfectly and manufactured into supposed stars. Great fighters only become great by overcoming risk and adversity – like Hopkins, Pacquiao, the Klitschkos, Martinez.

 

Handpicking and protecting fighters creates a spoiled fighter who will collapse when he is finally forced into being matched tough, if he ever is. A fighter can only gain confidence by overcoming risk and adversity, beating handpicked opponents who you are expected to beat, merely stagnates the growth and learning curve of an athlete. It’s the exact same way in tennis. Federer, Nadal, Murray, Djokovic and Del Potro play amazing, spectacular tennis because they are constantly improving – this is what happens when you are constantly competing against the best. Berto, Broner, Arreola, Jacobs, and Mayweather aren’t improving by beating up on overmatched set-ups.

 

I’ll say it one more time. HBO has to be the boss, not Mayweather, Schaefer or Haymon. HBO must hold it’s position and make it crystal clear: “Mayweather, if you want to fight on our network again, it must be against Pacquiao. Take it or leave it.”

 

Stay tuned…

 

(Note: If Al Haymon, Richard Schaefer, Leonard Ellerbe or Ross Greenberg would like to dispute this article in any way, feel free to contact me at [email protected])

 

http://www.boxinginsider.com/columns/scoop-malinowski-hbo-must-reject-floyds-imminent-phony-comeback/

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I think a fight with Cotto would be great!

Mayweather's inactivity, Cotto and the wars, the miles on him...,

Also, Mayweather does not press the attack and Cotto fights better at a slower pace dictating the attack.

Regardless how good Mayweather is, I have yet to find anything on the Internet to substantiate McBride's claim that Floyd wanted Cotto at 140, asking for him???; and until I do I can't help but to feel that Mayweather and his team wanted nothing of Cotto.

With all the hate-mongering, the articles bashing Mayweather for ducking, here I find an article attesting to what seems to me to be proof that Team Mayweather avoided Cotto. (see below)

I don't think that it would be too late for the fight too happen at 147 or 154. It would be a huge fight in my opinion, a little late yes but still huge.

You can demoralize a man, a man indigent and homeless after being rich, all you have to do is ignite the fire in his belly, give the man confidence and he'll so return to his former glory if not hungrier then ever before!

Winning is not coming in first. It's returning from adversity, defeat with your head held high giving a valiant effort. That's winning.

People who set high standards for themselves understand that.

People that have no substance do not.

 

Roger Mayweather Admits Cotto is Floyd’s Worst Nightmare!

 

Published by on May 4th, 2008

 

Roger Mayweather Admits Cotto is Floyd’s Worst Nightmare!

By Scoop Malinowski

 

I asked Roger Mayweather who does he believe would pose the most formidable threat to Floyd Mayweather? “The guy who I figure would give Floyd the most…[long pause]…I’m looking…I’m looking at Cotto [pause]. Probably Cotto I guess. He’s pretty much one-handed but I think he’s a disciplined fighter and if there was a guy who would give Floyd a problem I think it would be Cotto more than any other guy.”

 

So there you have it. From the mouth of Floyd’s trainer Roger Mayweather, you know who they have the most respect for. It’s Miguel Angel Cotto. Now you know who Team Mayweather thinks would give them the most exciting fight in boxing today, the one the fans most want to see.

 

And, by the way, Roger Mayweather shared this most candid assessment of Cotto in, get this, December of 2004 – for an article I wrote for http://www.boxinginsider.com titled, ‘Is Floyd Being Protected?’

 

Wonder what Roger would say about Miguel Cotto NOW???

 

And while we’re at it, here’s a quote from former WBA Junior Welterweight champ Vivian Harris in that same article: “Trinidad came back after two years, he didn’t have to fight a tough guy like Mayorga. He could have taken a few easy fights. But he’s a true champion. Trinidad just wants to show the world he is one of the best. Floyd don’t want to do that. Floyd fought Chop Chop (Corley) who just lost. All right, we’ll give him that, we’ll give him one easy one. Then after Chop Chop (won by decision), he talks like he’s pound-for-pound. Then he’s offered to fight Vivian Harris. He could get more money than me. (The deal was) if he beats me, he gets 50-50 with the Gatti-Leija winner. And he turned it down. He’d rather face Bruseles because he don’t want to fight Vivian Harris. Remember, Floyd was my mandatory at one time. Floyd dropped out, that’s how Urkal became my mandatory the second time. My inside source told me Floyd turned me down three times. All the greats in boxing want to stay on top, they want to prove they are the best by fighting the best. Floyd wants to fight Bruseles.”

 

http://www.boxinginsider.com/columns/roger-mayweather-admits-cotto-is-floyds-worst-nightmare/ 

 

 

 

I'm still looking for the 2004 article "Is Floyd Being Protected".

IF you find it, I would like the link. THnks in advance

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What a crock of shit. So it's fair game to feed us PAC v clottey?

 

We get fed shite all the time so don't single out floyd for it

 

PAC doesn't go around claiming to be what MAY is claiming to be.

That's why he (PAC) isn't so scrutinzed and May is. With all his buffoonery, who can refrain from calling him on his shite.

 

Faulks, this is not an attack on your character.

 

I will continue to single Mayweather out so long as he is running his mouth about being the best when he has done nothing to prove it.

Also, having a nemesis such as Arum against him didn't help him at all, but the mouth on him..., well, it's his comeuppance and I'll gladly give it.

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...yet another article of Mayweather's reluctance on fighting Cotto.

This division had the ingredients to be one of the hottest to rival any of the past greats. Promoters share in the blame yes, but the fighters, mainly the fighters, will carry much of the weight, the responsibility. They were not our to prove anything, with the exception of Cotto and a few others who would fight anybody.

Berto, Mayweather are the the ones who continuously took on lesser opposition and still do. Mayweather's fight against JMM??? What was that??? Coming in over the agreed weight limit??? One does not have to be a shrink to see that Mayweather...,

I guess I'm beating a dead horse here.

 

Cotto could be next for Mayweather

by David Mayo | The Grand Rapids Press

Sunday December 09, 2007, 4:35 AM

 

LAS VEGAS -- Five years have passed and the grudge endures. Miguel Cotto's only response -- keep winning -- resounds with the boxing public.

 

Impressing Floyd Mayweather has not come so easily.

 

If you asked around here this weekend, you would find no shortage of people who said Mayweather would dismantle Ricky Hatton in their welterweight title bout late Saturday. Yet many of those same people said the pound-for-pound king needn't search long for his ultimate challenge, because it resides in his own division.

 

Not once has Mayweather expressed any interest in fighting Cotto. For years, it was assumed his estrangement with his ex-promoter, Bob Arum, who also promotes Cotto, was the reason.

 

Regardless, the longer he avoids the fight, the more it looks like a dodge.

 

"He has had great victories, but when you talk about Miguel Cotto and Floyd Mayweather, he always comes up with excuses -- I'm not the opponent for him, I'm not ready for him," Cotto said. "I earned all I have now. I worked for that. Over the next year, year-and-a-half, I can take the big names."

 

Their personal disagreement dates back years, to an era when Mayweather had grown weary of sitting in the second chair in Arum's Top Rank boxing stable, behind Oscar De La Hoya, and became irked when a new young buck came rutting around his territory.

 

So Mayweather engaged in some subtle subterfuge.

 

His appointed workout time at Top Rank Gym immediately preceded Cotto's, so he began showing up a bit late, and staying beyond his time window, to disrupt the young Puerto Rican.

 

It became such an issue that Top Rank officials had to step in and enforce Mayweather's training schedule.

 

"He always is acting like that, like he is the owner of everything," Cotto said. "I know it's just

his way to do things. He just tries to you that he is, like I said, the owner of everything."

 

In the five years since, as Mayweather's star exploded, Cotto's stayed close behind.

 

Cotto received one of the five nominations this week for 2007 Fighter of the Year, by the Boxing

Writers Association of America. Another nomination is reserved for the Mayweather-Hatton winner.

 

Two of Cotto's three fights this year also are Fight of the Year nominees, a first for the organization. His 11th-round technical knockout of Zab Judah, in June, came against an opponent Mayweather beat on a decision. His November decision over Shane Mosley exploited a man Mayweather never lured into the ring.

 

"I had a great year, first beating Oktay Urkal, then Judah and Mosley," Cotto said. "The last two fights were amazing. They put me on another level in boxing. It's an honor that the writers, the people who know boxing, nominated them for Fight of the Year."

 

The welterweight division is the epicenter of the sport. Mayweather entered Saturday as a 38-0

champion, against a 43-0 challenger in Hatton. Cotto is 31-0. Paul Williams is 33-0. Kermit Cintron is 29-1.

 

There also are enough old stalking horses and young rising stars (35-5 Antonio Margarito, 36-5 Judah, 20-0 Andre Berto) to sustain the division's upper crust until megafights materialize.

 

De La Hoya still drives much of what happens at welterweight, even if he hasn't fought in the division since 2001. Arum is working on the assumption that De La Hoya plans to fight the Mayweather-Hatton winner in May. But De La Hoya also could fight Hatton, regardless of Saturday's outcome, because of the massive British audience Hatton attracts, which makes Mayweather-Cotto viable next year.

 

"At 147 pounds, the welterweight division, to me, it's the hottest division in boxing today," Cotto

said. "Margarito, Mayweather, Hatton, Kermit Cintron, Paul Williams and me. It could be three years of great boxing."

 

"I just want the big fights, the big names, the real fights. I wish the rest of the opponents want

the same."

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Originally Posted by Fishscale

 

By Jhonny Gonzalez

 

Miguel Cotto is looking to fight the biggest names in the sport. He made a promotional appearance on a radio program in Puerto Rico and told the host that he was interested in facing Floyd Mayweather Jr. at the end of the year. Cotto defends his WBA junior middleweight crown against Ricardo Mayorga on March 12 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. If Cotto is victorious, he will face Antonio Margarito in a June rematch.

 

Cotto told the show that he wasn't exactly sure why a fight with Mayweather never took place. They had briefly discussed a possible fight last year, but there was no follow-up from Mayweather's camp.

 

"For one reason or another [a Mayweather fight never happened]. We have to see what happens with his career [a reference to Mayweather's pending legal problems]. We have always been willing to face the big names," said Cotto,

 

http://slumz.boxden.com/f353/cotto-interested-facing-floyd-mayweather-jr-fall-1481387/index2.html

 

 

 

Looking for the radion station and the transcripts now.

you find it send me a link please donka shen (english german)

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What a crock of shit. So it's fair game to feed us PAC v clottey?

 

We get fed shite all the time so don't single out floyd for it

 

People praised the Pac vs Clottey fight before Mayweather got Mosley. It's easy to slate a fight once it's panned out.

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What a crock of shit. So it's fair game to feed us PAC v clottey?

 

We get fed shite all the time so don't single out floyd for it

 

People praised the Pac vs Clottey fight before Mayweather got Mosley. It's easy to slate a fight once it's panned out.

 

Credible opponent. Not our fault Clottey got shut out. He was a big guy and a good test for Pacman. I don't buy that made to order crap. Pacman was the smaller guy, tough as teak Clottey absorbed the shots of Margarito (broken hands and all, possible due to loaded hands), the once fearsome, hard punching, supposed most avoided fighter and went the distance. Hey, speed kills.

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Clottey was never a test for Pacman but I did credit him as a solid opponent - thoguh personally I thought he might get stopped, but nstead he never moved his hands from his face all night.

 

Too much credit is given for people being bigger than their opponent but size is only an advantage if you can use it - Valuev is the biggest boxer to ever get in a ring but like Carnera before him, he's got no skills to use with it.

 

Pacquiao's content to bask in the glory of the five or six truly "competitive" fights he had and fight absolute crap for now. Mayweather's done the same thing, except he's only ever looked beatable in two fights.

 

Still, with any luck they'll both be retired soon and so will Haye, and boxing can aim for a period of stability and competition before the next prima donna comes along.

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I could never agree that he's "fighting crap now..."

He beat Hatton at his own weight, he beat Cotto at his own game, Clottey was a top level welterweight who would give plenty of other guys in the division a lot of trouble even now (IF he chose to fight!), and Margarito is being given pelters due to his reputation.

Few fighters can handle the output, punch volume and solid shots that Margarito delivers.

Some people say he is "tailor-made" for Pacquiao, but I would argue that Pacquiao simply possesses the tools to beat just about ANY fighter.

You could make the same argument of almost anyone, but still few people actually DO it.

Now Mosley, who I admit has looked poor in his last 2 fights.

This doesn't matter though. He's still fast, he's still strong and he's still highly ranked.

It's foolish to ever count out a guy like Mosley before a punch has even been thrown in anger...

The shine may be taken off the fight by the fact Mayweather beat him and he then scraped a draw in his only fight since.

It's still a huge name and a huge scalp though.

Who else can he turn to after that?

I don't think there is any "crap" that can be served up to a so-called P4P fighter.

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Now Mosley, who I admit has looked poor in his last 2 fights.

This doesn't matter though. He's still fast, he's still strong and he's still highly ranked.

It's foolish to ever count out a guy like Mosley before a punch has even been thrown in anger...

The shine may be taken off the fight by the fact Mayweather beat him and he then scraped a draw in his only fight since.

It's still a huge name and a huge scalp though.

Who else can he turn to after that?

I don't think there is any "crap" that can be served up to a so-called P4P fighter.

 

Mosley hasn;t looked poor in his last two fights, he's looked pretty poor for the last several yeas, just had a very giood night against Margarito.

 

Margarito has always struck me as being overrated - I started to see what people saw in him after the Cotto fight but that's now questionable, and apart from Cotto he's only really beaten Clottey(who hurt his hand after controlling early) and Cintron, who has largely relied on his punch his whole career. Every other elite fighter has beaten him - Williams, Santos, Pacquiao. And even then, Pacquiao didn';t get Margairto until after he'd looked a shadow of his former self and been through the handwrap controversy AND had to have a weight limit imposed.

 

 

I don;t follow the logic that because Pacman is pound-for-pound that all his oppositio is unquestionably good, anymore than Mayweather or Cotto's - the likes of Alfonso Gomez, Michael Jennings etc are not going to upset the applecart - haven't a chance in hell. Similarly, Mosley is good for about 3 punches and then he's knackered.

 

Clottey was never going to win but was a decent keep-busy fight. Margarito was in my opinion very unlikely to threaten Pacquiao by that stage, if ever. Mosley is not going to do a damn thing and really should be retiring.

 

 

Just because it's hard to think of anyone who could really test Pacquiao doesn't mean he should be taking Top Rank cannon fodder for the rest of his career. How about unifying one of those eight weights hes supposed to rule?

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... I'm not ready for him," Cotto said. ""

 

That is exactly what was said when Mayweather challenged Miguel at 140. Why do you think he fought the totally unheard of Henry Bruseles, who just happened to be Cotto's stablemate, and chief sparring partner at that time?

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... I'm not ready for him," Cotto said. ""

 

That is exactly what was said when Mayweather challenged Miguel at 140. Why do you think he fought the totally unheard of Henry Bruseles, who just happened to be Cotto's stablemate, and chief sparring partner at that time?

 

Did Mayweather not turn down Harris to face Bruseles? (Vivian at that time was the WBA champion) Or was that just forum talk?

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I have no idea whether or not there was any mention of Harris and his WBA title. Mayweather challenged both Hatton and Cotto, at 140 and both declined. Mayweather beat Corley, so then did Miguel. Mayweather beat Bruseles to try to force Cotto's hand, but it didn't work so he took the money fight with Gatti, then moved up.
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