Comments Thread For: Paul Williams Welterweight Return May Happen on May 8

[xAUGUSTUSx]

I guess the size advantage he had over Martinez was'nt enough for him. Now he wants his opponents to be even smaller.

[Dave Rado]

I guess the size advantage he had over Martinez was'nt enough for him. Now he wants his opponents to be even smaller.

Not that old chestnut again.

If you followed boxing, you'd realise that boxing has weight divisions, not height divisions. If Williams can make the Welterweight limit without being weight drained, then he's a Welterweight. If a Welterweight is capable of being competitive in higher weight divisions, that just means he's an outstanding Welterweight, but he's still a Welterweight, as long as he can make 147.

He says he walks around between fights at just over 150lb, and actually has to put on weight during training in order to be able to fight at higher weights. That is lighter than Cotto, Clottey, and the majority of the top Welterweight fighters.

He's no taller than Hearns, who was an ATG Welterweight.

[JAS_JAS]

Did you not watch Sergio school PWILL? What do you think Mayweather would do? He would no way in hell KO him but he would dance around to the point that people would say PWILL was over rated. Shyt Pac would get schooled with his come forward aggressiveness tailor made style for Floyd. Only thing threatening about it is the fact that hes a southpaw with great endurance which would cause problems for about 4 rounds. Floyd at that point would adjust, counter and deliver. Pac then gets called too little/cherry picked by Floyd and or over rated and I don't like that sounds of that. I like Pac

But I thought Mayweather was ***** cause he wouldn't fight #1 WW Mosley? What happened to that theory?

At the end of the day, Mayweather is technically better than both PWILL and Pac. Difference is that PWILL would be a hell of a lot harder of fight and if anyone wanted a chance to see Floyd get beat he's the man that could possibly do it.

You cant call Mayweather a ***** when Roach said Pac wouldn't be ready for a fighter like Mayweather and then Pac comes out uses the I'm scared of needles and blood method.... WRONG, Pac already lost the mind games battle. Again it only gets worse if Mayweather beats Mosley and PWILL steps up to bat....

but bra, if you hate Mayweather. Don't you think you should be promoting a Mayweather vs PWILL fight?

yeah yeah, should woulda coulda, your boy pbf wont do **** because he never fights them, your assuming things because of what pBF did to lesser fighters.

[el malo]

I guess the size advantage he had over Martinez was'nt enough for him. Now he wants his opponents to be even smaller.

exactly what i was thinking. he was in a war with martinez so he thinks moving back down to ww will be easier for him.

[Dave Rado]

nobody will fight pwill. he's wasting his time.

Clottey has been trying to get a fight with Williams for over a year, WTF are you talking about? And Mosley now says he's interested in fighting him too, provided he proves he can still make the weight. And if he beat a top Welterweight, Floyd would be put under huge pressure to fight him.

Williams is a far bigger name now than he was when all the top Welters other than Marg and Quintana avoided him because he was high risk low reward. The risk is still high, but the reward is far higher now, and the downside of ducking him is far higher too, in terms of credibility, provided he proves he is still effective at the weight.

[Iceta Lives]

Now watch all the haters try to crucify Williams for this. Paul already offered better money to Martinez to rematch him then Martinez is getting for Pavlik and Martinez didn't want to do it. And I agree Pavlik probably should get a little over 50-50, but do you blame how Williams feels about that situation?

However, I like everybody else fail to see how he is going to get any of these guys to fight him. I thought he already offered Collazo a fight when he was at 147 before, and Collazo turned it down. And I'd love to see Williams fight the Mayweather-Mosley winner.

[Iceta Lives]

Clottey has been trying to get a fight with Williams for over a year, WTF are you talking about? And Mosley now says he's interested in fighting him too, provided he proves he can still make the weight. And if he beat a top Welterweight, Floyd would be put under huge pressure to fight him.

Williams is a far bigger name now than he was when all the top Welters other than Marg and Quintana avoided him because he was high risk low reward. The risk is still high, but the reward is far higher now, and the downside of ducking him is far higher too, in terms of credibility, provided he proves he is still effective at the weight.

Clottey said he wanted to fight Williams but then turned the fight down after it was offered to him for decent money ($750,000 to be exact). If Clottey wanted to fight Williams bad enough, he would've accepted the offer and he didn't. I know Mosley changed his tune a little bit it seems like. But what if he does the same thing that Clottey did?

[Dave Rado]

Everybodys quick to down floyd for fighting smaller opponents

If Mayweather had fought JMM at Lightweight you would have a point. But he didn't. And no one would have criticised Floyd if he'd gone down to 135 to fight Marquez (which is the equivalent to what Williams is doing). That would have been a genuine legacy fight for Mayweather, if Floyd is still capable of making 135 (which I doubt). But instead he weighed in at 147, despite having a contract stipulating a maximum weight limit of 144, which was pathetic.

[Pullcounter]

Clottey has been trying to get a fight with Williams for over a year, WTF are you talking about? And Mosley now says he's interested in fighting him too, provided he proves he can still make the weight. And if he beat a top Welterweight, Floyd would be put under huge pressure to fight him.

Williams is a far bigger name now than he was when all the top Welters other than Marg and Quintana avoided him because he was high risk low reward. The risk is still high, but the reward is far higher now, and the downside of ducking him is far higher too, in terms of credibility, provided he proves he is still effective at the weight.

clottey won't fight pwill unless HBO puts up the loot and they probably aren't.

mosley ain't gonna fight pwill. mosley is gonna fight floyd and I think they both have a rematch clause. then he is gonna fight pac win or lose because floyd is scared.

floyd will never fight pwill, because pwill is too big and because of al haymon.

berto still wants to fight jr WWs. also dibella already told pwill that he's scared of pwill.

margo probably ain't coming back for a while

quintana been begging for a rubbermatch for a while now, but pwill didn't want that fight.

pwill is better off cleaning out 154 lbs and fightin pavlik at 160 lbs, at least he will get to fight

[DLT]

I think he's trying to back all the WW's into a corner so that they have to fight him or look scared. However, there is no way I would drop straight down. He should fight Cintron at 54 and then go to WW in the next one