ESPN: Floyd is a BUM

[Bee Keepz]

I think it's funny, I'd probably be mad though if I paid for it.

[MayMosPeaHop]

espn = world wide leader in sports.

This one (of many ripping floyd's sucker punch) article gets more hits & exposure than any website that you consider the "face of boxing."



who threw the sucker punch? it wasnt ortiz.

Was time in or not?

[Johnwoo8686]

Since when is a guy get headbutted and punched and retaliate but knocking his opponent out wrong? I saw multiple replays of the fight and Cortez motioned the two guys the start boxing. Instead Ortiz thought it was wise to apologize a 3rd time while the guy he just headbutted was still pissed. Secondly Ortiz saw the first punch that caught him (the left hook) but completely missed the straight right.

[Pretty Boy Greg]

that was a sucker punch plain and simple. How can you even enjoy that win if you are a floyd fan?

watch it again dude... if u wanna watch two guys thanking their fans by kissing and hugging, go watch the pack and mosley fight again... u can t tell me that pack didnt wanna punch mosley in the mouth for the **** he was doing... its a disgrace to the fans and pac has a big heart.... what floyd did was fight fans deserve... this aint a ***ing sparring contest... this is the reall deal... floyd was pissed and how many hugs should ortiz get before they fight again... c'mon man

[acidity]

The maxim "Protect yourself at all times" applies to boxing fans, too.

My first thought Saturday night was that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is killing boxing at the very moment his popularity somehow keeps it alive -- like a mother with Munchausen Syndrome by proxy or one of those murder nurses you read about in the tabloids. ("Angel of Mercy Strikes Again!") He briefly counteracts a condition he creates.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. ended this fight against Victor Ortiz in the fourth round.
Boxing, the eternal invalid, never quite dies but never really gets well. It is too corrupt, too ridiculous, too rotten with money and too sick with ambition. Rather, because of men like Mayweather, it has persisted for many decades with a weak heart and in a state of infirmity. And without a charming or contending American heavyweight to win back casual fans, Mayweather -- a supremely talented fighter of almost no demonstrable character -- is now as necessary to the sport as gloves and liniment.

Thus, and weirdly, even as boxing's target audience swoons into the welcoming arms of mixed martial arts, we get Saturday night's $64.95 burlesque punchout of Kissin' Victor Ortiz. So Mayweather accelerates boxing's comic deathbed scene even as the long-shot prospect of his superfight with Manny Pacquiao keeps it on life support.

Undefeated, unenlightened and unashamed, Mayweather, savior/destroyer, is a champion and a bum for our time.

This is not unprecedented, of course. In sports or out of them.

In fact, we see this duality all around us. For example, a fundamental moral tension in every democracy and every market economy exists between what's right and what's legal. Between what can be done and what should be done. Notice how often this tension hangs in the cloakrooms of the House and the Senate, chokes the halls of the White House and Goldman Sachs, or how it fills the "A" section of your newspaper or stokes the boilers of your cable news programs.

So when Mayweather anesthetized a fighter whose hands were still at his sides, the can I?/should I? one-two might have been strictly legal, but it wasn't nearly right.

Many of the fans in attendance didn't celebrate with the same enthusiasm as Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Floyd "Money" Mayweather! 42-0! Undefeated American hero in the age of ends and means!

Will he fight Pacquiao before he destroys the sport entirely, thereby saving it? Or will he wind up on a talk show panel somewhere, bad-mouthing Larry Merchant, while the sport finally flatlines? Or will he be in jail?

Hard to say.

Floyd "Money" Mayweather, sportsman. Object lesson. Cautionary tale. Standing in the shadows between what's right and what's legal and what sells. Standing for us all.

Money sees the chance, and Money takes it!

****!

How could things be otherwise in this America of ours?

Not everything legal is right, and not everything right is good.

[acidity]

Most of the mainstream sports media and even those outside it are vilifying floyd for his unsportsman like behavior in the ring.

Sad day really for boxing. The sport must have lost many fans there. Very sad indeed.

[$ jmoney 210 $]

how come people arent in an outrage what that weak minded dirty ass fighter did
ive never seen any fighter head butt another fighter like that except golata
that **** was crazy

[Ragnar Lothbrok]

Was time in or not?

watch it again dude... if u wanna watch two guys thanking their fans by kissing and hugging, go watch the pack and mosley fight again... u can t tell me that pack didnt wanna punch mosley in the mouth for the **** he was doing... its a disgrace to the fans and pac has a big heart.... what floyd did was fight fans deserve... this aint a ***ing sparring contest... this is the reall deal... floyd was pissed and how many hugs should ortiz get before they fight again... c'mon man

You dont want to win/end a fight in that way period. Floyd was dominating that fight from the get go, now he nor his fans cant even enjoy his win because he tainted it. Dont get caught up in technicalities, this was not a good nite for the sport of boxing.

Not everything legal is right, and not everything right is good.

exactly.

[Delusional]

Cheap victory by someone who claims to be the p4p no 1

[..David..]

I dont really like what floyd did...

BUT Espn know nothing about boxing and every real fan knows that.

For christsake i remember watching a guy saying that how can a Hall of famer like morales be fighting unknown guys like Maidana, and that Maidana was a nobody and beated him. HAHAHAHAHA in my book thats knowing nothing of boxing.