Comments Thread For: Mayweather: Davis is Taking Chances, Rolling The Dice Like I Did

[Combat Talk Radio]

Mosley did not take advantage of Mayweather's youth. But when both fighters were hot, Mayweather ducked Mosley until he was old.

There's one thing I want to clear up. Mayweather talks about he wanted to fight me back in 1999, 2000. But he didn't want to fight me when he was at 130 pounds. I was at 135 and was forced to move up because I couldn't make the weight anymore.

In other words he wanted a catchweight so he could outsize Floyd and couldn't meet Floyd at his weight. No problem. Except...

The next time he claimed he wanted to fight me was when I had just fought Vargas twice and someone else. And after the fight I had a headbutt that had loosened my tooth. I said give me a month and I'll fight you.

I see. So Floyd called him out TWICE and Mosley had an excuse each time. Okay. And lost in this shuffle is Mosley's problems with HGH (which Floyd put on display during the pressers).

"At the end of the day", Floyd was the one doing the call outs, Mosley was the one avoiding. It wasn't until "Money" Mayweather that Mosley started screaming for that fight.

Oscar retired AFTER Mayweather refused to give him the rematch EVEN though there was a rematch clause. Mayweather came out of retirement when Oscar retired. I think this was the clearest Duck of all time.

Come on. You're better than this.

"I'm announcing my retirement because...when I can't compete at the highest level, it's not fair. It's not fair to me...and I've come to the conclusion that it's over. It's over inside the ring for me. And my decision was based on a lot. Now I understand why athletes have such a tough time retiring from something that you feel so passionate about from your sport that you're always thinking you can try one more time, you're always thinking you don't want to let nobody down. But this decision was based on making sure, first of all, that I do not disappoint anyone when I step inside the ring."

Pacquiao- Its true what you said about Pacquiao. But on the flip side Mayweather didn't take Manny's offer either of a 50/50 (50/50 excluded both fighters from random drug test)

Mayweather was the A-side. B-side fighters don't get to call splits. And Manny wasn't making anywhere near the money Floyd was making, so why would he deserve 50%? That's just blindness about Manny's standing at the time. When you're the B-side, you accept what the A-side offers and beat them so you can become the A-side. Which is what Floyd had to do against De La Hoya for the same reason.

Mayweather clearly did not want to fight an up and coming Margacheto. Mayweather had no idea he was cheating. (Mayweather's ducking senses proved him right on this one as Margarito was proven to be cheating. Mayweather had no idea.)

Mayweather didn't want to fight anybody that would have no positive impact on where he wanted to be. Cheato had no benefit to him except to the 'eye test' pundits. You're using hindsight to justify that when you know full well that at the time, Cheato's resume was garbage and was sparking the B-level. He was then what Crawford is now - a good fighter that sparks B-levels. And for the same reasons, people wanted Floyd to face the latest 'eye test' whether that be Cory Spinks, Margacheato or pre-De La Hoya Manny.

Nah. Mayweather refused that fight because he didn't want to have his opponents dictated to him anymore by someone (Arum) who was clearly trying to get their 'eye test' fighter over. Had Cheato sparked out Mosley, Floyd would have turned to Ellerbe and said "Make the DAMN fight". Instead, we saw what happened.

[Death_Adder]

Gayweather never took any chances. All of his fights were carefully cherry picked and he made sure he had every possible advantage.

[sugar ray lenrd]

Boxing Hero,
You’re on point here! Exactly how went down. If my memories doesn’t escape me... Floyd was not a household name as Mosley was at that time. So there was no big reward in that fight him. And yes nobody knew about MargoCheato ways yet.

[Roberto Vasquez]

Mayweather is using the "if someone says its true then it must be" magic formula that works on 99% of idiots on internet forums.

It's working on me... I think Mayweather fought the best at their best and never made fighters lose weight or anything underhand like that

[eco1]

is the the clown website?

[Chrismart]

Is he, really?

[The Big Dunn]

Tank is an embarrassment . He has talent so I get why Floyd sticks with him but his lack of professionalism will catch up to him someday.

[Shadoww702]

I'm tuning in for Pascal/Jack lol

That should be a better fight IMO

[TheMyspaceDayz]

Mayweather probably thinks Broner is a ladies man like he is as well lol. Stay in school, kids. Read books.

[Bossman15]

Won’t fight Lomachenko won’t fight Lopez won’t fight Farmer but fights past primed Gamboa

Tank will fight each individual and also fight GRJ & LSC he's not ducking anyone it's called him being strategic on fighting champs and this fight will put him position to be on top and trust people and people will still hate too