Poll of the Day > wow what an awful end to that fight

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Mayweather legit beat every hall of fame fighter of his era..


Hes criticized by tryhard armchair edgelords who criticize him for not taking high risk, low reward trap fights that "hardcores" speculated he could lose due to styles/matchup crap..

None of those fighters, and I will list them because I actually know a ton about boxing and the boxing subculture on the internet, were big money fights or even names that really hold up much in hindsight.

We're talking Antonio Margaritos, Paul Williams..recently Golovkin....

Basically big ass dudes that had like 5-6 inches of height on Floyd and mind you Floyd spent his entire career post age 30 fighting much larger men at a weight class he was probably too small for because there was more money in that division.

Much like when he fought De La Hoya at the tail end of his career at Junior Middleweight which was damn near skipping 2 weight classes while Oscar had been fighting at middleweight for years before then.



But dont believe any of the bullshit the boxing hardcore subculture spouts man.. they are as bad as the pro wrestling crowd.


A good example of that is when Floyd fought Zab Judah who was a much bigger name in America than Carlos Baldomir, being a known TV name from Brooklyn. The subculture absolutely hammered him for "ducking" Baldomir because Baldomir, who was basically an unknown journeyman took a decision off Judah recently and was the lineal champion, ergo Floyd was scared and handpicking his opponents.

It even escalated to some cringeworthy interview on ESPN where a media interviewer took Floyd to task for ducking this 41-9 journeyman who won all of one relevant fight on TV.

Floyd eventually end up fighting the dude a few months later and made him look like the journeyman bum he was. Won I think all 12 rounds.

To this day none of these so called hardcores that took him to task give him any credit.. and rightfully so, no one gives a fuck about Carlos Baldormir.

Much like no one gives a fuck about Margarito, or Paul Williams or any of these other B-grade no draw fighters that Floyd may have avoided fighting due to not making any sense logistically to fight.

Literally the entire argument is predicated on the fact that people hate Floyd for many reasons (his personality being number 1) and they want to see him lose, and in there heads they think of all these scenarios where he would lose, like losing to an athletic, awkward 6'2 oversized welterweight against a 5'7 dude fighting 2-3 divisions up from his optimal weight class(peak Floyd was basically a Super Featherweight or a Lightweight) completely ignoring the fact that this fighter really had not earned the right to fight Mayweather whatsoever.

i think FM fans have a false understanding of why people dislike him


let me put it to you this way, do you think Romans went to the Colosseum to watch fuckers hide behind their shields and dance around the arena for an hour? that sounds fucking boring. just like every FM fight
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Mexican style boxers are kniwn for coming forward and pressing the action. Conor is a counter puncher and he actually had some decent counters landed.

GGG is a good example of a mexican style fighter. Floyd wasnt really, he wasnt planting his feet and plodding forward, but he was, in the later rounds, leading the action.

Troll_Police_ posted...

i think FM fans have a false understanding of why people dislike him


let me put it to you this way, do you think Romans went to the Colosseum to watch fuckers hide behind their shields and dance around the arena for an hour? that sounds fucking boring. just like every FM fight

I personally don't have an opinion on mayweather as i'm not a boxing fan. but it does bug me some when someone so cocky does actually become the best at what they do. they are just the kind of people I like to see lose.
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Lol. People want to see Floyd fight McGregor in the Octagon now? Are people forgetting that McGregor came after Floyd?
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YahooPoster posted...

Lol. People want to see Floyd fight McGregor in the Octagon now? Are people forgetting that McGregor came after Floyd?

well of course it wasn't going to be the other way around. i'm actually very surprised he took this fight. undefeated and retired wasn't he? why risk his perfect record? I just thought it would be entertaining. if he did it and beat Connor the man would have serious bragging rights over connor
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mooreandrew58 posted...

now mayweather needs to man up and step into the octagon. its only fair imo

Haha why would he ever do that? He knows he can't win an MMA fight against McGregor.
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mooreandrew58 posted...

YahooPoster posted...

Lol. People want to see Floyd fight McGregor in the Octagon now? Are people forgetting that McGregor came after Floyd?

well of course it wasn't going to be the other way around. i'm actually very surprised he took this fight. undefeated and retired wasn't he? why risk his perfect record? I just thought it would be entertaining. if he did it and beat Connor the man would have serious bragging rights over connor

He was in trouble financially and the IRS is after him. He begged them to wait till after the fight.

Lil69Leo posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

YahooPoster posted...

Lol. People want to see Floyd fight McGregor in the Octagon now? Are people forgetting that McGregor came after Floyd?

well of course it wasn't going to be the other way around. i'm actually very surprised he took this fight. undefeated and retired wasn't he? why risk his perfect record? I just thought it would be entertaining. if he did it and beat Connor the man would have serious bragging rights over connor

He was in trouble financially and the IRS is after him. He begged them to wait till after the fight.

ah so it was money. why do rich people seem to have IRS problems. should have befriended trump he would have taught him how to get around it.
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YahooPoster posted...

Lol. People want to see Floyd fight McGregor in the Octagon now? Are people forgetting that McGregor came after Floyd?

We just want to see who the better fighter is overall. If Mayweather's performance in mma is better than McGreggor's performance in boxing then we'll know Mayweather is the best fighter.

I wouldn't say Mayweather has zero mma experience. He's a boxer after all.
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

YahooPoster posted...

Lol. People want to see Floyd fight McGregor in the Octagon now? Are people forgetting that McGregor came after Floyd?

We just want to see who the better fighter is overall. If Mayweather's performance in mma is better than McGreggor's performance in boxing then we'll know Mayweather is the best fighter

Mayweather is past his prime and 41, and untrained completely in MMA. Silly argument.

This isn't the 50s where they fight til the guy is on the mat as much as I would have enjoyed it.

“You never got me down, May”
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Shenti_Reborn posted...

okay let's see pretty boy floyd fight conor in mma then

aka a real fight?

It's not a real fight unless it's on the streets and there are no rules. Conor would win the street fight, but stfu about sanctioned MMA fights being "real fights". It's sports just like boxing.

OmegaTomHank posted...

while Oscar had been fighting at middleweight for years before then.

To be fair Oscar looked half dead in that fight. He was not the golden boy of old. Prime Mayweather would have easily beaten prime De La Hoya, but that fight was a joke.

Duck-I-Says posted...

Shenti_Reborn posted...

okay let's see pretty boy floyd fight conor in mma then

aka a real fight?

It's not a real fight unless it's on the streets and there are no rules. Conor would win the street fight, but stfu about sanctioned MMA fights being "real fights". It's sports just like boxing.

actually i've heard stories of MMA fighters getting destroyed in street fights. street fights will always be a different animal to any sanctioned fighting sport.
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I was actually at a race track with some people and kept updating everyone on the events. The hype got real when the delay due to PPV issues hit.
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I like how McGregor said that, if the ref didn't call it when he did, Mayweather would have gotten crippled
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