Mayweather vs. Tenshin live stream at RIZIN 14 PPV BLOCKED in North America

[Ruthless-RKO]

For the record, I feel that the comments made by Dan Rafael and Andre Ward were unnecessary, but I was admittedly very surprised about the accuracy of the SOG’s claim!

TBF, Dan Rafael admitted he doesn't take anything away from Mayweather..

For anyone who actually paid for the event specifically to see Mayweather assault Nasukawa, you got what you deserved. But, again, nobody should blame Mayweather for taking the money.

He played this to the hilt. He came to the ring with a baseball hat emblazoned with "U$A" and wore trunks that had his own image on one leg and hundred-dollar bills on the other.

Perhaps Mayweather, who laid it on a bit thick given that Tenshin showed zero aptitude for boxing, will in fact remain retired from real boxing.

After all, if he can make millions for not training seriously, showing up late to the arena and going through the motions of fighting for a couple of minutes, take the money -- if anyone would actually pay for another one of these farces.

[Enlightened-One]

Floyd's bout was only ever advertised as an exhibition. There was no pretence for it to represent anything other than that.

I know, I was more commenting on the comparison to GGG and Hagler. FMM is just milking stupid people of their money, if he wants a competitive exhibition maybe he should let them fight at their chosen martial art.

I can agree with that.

[boxing_rocks]

First of all, I don’t agree with Dan Rafael’s criticism of Floyd Mayweather Jr’s exhibition bout against Tenshin Nasukawa, since the vast majority of fighters would have done the same thing and it’s novelty events such as this one that attracts widespread interest from the mainstream casuals.

And I feel that Andre Ward’s comments about so-called “boogiemen” to be a tad inappropriate assuming he’s referring to the likes of GGG, even though he is technically correct.

I know I’m going to get aggressively ridiculed for having the sheer audacity for bothering to fact-check Ward’s claim, even though it is almost certainly correct.

We know for certain that GGG has been competing at 165lbs as an amateur and 160lbs as a pro for more than sixteen years.

It’s also a statistical fact that 16 of Golovkin’s 22 world title bouts were against men that competed in lower weight classes prior to their bout against the Kazakh:

• Kell Brook (welterweight)
• David Lemieux (light middleweight)
• Willie Monroe Jr. (light middleweight)
• Marco Antonio Rubio (welterweight)
• Osumanu Adama (light middleweight)
• Matthew Macklin (welterweight)
• Nobuhiro Ishida (light middleweight)
• Gabriel Rosado (light middleweight)
• Grzegorz Proksa (light middleweight)
• Makoto Fuchigami (light middleweight)
• Kassim Ouma (welterweight)
• Nilson Julio Tapia (light middleweight)
• Canelo (light welterweight)
• Vanes Martirosyan (light middleweight)
• Milton Nunez (light middleweight)

For the record, I feel that the comments made by Dan Rafael and Andre Ward were unnecessary, but I was admittedly very surprised about the accuracy of the SOG’s claim!

At least they were boxers and around the same weight as GGG at the time. That Tenshin fight was a joke. Hagler, who many rate as one of the greatest MWs in history, his best opponents were Hearns (welterweight), SRL (welterweight) and Duran (lightweight).

Most of fighters are moving up in weight, as they start pro careers relatively young and their bodies mature. You can compile a similar list for Canelo or Hagler.