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You ALL are morons... When it comes to boxing, I GUARANTEE you the name Floyd Mayweather will always be on your minds and come out your mouths until y'all dying days.... Quit lying to yourselves!! Smh.

I voted no, but that's on account of the nonsense and constant showing off. However, I am hereby changing my mind to yes. Of course he'll be missed, he's Floyd Mayweather - one of the finest boxers of this, or any generation. To be the man, you have to beat the man. People can moan about Berto, but Amir Khan has been put over by half a dozen boxers and beaten by 2 or 3 himself. I was at his fight with Diaz.....that would NOT have cut it with Mayweather. Floyd's a great fighter.
My prediction is that next year Floyd will take on Amir Khan at Wembley stadium, London - or America - OR Brook or maybe even Thurman. No problem. It really depends how much he fancies it. I don't think Floyd looks at any of these guys and feels "fear" or can't see chinks.
I happened to catch one of his earlier fights not long back on KOTV in the UK - versus Sharmba Mitchell - another quality operator. Floyd put him away, amazing speed. He has "engaged" when he's needed to and as such he has earned the right to be in the position he is now.

i will miss his show bizz as i grew up in the wwf era, and there shows where something else, so i love a boxing show. as a fighter ,i wont miss him.but i respected him big time as a boxer.true champion best ive seen

Great fighters are always missed eventually.

I know I'll miss him for sure as the man is and always will be a boxing icon. He may suck as a person in a lot of ways, but that doesn't change his in ring ability. He's got legions of haters who will be bored out of their minds after he retires, and legions of jock sniffers who will be bored out of their minds after he retires.

I really look forward to decreased moronic content and posts on here from both his haters and lovers after he retires though. That sounds grand.

He was a once in a generation fighter. But I won't miss him. Nor am I convinced this is the last we will see of him.

He'll break the record with either a rematch with Pac or the winner of Cotto Canello and then he'll retire.

MayPac was enough to generate record profits and sink boxing at the same time.

Good riddance.

All fight fans will miss a fighter of his quality.

Whether he is a nice man or not, or whether you like his style or not, one thing cannot be denied, he is one of the truly great pugilists that the sport of boxing has produced.

Nightmare Roy wrote:He'll break the record with either a rematch with Pac or the winner of Cotto Canello and then he'll retire.

Is it actually a "record" though? Boxing is subjective. What if one day Marciano's manager had said your opponent can't fight and we can't find anyone in this city that will fight you, so it's off. Then he'd only be on 48. It means absolutely nothing - there are so many variables that make it so meaningless - such as the level of each opponent, the duration of each bout, the circumstances around the bout, the differences in Boxing between one era and the other.......this 49-0 business is nothing more than something that can, if decided, be cynically employed to con a few very unimaginative people out of a bit more cash.
If you'd taken say, Ed Moses' 400m hurdles World Record, and somebody challenged it today - then both men are pretty much attempting the same task, so the record is meaningful. This is not the case with boxing numbers.

I never cared about the lower divisions anyway, why looking at 100 pound kids knowing every normal person would easely destroy them if they were in a serious fight?


I wouldn't miss him, I recently heard he even needed to cheat as well to be victorious.

...First of all, it certainly depends on which part of the world you're coming from. Considering the fact that Floyd has basically never left his backyard, I would assume he's made a much bigger splash in the place of his birth as well as a very few places he traveled to und fought from. I actually believe his unwillingness to travel will backfire on him...

Second, "missing" is too strong a word. Will I really miss him? NO...will I remember him considering everything he's achieved in the ring and has done outside the ring?...of course, I will...

Records are all well and good but the QUALITY of the fight is what matters. Does it leave an impression on you? Were there moments of glory and anticipation? Was there excitement during the fight which caused you to cheer, cringe, or cry with joy?

Those are the fighters and fights you remember. Floyd will be in the record books but it will be for his fight number, not in the hearts of the fans who fell asleep during his fights.

asdfjkl wrote:I never cared about the lower divisions anyway, why looking at 100 pound kids knowing every normal person would easely destroy them if they were in a serious fight?


I wouldn't miss him, I recently heard he even needed to cheat as well to be victorious.

You really don't understand boxing do you?

A mate of mine who was only a relatively successful amateur boxer, and who weight 8 stone, beat the living shit out of some 14 stone rugby bloke. He hit him so many times he didn't know which way his arse was facing. Even an average pro boxer would beat the living daylights out of most people on the street. Most people haven't got a clue how to even throw a punch correctly.

I'm much more excited by the prospect of his hubris ruining his retirement than anything he delivered in the ring.

jamesmcdonnell wrote:

asdfjkl wrote:I never cared about the lower divisions anyway, why looking at 100 pound kids knowing every normal person would easely destroy them if they were in a serious fight?


I wouldn't miss him, I recently heard he even needed to cheat as well to be victorious.

You really don't understand boxing do you?

A mate of mine who was only a relatively successful amateur boxer, and who weight 8 stone, beat the living poo out of some 14 stone rugby bloke. He hit him so many times he didn't know which way his arse was facing. Even an average pro boxer would beat the living daylights out of most people on the street. Most people haven't got a clue how to even throw a punch correctly.

Lol, your mouth is bigger as your brain, just because you found someone big that doesn't take a child serious doesn't mean he's weaker.
I know a guy that was punched by a girl and let her get away with it as well, doesn't mean he couldn't hurt her, he just didn't, that's all.

asdfjkl wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:

asdfjkl wrote:I never cared about the lower divisions anyway, why looking at 100 pound kids knowing every normal person would easely destroy them if they were in a serious fight?


I wouldn't miss him, I recently heard he even needed to cheat as well to be victorious.

You really don't understand boxing do you?

A mate of mine who was only a relatively successful amateur boxer, and who weight 8 stone, beat the living poo out of some 14 stone rugby bloke. He hit him so many times he didn't know which way his arse was facing. Even an average pro boxer would beat the living daylights out of most people on the street. Most people haven't got a clue how to even throw a punch correctly.

Lol, your mouth is bigger as your brain, just because you found someone big that doesn't take a child serious doesn't mean he's weaker.
I know a guy that was punched by a girl and let her get away with it as well, doesn't mean he couldn't hurt her, he just didn't, that's all.

He wasn't a child, he was 17, the guy was a few years older, the bigger guy started the fight, got his arse whupped, and then staggered off bleeding like a drunk. He didn't have any choice, he just got the beejeezus kicked out of him in about 30 seconds.

I watched a semi pro (occasional) boxer at university floor about 10 rugby blokes after one of them lobbed pint glass (accidentally) into his girlfriends face across a room - they all came rushing at him and then got smacked to the floor again and again. In the end the guy was restrained to save them from him and these were big fit guys too. Problem is, none of them could get near him because as they came in windmilling he just kept popping them in the fact with hard straight shots.

Fact is, boxing is a martial art and it's one that is effective, and in the hands of someone who has actually competed it will absolutely devastate someone untrained, I've seen plenty of big strong looking blokes get battered when they started on someone who actually knew what they are doing.

Cool story bro, but let's get real, in a serious fight boxers wouldn't be any good no matter how good they box.
In a real fight people kick, and then you simply get things like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ7bbmjtAB0

And note that the kickboxer isn't even a top kickboxer, but a normal boxer simply has like 0 chance.

Your 10 rugby player story might fool some idiots, but not any fighter that knows what he's talking about.

asdfjkl wrote:Cool story bro, but let's get real, in a serious fight boxers wouldn't be any good no matter how good they box.
In a real fight people kick, and then you simply get things like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ7bbmjtAB0

And note that the kickboxer isn't even a top kickboxer, but a normal boxer simply has like 0 chance.

Your 10 rugby player story might fool some idiots, but not any fighter that knows what he's talking about.

You seem obsessed with kickboxing, not really sure why you're on a boxing forum.

I know what I saw, you can believe I'm a liar if you wish, given how idiotic your statement have been on here thus far, I have zero worries about your opinion. Go back to obsessing over dutch bodybuilders who once considered a career in MMA - and leave serious talk about boxing, to people who actually follow and know something about the sport.

In any case where was I talking about a boxer against a kickboxer, I was talking about a boxer against someone who doesn't participate in combat sports.

Obviously a kickboxer against a boxer is going to have the advantage over a pure boxer in a fight where kicking is allowed. We've seen this again and again in MMA - where boxers are at a huge disadvantage against kickers and grapplers. If you took a kickboxer and put them in a boxing match where no kicks were allowed, they'd obviously lose too, as their punching would be inadequate due to the stance kickboxers fight out of.