Mayweather vs Cotto

[JavierDLC]

Awesome pics JB!

So what did you think about the fight? Lot's of people are whining about Floyd'd performance but I think he did great! Cotto did extremely good!

I dont think this Cotto is the same one that fought Pacquiao. Im not saying he would beat him but he would have made the fight way more competitive at this weight.

[J.B.]

Originally Posted by JavierDLC

Awesome pics JB!

So what did you think about the fight? Lot's of people are whining about Floyd'd performance but I think he did great! Cotto did extremely good!

I dont think this Cotto is the same one that fought Pacquiao. Im not saying he would beat him but he would have made the fight way more competitive at this weight.

I think it was a great fight for Floyd. No matter how he performs, people that don't like him are rarely objective in their criticism. He could have knocked Cotto out cold in the first round and they would just say he should have fought Cotto years ago and now he needs to fight Manny. If Floyd would have lost, they would just say; "See, I told you so, Floyd sucks".

Clearly, Floyd isn't the same fighter he was 5 years ago, but even with all that money he has, it's not like Floyd can buy a fountain of youth. Fighters age, and reflexes slow down, but the great ones are able to adapt and remain relatively successful into the latter part of their careers. Floyd at 35 is still a better technical boxer than anybody else in the business, but over his last few fights he's really started to show everybody that he can stand in the pocket and bring the fight to his opponent, even if that means he gets roughed up a little bit in the process. If anything, that only makes me believe that Floyd will beat Manny even more than I already did. People are shocked that Floyd got his nose bloodied by Cotto, but thats only because they have never seen Floyd with a bloody nose, or any real damage for that matter. Let's not forget, Cotto did some damage to Pac's ear, and Manny had to wrap his whole head up!

[J.B.]

http://www.boxingscene.com/floyd-may...rs-seat--52647

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is Back in Superfight Driver’s Seat


By Lyle Fitzsimmons

I got an e-mail from an old friend yesterday.

“I made this statement to a colleague earlier today,” it said.

“Mayweather’s an all-timer. I just thought I'd share.”

Hardly an Earth-shattering proclamation on its own, but in context it represents a dramatic shift.

A music guru who dabbles in boxing, the friend had been an entrenched member of the “OK, Floyd's pretty good, but he's beatable ... and I don't like him” club for as long as I've known him.

He was among the misguided who thought the late Arturo Gatti had a chance to do more than bleed, fall and surrender against Mayweather a few years back in Atlantic City.

And he's included a caveat with every pro-Money pick since, wistfully pining “I'd be happy to be wrong” before admitting that the foe – from Baldomir and Judah to Mosley and Ortiz – had little chance.

The same was true over the weekend.

Bless his heart, my pal approached Saturday night’s main event with his recurring brand of hopeful zeal and he carried it proudly through the ring intros – where the always-sturdy Cotto looked properly grim and clearly contentious upon hearing the “touch gloves” admonition from referee Tony Weeks.

Poor guy, I felt kinda bad for him.

Well... almost.

Because the more I think about it – and regardless of any “I've seen the light” e-mails since – the more I have to shake my head toward anyone who expected anything other than a gutty and effective performance from Mayweather, or cringe at those who walked away from it with anything other than a “Now I get it, Floyd's the best” mindset.

Even the ardent Cotto fans – the ones who insisted Mayweather cherry-picked past foes and was incapable of handling an elite who’d try to rough him up – had to walk out of the MGM Grand firmly comprehending their guy, while game and gritty, had come out on the short end of a street fight.

And it's not because Cotto's all that bad.

But because Floyd is just that good.

In fact, the only ones still reticent to believe are blind faith followers of a certain Filipino belt-hoarder, a crowd somehow maintaining Mayweather has sidestepped their guy and insisting that their man’s last-round TKO of Cotto 30 months ago – in spite of a dubious catch-weight mandate by a certain asset-covering promoter – was somehow superior to a decisive victory at nine pounds heavier.

In the end, as the new champ said afterward, it’s just Arum being Arum.

But hey, I'm no fool. I understand the economics.

The Top Rank conglomerate had everything to gain with a Cotto surprise – perhaps setting up a nice, safe rematch at another concocted scale number – and everything to lose if Mayweather not only beat the WBA champion as expected, but beat him up to boot.

The latter provides the company’s arch nemesis clear pound-for-pound leverage – namely an increasing flow of positive public opinion – to demand that the fight with Pacquiao be made once and for all on his terms, with his testing demands and with his split of the proceeds.

In other words, it’s a perfect storm of reality for Arum.

While his prized possession made a welterweight name with blowouts of flawed targets coming off defining losses – Pacquiao’s last seven opponents were a combined 19-8-1 with three KO defeats in their four lead-in fights – Mayweather foes over the same stretch include four reigning champions, two who’d not lost in this century and none who’d been stopped in the fight’s scheduled weight class.

And unlike the cash-grabbers and no-hopers who’d sell souls and concede details to get a spot on a Top Rank poster, Mayweather is fully aware of his bargaining position and has no urgency to accommodate.

He said he wants the fight. He said he’ll take the fight.

But he won’t back down just to get it made.

And the more time passes, the more fans are thinking he shouldn’t have to.

Especially when the 40 in 60/40 still means more than they’ll make in 10 lifetimes, and the needle prick is no more intrusive than the typical minimum-wage job requirement.

Come June 9, after beating a guy with precisely one lead-in fight above 140 since 2007, it’ll be interesting to see what tack the traditionally parrot-like Pacquiao – trained to chirp the “I fight who my promoter tells me to” mantra – decides to take in response to Mayweather’s verbal gauntlet.

If he breaks script, we might have a fun December after all.

If not, at least for ol’ Bob’s sake, try to act excited for Marquez IV.

[J.B.]

Floyd posted this pic to Facebook...

" Money Mayweather & Justin Bank Roll Bieber"


C'mon Floyd, you're killing me...

[JavierDLC]

Originally Posted by J.B.

That Article is 100% Accurate

[J.B.]

Originally Posted by JavierDLC

That Article is 100% Accurate

I would give more credit to Bradley than Lyle did.

[JavierDLC]

Originally Posted by J.B.

I would give more credit to Bradley than Lyle did.

He is a pretty good fighter but do you think he has a legit chance of beating Manny?

I don't think so, not even with that big @$$ head that he has and loves to cut people with.

[J.B.]

Originally Posted by JavierDLC

He is a pretty good fighter but do you think he has a legit chance of beating Manny?

I don't think so, not even with that big @$$ head that he has and loves to cut people with.

Call me crazy, but yes I do.

I thought Cotto had a legit chance to beat Floyd too...It is what it is... lol

[JavierDLC]

Originally Posted by J.B.

Call me crazy, but yes I do.

I thought Cotto had a legit chance to beat Floyd too...It is what it is... lol

I Hope he does LOL maybe then Pacman will leave Arum which I Doubt.

[J.B.]

Originally Posted by JavierDLC

I Hope he does LOL maybe then Pacman will leave Arum which I Doubt.

Isn't his contract up after this fight or the next one? There has already been rumors that Pac was talking to Floyd behind the old mans back. I hate to sound cold, but I think Bob being alive is the only thing that has REALLY kept this from happening. Not to say if he died tomorrow, the fight would get signed, but over the last 5 years....YUP....