By Marv Dumon, Examiner.com
San Antonio, Texas - Boxing is a serious sport, but on occassion it is good to enjoy some good, lighthearted, harmless fun.
Comedian Kevin Hart poked some light fun at undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr (41-0) and his trainer Roger Mayweather in a recent YouTube video.
In the sketch, Hart and his associate infuse a dose of humor into the boxer's popular training regimen, including Mayweather's routine on the mitts.
Hart is currently on a North American tour doing stand-up comedy shows at various clubs.
The video prompted Floyd to comment on his Facebook page:
Everybody go check out Kevin trying to be me. This dude is funny!
Mayweather also posted a Break.com video of a kid "getting owned" by a speedbag. "This kid should watch a few of my training videos."
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Al Bernstein: “ I think Pacquiao-Mayweather is going to be made” -- Eastside Boxing
By Geoffrey Ciani, Eastside Boxing
On Andre Ward’s performance in his group stage two victory against Allan Green:“Well he was outstanding and one of the things that made it even better was t hat he altered what he did against Mikkel Kessler in that brilliant performance. He decided that one of the things he could do against Allan Green was get in close and smother the big left hook of Green and land a lot of punches. He told us he was going to try and do that a little early in the fight but it worked so well for him that he kept it up during a lot of the fight. He’s a very smart fighter. He’s clever, he knows what he’s doing in the ring, he follows Virgil Hunter’s game plan perfectly, and he was too good and too disciplined for Allan Green.”
On whether he was surprised by how ineffective Allan Green was in his fight with Ward:
“Well yes and no. Yes, because this was the most important moment of his career and if ever he was going to show us what he had, and he kept telling everyone that would listen for weeks and weeks leading up to the fight that he was going to do it, and even as much as when we had the fighter meeting the day before so in that sense I’m surprised, but to be perfectly honest, Allan Green has been an underachiever so the burden of proof was on him to show that he’s not and he didn’t on that evening..”
On criticisms from fans who claim Ward’s performance was “boring”:
“What did he do that was boring? I’m amazed at that. I can’t even imagine how you could criticize that. He threw a lot of punches, he didn’t just pose, when he got in the inside he was working, throwing upper cuts, left hooks to the body, little short chopping right hands—what would anyone want Andre Ward to do that he didn’t do in that fight? He completely dominated it, he threw a lot of punches, the only thing he didn’t do was knock Allan Green out but beyond that he was just excellent. I didn’t find it boring. I mean, I found it boring because it was one-sided but I didn’t find Andre Ward’s performance boring.”
On who he considers to be the best super middleweight in the world right now:
“Obviously Bute is outside the tournament and so when we talk about him we’re not going to talk about in terms of this tournament. He’s clearly as good as the people in this tournament, there’s no question about that. Within the tournament, who’s going to win the tournament? That I don’t know. Even though Ward has the lead with four points, I could give you the rationale for several people still winning this tournament. For instance, I think Andre Dirrell has a very good chance to beat Andre Ward in the next fight. I really do, based on the way he fought against Abraham and based on the match-up of styles which is of course often what it boils down to. Andre Dirrell will probably need to win that fight in order to make it to the semi-finals. Arthur Abraham, I don’t think you could rule him out even though he gave a poor performance against Dirrell. You still have Froch, Kessler fought better against Froch then he had before. Lucian Bute would certainly be right in that mix. I don’t know that I could pick one that I would say right now I’m absolutely sure is the best, even with Ward’s two brilliant performances.”
On whether he believes Ward has the mental strength to continue forward and fulfill the potential he’s show in these first two rounds:
“Well he definitely has the mental strength. That’s the one part of Andre Ward that no human on the planet can question. He’s the most—I’m going to say the most, I’m not even going to qualify—he’s the most disciplined, organized, and focused fighter in the sport today, bar none. There isn’t anybody that touches him in those departments and no fighter, none in the sport of boxing right now, has a better or more organized corner. So all of that stuff he’s got going for him, that isn’t even in question. The only question with him, and the one that of course is with any fighter, is he going to see somebody whose style matches up much better than him (aka-maybe Andre Dirrell)? Is he going to face a big puncher who is going to land something that’s monstrous and be simply too much for him? He’s been down once in his career and he was hurt one other time, any fighter can be. Barring the answer to those questions, he reduces the chances that he’ll lose. He goes in there minimizing the chances of a loss as much as a fighter can and gives himself as good a chance to win as anyone and you can’t ask for too much more than that.”
On what he believes was the biggest surprise so far in the Super Six:
“Well, one of the first big surprised came when Kessler lost so dramatically to Ward. You know, certainly Ward could have won the fight but the way he lost was I thought kind of shocking, so that was a big surprise. The other surprise to me was how well Andre Dirrell did against Arthur Abraham. He did everything that you would want him to do in that fight. Of course, he won on a disqualification, but he performed so well during that fight so that kind of surprised me as well. The other surprising part I think is that other than Ward, nobody won two fights in a row so that’s pretty interesting.”
On who he thinks suffered the toughest break so far in the Super Six:
“Well, Kessler did a little bit in a way even though he fought poorly and was going to lose anyway, all those clashes of heads were difficult, so that added to his woes and he kind of got a tough break. I thought Andre Dirrell got a tough break, you could say, in not getting the decision against Froch in a close fight and then I would say Froch against Kessler—he could have easily been given that decision, very close fight. If fighters wanted to look at things that could have gone another way for them, those three certainly could look at it. I wouldn’t say Abraham got a tough break because I think he deserved to be disqualified.”
On which group stage three match-ups he believes are most intriguing and potentially most exciting:
“I think the most exciting could be Froch-Abraham because Froch is going to land a bunch of punches, try and get through that defense, will land something of note, and then I think Abraham when he comes out of that cocoon will land something of note and both men have really good chins. A close second, though, is Dirrell and Ward. I really think that’s going to be a great fight. They’re both boxers, but Ward’s not a runner and Dirrell can’t afford to be a runner in this fight because he needs this fight so badly so he’ll fight more like he did against Abraham, moving but still engaging and throwing punches, so I think that’s a really good fight. I would tell you that Green-Kessler is going to be good but I don’t know if Allan Green can summon up a good effort. Stylistically it’s a perfect fight for both fighters. They’re both in front of each other, they’re both power punchers, Kessler has the edge in hand speed and combination punching but if Allan Green comes to fight and is ready, it should be a really good fight between him and Kessler.”
On whether he believes having tournaments like the Super Six in other divisions would be good for boxing:
“I think the concept is good. One of the thing that makes this one good, and I think it’s a part of the equation, when we have single eliminations tournaments it’s good, it’s fun, but with single elimination tournaments you may have gotten the wrong style that day or whatever. When it’s not a single elimination like this it’s really interesting. These are not easily put together, though. Really, with all the promoters in boxing that have to get involved in this, all the different managers as evidenced by Shaw making that suggestion—which I also find interesting that he decided to go to HBO to suggest a tournament after he started one on Showtime, but that’s another story. It’s interesting. He was just suggesting what I think was a single elimination and he still couldn’t get four fighters involved so it shows how difficult it is. I know there’s been talk of a cruiserweight tournament, which by the way, is a division where—the places where these tournaments work the best, and a demonstration of that was how it didn’t work in the junior welterweight division. Those fighters have some cache already in terms of name recognition and notoriety and clout. Super middleweights didn’t have so much of that and they fight each other anyway. The cruiserweights are exactly the same. They clearly desperately need this kind of thing to get their names out there and they are already fighting each other on a regular basis so the cruiserweight division is probably the one where it would make the most sense.”
His views on the current health of the sport:
“Well for the most part boxing—and I think Pacquiao-Mayweather is going to be made, so in the grand scheme I think that will get there. Most of the big matches that people wanted to see were made in the last six or seven years, unlike the 90s, when boxing didn’t do it in the 1990s. That was an abyss for the sport. I think the sport has made a renaissance in the last five or six or seven years. It’s still something of a niche sport, at least in America, but then everything other than the NFL is a niche sport in America. Internationally boxing has really made great strides so I don’t see the sport in decline. I think it’s seeking its level and I think especially internationally, it’s in really healthy shape and in America the media is covering the sport a little bit more and that’s a plus.”
On how he views a potential fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr:
“Well I think it’s an interesting fight. I think we’re really going to find out in the first five rounds of that fight because Pacquiao is going to get hit with some kind of impressive right hand by Mayweather. He tends to get hit with a real quick fighter like Marquez who could hit him with the right hand. Mayweather is going to do that and Mayweather’s a good puncher, a sharp puncher, and might be physically a little bigger than Pacquiao or at least has been at higher weights more often. I think we’re going to know when Mayweather lands one of those right hands lands—did it hurt Pacquiao? Did it knock him down? Did it get him in trouble? Does it lead to more of an onslaught? If the answer is any of that, then obviously Pacquiao is in big trouble and he’s probably going to lose the fight. If, however, he gets hit with one of those right hands and he’s able to shake it off and continue with his onslaught of seventy or eighty or ninety punches a round and make Floyd Mayweather fight every second of every round, which he does not like to do, then I think this fight is going to get very interesting as we head into the second portion of it and I think that’s where Pacquiao certainly has a chance to win the fight.”
Source: eastsideboxing.com
This week’s edition of On the Ropes Boxing Radio featured an exclusive interview with Showtime boxing commentator Al Bernstein. Following Andre Ward’s impressive victory over Allan Green in the final group stage two match-up of the Super Six Boxing Classic
, Bernstein shared his views on the tournament and other aspects of the current boxing landscape. Here is some of what Al had to say:
, Bernstein shared his views on the tournament and other aspects of the current boxing landscape. Here is some of what Al had to say:On Andre Ward’s performance in his group stage two victory against Allan Green:On whether he was surprised by how ineffective Allan Green was in his fight with Ward:
“Well yes and no. Yes, because this was the most important moment of his career and if ever he was going to show us what he had, and he kept telling everyone that would listen for weeks and weeks leading up to the fight that he was going to do it, and even as much as when we had the fighter meeting the day before so in that sense I’m surprised, but to be perfectly honest, Allan Green has been an underachiever so the burden of proof was on him to show that he’s not and he didn’t on that evening..”
On criticisms from fans who claim Ward’s performance was “boring”:
“What did he do that was boring? I’m amazed at that. I can’t even imagine how you could criticize that. He threw a lot of punches, he didn’t just pose, when he got in the inside he was working, throwing upper cuts, left hooks to the body, little short chopping right hands—what would anyone want Andre Ward to do that he didn’t do in that fight? He completely dominated it, he threw a lot of punches, the only thing he didn’t do was knock Allan Green out but beyond that he was just excellent. I didn’t find it boring. I mean, I found it boring because it was one-sided but I didn’t find Andre Ward’s performance boring.”
On who he considers to be the best super middleweight in the world right now:
“Obviously Bute is outside the tournament and so when we talk about him we’re not going to talk about in terms of this tournament. He’s clearly as good as the people in this tournament, there’s no question about that. Within the tournament, who’s going to win the tournament? That I don’t know. Even though Ward has the lead with four points, I could give you the rationale for several people still winning this tournament. For instance, I think Andre Dirrell has a very good chance to beat Andre Ward in the next fight. I really do, based on the way he fought against Abraham and based on the match-up of styles which is of course often what it boils down to. Andre Dirrell will probably need to win that fight in order to make it to the semi-finals. Arthur Abraham, I don’t think you could rule him out even though he gave a poor performance against Dirrell. You still have Froch, Kessler fought better against Froch then he had before. Lucian Bute would certainly be right in that mix. I don’t know that I could pick one that I would say right now I’m absolutely sure is the best, even with Ward’s two brilliant performances.”
On whether he believes Ward has the mental strength to continue forward and fulfill the potential he’s show in these first two rounds:
“Well he definitely has the mental strength. That’s the one part of Andre Ward that no human on the planet can question. He’s the most—I’m going to say the most, I’m not even going to qualify—he’s the most disciplined, organized, and focused fighter in the sport today, bar none. There isn’t anybody that touches him in those departments and no fighter, none in the sport of boxing right now, has a better or more organized corner. So all of that stuff he’s got going for him, that isn’t even in question. The only question with him, and the one that of course is with any fighter, is he going to see somebody whose style matches up much better than him (aka-maybe Andre Dirrell)? Is he going to face a big puncher who is going to land something that’s monstrous and be simply too much for him? He’s been down once in his career and he was hurt one other time, any fighter can be. Barring the answer to those questions, he reduces the chances that he’ll lose. He goes in there minimizing the chances of a loss as much as a fighter can and gives himself as good a chance to win as anyone and you can’t ask for too much more than that.”
On what he believes was the biggest surprise so far in the Super Six:
“Well, one of the first big surprised came when Kessler lost so dramatically to Ward. You know, certainly Ward could have won the fight but the way he lost was I thought kind of shocking, so that was a big surprise. The other surprise to me was how well Andre Dirrell did against Arthur Abraham. He did everything that you would want him to do in that fight. Of course, he won on a disqualification, but he performed so well during that fight so that kind of surprised me as well. The other surprising part I think is that other than Ward, nobody won two fights in a row so that’s pretty interesting.”
On who he thinks suffered the toughest break so far in the Super Six:
“Well, Kessler did a little bit in a way even though he fought poorly and was going to lose anyway, all those clashes of heads were difficult, so that added to his woes and he kind of got a tough break. I thought Andre Dirrell got a tough break, you could say, in not getting the decision against Froch in a close fight and then I would say Froch against Kessler—he could have easily been given that decision, very close fight. If fighters wanted to look at things that could have gone another way for them, those three certainly could look at it. I wouldn’t say Abraham got a tough break because I think he deserved to be disqualified.”
On which group stage three match-ups he believes are most intriguing and potentially most exciting:
“I think the most exciting could be Froch-Abraham because Froch is going to land a bunch of punches, try and get through that defense, will land something of note, and then I think Abraham when he comes out of that cocoon will land something of note and both men have really good chins. A close second, though, is Dirrell and Ward. I really think that’s going to be a great fight. They’re both boxers, but Ward’s not a runner and Dirrell can’t afford to be a runner in this fight because he needs this fight so badly so he’ll fight more like he did against Abraham, moving but still engaging and throwing punches, so I think that’s a really good fight. I would tell you that Green-Kessler is going to be good but I don’t know if Allan Green can summon up a good effort. Stylistically it’s a perfect fight for both fighters. They’re both in front of each other, they’re both power punchers, Kessler has the edge in hand speed and combination punching but if Allan Green comes to fight and is ready, it should be a really good fight between him and Kessler.”
On whether he believes having tournaments like the Super Six in other divisions would be good for boxing:
“I think the concept is good. One of the thing that makes this one good, and I think it’s a part of the equation, when we have single eliminations tournaments it’s good, it’s fun, but with single elimination tournaments you may have gotten the wrong style that day or whatever. When it’s not a single elimination like this it’s really interesting. These are not easily put together, though. Really, with all the promoters in boxing that have to get involved in this, all the different managers as evidenced by Shaw making that suggestion—which I also find interesting that he decided to go to HBO to suggest a tournament after he started one on Showtime, but that’s another story. It’s interesting. He was just suggesting what I think was a single elimination and he still couldn’t get four fighters involved so it shows how difficult it is. I know there’s been talk of a cruiserweight tournament, which by the way, is a division where—the places where these tournaments work the best, and a demonstration of that was how it didn’t work in the junior welterweight division. Those fighters have some cache already in terms of name recognition and notoriety and clout. Super middleweights didn’t have so much of that and they fight each other anyway. The cruiserweights are exactly the same. They clearly desperately need this kind of thing to get their names out there and they are already fighting each other on a regular basis so the cruiserweight division is probably the one where it would make the most sense.”
His views on the current health of the sport:
“Well for the most part boxing—and I think Pacquiao-Mayweather is going to be made, so in the grand scheme I think that will get there. Most of the big matches that people wanted to see were made in the last six or seven years, unlike the 90s, when boxing didn’t do it in the 1990s. That was an abyss for the sport. I think the sport has made a renaissance in the last five or six or seven years. It’s still something of a niche sport, at least in America, but then everything other than the NFL is a niche sport in America. Internationally boxing has really made great strides so I don’t see the sport in decline. I think it’s seeking its level and I think especially internationally, it’s in really healthy shape and in America the media is covering the sport a little bit more and that’s a plus.”
On how he views a potential fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr:
“Well I think it’s an interesting fight. I think we’re really going to find out in the first five rounds of that fight because Pacquiao is going to get hit with some kind of impressive right hand by Mayweather. He tends to get hit with a real quick fighter like Marquez who could hit him with the right hand. Mayweather is going to do that and Mayweather’s a good puncher, a sharp puncher, and might be physically a little bigger than Pacquiao or at least has been at higher weights more often. I think we’re going to know when Mayweather lands one of those right hands lands—did it hurt Pacquiao? Did it knock him down? Did it get him in trouble? Does it lead to more of an onslaught? If the answer is any of that, then obviously Pacquiao is in big trouble and he’s probably going to lose the fight. If, however, he gets hit with one of those right hands and he’s able to shake it off and continue with his onslaught of seventy or eighty or ninety punches a round and make Floyd Mayweather fight every second of every round, which he does not like to do, then I think this fight is going to get very interesting as we head into the second portion of it and I think that’s where Pacquiao certainly has a chance to win the fight.”
Source: eastsideboxing.com
Holyfield says Pacquiao bigger draw than Floyd -- ABS-CBN News
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Holyfield, a 5-time world boxing champion who figured in a controversial match with Mike Tyson, said Pacquiao is expected to draw more people into a fight than Mayweather, which is why the latter doesn’t deserve the “bigger cut of the pie”.
“Pacquiao has a big crowd of people that wants to see him win because of his good attitude,” Holyfield told Brad Cooney of 8Countnews.com.
The boxing legend said one reason for the boxing community's interest in a Pacquiao-Mayweather match is that it's shaping up as a battle between “good and bad”.
“When people see Pacquiao, they look at him as the good guy, they want to see him win morally. These are the people that don't like Mayweather, so what makes this fight big is the ultimate good and evil,” he said.
Holyfield is best remembered for his heavyweight clashes with Tyson, whom he stopped by technical knockout in their 1996 match to win the World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight crown.
They had a rematch the year after, which ended in a controversial fashion after Tyson bit him in both ears in the 3rd round. A portion of Holyfield's right ear was bitten off.
"The Real Deal" remains a world champion at 47, currently holding the World Boxing Federation (WBF) heavyweight title.
Mayweather has skills; Pacquiao courage
Holyfield thinks that while Mayweather is better than Pacquiao in terms of boxing skills, the Filipino champ’s courageousness could make Floyd an “erstwhile undefeated fighter”.
“On paper you always give it to Mayweather, but on personal ability and in a guy that fights through and through, you would say Pacquiao. This is what makes this fight a toss up,” he said.
"Whoever he fights, he gives it his all. He's not gong to go in there and just put on a show that's not productive. I don't think that 60-40 is going to work," Holyfield added.
He also frowned on his fellow American’s indirect accusation claiming that Pacquiao’s boxing success has been fueled by drug use.
Mayweather's camp had demanded an Olympic-style drug testing which Pacquiao opposed. This led to the collapse of their earlier negotiations. The Filipino later gave in to the demand, agreeing to undergo blood testing 14 days before the fight.
“Why bring that steroid thing up? Either sit on the pot, or get off of the pot... If Manny is on something, they will catch him, but Mayweather don't make up the rules. Either fight the guy, or don't,” said Holyfield.
Source: abs-cbnnews.com
MANILA, Philippines – Boxing great Evander "The Real Deal" Holyfield
agreed with the camp of “Fighter of the Decade” Manny Pacquiao that Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s demand for a 60-40 cut in revenues “won’t work”.
agreed with the camp of “Fighter of the Decade” Manny Pacquiao that Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s demand for a 60-40 cut in revenues “won’t work”.Holyfield, a 5-time world boxing champion who figured in a controversial match with Mike Tyson, said Pacquiao is expected to draw more people into a fight than Mayweather, which is why the latter doesn’t deserve the “bigger cut of the pie”.The boxing legend said one reason for the boxing community's interest in a Pacquiao-Mayweather match is that it's shaping up as a battle between “good and bad”.
“When people see Pacquiao, they look at him as the good guy, they want to see him win morally. These are the people that don't like Mayweather, so what makes this fight big is the ultimate good and evil,” he said.
Holyfield is best remembered for his heavyweight clashes with Tyson, whom he stopped by technical knockout in their 1996 match to win the World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight crown.
They had a rematch the year after, which ended in a controversial fashion after Tyson bit him in both ears in the 3rd round. A portion of Holyfield's right ear was bitten off.
"The Real Deal" remains a world champion at 47, currently holding the World Boxing Federation (WBF) heavyweight title.
Mayweather has skills; Pacquiao courage
Holyfield thinks that while Mayweather is better than Pacquiao in terms of boxing skills, the Filipino champ’s courageousness could make Floyd an “erstwhile undefeated fighter”.
“On paper you always give it to Mayweather, but on personal ability and in a guy that fights through and through, you would say Pacquiao. This is what makes this fight a toss up,” he said.
"Whoever he fights, he gives it his all. He's not gong to go in there and just put on a show that's not productive. I don't think that 60-40 is going to work," Holyfield added.
He also frowned on his fellow American’s indirect accusation claiming that Pacquiao’s boxing success has been fueled by drug use.
Mayweather's camp had demanded an Olympic-style drug testing which Pacquiao opposed. This led to the collapse of their earlier negotiations. The Filipino later gave in to the demand, agreeing to undergo blood testing 14 days before the fight.
“Why bring that steroid thing up? Either sit on the pot, or get off of the pot... If Manny is on something, they will catch him, but Mayweather don't make up the rules. Either fight the guy, or don't,” said Holyfield.
Source: abs-cbnnews.com
Chavez Jr. is fighting for a grown-up identity against Duddy -- 15Rounds
By Norm Frauenheim, 15Rounds.com
No telling who was first to say that fathers fight so their sons don’t have to. But I’m guessing it was a mom, who from a ringside seat sat like a horrified witness on that inevitable night when dad got bloodied, bruised and stitched up.
It is a powerful sentiment, as simple as it is sensible. But sorry, mom, it doesn’t always apply. Floyd Mayweather Jr. is the most notable example. From his father and uncle, he inherited instinct and skill, perfected them and transformed them into a family business. Mayweather Jr. makes it work. Marvis Frazier didn’t. Former heavyweight great Joe Frazier’s son should have listened to mom before Mike Tyson sprinted out of a corner in 1986 and launched him into unconsciousness. Joe would have lasted longer.
On the scale between Mayweather and Marvis, it’s hard to say where Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. belongs. A better idea, perhaps, is forthcoming Saturday night when the son with his dad’s legendary name, athletic royalty in Mexico, faces Irish middleweight John Duddy at The Alamodome in San Antonio on a pay-per-view card.
Duddy’s credentials (29-1, 18 KOs) say that Chavez (40-0-1, 30 KOs) is finally being weaned off a sliver-spoon diet of soft opposition. It’s a step or two in an attempt to quell impatience with a young fighter whose name represents an impossible collection of expectations. Chavez’ dad is a scarred personification of Mexican pride in a stubborn willingness to endure punches and punishment in the battle to fight, always fight on.
But it’s only a name. I’m not sure whether Chavez’s 24-year-old son will ever become a good fighter. But I am sure that he will never be his father. He can’t change his name to World B Free, but he can begin to abdicate expectations that he become a chip off of Mexico’s indestructible myth. After only a four-week camp, the move to trainer Freddie Roach is still in the experimental stage. If it begins to work against Duddy, however, it might be another step in allowing him to forge an identity, a fighter in his own right instead of just Jr.
“It came to a point in my career that if I wanted to do better,’’ said Jr., whose doubters grew after he tested positive for a banned substance after his last fight seven months ago against unknown Troy Rowland. “If I wanted bigger and better things I had to make a change. I did it because I knew I needed it for my career, I still want to do great things in boxing and that’s what motivated me. I thought: Do I want to stay where I am or do I want to get better? This opportunity came and I took it and I’m very happy that I did.
“Any time you make a move to the unknown you get nervous. I wasn’t sure what to expect but once I made the decision I knew I would be capable of doing anything he asked of me. I knew I could a lot of things and wouldn’t be here now if I couldn’t.”
Unlike his compact father’s heavy-handed style of fighting on the inside in a battle of attrition, the son is longer and seemingly built for tactics dictated by a long jab and agile footwork. The knowledge, perhaps instinct, is there, Roach said in a conference call Wednesday from San Antonio.
“He has enjoyed the work, he really has,’’ Roach said, almost as though he was surprised.
Roach, like everybody else, had heard the stories about a questionable work ethic. Doubts about Jr.’s willingness to fight on were further fueled by a late arrival to Roach’s Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles. It was beginning to look as if Jr. had inherited only his father’s diva-like reputation for arriving for news conferences or workouts whenever it suited him. But, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said, Jr. was late only because of a paperwork delay in acquiring a visa.
“There were a lot of warning signs about how he is lazy and doesn’t want to work and would last a week with me,’’ said Roach, who agreed to work Jr.’s corner after Arum and Top Rank matchmaker Bruce Trampler pointedly urged Jr. to watch the work ethic exercised by Manny Pacquiao in training for Joshua Clottey. “He is a great kid, great to work with, and is very disciplined. He gets up in the morning and does his roadwork every day, comes in the gym and sparred up to 12 rounds with three sparring partners. Overall, it was a real good experience and we enjoyed each other’s company and it was a pleasure.
“I was going to give him one more day to arrive in camp before deciding I wasn’t going to have enough time with him, but then he showed up. We had four weeks together and obviously it would have been better to have more but next time around we’ll get better and better. We know what we have in front of us and we’ll be ready for it.’’
For Jr., San Antonio represents a time and place, a career cross roads, for his father and maybe one for him. He was seven years old in 1993, when his father escaped from the Alamodome with a draw with Pernell Whitaker. Most of the ringside media scored it for Whitaker. The record crowd, about 60,000 Chavez partisans, didn’t boo. They left quietly, also knowing they had just witnessed a great escape. It was a moment when there were some sure signs of erosion in the Mexican icon. JC Superstar was neither super nor a star.
Seventeen years later, the son returns to the scene with a chance to show that he is his own man, a grown-up instead of a Jr.
Even mom couldn’t argue with that.
Source: 15rounds.com
No telling who was first to say that fathers fight so their sons don’t have to. But I’m guessing it was a mom, who from a ringside seat sat like a horrified witness on that inevitable night when dad got bloodied, bruised and stitched up.
It is a powerful sentiment, as simple as it is sensible. But sorry, mom, it doesn’t always apply. Floyd Mayweather Jr. is the most notable example. From his father and uncle, he inherited instinct and skill, perfected them and transformed them into a family business. Mayweather Jr. makes it work. Marvis Frazier didn’t. Former heavyweight great Joe Frazier’s son should have listened to mom before Mike Tyson sprinted out of a corner in 1986 and launched him into unconsciousness. Joe would have lasted longer.
On the scale between Mayweather and Marvis, it’s hard to say where Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. belongs. A better idea, perhaps, is forthcoming Saturday night when the son with his dad’s legendary name, athletic royalty in Mexico, faces Irish middleweight John Duddy at The Alamodome in San Antonio on a pay-per-view card.
Duddy’s credentials (29-1, 18 KOs) say that Chavez (40-0-1, 30 KOs) is finally being weaned off a sliver-spoon diet of soft opposition. It’s a step or two in an attempt to quell impatience with a young fighter whose name represents an impossible collection of expectations. Chavez’ dad is a scarred personification of Mexican pride in a stubborn willingness to endure punches and punishment in the battle to fight, always fight on.
But it’s only a name. I’m not sure whether Chavez’s 24-year-old son will ever become a good fighter. But I am sure that he will never be his father. He can’t change his name to World B Free, but he can begin to abdicate expectations that he become a chip off of Mexico’s indestructible myth. After only a four-week camp, the move to trainer Freddie Roach is still in the experimental stage. If it begins to work against Duddy, however, it might be another step in allowing him to forge an identity, a fighter in his own right instead of just Jr.
“It came to a point in my career that if I wanted to do better,’’ said Jr., whose doubters grew after he tested positive for a banned substance after his last fight seven months ago against unknown Troy Rowland. “If I wanted bigger and better things I had to make a change. I did it because I knew I needed it for my career, I still want to do great things in boxing and that’s what motivated me. I thought: Do I want to stay where I am or do I want to get better? This opportunity came and I took it and I’m very happy that I did.
“Any time you make a move to the unknown you get nervous. I wasn’t sure what to expect but once I made the decision I knew I would be capable of doing anything he asked of me. I knew I could a lot of things and wouldn’t be here now if I couldn’t.”
Unlike his compact father’s heavy-handed style of fighting on the inside in a battle of attrition, the son is longer and seemingly built for tactics dictated by a long jab and agile footwork. The knowledge, perhaps instinct, is there, Roach said in a conference call Wednesday from San Antonio.
“He has enjoyed the work, he really has,’’ Roach said, almost as though he was surprised.
Roach, like everybody else, had heard the stories about a questionable work ethic. Doubts about Jr.’s willingness to fight on were further fueled by a late arrival to Roach’s Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles. It was beginning to look as if Jr. had inherited only his father’s diva-like reputation for arriving for news conferences or workouts whenever it suited him. But, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said, Jr. was late only because of a paperwork delay in acquiring a visa.
“There were a lot of warning signs about how he is lazy and doesn’t want to work and would last a week with me,’’ said Roach, who agreed to work Jr.’s corner after Arum and Top Rank matchmaker Bruce Trampler pointedly urged Jr. to watch the work ethic exercised by Manny Pacquiao in training for Joshua Clottey. “He is a great kid, great to work with, and is very disciplined. He gets up in the morning and does his roadwork every day, comes in the gym and sparred up to 12 rounds with three sparring partners. Overall, it was a real good experience and we enjoyed each other’s company and it was a pleasure.
“I was going to give him one more day to arrive in camp before deciding I wasn’t going to have enough time with him, but then he showed up. We had four weeks together and obviously it would have been better to have more but next time around we’ll get better and better. We know what we have in front of us and we’ll be ready for it.’’
For Jr., San Antonio represents a time and place, a career cross roads, for his father and maybe one for him. He was seven years old in 1993, when his father escaped from the Alamodome with a draw with Pernell Whitaker. Most of the ringside media scored it for Whitaker. The record crowd, about 60,000 Chavez partisans, didn’t boo. They left quietly, also knowing they had just witnessed a great escape. It was a moment when there were some sure signs of erosion in the Mexican icon. JC Superstar was neither super nor a star.
Seventeen years later, the son returns to the scene with a chance to show that he is his own man, a grown-up instead of a Jr.
Even mom couldn’t argue with that.
Source: 15rounds.com
Thursday, 24 June 2010
Mayweather's talents can't be denied -- 8CountNews
By Brad Cooney, 8CountNews.com
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Floyd has defeated every single fighter that has ever been put in front of him. Sure there's always the argument that some of his opponents have been smaller, but at the end of the day he is undefeated and has beaten some future Hall of Fame boxers. His complete destruction over Shane Mosley has shut up some of his critics, even though his critics will never admit it. He made a sure fire Hall of Fame fighter in Mosley look like an amateur. There is no denying how good a fighter has to be in order to make a Shane Mosley look that terrible.
Everybody wants to say how hard Manny Pacquiao trains, and rightfully so, but the same can be said for Floyd Mayweather Jr. Little Floyd trains like an animal, he's non stop. I have been to the last 3 Pacquiao camps out at the Wild Card, in Hollywood, CA and have witnessed first hand how hard Pacquiao trains. I have not had the opportunity to see Floyd train first hand, but I have heard and have seen video of his training camps, and they are very intense. This hard training, and his natural ability, plus the training skills of both Roger and his father, transcends into the ring each time Floyd fights.
It's easy to bash Mayweather because of some of the things that he says, and because of some of the trouble that his uncle and father have been in. It's easy to, yet one should not confuse behavior with talent. Floyd Mayweather Jr love him or hate him is not just a good fighter, the dude is straight up awesome. Floyd is also a very smart fighter. Usually it takes him about three rounds to figure out his opponent, once that happens? It's gravy from there.
If, (and it appears as that IF is getting more relevant) , this fight between Floyd and Manny does happen, we will all get to see two of the best fighters in the world do their thing. Negotiations have hit a snag as it is being reported that Floyd wants a 60/40 split. Manny has already been quoted as saying, "I will never take less than a 50/50 split" and nor should he. We will have to see if they can get past the money issue, and make this fight happen. Hopefully for the sake of the sport it will get done.
Source: 8countnews.com
Let there be no doubt, Floyd Mayweather 
Jr is one of the greatest fighters that has come along in a very long time. One must put personal feelings aside and look at just how good this guy is in the ring. You would be pretty hard pressed to find many people in the Philippines that are Floyd Mayweather Jr fans, but to not accept Floyd's boxing talents as anything less than great is crazy.
Jr is one of the greatest fighters that has come along in a very long time. One must put personal feelings aside and look at just how good this guy is in the ring. You would be pretty hard pressed to find many people in the Philippines that are Floyd Mayweather Jr fans, but to not accept Floyd's boxing talents as anything less than great is crazy. Floyd has defeated every single fighter that has ever been put in front of him. Sure there's always the argument that some of his opponents have been smaller, but at the end of the day he is undefeated and has beaten some future Hall of Fame boxers. His complete destruction over Shane Mosley has shut up some of his critics, even though his critics will never admit it. He made a sure fire Hall of Fame fighter in Mosley look like an amateur. There is no denying how good a fighter has to be in order to make a Shane Mosley look that terrible.It's easy to bash Mayweather because of some of the things that he says, and because of some of the trouble that his uncle and father have been in. It's easy to, yet one should not confuse behavior with talent. Floyd Mayweather Jr love him or hate him is not just a good fighter, the dude is straight up awesome. Floyd is also a very smart fighter. Usually it takes him about three rounds to figure out his opponent, once that happens? It's gravy from there.
If, (and it appears as that IF is getting more relevant) , this fight between Floyd and Manny does happen, we will all get to see two of the best fighters in the world do their thing. Negotiations have hit a snag as it is being reported that Floyd wants a 60/40 split. Manny has already been quoted as saying, "I will never take less than a 50/50 split" and nor should he. We will have to see if they can get past the money issue, and make this fight happen. Hopefully for the sake of the sport it will get done.
Source: 8countnews.com
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Mega-fight decision is near – Arum -- Manila Bulletin
Manila Bulletin
“We will have a resolution to this within the month,” Arum said from San Antonio, Texas, where he is promoting a card this weekend starring Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., now being trained by Freddie Roach.
Arum didn't even sound alarmed that the red-letter day is less than five months away.
“Patience, patience, patience,” said Arum, who has been in the thick of negotiations with Golden Boy Promotions (GBP) regarding what is expected to be the richest fight in boxing history.
Owned by Oscar De La Hoya, GBP is representing Mayweather in the negotiations that also involves GBP Chief Executive Officer Richard Schaefer and Top Rank president Todd DuBoef, who is Arum's stepson.
It is widely believed that the purse split and the Olympic-style drug testing are the main talking points in the talks.
Pacquiao remains firm that he will not agree to a 60-40 percentage split in favor Mayweather since he has already made a concession by agreeing to be tested randomly until 14 days before the fight.
Source: mb.com.ph
Whether the November 13 super fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather will happen will be known in the next few days, Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum
said Wednesday afternoon.
said Wednesday afternoon.“We will have a resolution to this within the month,” Arum said from San Antonio, Texas, where he is promoting a card this weekend starring Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., now being trained by Freddie Roach.Arum didn't even sound alarmed that the red-letter day is less than five months away.
“Patience, patience, patience,” said Arum, who has been in the thick of negotiations with Golden Boy Promotions (GBP) regarding what is expected to be the richest fight in boxing history.
Owned by Oscar De La Hoya, GBP is representing Mayweather in the negotiations that also involves GBP Chief Executive Officer Richard Schaefer and Top Rank president Todd DuBoef, who is Arum's stepson.
It is widely believed that the purse split and the Olympic-style drug testing are the main talking points in the talks.
Pacquiao remains firm that he will not agree to a 60-40 percentage split in favor Mayweather since he has already made a concession by agreeing to be tested randomly until 14 days before the fight.
Source: mb.com.ph
The Moment of Truth: Julio Cesar Chavez JR Vs John Duddy -- Ringside Report
By Geno McGahee, Ringside Report
On June 26th, Julio Cesar Chavez, JR., 41-0-1, 30 KO’s, vies for the vacant WBC Silver Middleweight Title against “Irish” John Duddy, 29-1, 18 KO’s. The children of famous boxers typically fail to fill the shoes of their boxing dads and you cannot really compare Chavez, JR., to his father, but is he a real top contender?
The WBC currently has Chavez, JR., listed as the number one contender for the 154 pound title with Kermit Cintron and Antonio Margarito behind him. When you look at the opposition that he has faced, it’s hard to justify listing him that high, especially above Cintron and Margarito, although Margarito should not be allowed to fight again. Apparently, Chavez, JR., has no desire to go for the junior middleweight crown and has opted to move up to the middleweight division.
We saw an example of a 160 pound Chavez, JR., when he took on Troy Rowland on the Manny Pacquiao – Miguel Cotto PPV undercard. He would win a wide decision, although the fight was much closer than the scorecards indicated. On fight night, I scored it a draw. Despite his 30 KO’s in his 42 fights, he is not a big puncher and he certainly isn’t a devastating puncher like his dad was. He was a prospect at 154, perhaps earning a spot in the top 15 of contenders, but at 160, he appears to be just a bloated light middleweight.
The collective record of Chavez, JR., opponents is 507 wins, 183 losses, and 19 draws. He has recently stepped up the opposition but he has not faced an opponent like John Duddy.
John Duddy has not been a spoiled fighter. He has taken on many good opponents and has come out on the winning side in all but one fight. He made his first big appearance on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights in 2005, when he squared off against undefeated contender Lenord Pierre. Duddy would score a first round stoppage, winning in 1 minute and 23 seconds, and making quite the impression on the boxing world. Pierre would go on to have several good fights including a memorable war with Willie Gibbs. Pierre was a legitimate tough guy with skills and grit and Duddy starched him in a round.
In 2006, Duddy would take on former champion, Yori Boy Campas, going a tough twelve rounds and winning a unanimous decision. Duddy showed his ability to box and punch and outsmarted as well as outfought the seasoned veteran.
Another notable win came over former title challenger, Howard Eastman, a fight that Duddy won unanimously on the cards.
There was continual talk and negotiations for a fight with the then Middleweight Champion, Kelly Pavlik, but it never materialized and Duddy was deciding whether or not to even stay at the 160 pound division or to move down to 154. His career seemed to stall and he was falling off the map of potential opponents for a title shot, possibly leading to a mental lapse causing the disappointing loss to Billy Lyell, a fighter with a record of 18-7 going in. He has rebounded with three straight victories going in and is heading into this opportunity with a full head of steam.
The common opponent between the two is Matt Vanda. Chavez, JR., struggled to get a split decision in a fight that many thought he lost with the exception of one Mexican judge, an obvious Chavez fan, scoring it 100-90 in his favor. They would rematch and he would win a unanimous decision. Duddy had no problem with Vanda, using his boxing skill to win a clear cut unanimous decision.
A big question going into this fight is: Can John Duddy get a fair shake. The fight is taking place in Texas, not a great place for the Irish kid to get a break and the focus of the event, as it has so many other times in these “Latin Fury” cards is on Chavez, JR.
When you look at the close fight with Troy Rowland and the judges scored it overwhelmingly for Chavez, JR., or the fight with Vanda that many contend he lost, where the scoring was out of whack, it’s not an unfair concern from Team Duddy that if the fight goes the distance, they may be in for a loss, even if they win every round.
The agenda for Duddy should be to stop Chavez, JR. I don’t believe that he can hurt Duddy and if he could recapture the aggressor he was on the night he stopped Pierre, the “Son of the Legend” may crumble and crumble fast. Remember that this is only the second appearance of Chavez, JR., as a middleweight and he began his career at 130, and fighting the majority of his career at the 147 pound mark. Duddy is a middleweight with a middleweight punch and some boxing skills. If he presses the fight, we may have a fraud exposed.
Going into this fight, the majority expect Chavez, JR., to come out victorious. He is the favorite and Duddy is considered a relatively safe gamble, but there will be many in for a surprise come fight night when Duddy comes out victorious, probably by stoppage late in the fight, capturing the Silver Title that the WBC has put up for bids, whatever that’s worth.
The worth of the title will be entry into the top ten of the middleweight division, and no matter which of the two win, expect them to either get a title shot immediately or possibly match up with former champion, Kelly Pavlik. Perhaps Duddy-Pavlik will finally occur.
Just in case, you think that this pay per view is a rip off, and the majority of these Latin Fury cards are unquestionably so, a co-feature with the over the hill Marco Antonio Barrera is intended to sweeten the pot.
The Duddy-Chavez, JR., bout is interesting because it’s a curious match up. Chavez, JR., has been mowing down very carefully selected opposition and has moved up to 160 to take on his toughest foe. How will he do when he fights somebody like Duddy? He will need to bring more than he’s ever brought before to pull off the biggest win of his career and prove himself as a contender in the middleweight division. It’s a tall order. Expect Duddy to win by KO.
Source: ringsidereport.com
On June 26th, Julio Cesar Chavez, JR., 41-0-1, 30 KO’s, vies for the vacant WBC Silver Middleweight Title against “Irish” John Duddy, 29-1, 18 KO’s. The children of famous boxers typically fail to fill the shoes of their boxing dads and you cannot really compare Chavez, JR., to his father, but is he a real top contender?
The WBC currently has Chavez, JR., listed as the number one contender for the 154 pound title with Kermit Cintron and Antonio Margarito behind him. When you look at the opposition that he has faced, it’s hard to justify listing him that high, especially above Cintron and Margarito, although Margarito should not be allowed to fight again. Apparently, Chavez, JR., has no desire to go for the junior middleweight crown and has opted to move up to the middleweight division.
We saw an example of a 160 pound Chavez, JR., when he took on Troy Rowland on the Manny Pacquiao – Miguel Cotto PPV undercard. He would win a wide decision, although the fight was much closer than the scorecards indicated. On fight night, I scored it a draw. Despite his 30 KO’s in his 42 fights, he is not a big puncher and he certainly isn’t a devastating puncher like his dad was. He was a prospect at 154, perhaps earning a spot in the top 15 of contenders, but at 160, he appears to be just a bloated light middleweight.
The collective record of Chavez, JR., opponents is 507 wins, 183 losses, and 19 draws. He has recently stepped up the opposition but he has not faced an opponent like John Duddy.
John Duddy has not been a spoiled fighter. He has taken on many good opponents and has come out on the winning side in all but one fight. He made his first big appearance on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights in 2005, when he squared off against undefeated contender Lenord Pierre. Duddy would score a first round stoppage, winning in 1 minute and 23 seconds, and making quite the impression on the boxing world. Pierre would go on to have several good fights including a memorable war with Willie Gibbs. Pierre was a legitimate tough guy with skills and grit and Duddy starched him in a round.
In 2006, Duddy would take on former champion, Yori Boy Campas, going a tough twelve rounds and winning a unanimous decision. Duddy showed his ability to box and punch and outsmarted as well as outfought the seasoned veteran.
Another notable win came over former title challenger, Howard Eastman, a fight that Duddy won unanimously on the cards.
There was continual talk and negotiations for a fight with the then Middleweight Champion, Kelly Pavlik, but it never materialized and Duddy was deciding whether or not to even stay at the 160 pound division or to move down to 154. His career seemed to stall and he was falling off the map of potential opponents for a title shot, possibly leading to a mental lapse causing the disappointing loss to Billy Lyell, a fighter with a record of 18-7 going in. He has rebounded with three straight victories going in and is heading into this opportunity with a full head of steam.
The common opponent between the two is Matt Vanda. Chavez, JR., struggled to get a split decision in a fight that many thought he lost with the exception of one Mexican judge, an obvious Chavez fan, scoring it 100-90 in his favor. They would rematch and he would win a unanimous decision. Duddy had no problem with Vanda, using his boxing skill to win a clear cut unanimous decision.
A big question going into this fight is: Can John Duddy get a fair shake. The fight is taking place in Texas, not a great place for the Irish kid to get a break and the focus of the event, as it has so many other times in these “Latin Fury” cards is on Chavez, JR.
When you look at the close fight with Troy Rowland and the judges scored it overwhelmingly for Chavez, JR., or the fight with Vanda that many contend he lost, where the scoring was out of whack, it’s not an unfair concern from Team Duddy that if the fight goes the distance, they may be in for a loss, even if they win every round.
The agenda for Duddy should be to stop Chavez, JR. I don’t believe that he can hurt Duddy and if he could recapture the aggressor he was on the night he stopped Pierre, the “Son of the Legend” may crumble and crumble fast. Remember that this is only the second appearance of Chavez, JR., as a middleweight and he began his career at 130, and fighting the majority of his career at the 147 pound mark. Duddy is a middleweight with a middleweight punch and some boxing skills. If he presses the fight, we may have a fraud exposed.
Going into this fight, the majority expect Chavez, JR., to come out victorious. He is the favorite and Duddy is considered a relatively safe gamble, but there will be many in for a surprise come fight night when Duddy comes out victorious, probably by stoppage late in the fight, capturing the Silver Title that the WBC has put up for bids, whatever that’s worth.
The worth of the title will be entry into the top ten of the middleweight division, and no matter which of the two win, expect them to either get a title shot immediately or possibly match up with former champion, Kelly Pavlik. Perhaps Duddy-Pavlik will finally occur.
Just in case, you think that this pay per view is a rip off, and the majority of these Latin Fury cards are unquestionably so, a co-feature with the over the hill Marco Antonio Barrera is intended to sweeten the pot.
The Duddy-Chavez, JR., bout is interesting because it’s a curious match up. Chavez, JR., has been mowing down very carefully selected opposition and has moved up to 160 to take on his toughest foe. How will he do when he fights somebody like Duddy? He will need to bring more than he’s ever brought before to pull off the biggest win of his career and prove himself as a contender in the middleweight division. It’s a tall order. Expect Duddy to win by KO.
Source: ringsidereport.com
Pacquiao/Mayweather Snr.: Match made in heaven, pure hell for opponents! -- Examiner
By Vivek Wallace, Examiner.comIn a recent interview with Eastside Boxing's Geoffery Ciani, Floyd Mayweather Snr. was asked about his skills as a trainer.
The forever brash and unapologetic Floyd Mayweather Snr. responded by saying that not only is he a good trainer, but he "feels [he] could make many fighters in the sport today better".
When pressed on the question of "who", (he could make better), his response gave many quite an interesting thought to vibe on, and it could not have come at a better time, as just the other day I was asked at random by a fellow fight fan, "if I could change one thing about Freddie Roach as a trainer, what would it be"?My response was the that - (based on the performances of his best contenders) - I would change his emphasis on defense for a bit more proficiency in his fighters.
In an odd way, this verbal exchange between me and the fellow fight fan became intertwined with the question posed to Mayweather Snr., who stated that of the fighters he felt he could "make better", the Filipino's finest, Manny Pacquiao, was the first one (named).
It should be noted that Mayweather Snr. has no intentions or remote interest in training Pacquiao, but the fact that his name came up (at all) went a long way in opening intrigue associated with the relative question of "what would it be like to see Manny Pacquiao (of today) in the ring, trained by Mayweather Snr."?
Pacquiao's toughness and heart, coupled with his amazing offensive skills have proven second to none, arguably within the last few years of the sport. The mere thought of coupling those attributes with a Mayweather-esque like defense would be more monumental than Ali, Tyson, Leonard, and anyone else the sport could present from its rich history.
The mere discussion of this topic is so bizarre, conceptually, that aside from a video game type wishful thinking, it serves no purpose to even ponder; but considering the fact that Pacquiao and Mayweather Snr.'s son is still apparently worlds apart in settling their differences, that this video game-like wish list parallels properly with our sentiments to actually see these guys face off.
Can't seem to put Pacquiao in the same ring with Floyd Snr.'s son......might as well visualize the entertainment behind seeing him in the ring with the man who taught him.
Odd topic, but hey, boredom's a mofo when the fight you wanna see is a no-go! I know these two sides are in the midst of a bitter moment, but in the famous words of Rodney King....."Can't we all just get along"! This fight might happen if we all put pride aside and simply tried!
Think about it.....Stay tuned!
(Vivek Wallace can be reached at vivexemail@yahoo.com, (Youtube (VIVEK1251), Twitter (VIVEK747), Facebook and Myspace).
Source: examiner.com
Will it always be Mayweather's fault? -- Eastside Boxing
By Robert Jackson, Eastside BoxingDespite the so called ‘gag’ order many of the terms of the negotiations seem to be leaking out. These leaks seems to disparage Mayweather’s positions towards making the big fight scheduled for the fall 2010. Top Rank Boss Bob Arum and GBP CEO Richard Schaefer proclaimed a media blackout for the making of this fight citing “we don’t want to negotiate in the media”. A few weeks ago it was announced by some unnamed Team Pacquiao members that Pacquiao had agreed to a 14 day cutoff for blood testing, followed up by a corroboration by the Top Rank boss who said “The ball was now in Mayweather’s court”. No response was given or heard from Team Mayweather who seemed to be honoring the ‘gag’ order..
The next leak that occurred a few weeks or so later said that Mayweather was demanding a 60/40 split, this has since been corroborated by Pacquiao himself who has said he will not allow anything other than a 50/50 split. Mayweather has been mum.2 weeks ago during a ‘Make-a-Wish’ event Floyd Mayweather Jr. during a media interview session said he may take a couple of years off from boxing. Top Rank Boss Arum, responded by saying that if that is the case he would wait until the official announcement was made, and that Mayweather should make such a announcement if it was his intention not to fight again this year.
Mayweather naysayers IMMEDIATELY jumped on the Mayweather interview as PROOF that Mayweather is afraid of and DOESN’T want to fight Pacquiao. Those SAME naysayers took Floyd’s words one step further and accused him of violating the ‘GAG’ order by saying them.
Just this week Pacquiao has said he won’t budge to any more of Mayweather’s demands, and further pressed his position that Mayweather is afraid to fight him. And again Team Mayweather SILENT.
Many of the SAME critics and naysayers who commended Lil’ Floyd for his dismantling of Shane Mosley – a fighter they SAID Floyd would NEVER fight, are back at it again, back at the HATING!! Many of those SAME critics and naysayers FAIL to see that through ALL of these current negotiations ONLY ONE side has consistently VIOLATED the agreed upon ‘GAG’ order – TEAM PACQUIAO!!
Many of these SAME critics and naysayers donot see that the dynamics of the NEGOTIATIONS have swayed favorably in Lil’ Floyds direction. These same HATERS conveniently like to compare Pacquiao/Cotto PPV numbers to Mayweather/Mosley PPV numbers – dismissing the dismal PPV numbers of Pacquiao/Clottey to MAKE a case in Pacquiao’s favor. Those SAME HATERS will also compare Pacquiao/Cotto PPV numbers to Mayweather/Marquez PPV numbers!! These same HATERS fail to QUESTION Pacquiao’s motives since he NOW has agreed to a 14 day cutoff for current drug testing; if he can do it now, WHY DIDN’T he do it for the PREVIOUS negotiations??
Mayweather has said previous to the ‘GAG’ order that a 14 day cutoff was FOR the LAST NEGOTIATIONS, for these NEGOTIATIONS, random blood testing up to and including the day of the fight would be par for the course. Mayweather also said that if the PPV numbers for Mayweather/Mosley were big enough compared to Pacquiao/Clottey a 50/50 split would not be possible, the PPV numbers WERE 2 – times those of Pacquiao/Clottey and the total revenue dwarfed that of Pacquiao/Clottey!
Jeff Mayweather Uncle of the P4P Picasso, said it clearly recently, that if this fight falls through it will not be his nephews fault, the fault should be placed squarely on Pacquiao’s shoulders. So I ask, “Will it always be Mayweather’s fault??”
Source: eastsideboxing.com
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Floyd Mayweather Sr: “Pacquiao didn’t want to fight Shane Mosley and my son f*cking destroyed him!” -- Eastside Boxing
By Geoffrey Ciani, Eastside Boxing
This week’s edition of On the Ropes Boxing Radio featured an exclusive interview Floyd Mayweather Senior whose son recently scored an impressive one-sided victory against Sugar Shane Mosley. Rumors have recently been in circulation about a potential showdown in the fight everyone wants to see, and that of course is a fight between Floyd Mayweather Junior and Manny Pacquiao. Mayweather Senior discussed this possibility and here is some of what he had to say:
On Manny Pacquiao being named ‘Fighter of the Decade’ by the BWAA:
“That’s bullsh*t. It ain’t nothing but bullsh*t, that’s all it is. Like I said, that’s why boxing is going bad because of sh*t like that. Everybody knows this man isn’t f*cking boxer of the decade. He got his ass whopped by two fighters that nobody even knows the fighters that whopped his ass. Nobody even knows who whopped it. The couple of guys who whopped it, nobody even knows who the hell they are. How the hell can he be ‘Fighter of the Decade’? My son’s been fighting top class fighters and beat all their asses. He beat every one of them, and he got two or three losses on his record and he’s ‘Fighter of the Decade? How the hell can that be? It’s impossible. Whoever said that, they got to be dumb, stupid, and crazy. I don’t give a damn what writer, reporter, or whoever it may be—they’re dumb, stupid, and crazy as far as I’m concerned..”
On why he thinks Pacquiao was named ‘Fighter of the Decade’:
“It ain’t nothing but bullsh*t. Like I’m telling you, it ain’t nothing. It’s just some stuff they put in. Whoever they want to get in, that’s who they put in. They figure they are gonna make him big. One thing about it, they can’t downplay my son because my son’s the biggest fighter in boxing today. It ain’t even Pacquiao, so they can forget about it. How can it not be my son when my son beats all the top fighters and plus, he was ready to fight Pacquiao and Pacquiao evidently don’t want to fight him because he ain’t taking no tests. Now that’s the problem right there.”
On whether he thinks his son has to fight Pacquiao just to silence his critics:
“He ain’t got nothing to prove! What does he got to prove? He whopped somebody Pacquiao didn’t want to fight. Pacquiao didn’t want to fight Shane Mosley and my son f*cking destroyed him! There really ain’t even nothing to talk about because my son has shut them all down and shut all their mouths, and their mouths should be shut because everything they said he can’t do he went and did. So that’s the ‘Fighter of the Decade’ right there.”
On rumors that a fight between Pacquiao and Mayweather will happen:
“It ain’t nothing but rumors. It ain’t nothing but rumors. Pacquiao don’t want to fight him. I know he don’t want to fight him. How’s he going to beat him? With his coach?”
On the Olympic style drug testing in a fight between his son and Pacquiao:
“ With Shane Mosley, Shane Mosley came clean. He did everything he was supposed to do just like my son asked. He did everything he was supposed to do, my son did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the sh*t out of Shane. That’s all we’re asking Pacquiao to do—come clean, and then we can do it. Come clean. Whatever it’s about, just come clean whatever it is. As long as you come clean, guess what? Everybody knows what’s going to happen”
On whether a fourteen day cutoff on the random Olympic style drug testing would be good enough:
“No, that ain’t good enough. No. It should be done random. When it’s done random, whenever they want to test Floyd they can test him; whenever they want to test Pacquiao, they can test him. Anybody can put something in their body and it’s going to work way before fourteen days. So that ain’t nothing but a bunch of garbage. What they’re doing, I know what happens—the whole thing is he really puts the stuff in him and turns into an animal and maybe pull something off with little Floyd where everybody goes, ‘Whoa! Pacquiao! Pacquiao!’ No, no, no, no. I wouldn’t even go for that, not at all. My son would be a fool if he does, and I don’t think he’s going to go for it, either, and he shouldn’t go for it.”
On claims made by his son that he might take another one or two years off from the sport:
“Oh hell no. It’s just talk, that’s all it is. No, that right there is not going to work right there and he knows that.”
On the claim he made last July that Shane Mosley posed the biggest threat to his son at that time:
“Like I told you, I didn’t change my mind. That was the biggest one I was telling you about then that I thought. The only thing he proposed is he hit my son in the second round. That’s the only thing he proposed and after that it was all downhill for him. Like I said before, then at that time, that was back awhile. That was before we knew about Pacquiao. That was before Pacquiao was coming up big like this. It was before Pacquiao came up beating up all these big guys in bigger weight classes—way bigger weight classes then him. That’s before Pacquiao started coming up and doing that—how did a guy do that, man? To beat all these big guys when other guys in the same division can’t beat them but little Pacquiao comes up there and beats them, and stops them and makes them quit, and makes them retreat, and give up, and make them say ‘No mas’, and all that. I don’t know how that is. How is that? How is that done?”
On who he believes poses the toughest challenge for his son right now:
“I can’t even tell you man, to be honest because my thing is, I really think to be honest that my son is the best fighter out there today. I don’t even see any threats no more.”
On why the fight between Pacquiao and his son could not happen the first time they entered negotiations:
“It didn’t not happen because of my son, though. My son was willing to fight him under the proper conditions on what they’re talking about making legal today. They’re talking about making that legal, that Olympic testing—and they should make it legal to stop all of this BS and this nonsense man, because boxing is going way, way in the opposite direction.”
On whether he believes boxing will suffer if a fight between Pacquiao and his son is not made:
“It’s going to suffer. Yes, it will suffer because of that because there ain’t no more name fighters, other than my son, to really even talk about to be for real. After my son lets the boxing game go, the game’s pretty much sliding unless they find someone real, real quick. It ain’t looking good for boxing.”
On why he thinks his son has looked more impressive in his last two outings:
“You know, it’s his skills and of course, his Daddy being around. Everything has something to do with it. It all had something to do with it. You saw that he did much better when I was there. So I’m just telling you that there’s a reason for it. There’s a reason for everything that happens. It’s really not hard to figure out. His Daddy was training him in the beginning. His Daddy was training him before he went to the Olympics. I’m the one who taught him how to fight, period. So why do you think he got better?”
On what fighters out there he believes he can improve as a trainer:
“Yes, I could make a lot of fighters. As a matter of fact, one I could make better is Pacquiao. Not that I necessarily want to train him, but I’m just saying that’s another one that I can make better. Just look at him. I can make him better with him just being Pacquiao by itself. With no nothing special just making him better—with him as a fighter himself and me. I’m just saying he could be a much better fighter. You got a lot of fighters out there who could be better fighters. They just don’t have the right people in the background. Some guys are fighting, they just don’t got the right teachers. Some guys can’t fight, and they got the right teachers. The right teachers just can’t get to them. So yes, a fighter you got to teach your fighter. There’s a difference between teaching and training. You have to teach. Teach is where you catch on. When you’re teaching a fighter, you teach him to jab first, right hand, hook, and after that everything else accumulates behind that. Once you get the fundamentals right, everything else follows.”
On who he believes are some of the other good boxing trainers in the sport today:
“A lot of these fighters, I don’t know. I can only say what I see and I will say one thing---Freddie Roach, they got him in the Hall of Fame and he should be in the ‘Hall of Shame’. You all know that. There’s so many other fighters. All the Mayweathers are the better trainers, anyway, then all the other fighters. We do have a few other trainers there that can train, but overall, the Mayweathers are the top of the line when it comes to trainers. You got me, Roger, and Jeff.”
On who he sees his son fighting next if the Pacquiao fight does not happen:
“Well you know, right now the only kind of person I can see fight with Floyd right now and give him some type of fight—but he won’t beat little Floyd—is that would be probably Paul Williams. Paul Williams is tall, lanky, but I haven’t really kept up with Paul Williams to be honest. I know little Floyd is faster, is smarter and that’s all you maybe need. It ain’t about how tall you are, you got to be smart. When you’re smart, those are the things that pay the bills. I don’t really think that Paul Williams will cause a major threat, but he’s the only one that I could see now. I thought Shane would do something before, but I guess as you see if he ain’t got nothing in him, if he ain’t got the enhancements and stuff in him, guess what? They can’t win. They can’t beat no damn body.”
On whether he believes Miguel Cotto would pose a challenge to Floyd Junior:
“As a matter of fact, when Cotto first started off last time I already thought the new Cotto was going to win so I didn’t really get into it because I felt Cotto was going to beat him anyway. It happened just like I thought. I think Cotto’s a good fighter as well. I think he needs to be tightened up more. I think Cotto could be a good fighter. Thing about all these guys, you got a kid coming up, Andre Berto, but he’s not at that level yet and probably never will be at that level because of the trainer that he has. A fighter’s got to have something, a trainer’s got to have something, but when you’re like a father and a son who both got it, that’s it.”
On whether he believes Floyd Junior has anything left to prove:
“There’s nothing else to prove. As a matter of fact, I hope he just goes and quits. For what? If you’re going to fight Pacquiao, fight Pacquiao and leave it alone. That should be the end of it. There’s nothing left to prove, he’s proved everything. You know what, and I can say this right here—my son is a hell of a fighter, he’s the best fighter today right now as we stand. As it continues, you could get your ass whopped just like Ali. You could end up being whopped by a Leon Spinks. All these people end up getting whopped by nobodies and my son’s only human. He’s the best fighter today but hey, the best fighter today could be the wrong fighter tomorrow. So what I’m trying to say is that what you’re doing now, take it and run because he’s not going to stay in there like that because boxing is not like that. It’s a short game. It’s a good ten or fifteen years, period, and then you have to get out of it. You have to leave it alone. Little Floyd did very, very good and I think that right now he has nothing to prove to nobody. If you keep trying to prove yourself to somebody, all you’re going to prove is disaster for yourself. See as long as you keep fighting, there’s always going to be somebody out there who says he’s going to beat you. So the public will know that until you finally get your ass whopped and then, there it is. They ain’t gonna remember none of the fights that you won. They ain’t gonna remember nothing about the Pacquiaos, they ain’t gonna know nothing about Shane Mosley, they ain’t gonna know nothing about Genaro Hernandez, they ain’t going to know nothing about none of these fights. The only fight they’re going to remember is you got your ass kicked by so and so. That’s all they’re going to remember, believe me. At the end of the day, even though you’re a Hall of Famer they’re going to be a Hall of Shamer. That’s what it is. They force you into that by keep telling you. It’s time to get out and then just quit. The last fighter I think he should deal with right now with fighting is Pacquiao. Get it, and get out, and go out clean. Go out clean and nobody can say nothing. They can say what they want to say. It’s over. Ain’t nobody whopped me, it’s over. So I’m the best, and he can keep saying he’s the best by saying he’s better than Muhammad Ali, that he’s better than Sugar Ray Robinson, that he’s better than whoever. He has a right to say that because this is his era and his time and he’s beat everybody you put in front of him. So can’t nobody say, nobody can whop you unless they get in there and do that and there ain’t nobody who did that. So as far as I’m concerned, he’s the best and he should feel the same way.”
Source: eastsideboxing.com
This week’s edition of On the Ropes Boxing Radio featured an exclusive interview Floyd Mayweather Senior whose son recently scored an impressive one-sided victory against Sugar Shane Mosley. Rumors have recently been in circulation about a potential showdown in the fight everyone wants to see, and that of course is a fight between Floyd Mayweather Junior and Manny Pacquiao. Mayweather Senior discussed this possibility and here is some of what he had to say:
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On Manny Pacquiao being named ‘Fighter of the Decade’ by the BWAA:
“That’s bullsh*t. It ain’t nothing but bullsh*t, that’s all it is. Like I said, that’s why boxing is going bad because of sh*t like that. Everybody knows this man isn’t f*cking boxer of the decade. He got his ass whopped by two fighters that nobody even knows the fighters that whopped his ass. Nobody even knows who whopped it. The couple of guys who whopped it, nobody even knows who the hell they are. How the hell can he be ‘Fighter of the Decade’? My son’s been fighting top class fighters and beat all their asses. He beat every one of them, and he got two or three losses on his record and he’s ‘Fighter of the Decade? How the hell can that be? It’s impossible. Whoever said that, they got to be dumb, stupid, and crazy. I don’t give a damn what writer, reporter, or whoever it may be—they’re dumb, stupid, and crazy as far as I’m concerned..”
On why he thinks Pacquiao was named ‘Fighter of the Decade’:
“It ain’t nothing but bullsh*t. Like I’m telling you, it ain’t nothing. It’s just some stuff they put in. Whoever they want to get in, that’s who they put in. They figure they are gonna make him big. One thing about it, they can’t downplay my son because my son’s the biggest fighter in boxing today. It ain’t even Pacquiao, so they can forget about it. How can it not be my son when my son beats all the top fighters and plus, he was ready to fight Pacquiao and Pacquiao evidently don’t want to fight him because he ain’t taking no tests. Now that’s the problem right there.”
On whether he thinks his son has to fight Pacquiao just to silence his critics:
“He ain’t got nothing to prove! What does he got to prove? He whopped somebody Pacquiao didn’t want to fight. Pacquiao didn’t want to fight Shane Mosley and my son f*cking destroyed him! There really ain’t even nothing to talk about because my son has shut them all down and shut all their mouths, and their mouths should be shut because everything they said he can’t do he went and did. So that’s the ‘Fighter of the Decade’ right there.”
On rumors that a fight between Pacquiao and Mayweather will happen:
“It ain’t nothing but rumors. It ain’t nothing but rumors. Pacquiao don’t want to fight him. I know he don’t want to fight him. How’s he going to beat him? With his coach?”
On the Olympic style drug testing in a fight between his son and Pacquiao:
“ With Shane Mosley, Shane Mosley came clean. He did everything he was supposed to do just like my son asked. He did everything he was supposed to do, my son did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the sh*t out of Shane. That’s all we’re asking Pacquiao to do—come clean, and then we can do it. Come clean. Whatever it’s about, just come clean whatever it is. As long as you come clean, guess what? Everybody knows what’s going to happen”
On whether a fourteen day cutoff on the random Olympic style drug testing would be good enough:
“No, that ain’t good enough. No. It should be done random. When it’s done random, whenever they want to test Floyd they can test him; whenever they want to test Pacquiao, they can test him. Anybody can put something in their body and it’s going to work way before fourteen days. So that ain’t nothing but a bunch of garbage. What they’re doing, I know what happens—the whole thing is he really puts the stuff in him and turns into an animal and maybe pull something off with little Floyd where everybody goes, ‘Whoa! Pacquiao! Pacquiao!’ No, no, no, no. I wouldn’t even go for that, not at all. My son would be a fool if he does, and I don’t think he’s going to go for it, either, and he shouldn’t go for it.”
On claims made by his son that he might take another one or two years off from the sport:
“Oh hell no. It’s just talk, that’s all it is. No, that right there is not going to work right there and he knows that.”
On the claim he made last July that Shane Mosley posed the biggest threat to his son at that time:
“Like I told you, I didn’t change my mind. That was the biggest one I was telling you about then that I thought. The only thing he proposed is he hit my son in the second round. That’s the only thing he proposed and after that it was all downhill for him. Like I said before, then at that time, that was back awhile. That was before we knew about Pacquiao. That was before Pacquiao was coming up big like this. It was before Pacquiao came up beating up all these big guys in bigger weight classes—way bigger weight classes then him. That’s before Pacquiao started coming up and doing that—how did a guy do that, man? To beat all these big guys when other guys in the same division can’t beat them but little Pacquiao comes up there and beats them, and stops them and makes them quit, and makes them retreat, and give up, and make them say ‘No mas’, and all that. I don’t know how that is. How is that? How is that done?”
On who he believes poses the toughest challenge for his son right now:
“I can’t even tell you man, to be honest because my thing is, I really think to be honest that my son is the best fighter out there today. I don’t even see any threats no more.”
On why the fight between Pacquiao and his son could not happen the first time they entered negotiations:
“It didn’t not happen because of my son, though. My son was willing to fight him under the proper conditions on what they’re talking about making legal today. They’re talking about making that legal, that Olympic testing—and they should make it legal to stop all of this BS and this nonsense man, because boxing is going way, way in the opposite direction.”
On whether he believes boxing will suffer if a fight between Pacquiao and his son is not made:
“It’s going to suffer. Yes, it will suffer because of that because there ain’t no more name fighters, other than my son, to really even talk about to be for real. After my son lets the boxing game go, the game’s pretty much sliding unless they find someone real, real quick. It ain’t looking good for boxing.”
On why he thinks his son has looked more impressive in his last two outings:
“You know, it’s his skills and of course, his Daddy being around. Everything has something to do with it. It all had something to do with it. You saw that he did much better when I was there. So I’m just telling you that there’s a reason for it. There’s a reason for everything that happens. It’s really not hard to figure out. His Daddy was training him in the beginning. His Daddy was training him before he went to the Olympics. I’m the one who taught him how to fight, period. So why do you think he got better?”
On what fighters out there he believes he can improve as a trainer:
“Yes, I could make a lot of fighters. As a matter of fact, one I could make better is Pacquiao. Not that I necessarily want to train him, but I’m just saying that’s another one that I can make better. Just look at him. I can make him better with him just being Pacquiao by itself. With no nothing special just making him better—with him as a fighter himself and me. I’m just saying he could be a much better fighter. You got a lot of fighters out there who could be better fighters. They just don’t have the right people in the background. Some guys are fighting, they just don’t got the right teachers. Some guys can’t fight, and they got the right teachers. The right teachers just can’t get to them. So yes, a fighter you got to teach your fighter. There’s a difference between teaching and training. You have to teach. Teach is where you catch on. When you’re teaching a fighter, you teach him to jab first, right hand, hook, and after that everything else accumulates behind that. Once you get the fundamentals right, everything else follows.”
On who he believes are some of the other good boxing trainers in the sport today:
“A lot of these fighters, I don’t know. I can only say what I see and I will say one thing---Freddie Roach, they got him in the Hall of Fame and he should be in the ‘Hall of Shame’. You all know that. There’s so many other fighters. All the Mayweathers are the better trainers, anyway, then all the other fighters. We do have a few other trainers there that can train, but overall, the Mayweathers are the top of the line when it comes to trainers. You got me, Roger, and Jeff.”
On who he sees his son fighting next if the Pacquiao fight does not happen:
“Well you know, right now the only kind of person I can see fight with Floyd right now and give him some type of fight—but he won’t beat little Floyd—is that would be probably Paul Williams. Paul Williams is tall, lanky, but I haven’t really kept up with Paul Williams to be honest. I know little Floyd is faster, is smarter and that’s all you maybe need. It ain’t about how tall you are, you got to be smart. When you’re smart, those are the things that pay the bills. I don’t really think that Paul Williams will cause a major threat, but he’s the only one that I could see now. I thought Shane would do something before, but I guess as you see if he ain’t got nothing in him, if he ain’t got the enhancements and stuff in him, guess what? They can’t win. They can’t beat no damn body.”
On whether he believes Miguel Cotto would pose a challenge to Floyd Junior:
“As a matter of fact, when Cotto first started off last time I already thought the new Cotto was going to win so I didn’t really get into it because I felt Cotto was going to beat him anyway. It happened just like I thought. I think Cotto’s a good fighter as well. I think he needs to be tightened up more. I think Cotto could be a good fighter. Thing about all these guys, you got a kid coming up, Andre Berto, but he’s not at that level yet and probably never will be at that level because of the trainer that he has. A fighter’s got to have something, a trainer’s got to have something, but when you’re like a father and a son who both got it, that’s it.”
On whether he believes Floyd Junior has anything left to prove:
“There’s nothing else to prove. As a matter of fact, I hope he just goes and quits. For what? If you’re going to fight Pacquiao, fight Pacquiao and leave it alone. That should be the end of it. There’s nothing left to prove, he’s proved everything. You know what, and I can say this right here—my son is a hell of a fighter, he’s the best fighter today right now as we stand. As it continues, you could get your ass whopped just like Ali. You could end up being whopped by a Leon Spinks. All these people end up getting whopped by nobodies and my son’s only human. He’s the best fighter today but hey, the best fighter today could be the wrong fighter tomorrow. So what I’m trying to say is that what you’re doing now, take it and run because he’s not going to stay in there like that because boxing is not like that. It’s a short game. It’s a good ten or fifteen years, period, and then you have to get out of it. You have to leave it alone. Little Floyd did very, very good and I think that right now he has nothing to prove to nobody. If you keep trying to prove yourself to somebody, all you’re going to prove is disaster for yourself. See as long as you keep fighting, there’s always going to be somebody out there who says he’s going to beat you. So the public will know that until you finally get your ass whopped and then, there it is. They ain’t gonna remember none of the fights that you won. They ain’t gonna remember nothing about the Pacquiaos, they ain’t gonna know nothing about Shane Mosley, they ain’t gonna know nothing about Genaro Hernandez, they ain’t going to know nothing about none of these fights. The only fight they’re going to remember is you got your ass kicked by so and so. That’s all they’re going to remember, believe me. At the end of the day, even though you’re a Hall of Famer they’re going to be a Hall of Shamer. That’s what it is. They force you into that by keep telling you. It’s time to get out and then just quit. The last fighter I think he should deal with right now with fighting is Pacquiao. Get it, and get out, and go out clean. Go out clean and nobody can say nothing. They can say what they want to say. It’s over. Ain’t nobody whopped me, it’s over. So I’m the best, and he can keep saying he’s the best by saying he’s better than Muhammad Ali, that he’s better than Sugar Ray Robinson, that he’s better than whoever. He has a right to say that because this is his era and his time and he’s beat everybody you put in front of him. So can’t nobody say, nobody can whop you unless they get in there and do that and there ain’t nobody who did that. So as far as I’m concerned, he’s the best and he should feel the same way.”
Source: eastsideboxing.com
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