Little Floyd hiding hood

By Paul Sims
octaringsports.blogspot.com

An article from a guy Williams cried he does not believed Lil Floyd is afraid of Pacquiao in any way because inside the ring he could see Mayweather start countering punches of Pacquiao till he wind down get knocked out on the canvas as soon as they get into the ring.

Well this gentleman misses the point. No person inside the ring is afraid of anyone. Enough said.

Let me add into that, 9 years back, it was Floyd who fought the highly favored Corrales that eventually ended up in a brutal bashing that put late tall guy on embarrassment. Later on he moved up weight and challenged Castillo for the Lightweight Title and turned out to be a controversial decision in favor of Mayweather. Although it seems that was the toughest and closest fight in his entire career, I still believed however that his win decision was truly fair. The rematch came up afterwards and was entirely one sided in favor of Mayweather. Subsequently, he beat numerous guys, including the late Arturo Gatti who turned out to be Gatti’s worst nightmare. After Mitchell’s fight, he moved all the way up and grabbed the Welterweight belt against Zab Judah. And that was the last fight I was being impressed at him.

He never fought any contender after Judah. There were frequent public demands for him to fight tough contenders but he picked easier opponents upon his first retirement such as Baldomir, Oscar Dela Hoya and Ricky Hatton instead of signing the prime Cotto, Margarito, or Clottey for the contest.

Fast forward post retirement, everybody expected him to fight the likes of Paul Williams, Sergio Martinez, Clottey, or Shane Mosley; instead he opted to fight a no-brawler, slow counter puncher, and a welterweight virgin Juan Manuel Marquez.

Now here comes the Pacman. There is no reason for a fighter to turn down a $40 million purse for just one single fight. Everyone got excited because the negotiation just run smoothly that no one expected as Mayweather himself agreed demands like $10 million per pound penalty and the glove weight issue; but not until the entire Mayweather clan accused Pacquiao on roids and demanded the Olympic Style Drug Testing procedure which I believed was absurd. The negotiation came up nowhere but brought to an end that apparently everybody dubbed it the end of the sports.

Meanwhile, everyone were impressed when he signed the contract against Shane Mosley, but we almost forgot the fact that the Mosley-Berto fight was halted due to Berto’s backing out to support his Family and countrymen under Haiti’s Earthquake. And so I could assume, Mayweather had no choice but to reluctantly fight Mosley, on the grounds that he allowed Mosley and Berto gone through signing contract, therefore, I guess he could have fought easier fighter again since Pacquiao was scheduled to fight Clottey, Margarito was supended, Cotto came up from a bad beating against Pacquiao, and as far as I remember there was a Pavlik-Martinez scheduled and so Williams-Cintron. Besides he would have accepted the first challenge of Mosley right after the Marquez bout if he would have chosen to. Nobody knows.

Lately, for the second time around, the mega blockbuster fight between Mayweather and Pacquiao discontinued and is getting worst on the reason that Mayweather was allegedly ruining the negotiation despite the term and demands agreed by Pacquiao’s side including the Drug testing procedure. Bob Arum has been accused of lying and so the HBO President Ross Greenburg for not keeping in touch with Mayweather’s Team; fortunately, there was a response from Greenburg that turned fans upside down. Now who’s duping fans? If there was no negotiation happened ever, then why have Oscar mentioned that the fight is getting almost done deal soon in the first place? Or Ellerbe was just manipulating the entire scene under the command of his BBF aka Floyd Mayweather?

The truth beyond the statement of that said article “Mayweather is not afraid of Pacquiao”, is that Mayweather isn’t afraid of anyone to fight inside or outside the ring, but he certainly glorifies his perfect record above everyone else demands.