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Originally Posted by Richard Tanner
Don't make us go over all this again. Floyd had his entire career to be a crusader for drug testing in boxing and mysteriously waited until his biggest fight to pipe up about it.
The biggest fights usually are the hardest to negotiate. That should be obvious?
I think your problem is thinking Floyd is sincere about wanting to clean the sport up. Hes not. He wants to be fairly certain hes getting a fair shake.
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The dude was scared, Manny represented the only challenge to his record in recent memory and unfortunately for Floyd, everyone knew it. Even boxing novices were starting to clamor for it. He stayed duckin'. Floyd was on the defensive then, he quietly accepted Manny's resistance to his demands and moved on.
Yeah, that is your opinion. I'd say Pac walked away from the negotiations despite being offered a very fair compromise.
And would you not agree that Manny is currently the one avoiding the fight? Is he scared?
By quietly accepting Mannys resistance = going on ESPN and offer a 14-day cutoff compromise, then yeah. That was quiet.
I couldn't give a damn about what boxing novices think. They're boxing novices for a reason. I wouldn't expect them to be accurate on their assessments when their basis of such is what ESPN and other mainstream media feeds them.
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Now that Manny no longer represents a real threat, he's all over demanding the fight. Floyd gonna Floyd.
Did he represent a real threat before the JMM fight? Because Floyd publicly stated in interviews he wanted to fight Pacquiao after the Ortiz fight. Should we just ignore that?
Pacquiao is still the same fighter, hes just not as easily hyped now that it's obvious his destruction of Hatton and the likes were more due to style than evolution.
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More interesting, what's the line now? Floyd -200?
Yea probably.
Used to be -150?
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Originally Posted by NoJacket
So I guess he exposed the fact that he has not evolved? I strongly believe that Mayweather wanted no part of Pacquiao after the scary thing he did to Hatton and Cotto.
Yep, but I'm not sure why we would think he had evolved? Because Roach said so?
He's bordering on 30 years old with almost 50 fights in the bag. Hes not going to evolve at some ******ed rate within a year.
With that said, i still thought he would steamroll Marquez based on how horrible Marquez looked against Floyd and in parts vs Katsidis and Diaz aswell. I thought he was done.