Mayweather Injured, Pulls Out of Marquez Fight – News
June 14th, 2009
By Dave Lahr: Unbeaten welterweight Floyd Mayweather Jr. (39-0, 25 KO’s) has reportedly pulled out of his previously scheduled July 18th bout against Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather Jr., now 32, injured one of his ribs while training for his fight against the 35-year-old Marquez. As of now, it’s unknown when Mayweather will be able to get back to training.
Mayweather has been taking it easy since then spending millions and living the soft life. I’m frankly surprised that Mayweather made it this far without experiencing a blowout of one body part or another. The problem is when you get a fighter that is getting up there in age and who has been out of the ring for as long as Mayweather, injures are bound to happen.
The postponement is bad news for the boxing world, because many fans were looking forward to the Mayweather-Marquez fight next month and were wanting to see what Mayweather has left after his two years away from the sport.
Mayweather is taking an usual course with his boxing comeback. Instead of taking a two or three tune-ups against soft opposition, Mayweather instead has chosen to fight a smaller fighter in Marquez, who is considered to be one of the best fighters in the lightweight division if not the best.
Mayweather has a considerable size advantage over Marquez and has taken some criticism for his choice of opponent. However, it makes sense for Mayweather, because he’s coming back with the plan on trying to get a shot against Manny Pacquiao, a fighter that is roughly the same size as Marquez.
Coincidentally, Pacquiao has fought Marquez twice and has had serious problems against him both times, winning some rounds by knocking Marquez down multiple times, but losing virtually all the other rounds that didn’t have knockdowns in them. By beating Marquez, Mayweather would in a sense be showing that he’s superior to Pacquiao, since Manny was dominated by Marquez much of the time in their two fights.
Mayweather didn’t want to go right after Pacquiao for some reason, saying that he decided to fight Marquez because he called him out. It doesn’t sound like a very good reason, though, because pretty much every fighter in boxing would like to get a shot at fighting Mayweather, including Pacquiao, yet Mayweather opted to fight Marquez instead of any of them.
The postponement may end up hurting Mayweather more than he might realize it at this time. Pacquiao was waiting on seeing him fight to determine whether to fight him next or to move on to another opponent. Now with Mayweather’s bout being cancelled for the time being, Pacquiao will likely move on to a fight with Miguel Cotto, who looked bad in beating Joshua Clottey on Saturday night.
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Mayweather jr vs. Manny Pacman the fight of the year and that would determine the fighter of the year.
this is GOOD NEWS FOR BOXING.
because it could be shown for free. i would not pay for a boring fight between a defense boxer and a counter puncher no matter how good they are… maybe only the few loyal fans or the hardcore boxing fans are willing to spend some bucks.
i’m just waiting for the next pacquiao fight.
If Floyd REALLY wants to know who has more drawing power, why doesn’t he reschedule this match on November 14th and see who gets more PPV buys, Mayweather Marquez or Pacquiao Cotto.
Mayweather’s going to have a tough time with JMM. Now, being away from the ring and now the rib injury? Rumors are that slow ticket sales prompted the postponement. I’m a big boxing fan, but I don’t even want to see this. It’s just the case of an very talented, but at the same time, a-hole jerk who is picking on a smaller fighter. This guy is in his prime, and he’s picking on the lightweight champion? Wayne Lord – you’re right about this guy being an a-hole. Maybe he’s not an a-hole in real life, as I have friends who have met in say he’s a genuinely nice guy. But being an a-hole is the persona he wants as that’s the way he acts in his interviews. I saw all the interviews with ESPN, and he was getting so frustrated when asked simple questions. Brian Kenny asked why he didn’t fight Mosley. He said, Mosley got beat by Cotto, who got beat by Margorito, who got beat by Mosley. he said everyone’s gotten beat but him. But he didn’t mention that he didn’t step into the ring with ANY of them! I respect his talent, I think he has a chance to be great, but step up the competition.
I hope JMM wins he is a better fighter that Pbf
If he cant train for like 3-4 weeks then he will be trouble. He can just let his body just sit there and not be active. JMM will have an advantage, Mayweather hasnt fought for 2 years and coming back from a rib injury. JMM ATTACK THE BODY, JMM will be against the judges again like when he was with Manny, fighting the popular fighter.
Who would wanna see a boring boxer like him anyway. He doesn’t get it that he’s not the draw in boxing. It was DLH and Hatton who made his fights big draws, not him. Anyway this is likely a lame excuse for him to back out of the fight.
Mayweather I would advise you to go with your feelings brother, who ever says what must get into the ring if there is a feeling that you not dowing well
At the end of the day the pains will be on you who ever feels that he or she is brave enough get into the wring and do better than Mayweather we will call you a hero.
If your mother and your dad are happy with your decision god blesses you aswell,so you know what go with what you feel sharp.
Even though im usually not very cynical, with Mayweather not gettin the interest his ego expected and trys to demand it wouldnt suprise me to find him backin out of this fight and turning to look for something a bit more lucrative.
That is just sad. I was hoping that JMM will give Floyd a taste of his own medicine.
I hope that after Floyd healed his injury, he will fight JMM again.
I don’t think that this is an excuse from Floyd. He is a capable fighter who can fight anybody, it’s just that I’m more in favor of JMM and his heart of a champion.
JMM dumped by PBF! LMAO. Poor Juanito, life is not fair, especially to very good fighters with boring style. Just ask Winky Wright.
“Pacquiao has fought Marquez twice and has had serious problems against him both times, winning some rounds by knocking Marquez down multiple times, but losing virtually all the other rounds that didn’t have knockdowns in them.” This is so true. I seriously think JMM can give as much trouble, if not more, to PBF than Pac can. On the other hand, Pac has a better chance of knocking out PBF. The old cliché, “styles make fights”.
PBF-MP, I can hardly wait! I’ll be rooting for our guy Pac, but I won’t put my lunch money on him. Floyd is not shot and drained like Oscar, he is not as daft as Ricky, and definitely no paper champion like David Diaz was. If Marquez posed that much problems to our guy, I wonder how tough the battle with PBF is gonna be. But then again, weren’t they all supposed to beat Manny until they climb the ring.
If PBF-MP happens, it should shut up the naysayers about Pac cherrypicking his opponents. If he beats PBF (and I hope it is not a dehydrated PBF making the weight), what else can anybody say?
it seems there is somethink very odd going on in boxing the last few weeks is it the fans not paying to see some fights or what
he may have realized that marquez is no pushover so he’s gonna look for another cherry to pick. perhaps joshua clottey? but samuel jackson is gonna beat him.
useless mayweather
Oh my, why am I not surprise from this excuse?
I wonder…
mayweather will pay marquez to go away, and make the fight with pacquiao his next challenge.
sept. or november.
anything else is boring.
mayweather is a coward like haye, they both backed out of their fights!
smells like it has something to do with the bad ticket showing. Mayweather doesn’t want to take the risk of showing sales showing badly to favor him in his future fight with Pacquiao.
All I can say is…
lolz@Mayweather
Well, its no surprise for me since he hasn’t box for two years.
But the postponement is bad…bad news for boxing