Does Floyd Mayweather Jr. Have a Chip on His Shoulder?
September 16th, 2009
By Chris Williams: After looking at a recent video of Floyd Mayweather Jr. complaining about not being loved, among other things, I’m beginning to think that Mayweather Jr. has a huge chip on his shoulder. Looking a little emotional, Mayweather went on at length, saying “This country needs to be more positive,” he said. “We’re already at war.
So it seems that Mayweather isn’t getting a lot love. Well, what does he expect? Mayweather makes a comeback after two years and opts to fight a fighter two divisions smaller than him in Juan Manuel Marquez instead of a welterweight or a light middleweight. Come on, boxing fans gave Mayweather a pass when he decided to fight Ricky Hatton, a light welterweight, two years ago. I know for me, I thought Mayweather was just getting it out of his system with his fight against a small opponent.
But now, Mayweather has chosen another tiny fighter and is looking to fight an even smaller one in the future with Manny Pacquiao. What does Mayweather expect people to say about all that? He can’t think that it will go ignored and not commented on. Boxing writers have to explain the situation, and that obviously includes the fact that Mayweather has picked a little guy to fight instead of someone his own size.
Besides that, perhaps another reason why Mayweather isn’t feeling any love is because boxing fans are wondering whether he’ll fight an entertaining fight. Many of them still remember Mayweather’s safety first performances in the not too distant past and are hoping that Mayweather doesn’t decide to fight in this manner on Saturday night against Marquez. This is a bad economy and fans are going to have to pay a lot of money to watch the Mayweather vs. Marquez fight on pay-per-view.
Who wants to plunk down $50 bucks to watch one good fight, and then the turns out to be filled with Mayweather running around the ring, not engaging and mostly throwing pot shots. That’s boring. And the thing of it is, boxing fans have been burned in the past when seeing Mayweather fights and are now remembering what a bad experience it was.
It’s the same for anything, I guess. If you watch a television program and it turns out to be really bad. Are you going to want to watch it again? What makes it worse is that boxing fans will have to pay a ton of money to see something that they’re not feeling too good about in the first place.
“But I wouldn’t change my life for nothing in the world. There’s nothing like being young, black and rich. But there are certain things you think about. If Floyd Mayweather was white, I’d be the biggest athlete in America. The biggest, the biggest. I know that for a fact,” Mayweather said.
I think Mayweather is dead wrong about this too. There’s plenty of black stars that are embraced in the U.S., and it’s not about color. The reason why, I think, Mayweather isn’t embraced is because his fights are entertaining and he makes things worse by bragging about how good he is. In a way, Mayweather seems out of touch with reality.
I find it hard to believe that if he saw a fighter winning a bout in a safety first manner, he would get all excited about that fight and want to see him fight again. There’s other things to watch nowadays, and watching a safety first guy run around the ring trying not to get hit is frankly very boring. That’s what Mayweather is missing.
It’s not about color; It’s about him being a boring fighter and someone who is picking fighters that are smaller than him in recent fights, which almost guarantees that the fight will end up one-sided, and boring. Why can’t Mayweather see that?
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It’s not about color, it about he’s boring skills. Yes he’s good but he can’t even make an entertaining fight. He’d probably forgotten Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard, Lenox Lewis, Evander Holyfield and other boxing legends
People want to see KO’s. Floyds followers like him because of his antics outside of the ring, which I think is retarded because a he just acts like everyother rapper on cribs. But what real boxing fans want to see a fighter do more than just enough to win. Dont get me wrong he is very skilled and talented, but where is the fire he had when he KO’d Diego Corrales? RIP one of my fav all time. Maybe he hasent been pushed as of late? None the less, his last couple fights, besides Hatton, just havent been exciting. For PBF to get more fans, outside of hip hop groupies he needs more than a defensive decision over JMM. Quit whinning about fans saying this and that, and quit making it about race. Thats a desperate act from a desperate fighter, and it wont win fans. KO’s will win fans. Tyson, pre-jail, had boxing at an all time high. This was because people knew what they were getting, and he’s black. So his race rants are a bunch of crap. Boxing is struggeling and it needs more fighters that show and prove, IN THE RING, and less whinning fighters, who arent that exciting to watch.
Floyd is one of the best boxer when it comes to skill. Unfortunately, his style doesn’t appeal to most fight fan. And he also avoids matches that are quite risky even if these fights are with a lot of excitement. If Floyd did loss before I think he would have become a more rounded boxer (with good offense) and will also be more exciting since he will “fight” without thinking of maintaining his “unbleamish” record.
As to being “liked”, I think being black doesn’t have anything to do with it. There’s a lot of black personalities that are well liked. He has to straighten his act if he wants people to like him. But I think it’s too late for that. People will always see what they see in him.
mayweather is the best pound 4 pound fighter in the world and thats just the way it is.
Floyd is a true speaker, no one can knock his talent he is without doubt the greatest boxer of our time, Im a huge hatton fan and of boxing i love the sport when all is said and done we can talk about mayweather in the same breath as the all time greats in the likes of leonard,robinson,duran we should count ourselfs lucky to have floyd mayweather in the sport of the boxing.
Am i the only one who thinks mayweather vs mosley would be boring and about have no hype or excitement about it?
Same with mayweather cotto. I think cotto is a beast, but hes over rated.
The only interesting fights out there i can see is mayweather vs pacman or mayweather vs hatton… in london.
on the floyd appreciates british fans, he says he wants to move to UK, mayweather vs paquiao in wembley stadium would be huge, that has to happen
This article is rubbish. On one hand public opinion want pacquiao to fight mayweather, on the other they get angry when he fights the bigger lighweight in marquez. Racism is there and is very clear. Mayweather spits the truth. Yeah, came sep 19 god willing he will be taking more money from your racist fat pockets lol
lets hope cotto pacquaio is close, cause if one destroys the other mayweather sure as hell wont be fighting the winner
A win is a Win. An excuse is a poor answer for the truth.
People order the steak, not the sizzle. This is why people don’t like PBF. He is the best technical boxer of the generation, yet he doesn’t put his money where his mouth is when it comes to dancing with the big boys of welterweight. His style isn’t exactly appealing to boxing fans and he speaks as if he’s the best gladiator of all time. It doesn’t matter if you’re a black, white, asian or latino dick, you’re just a dick!
well said Chris, you nailed it!…and they all know it!!!
keep it up!
Oh for christs sake, when David Haye gets in the ring with Nikolai Valuev there will be a difference of about 9 stone! Stop moaning about a few pounds and just enjoy the damn fight!
Floyd Mayweather Jr FTP! F*** That Puto!!!
again i would say mayweather should have not picked a smaller fighter in marquez yet marquez should not have excepted the challenge of a bigger
faster and a very skilled fighter like mayweather.
so there is blame on both sides.
every body is talking about mayweather taking on a smaller fighter but no one is talking about that small fighter taking the challenge.look on both sides of the street not one side.
I think i spoke on you and journalism before…you never have a positive thing to say about PBF.
The worst sport reporter of all time: CHRIS WILLIAMS…Stand Ovate!!!!
This article is spot on. He demands respect when his actions do not deserve it. How can he be considered the P4P king if he fights lightweights instead on his division. His attitude sets him apart from Pacquaio. I’ve never heard Pacquiao beg for respect, and to top it all, what’s with the waterworks. What a dick.
Stupid Idiot!!!
“But now, Mayweather has chosen another tiny fighter and is looking to fight an even smaller one in the future with Manny Pacquiao.”
Marquez is the smaller boxer in terms of his progression in moving up the divisions.
Also, Mayweather is not looking on boxing anyone other than Marquez at the minute. It is critics like you who don’t realise what they are saying. On the one hand, ‘Why didnt Mayweather wait one more day before signing upto box Marquez and go after Pacquiao?’.
Then, if and when the Mayweather – Pacquiao bout happens, ‘He keeps fighting smaller guys!’
Make your mind up. At least try and be unbiased when you write articles!!
Whats with him pulling the race card? And the idiots that agree with it? What colour was Ali? Jesus! people even love that rapist Mike Tyson more than PBF, if he is not liked then i can see why and it has nothing to do with his colour. If he was white he’d just be a white prik instead of a black one. Now all you black guys, does that make him a bigger prik if he’s black? because i hear black priks are bigger lol
I dont’t want to think that Poor Boy Floyd is stupid. Who will like a boxer no matter how good,
if before and after a fight brags, trash talks
others in the guise of promoting the fight, rants
a lot, fights a smaller opponent, runs around in the ring (He should have been a trackster). Fans
nowadays adore an athlete who is humble, quite
and decent in every way. He doesn’t have one of
those traits that make a champ adorable. He’s no
different from his father. Well what can you expect?
Who’d you sleep with to get this column publicly displayed. If you don’t like him then why do you comment on him. Go hate on somebody else loser. He is damn right too, if he were white he’d be a national hero praised for his tactical perfection. Real boxing fans recognize one of the best fighters ever. It’s PBF, not you loser columnist haha. You aren’t even the best writer to write a column, that must really suck, but unfortunately that’s the reality for loser a$$ haters.
listen Mayweather why has so much money been thrown his way ? . So remember “DUde” you dont talk for all boxing fans, About the black thing, if u not black u dont know what the fcuk u talking about
PBF is a boxing genius . Period
He constantly brags about how good he is , constantly backs his claims up , excellent at self promotion , has a talent most boxers can only dream of .
Ummm……..Is it just me or does that sound very similar to a certain Muhammed Ali ??????
A boxers job is to win fights. It doesnt matter if its in a safety first way or a take 5 punches to land 1 punch way. Maybe when someone beats him he may then try a new way to fight but if it aint broke why fix it? As for him fighting smaller fighters, well i cant really defend him there. Although he did beat De La Hoya at 154 pounds i think.