What’s next for Floyd?

By Boxing News - 06/19/2012 - Comments

Image: What’s next for Floyd?By Kristofer Williams Sr. On Cinco De Mayo, Floyd Mayweather Jr was fortunate to escape with a unanimous decision win versus the game Miguel Cotto. Considering what happened to Manny Pacquiao and Tim Bradley, Floyd’s unanimous decision victory awarded to him by the judges was a gift of epic proportions.

Some would even say the judges gave him a sympathy vote just in time to help Floyd get his mind in tune to handle the painful rigors of being locked up.

But as we have found out recently, Floyd’s mind wasn’t exactly in tune to handle his prison sentence, desperately trying to persuade the judges to give him house arrest despite professing to the world that he would take his plight “like a man.” No need to scratch your heads about this, for we all know what the real deal Holyfield is.

Now back to Floyd-Cotto and Pacquiao-Bradley debacles. Floyd won the scorecards by a landslide decision. Manny’s controversial split-decision “loss” versus Bradley was judged very close as evident in the scorecards. However, Floyd received way more damage (as evidenced by his bloody nose and the number of times Cotto landed on Floyd flush with power shots) than Pacquiao did against Bradley.

It is obvious Bradley didn’t hurt Pacquiao. It is obvious Bradley left no marks on Pacquiao’s face. And it is flat-out obvious Cotto inflicted some damage to Floyd. If he was never hurt, Floyd would not have been wearing sunglasses immediately after the fight. Therein lies the bias in Las Vegas judges, and the sole reason why Floyd Mayweather will NEVER ever fight outside of Las Vegas. He has a tremendous “home-court advantage,” and Floyd knows too well to take advantage of this.

In my opinion the Floyd-Cotto scores should have been much closer, more like 116-112 or 115-113 in favor of Mayweather. And of course, Pacquiao EASILY won his fight against Bradley 117-111 (I personally had it 116-112 for Pacquiao after viewing the fight with and without commentary a total of 8 times).

So what’s next for Mayweather? Can he cope with the rigors of jail so he can come out of this a brand new “man?” Pacquiao is praying for Floyd, so will Floyd learn to grow respect for his foreign counterpart and finally man up to start real negotiations with Top Rank?

Whatever the case may be, one thing is clear: Once Floyd gets out of jail in two months, he has three very strong punchers on both sides of the welterweight division ready to take his head off and end his fabricated undefeated career. At 154, Canelo and Sergio Martinez are waiting patiently. And at 147, Pacquiao is foaming at the mouth like a tiger.

Or will Floyd retire and take another year off to “preserve” his health? My money says he does. Will Floyd take on the challenge and offer Pacquiao more than a zero percent split on the PPV revenue when the world knows Pacquiao deserves at least a 35% cut at the very least? My money says Floyd will stay firm on his insistence in keeping 100% of the PPV pie.

Meanwhile, the Pacman Assault Continues.



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