Mayweather could fight beyond his remaining 5-fight contract

By Boxing News - 07/02/2013 - Comments

Mayweather answering media questions(Photo credit: Esther Lin) By Allan Fox: Undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) says he may continue fighting beyond the remaining 5 fights he has in his 6-fight contract with Showtime/CBS. It’s unclear whether Mayweather will still be with Showtime at that point or if he’ll move back to HBO. At this point a lot could happen in his next five fights with Showtime, and it’s premature for him to predict what will happen in those fights.

Mayweather said on Monday “After my five more fights, guess what? I think after 49-0 we may stay in this sport a little longer.”

The whole world probably sees this coming if Mayweather runs the table and wins these next five fights in convincing fashion.

Easily the hardest part for Mayweather is his next bout against WBA/WBC junior middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on September 14th because of how much weight Mayweather will be giving away in the fight. The power isn’t that big of a deal for Mayweather because he’s been in with guys that can throw with almost as much power as Canelo like Miguel Cotto and Victor Ortiz.

The weight that Mayweather will potentially giving away against the 170 lb. Canelo could make it tough on Mayweather because it’ll be like he’s fighting someone three divisions heavier than him if Mayweather steps inside the ring at 150 on September 14th and he’s facing a fighter in the low 170s like Canelo was in his last fight.

If Mayweather can get past this fight with Canelo the remaining 4 fights should be fairly easy because the pool of potential fighters will be guys like Amir Khan, Lucas Matthysse, Marcos Maidana, Danny Garcia and Devon Alexander. Those guys are a lot more manageable for Mayweather because he won’t be dealing with any of them weighing in the 170s. They’ll be pretty much the same weight as Mayweather.

If Mayweather ages well through these next five fights, he’ll definitely be able to continue fighting beyond his remaining 5-fights if he so chooses. There could be a couple names that he might be interested in fighting. However, he’ll have exhausted most of the interesting fights at 140 and 147 by then, and he might have to entertain the idea of fighting a middleweight like WBA 160 lb. champion Gennady Golovkin.

That’s a fight no different from the Canelo fight, aside from the obvious danger from Golovkin’s power, as Golovkin weighs about the same as Canelo for his fights. If Mayweather can fight a 172 lb. Canelo then he can fight a 170 lb. Golovkin. There wouldn’t be much difference other than Golovkin being maybe a little lighter than Canelo.



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