Mayweather: I don’t know if I’m going to fight again or not

By Boxing News - 05/06/2014 - Comments

floyd8822By Allan Fox: Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KO’s) says he’s not sure if he’s going to be continuing his boxing career following his 12 round majority decision win over Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) last Saturday night. It was a tough fight for Mayweather in which he was hit hard over 200 times by the powerful Maidana. Mayweather may have misjudged the talent and the power that Maidana had when he made the decision to be a stationary target in front of Maidana. In hindsight, it was a bad idea for Mayweather to get into the trenches with a guy like Maidana and fight his kind of fight.

When asked by reporters if he’d be interested in fighting Amir Khan, Mayweather said “I don’t know. I want to go home, sit down, and see what I come up with. I don’t know if I’m fighting again or not. He’s [Maidana] a real, real rugged guy. He don’t care where he hits you at.”

Mayweather has to decide whether it’s worth it for him to continue or not. After a fight like last Saturday’s, you can’t blame Mayweather if he does walk away from the ring and retire. Even though he got the win and wasn’t knocked down in the fight, he took a real beating from Maidana in his decision to trade shots with him. This was one of those fights that takes a lot of out of a fighter, and causes them to have second thoughts about whether they should continue.

If Mayweather wasn’t so fabulously wealthy, he’d have no other options but to continue with his boxing career, but that’s not his situation. Mayweather doesn’t need to continue fighting due to his huge fortune. He obviously would like to finish the remaining 3 fights on his 6-fight contract with Showtime/CBS, but a fight like the one that Mayweather had last Saturday night seems to have him thinking about retirement.

If Mayweather does vacate his two welterweight titles [WBA and WBC], Maidana will be in a good position to battle it out with the likes of Keith Thurman, Amir Khan or Luis Carlos Abregu for the belts.

“I knew he was going to try and kill me in the 12th, because he knew he was behind on the scorecards,” Mayweather said.”He surprised me. He’s got a good jab. He packs a cool punch.”



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