By Chris Williams: The opponent for unbeaten WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26 KOs) hasn’t been decided yet, but that’s not keeping him from starting his training camp to get ready for his next fight on September 12th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather took to Instagram on Tuesday to say that he’s now starting his training camp to get ready for his fight on 9/12.
Whoever will be sharing the ring with Mayweather, they’re going to need to start training right now if they want to be prepared for when he names the lucky guy who will get the fight.
“Training camp has started,” Mayweather said.
There are 8 ½ weeks to go before Mayweather’s fight on September 12th, and that’s plenty of time for Mayweather and his opponent to be ready to go.
Mayweather isn’t saying who his opponent will be just yet, but he’s probably holding back in announcing it due to the negotiations taking place. You’ve got to believe that he and he and Leonard Ellberbe, the CEO of Mayweather Promotions, have already initiated the negotiations with his next opponent. If guys like Amir Khan are saying that they haven’t heard anything, then it’s a good bet that he’s not getting the fight. Mayweather already said it himself that he could be facing Andre Berto or Karim Mayfield. Boxing fans – and fighters – need to take Mayweather on his word and focus on one of those two finde fighters being in the ring with him on September 12th on Showtime pay-per-view.
This could be the last fight of Mayweather’s career, and for that reason alone boxing fans need to pay up to see the man fight if they want to be able to see would could be his last fight of his career. Mayweather already beaten the No.2 fighter in the welterweight division in Manny Pacquiao in his last fight, and there’s a wide drop off in talent after Pacquiao. We don’t really know who the No.3 welterweight is, but whoever it is, he’s well below Pacquiao and not worth Mayweather fighting. Mayweather just needs to face someone that the casual boxing fans will recognize so that he can bring in good ratings and/or pay-per-view numbers for the fight. There’s talk that the fight might wind up being televised on free TV on CBS.
If that’s the case, then Mayweather can’t go wrong with someone like Andre Berto, because he’s arguably better known than any of the other top welterweights like Khan, Keith Thurman, Shawn Porter, Tim Bradley, and Marcos Maidana. Berto has been around for a long time, and he’s had his fights consistently televised since 2007. He would be a good choice for Mayweather in September. The other top fighters need to stick around for another five to seven years and make a name for themselves so that they don’t get passed up in the future for when the next superstar emerges at welterweight. Right now, there isn’t anybody that can step into Mayweather’s shoes to take his place at 147. The guys that are at the top right now at welterweight are too flawed to be the ones that take over for him. It’s going to have to be someone else that moves forward ahead of that bad batch, someone like Errol Spence Jr.
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