Mayweather: I’m not coming back

By Boxing News - 09/30/2015 - Comments

floyd56By Allan Fox: Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. says he’s not going to make a comeback to resume his boxing career in 2016. Mayweather was at last night’s fight between WBA “regular” super featherweight champion Javier Fortuna vs. Carlos Ivan Velasquez fight on Premier Boxing Champions on Fox Sports 1 at the Palms Casino and Resort, in Pearl Theater, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Mayweather, 38, made it clear that he has no intentions on returning to the game in the future. Only time will tell whether he stays firm with his retirement stance. Mayweather just got a series of big paydays recently with his six-fight contract with Showtime/CBS.

Mayweather might have a different stance once he’s burned through more and more of his fortune with his lavish spending habits.

“I’m not coming back, but, I’m just happy to be on the other side,” Mayweather said.

This news probably isn’t making Manny Pacquiao’s fans feel too good right about now. They’re still hoping that Mayweather will return to the ring in 2016 so that Pacquiao will get a chance to avenge his defeat to him. They feel that Pacquiao’s shoulder injury was the major reason why he came up short on May 2nd in the “Fight of the Century” between Mayweather and Pacquiao at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. But without Mayweather coming back to give the Filipino star a second chance, he’ll never get the opportunity to test the fan’s hypothesis. Pacquiao’s fans will have to live with his defeat and accept it somehow.

A lot of boxing fans believe that Mayweather will be back next year to fight Manny Pacquiao for a second big money payday against him. Their previous fight last May gave Mayweather a guaranteed payday of $200 million. Mayweather says he made $300 million for the fight.

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Mayweather was guaranteed $30 million for his recent mismatch against Andre Berto on September 12th of this month. Normally a person would be able to hold onto that kind of money for the remainder of their lives, but not too many people purchase cars that cost over a million dollars like Mayweather. He’s got a high number of expensive vehicles he’s purchased, and those automobiles start aging and losing value as soon as their purchased.

If Mayweather is going to keep replacing them year by year, it’s possible he’ll exhaust his future at some time in the future and may need to come back to the sport. Let’s hope for Mayweather’s sake that he doesn’t run out of money in his 50s, because it would be bad if he had to return to boxing at that age.

If Mayweather does continue his career next year, he has an opportunity to make big money fighting guys like Miguel Cotto, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, Manny Pacquiao, Gennady Golovkin, Danny Garcia, Amir Khan, Keith Thurman and Shawn Porter. There’s so much money that Mayweather could make if he fought Golovkin, Pacquiao, Cotto, Canelo and Khan. If all Mayweather was going to do was come back to fight four fights, he could make another $300 million easily if he only fought those five fighters and resisted the urge to fight the likes of Karim Mayfield and fighters like him.

Mayweather could use that money to ensure that his family has money after he passes away one day. It wouldn’t be good if Mayweather burned through his current fortune and left his family very little money after he dies one day.

Mayweather has become concerned with his health lately. He doesn’t want to take a lot of punishment at the end of his career and not be able to enjoy his millions by having brain problems from having taken too many blows to the head. But Mayweather could come back and fight guys in the Andre Berto class and still make a ton of money, as long as Showtime or HBO were willing to give Mayweather the power to pick out his own opponents like the deal that he recently had with Showtime.

Mayweather could then select Robert Guerrero and Andre Berto type opposition and milk the contract that he’s been given. It obviously wouldn’t be a good deal for Showtime or HBO if Mayweather is just going to take on soft opposition, but they’ll still wind up with a lot of new subscribers to their network regardless of who Mayweather fights.



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