By Chris Young: I just finished listening to Floyd Mayweather’s recent interview on ESPN 1000 in which Mayweather said that Manny Pacquiao is fighting his scraps.
In the interview, which took place last Friday, Mayweather said, “I beat De La Hoya at the weight De La Hoya wanted to fight at. He [Pacquiao] beat De La Hoya at a catch weight where he had to kill himself to make a certain weight class. I beat Ricky Hatton and then he followed right behind me and fights Ricky Hatton a year later. The list goes on. I just beat Shane Mosley now he wants to fight Shane Mosley. Shane Mosley beat Antonio Margarito and then he goes and fights Antonio Margarito. Antonio Margarito beats Miguel Cotto and then he goes to fight Miguel Cotto. I’m just saying. That’s how it goes.”
You see this can be easily turned around. Floyd fought Manny’s scraps by having Juan Manuel Marquez come up two weight classes and came in over the agreed weight in their fight in 2009. Floyd fought Mosley’s scraps by fighting De La Hoya. Floyd fought Carlos Baldomir’s scraps by fighting Zab Judah. You see how stupid and ignorant that sounds. So once a fighter loses he should just retire right? Or since a fighter has lost he is not the same fighter?
Floyd once said a fighter is not the same after I beat them. How? It’s not like he mauls them or brutally devastate them. He is a technical fighter who is defensive oriented. Don’t get me wrong he is excellent at what he does, but it’s like saying fighters are not the same when they fight Willie Pep or Pernell Whitaker. Plus Manny is fighting guys that Floyd refused to fight. Now this weight drained nonsense, ok let’s go down the list…..When Manny fought Oscar let the record show that Oscar challenged Manny.
So the fight at 147 was completely fair. Oscar had to come down 2 weight classes and Manny had to come 2 weight classes. So how is that unfair? If Oscar couldn’t make the weight then he shouldn’t challenge him. Was Ricky Hatton weight drained when Manny fought him at his preferred weight? Hatton was undefeated at 140 and Manny starched him. How about the Cotto’s fight? Before Cotto fought Manny the heaviest Cotto ever came in at welterweight was 146 so they agreed to weigh in at 145. Welterweight is between 141-147 pounds.
Now the Margarito fight shouldn’t have been for the title. Neither of them deserved it. Anyways how is Margarito coming in at 151 or 150 pounds weight draining? Majority of Margarito’s career, he has fought at welterweight and dominated as champ for 6 years and this was the second time in his career he fought above the welterweight limit. So this actually benefited Tony not Manny. You see I’m going to give this man his due.
For the last 10 years he has fought consistently and fought top quality opposition. Now with the people that hates him I guarantee if he was American or had the face of “real American” this would not be an issue and he would be considered an all-time great. But since all the hate is out there from certain groups they are going to nitpick and magnify his “faults”.
Saying he has only fought weight drained fighters or the fighter that has been beaten before. Answer me this. Why haven’t his opponents use this as an excuse? Because none of them has complained once about the weight being and issue or they see themselves as half beaten broken fighters, just the haters.
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