By Allan Fox: Trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr doesn’t want his son WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (47-0, 26 KOs) to face WBA Super middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (31-0, 28 KOs), because he sees Golovkin as having too much size on him for Mayweather Jr to fight him.
Floyd Sr notes that Golovkin melts down from the 170s to get down to 160 to make weight at middleweight for his fights. Floyd Sr says that Mayweather Jr fights in the low 140s, and he’s be giving up too much weight to face the 170+ Golovkin.
Golovkin is willing to melt down to 154 to face Mayweather if he’s open to fighting him. Golovkin would be sacrificing some muscle and water weight for him to make 154 to face Mayweather. However, unless Mayweather had a rehydration clause that kept Golovkin from fighting over a certain weight limit, we could see Golovkin rehydrate from 154 to 170+, and Mayweather would be giving up a huge amount of weight to the Kazakhstan fighter.
“That [Mayweather fighting Golovkin] don’t make any sense,” Floyd Sr told Hustleboss. “He’s [Golovkin] 160 pounds, but then he has to trim down to make weight, so that’s more weight he’s got on him. Floyd ain’t nothing but 140 pounds. I hope my son fights and gets out, and then leaves it alone, or at the most he can challenge [Rocky] Marciano’s record.
That wouldn’t be bad if he chose to challenge Marciano’s record. He can’t keep fighting, because I don’t care who you are; if you keep fighting eventually you’re going to lose,” Floyd Sr said.
Marciano’s record of 49-0 has already been broken by former two division world champion Ricardo Lopez (51-0-1, 38 KOs). The record now belongs to Lopez. If Mayweather wants to break Lopez’s record, then he’s going to need to stick around for another 5 fights in order to finish with a 52-0 record that would beat the record by one.
It’s certainly doable for Mayweather, but there will be a tremendous amount of pressure put on him to fight the likes of Amir Khan, Kell Brook, Manny Pacquiao and Keith Thurman if he sticks around for five more fights.
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