By Allan Fox: Trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. thinks that his son Floyd Mayweather Jr. (49-0, 26 KOs) might feel differently about retiring from the sport, and decide to continue his career in order to break Rocky Marciano’s 49-0 record in 2016. Floyd Sr. thinks that Mayweather could change his mind in 2 to 4 weeks and decide to keep fighting.
It’s possible that Mayweather could change his mind if he gets bored, and he starts spending up his fortune at a record pace on gambling and cars.
With the kind of money that Mayweather can make in coming back to fight the likes of Manny Pacquiao or Saul “Canelo” Alvarez again, it might be tough for him to resist coming back to try and break Marciano’s record. Mayweather says he’s got investments outside of the sport that will keep him going, but his investments probably aren’t making him $100 million per year or anything close to that.
Mayweather can still make a lot more money by fighting than he can doing anything else. The sooner he realizes that the sooner he’ll be back inside the ring to continue his career before he wastes it by sitting idle.
“He might be feeling like this right now. Maybe in 2 or 3, 4 weeks from now, he won’t feel that way,” Floyd Sr. said to Fighthype. “If he don’t want to break Marciano’s record, or anything like that, because of whatever the thing is. Whatever the case may be, he shouldn’t do it.”
It sounds like Floyd Sr. might want Mayweather to continue fighting. It’s obviously a good thing for Floyd Sr. with his son fighting because he gets paid each time Mayweather fights. He hasn’t been training for him long like his brother Roger Mayweather. It would help Floyd Sr. if Mayweather stuck around for a couple of more years to continue fighting.
With Mayweather’s ability to pick and choose whoever he pleases, he could probably stay on top for another four to five years. He doesn’t even need fight anyone good and he’d be able to stay at the top. But the boxing fans would likely abandon Mayweather if he continued fighting and decided that every opponent was going to be in the same class as Andre Berto, or worse.
Mayweather can still likely beat Amir Khan, Keith Thurman, Shawn Porter and Danny Garcia. If he wanted to, he could run the able on those guys and then finish with a rematch against Canelo. Mayweather’s personal fortune would likely grow an additional $300 million to $400 million. That would definitely help Mayweather if he decided to keep paying his huge entourage that follows him around, and if he continued to gamble and buy expensive cars. It would be difficult for Mayweather to burn through that money quickly, but of course it would still be possible over time if he doesn’t get a handle on his spending.
The worst mistake Mayweather could make is for him to stay outside of the ring for two years and then come back in 2017 or 2018, expending to start in where he left off in getting big paydays and beating everyone effortlessly. Mayweather was able to leave the sport from 2007 to 2009 and come back and still dominate, but he was a lot younger then.
It’ll be a much different story if he comes back at age 40 or 41 after sitting outside of the ring in retirement. I think the money he would make would be less, and I believe he would start getting beaten if he decided that he was going to fight the good welterweights instead of record padding fights against the likes of Andre Berto and Robert Guerrero.
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