By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr. believes the fans would continue to ask him to jump through additional hoops if he were to make a comeback and defeat IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin. Mayweather has no doubts that he would beat the undefeated Golovkin if he were to stage a comeback, but he sees no point in taking that fight. The fans would give him grief and ask him to move up to 168 to fight the top super middleweights.
Mayweather turns 39 today, and he seems to have no interest in making a comeback. If he does decide to resume his career, then he’s going to need to do it soon before he starts losing his skills due to age inactivity. Mayweather was out of the ring for a long spell in the past from the end of 2007 to 2009, but he was younger then and still in his prime. At 39, Mayweather is clearly slower than he was in the past and he can’t expect to stay out of the ring for much longer and have success if he does choose to resume his career.
“Once I fought and beat everybody, first it was, ‘Mayweather was scared of this guy!’ What I do? I beat him! ‘Mayweather’s scared of that guy!’ I beat him! ‘Mayweather’s scared of this guy!’ I beat him! It’s getting to a point that, if me and Triple G would have fought when I was fighting, I would’ve beat him and then guess what! There’s going to be an excuse. Now it’s time for me to go to 168,” Mayweather said to Fighthype.com.
Without question, the fans would demand that Mayweather fight bigger and bigger fights if he were to beat Golovkin. They wouldn’t ask him to fight middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez again because he already schooled him three years ago, and there would be no point in Mayweather doing it again. There isn’t anyone else in the middleweight division for the fans to pressure Mayweather to fight, and there’s no one in the 154lb division either. The fans would likely start looking towards the 168lb division to find another guy that they feel that Mayweather would absolutely lost to. I’m not sure who that fighter would be right off the top of my head, but you can bet the fans would find someone from that division.
I think the fans would probably want Mayweather to fight IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev at 168. They would push for Kovalev to melt down to 168 and Mayweather to move up in weight to take on Kovalev. There isn’t anyone in the super middleweight division right now that they could use as the next great hope to beat Mayweather because the division is empty of talent now after Andre Ward moved up to 175 and Carl Froch retired.
To find someone that they think can beat Mayweather, the fans would need to raid the light heavyweight division and find Kovalev to come down in weight to take the fight. Mayweather isn’t going to agree to fight a light heavyweight because he knows full well the fans would then look to the cruiserweight division to find someone that could beat him.
When you’re Mayweather, there’s so much jealousy with some fans. They don’t want to give the man his props for having presented a 49-0 record and having fought for over 20 years. The fans wanted Mayweather to fight the Filipino fighter Manny Pacquiao, and when he finally did fight him and whip him fair and square, the fans still weren’t satisfied. They made excuses about how Manny was injured and some of them even think that he deserved the victory rather than Mayweather. It’s just pretty sad. Mayweather can’t get his due.
Mayweather would beat Golovkin and likely take him to school for 12 rounds if he came back this year. It still wouldn’t make fans happy. They would probably want him to fight Golovkin a second and even a third time to prove that the win wasn’t a fluke. Mayweather already said there’s nothing special about Golovkin. There’s special effects with the Kazakhstan fighter. He’s straight up and down and does nothing that would give Mayweather any kind of problems if he came back and handed him his first defeat.
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