Floyd Mayweather Jr: Are there any doubts about his status?

floyd#705By Babatis Banda: Putting the accusations aside, does anybody out there doubt that Mayweather is the best P4P fighter today? Does anybody out there doubt that Floyd Mayweather Junior is the most gifted fighter this era has witnessed?

Does anyone out there doubt that Mayweather Junior has always made easy work of his opponents? Does anybody out there surely doubt that Mayweather is a class above the rest?

I seem to have a feeling that there is serious luck of competition out there for Floyd Mayweather Jnr, such that whoever he fights, some section of the fans will always trash his opposition looking at the ease at which he beats them. Do not be fooled, all these fighters Mayweather is beating are looking good going into the fight.

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De La Hoya: Canelo is not Guerrero; Mayweather is not invincible

floyd#700By Dan Ambrose: Oscar De La Hoya believe that Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) is ripe to be picked off by De La Hoya’s red-haired, 22-year-old, 172 pound WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) in September if Mayweather would only agree to the fight.

De La Hoya seems to be getting impatient with Mayweather not readily accepting the fight with the light heavyweight-sized Canelo. De La Hoya wants Mayweather to sign for the fight because he feels he’s got someone that can finally beat him. Granted, Canelo outweighs Mayweather by close to 30 pounds but that’s besides the point.

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Schaefer insists he’s making progress with Mayweather-Canelo negotiations

canelo4543By Dan Ambrose: Dan Rafael reports that Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer that he’s making good progress on a fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, and that the talk of the fight taking place at 147 or a catchweight is totally incorrect.

Rafael said on his twitter: “Schaefer: All good, working on the fight. So far so good. It’s amazing how some of these other (sites) are spreading all these wrong stories. Schaefer emailed me, said as he works on Floyd-Canelo reports Floyd insists ‘on 147 & Canelo would be OK with a catch weight, it’s all BS.’”

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Canelo will likely have to come down to 147 for Mayweather fight

canelo33323By Dan Ambrose: Steve Kim is saying that Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn’t want to come back up in weight to fight the young 22-year-old WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez at 154, and that if the Mexican fighter wants to fight boxing’s number #1 money fighter, he’ll have to come down to 147 to make the fight happen.

Additionally, there will be NO catchweights for Canelo. He won’t get to meet Mayweather halfway between 147 and 154, and they rehydrate up to 172-175 lbs for the fight. If Canelo wants the fight, he has to come down to 147.

I’m hearing also talk of a possible rehydration clause that could be in effect if Canelo does come down to 147.

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Espinosa optimistic Mayweather-Canelo will take place on September 14th

floyd62By Dan Ambrose: Showtime head of Sports Stephen Espinosa is optimistic that a mega pay per fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez can get made for September 14th on Showtime/CBS on the Mexican Independence Day holiday. Both Mayweather and Canelo are interested in the fight, so all that needs to take place in the negotiations for money, weight.

Espinosa said to ESPN’s Dan Rafael “I’m cautiously optimistic. There’s a lot of negotiating left to do, but often the biggest hurdle is convincing one fighter or the other to take the fight. That hurdle has been cleared. I truly believe Mayweather wants Canelo and that Canelo wants Mayweather, and that’s half the battle.”

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Sulaiman: Canelo should wait a year before facing Mayweather

canelo02By Dan Ambrose: WBC president Jose Sulaiman wants WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) to wait until next year before he faces unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) in a mega fight. Sulaiman, who is really fond of the orange-haired Mexican fighter, doesn’t think he’s ready to beat the 36-year-old Mayweather right now, but if he waits until Mayweather is 37, Sulaiman thinks he’ll have a better chance at beating him.

Sulaiman said to the record.com.mx “Alvarez should wait two more fights before going against Mayweather. Canelo will be more experienced and Floyd will be another year older and it would be a competitive fight. At this time I do not advise it.”

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Robert Garcia: Canelo should fight Mayweather Jr. at 147 if he wants the fight so bad

canelo4534By Dan Ambrose: Trainer Robert Garcia doesn’t see any point in Floyd Mayweather Jr. fighting the much heavier WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez at 154 because he sees that as being too much of an advantage for Canelo because he’s so much heavier than Mayweather and stronger than him.

Garcia sees Canelo – and Sergio Martinez – as being guys in a bigger weight class and if they want to fight Mayweather so badly, then they should melt down and fight him at 147 instead of trying to get him to come up to their weight classes.

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Mayweather-Canelo: Showtime needs this fight more than Mayweather does

canelo11By Dan Ambrose: It’s pretty clear that Showtime would love for WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) to fight the heavier WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alavarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) in his next fight on September 14th on pay per view.

Steve Kim is right in saying that it’s Showtime that needs this fight much more than Mayweather. He’s got his guaranteed cash and he’s going to make big bank no matter who he faces in his next five fights.

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The Mayweather Double Standard

floyd#23By Robert Elmore: Let’s face it; when you’re on top the criticism will come. Everybody will have something to say about what the top person needs to do to secure his legacy or be mentioned in the same conversations as those who came before him.

Each generation brings along a special boxer that separates himself from the pack. In the 80’s, in the welter weight division, you had Sugar Ray Leonard; the heavyweight you had Mike Tyson. There was a cluster of heavyweights back then, but Tyson stood out.

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Schaefer: Canelo cannot go lower than 154 for a Mayweather fight

canelo1By Dan Ambrose: If Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) decides he wants to fight WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) then he can forget all about having the fight take place at welterweight for his 147 lb. WBC title, and he can also forget about the fight taking place at a catchweight of 150 lbs. to meet halfway, because Canelo can’t go before 154, says his promoter Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy Promotions.

I would normally be highly suspicious at hearing a promoter say something like this, but given that Canelo rehydrated up to 172 pounds for his last fight against WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout last month, I totally believe Schaefer that Canelo simply can’t get below 154. He’s barely making weight at 154 before rehydrating up nearly 20 pounds to light heavyweight.

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