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Huevos de Oro
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I believe Floyd told the old dude to fuck off in a previous fight, during one of these interviews.
SunhiLegend
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Syphon Filter
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hmm Larry stealth trolling floyd?
goldlion054
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Amazes me that Floyd let Cotto fight his style of fight for 10 rounds and still out boxed him. Really feels like Floyd and Manny are in a class by themselves right now.
Also looking forward to Freddy Roach telling us Manny did it better with the 12th round TKO like he did with Hatton lol
Also looking forward to Freddy Roach telling us Manny did it better with the 12th round TKO like he did with Hatton lol
I like the little shot Floyd took at Manny when mentioning it wasn't at a catch-weight.
Officerrob
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Well, it's true
goldlion054
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I totally agree. Picked Cotto apart with his signature aggressive style.
Wonder why Floyd allowed the in-fighting, though. Would have been interesting to see Floyd fight Cotto with his signature turtle-counter style
Officerrob
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Considering Manny dominated Cotto, that's not much of a shot
easy to do when you drain a fighter
Syphon Filter
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manny has no shot at beating floyd.
Back from a bar full of Mayweather haters, that was amusing as shit.
Comfortable win, but Mayweather's strategy baffled the fuck out of me. I kinda expected him to come out of the corner around the the 7th or 8th but he never really did.
and Miss Jackson... *strokes goatee*
Comfortable win, but Mayweather's strategy baffled the fuck out of me. I kinda expected him to come out of the corner around the the 7th or 8th but he never really did.
and Miss Jackson... *strokes goatee*
Officerrob
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No shot? Yeah, OK
Ninja Scooter
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if you want to play that game, Floyd dominated JMM while Manny probably lost to him.
Miguel fought Manny at 144lbs, he hadn't been under 145lbs in 3 years prior to that fight.
Manny has had some dominant performances, but lets not act like he isn't the catchweight king forcing guys to fight him at weights they either haven't fought at, or have trouble making weight at.
It's either Manny is forcing people to fight at a lower weight, or he's using performance enhancing drugs to bulk up lean mass in an impossible frame of time. You can't win with these guys.
Yea. It's like a 20-30% chance of winning type thing though
Ninja Scooter
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Why can't both be the case? It's not like the contradict each other. Manny is undersized for the weight classes he fights at. He was fighting at 120 lbs 10 years ago.
Epsilon-delta
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Exactly. Pacman can't get a free pass no matter what.
I think Alvarez v Khan is likely. Amir is going to work Peterson after getting jobbed last time.
Of course they'd have to agree on a weight, 147 I'd assume
i dunno Khan has never fought above 140 and Canelo is a belt holder at 154.
that is a little to much for Khan at this point
this is actually a promotional no lose scenario really. mexico vs puerto rico, guaranteed action fight. It could probably sell as a PPV with another big event attached.
yup than winner can fight floyd. money in the bank
Next big fight is Bradley-Pac
Who you guys picking?
Ninja Scooter
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if you really don't think there is a "smoke there's fire" situation, and something fishy going on with Manny and PEDs, has anyone been able to explain this:
If Manny was 100% clean why would this even be brought up?'
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...s-out-of-the-sand-manny-has-something-to-hide
He conquered those weight classes. Tim Bradley is shorter than Pacquiao, has climbed the weight ladder, and he fights at Welterweight. What do you think about that?
Vivalaraza
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Don't think Khan can handle Canelo.
I think Khan will beat Peterson and then go up to 147 in the fall. Don't think Floyd will fight until end of the year/early next year now and if Khan wins his bout at 147 well I can see that being Floyds next fight. Which he will win with ease.
I think Khan will beat Peterson and then go up to 147 in the fall. Don't think Floyd will fight until end of the year/early next year now and if Khan wins his bout at 147 well I can see that being Floyds next fight. Which he will win with ease.
Ninja Scooter
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When Bradley has his camp send email's to his opponents asking them to keep a potential positive drug test secret, maybe I'll be a little more suspicious of him too.
I think if anyone can beat Floyd it wouldn't be Manny, it would be Sergio, big southpaw with fast hands and an unorthodox style. Uses the lead left like Floyd uses the lead right.
Vivalaraza
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If those e-mail rumors are true, then why hasn't the Mayweather camp (who claims to have received them) publicly posted them?
Ninja Scooter
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Why hasn't Manny's people publicly denounced them? Teddy Atlas isn't exactly known to make shit up.
Again, I don't know if Manny is testing, but people need to stop acting like Floyd is bringing this up out of nowhere. It might just be a negotiating tactic, or an attempt to get into Manny's head, but where there is smoke there is fire in almost all instances. People need to stop acting like this is really about Floyd and Manny anyway, and not their massive teams of promoters that basically tell them who/what/when/where to fight and don't want to see their golden geese disappear. Why make these guys fight now, when they can string us all along fighting a rotating stream of cans and fool us into paying $60 to watch it with the hope that this will be the last time before the eventual "Super Fight"?
TheNatural
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Easy explanation: it's bleacher report first off, anyone can write that. Second, anyone from Mayweather's camp can claim knowledge over anything. Look at tonight, the guy is a PR machine. He went on some weird rant about protecting his health before this fight and about Pacquaio not doing anything for the American people. Someone that's a "source" could be in Mayweather's camp and make whatever the fuck they want up.
Floyd Mayweather could tell me the sky was blue and I would have to go outside and check to make sure, that's how much credibility the guy has. He's a bullshitter. The guy has also been sued civillly for defamation by Pacquaio and refused to show up for deposition. You figure a guy so adament about claiming he used steroids would show up to lay the hammer down but he chickened out, and Golden Boy themselves settled.
This fight is never going to happen, so there's no point arguing it. Both sides have pieces of shit involved that you can't trust the word of, you have Arum on one side, and you have Mayweather on the other.
I don't know what Pacquaio has going on or what he does, and I don't think his camp is clean and clear about things with Bob Arum running the show either. What I don't understand however, is how people can sit back and act like big Mayweather supporters over this issue and back Floyd over an ethical issue and his claims about what he says is happening. He changes his story constantly. One say it's Arum, one day it's his health, one day it's testing, and one day its 60/40 split.
And most of all I can't understand anyone supporting this guy when HE'S GOING TO JAIL FOR BEATING UP A WOMAN. How in the blue fuck can anyone believe anything this guy says? You support Mayweather, you support a piece of shit woman abuser, period. There's no other way around it.
The Mayweather ass kissing train is old. I don't think Pacquaio's camp is fine and dandy, I think Arum's a piece of shit, and I think Manny lost to Marquez - but I sure as hell am not going to believe, much less ROOT for a piece of shit like Mayweather.
Nothing would make me happier to see this fight fall apart for good in some way or some how, be it by retirement, injury, or whatever else.
Syphon Filter
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wow you're mad,face it floyd is king and will hand pacquiao a 4th loss.
TheNatural
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Face it, you support a scumbag who beats up on women.