★★★ Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Miguel Angel Cotto ★★★

[Mr. Gayle]

you can tell merchant is HAPPY that mayweathers going pen

[JOHN DOE]

The way Ellerbe was WATCHING Larry at that interview :lmao:

FAAM

he was looking at him like just gimme an excuse to snuff niggas

[JOHN DOE]

pacquaio would beat mayweather based on what ive just seen

[JOHN DOE]

FULL FIGHT HBO VERSION (unbiased commentary)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NJ8Vcqjqw

[Mic Man]

Think Khan has a strong chance of being Floyds next opponent.

Apart from the obvious, Berto is the only other one I can think of

[time_bomb]

pissed fell asleep in the last round of the mosely fight

[Mr. Gayle]

Kahn will fight Kel Brook before he fights Mayweather, but think Brook would win.

Then Brook v Alvarez

[Marly Mar]

FULL FIGHT HBO VERSION (unbiased commentary)

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=P_NJ8Vcqjqw

POSSSS

MISSED THIS

[Guest M12]

alsmdlsmdlamlsad

mayweather came out with 50 and bieber.

[Mic Man]

Kahn will fight Kel Brook before he fights Mayweather, but think Brook would win.

Then Brook v Alvarez

That SHOULD be the way it should be but if Khan impresses against Peterson, Mayweather will be interested & Khan aint gonna miss that opportunity and Brook will have to fall back.

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What makes you so confident Brook will beat Khan?- he hasnt fought anyone in the top 10 yet. Think he needs to fight someone of note before making bold statements. Maybesomeone like Koltenik or Yuri Foreman?

[mark_INIESTA_davies]

you seriously think kel brook could go toe-toe with saul alvarez?

Please mate, don't put yourself in a position of humble piellion

[JOHN DOE]

[JOHN DOE]

Floyd Mayweather Jr. learned more than boxing from his father

BY LANCE PUGMIRE

Los Angeles Times

LAS VEGAS -- The volatility that defines Floyd Mayweather Jr. is rooted partly in the complex relationship with his father.

Floyd Mayweather Sr.'s boxing lessons helped propel his son to unimaginable riches. The younger Mayweather gets another huge payday Saturday for his title bout against 154-pound champion Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico at MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

But there's tragedy in the familial connection, too, of lessons outside the ring that were left for the son to learn painfully on his own.

On June 1, Mayweather Jr., 35, is scheduled to report to Clark County (Nev.) jail to begin serving a 90-day sentence for a battery domestic violence conviction against the mother of his three children.

A legacy of household unrest dates to Mayweather's childhood.

Mayweather Sr., who in 1978 fought and lost to Sugar Ray Leonard, told the story recently of a day in their Grand Rapids, Mich., home when he picked up his crying toddler son from a walker. A few minutes earlier the dad had put his hands around the throat of Tony Sinclair, the late brother of Mayweather Jr.'s mother, who had overstayed his welcome living in their home, according to Mayweather Sr.

Sinclair went outside to get a rifle, kicked in a door to the house and aimed the barrel at Mayweather Sr.'s face while he held his son.

"If you're going to kill me, you're going to kill the baby, too," Mayweather Sr. said he told Sinclair. "(Floyd Jr.'s) mother said, 'Give me the baby.' She was pulling the baby out of my arms so her brother could shoot me.

"But I wasn't going to put that baby down. I didn't want to die. It wasn't about putting my son in the line of fire. I knew (Sinclair) wouldn't shoot the baby. So he took the gun off my face, lowered it to my leg and bam!"

Mayweather Sr. lifted his left pant leg to reveal the grotesque damage caused by the blast.

"I used my mind that day," Mayweather Sr. said, "and the first thing on my mind was, 'Ain't nobody getting killed.'"

With that scene as a starting point, the quest to make sense of the complexities and contradictions of Mayweather Jr.'s life makes him as evasive to dime store psychology as he is to foes in the ring.

The unbeaten five-time champion, with his retinue of bodyguards, is as likely to be hot tempered as he is generous. He quietly paid for a cancer-stricken former opponent's funeral, and gave the mother of a sick girl $40,000 for a medical bill.

"There's only so much you can buy," Mayweather Jr. said.

In the calm inside his Las Vegas gym recently, Mayweather (42-0, 26 knockouts) reflected on his place in the world.

"The last time I checked, this is what the American dream is," Mayweather said. "Who doesn't want to be rich, and make this kind of money? They told me when I was growing up that dreams come true. I dreamed it, and made it happen.

"There's two sides to every person. There are some other athletes who portray a certain image and talk a certain way like they're this great person, but then the truth comes out," he said. "Everyone's not the same, so don't sit and try and judge me for how I've done it."

On this day, Mayweather Sr. returned to his son's gym for the first time since their infamous blowup caught by television cameras last year, when Mayweather Jr. kicked his father out of the building, firing a barrage of expletives.

"My dad used me as a shield to a gun; I never had a stable home," Mayweather Jr. said. "My mom did drugs. My dad tried to live his career through me. Then he went to prison (for selling drugs).

"Once I got old enough to pay my own bills, I let him know I didn't need him anymore. ... The main thing I learned was to believe in yourself. You have to. Because no one else will."

The mediator to the family drama is the boxing champion's uncle and trainer, Roger Mayweather.

"My brother taught Floyd the gift of boxing," Roger Mayweather said. "This is what my nephew was born to do.

"There are certain things a father does for his child to show that he loves him. And whatever gifts Floyd got from his father when he was young, he is fighting on those gifts today."

Before each training camp, Mayweather Jr. envisions being poor again, living at his grandmother's small home, said Nate Jones, a childhood friend from Michigan who serves as an assistant trainer.

It's a transformation, Jones said, fueled by an intense fear of losing.

"I was at Floyd's house about six years ago - he didn't even have a fight scheduled - and he woke up in tears," Jones said.

"I lost last night," Mayweather told his friend.

"You're crazy, boy," Jones replied. "You was dreaming."

Minutes later, Jones couldn't find Mayweather. More than an hour later, the fighter returned, informing Jones he had gone for a 10-mile run.

"This is a person who understands you can have anything or nothing in life, that anything can happen to you," Jones said. "You can make millions. Be broke. Or be in jail."

In the domestic violence criminal case, Mayweather allegedly threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend, Josie Harris, pulled her hair and threw her to the floor at her home. The Clark County criminal complaint alleged Mayweather Jr. told Harris he would make her and her new boyfriend "disappear."

Felony coercion counts were filed, alleging Mayweather Jr. threatened to beat his two sons if they left the residence or called 911 during his verbal and physical attack of Harris.

In December, Mayweather pleaded guilty to one domestic violence charge and no-contest to two harassment charges.

It was a day of reckoning.

"You take the good with the bad and the bad with the good - that's life," Mayweather said. "You live and learn. The only thing (jail) will do is make me mentally stronger."

And on the afternoon his father visited the gym, Mayweather extended his hand for a shake and offered a quick embrace.

"At the end of the day, there's no hatred," Mayweather Sr. said. "He's my blood, my son and the apple don't fall too far from the tree."

"I'm good for anything that's put in my way," his son said.

[Lacoste]

http://youtu.be/y31Xq5tzbLM

[hyprocit]

floyds on some performance enhancing drugs this nigga boxes better in the 12th round than the he does in the 1st and he always going on about taking drug tests to hide the fact that hes on drugs himself ive never seen a boxer so energtic in the ring as floyd there must be a reason behind this even though cotta boxed his socks off in that fight and still couldnt win ?

[Fighting Weight]

pacquaio would beat mayweather based on what ive just seen

Cotto won 2 rounds and made a further 3 close

Pacquiao gets embarrased

[Mr. Gayle]

Dunno he got hit more often than normal

What about him fighting Sergio Martinez ?

[Fighting Weight]

Dunno he got hit more often than normal

What about him fighting Sergio Martinez ?

He chose to fight Cotto's fight and beat him and his own game, the problem with Floyd is because he is so good if he even takes a couple punches in a round people go crazy, even when he's clearly winning the round, and Fights are scored round by round, throughout the fight Cotto put up a tough challenge, but Floyd was still winning the rounds and outboxing him

Martinez is an option, but it's not a fight Floyd is obliged to take, being that he will most likely drop back down to 147 after this and Martinez is at 160, having the fight at 154 would be ideal

Floyd can beat Martinez, he is very much like a larger version of Pacquiao, only problem of course being Martinez power, if Floyd can avoid being knocked out or stopped I don't doubt he'd beat him, Martinez has 0 defence and his offence CAN be muted, however Floyd has been known to take a lot of straight lefts (comparitively) against Southpaws so it would depend on how he handled Martinez power, and how Martinez handled 154

[The King]

Do not want to see Martinez at 154. He has no business at that weight. Wouldn't mind seeing him step up and fight Ward/Froch/Bute at 168.

[Fighting Weight]

He doesn't want to move up, he'd rather call out 147 fighters

[The King]

Yeah, I know.

It's a shame because he deserves bigger fights than Macklin & Barker. I think Canelo is going to have the same problems in a few years.

[Fighting Weight]

He could get a bigger fight if he choses to fight Ward...it's unfortunate that he is stuck in an unmarketable division but he has two choices

1. Call out former lightweights Cotto, Pacquiao, Mayweather

2. Call out ward etc

He walks around at about 175 anyway, I'm sure he could get a catchweight of 165

[Mr. Gayle]

Wonder how he will get on inside

[Mr. Gayle]

But the unbeaten five-division champion who goes by the nickname "Money'' is about to trade life in a posh five-bedroom Las Vegas home for almost three months in a cell about one-third the size of a small boxing ring.

Mayweather is scheduled to surrender Friday before a Las Vegas judge who sentenced him for his guilty plea to reduced domestic battery charges in a hair-pulling, arm-twisting attack in September 2010 on the mother of three of his children.

Mayweather's legal and ring advisers didn't respond to messages Thursday about his scheduled Friday morning surrender before Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melissa Saragosa.

As a high-profile inmate, police say Mayweather, 35, probably will serve most of his time in a small solo cell. There is floor space for sit-ups and push-ups. But Mayweather's stint in the high-rise Clark County Detention Center is expected to limit his ability to train for another fight.

At least for the first week, Mayweather will be segregated for his protection from the other 3,200 inmates in the downtown Las Vegas facility, police Officer Bill Cassell said this week.

Mayweather won't have a TV in his cell, and Cassell said televisions in jail dining areas probably won't carry the June 9 pay-per-view WBO welterweight fight between Mayweather rival Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley at the MGM Grand Garden arena.

Mayweather's lawyers, Karen Winckler and Richard Wright, have said they didn't plan to seek another postponement or delay.

The judge sentenced Mayweather on Dec. 22, then later allowed him to remain free long enough to fight Miguel Cotto on May 5 in Las Vegas.

Mayweather was accompanied into the ring by entertainers Justin Bieber and 50 Cent before winning the Cinco de Mayo weekend bout and a guaranteed $32 million. Cotto was paid $8 million.

Saragosa said when she sentenced Mayweather that she was particularly troubled that he threatened and hit ex-girlfriend Josie Harris while their two sons watched. The boys were 10 and 8 at the time. The older boy ran out a back door to fetch a security guard in the gated community.

However, the judge accepted the deal that had Mayweather plead guilty to misdemeanor domestic battery and no contest to two harassment charges.

Prosecutors dropped felony and misdemeanor charges that could have gotten Mayweather 34 years in prison if he had been convicted on all counts.

Mayweather's jail stay will be capped at 87 days, because the judge gave him credit for three days previously served. It could be reduced by several weeks for good behavior, Cassell said Thursday.

Mayweather also was ordered to complete a yearlong domestic violence counseling program, 100 hours of community service and pay a $2,500 fine.

Harris and the three children now live in Southern California. Her lawyer, Charles Kelly, declined to comment Thursday.

Mayweather will be housed in a standard administrative segregation cell no larger than 7-by-12 feet, with a bunk, stainless steel toilet and sink, a steel and wood desk with a permanently bolted stool and two small vertical windows with opaque safety glass.

The cell will be a far cry from Mayweather's nearly 12,800-square-foot, two-story mansion on a cul de sac in an exclusive guarded community several miles south of the Las Vegas Strip. Mayweather's home has two garages, five bedrooms, eight bathrooms, and a swimming pool and hot tub overlooking a golf course.

Mayweather could have about an hour a day out of his cell with access to an exercise yard, Cassell said. Depending on his behavior, the boxer could later get several hours a day for exercise with other inmates also being held in protective custody.

He'll get a standard-issue blue jail jumpsuit with the letters CCDC and orange slippers.

Mayweather will be able to deposit money into a jail account to purchase snacks, soap and personal hygiene items from the jail commissary.

[Young £]

lol yeah fucking right

hes shit is gonna be luxurious