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Undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. hits a heavy bag during a media workout in his gym Wednesday. Mayweather will fight WBA welterweight champion Shane Mosley for the title at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 1.
Friday, April 23, 2010 | 2:05 a.m.
Mayweather Prepares for Mosley
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Welterweight Floyd Mayweather Jr. and his camp discuss the May 1st fight against Shane Mosley.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr., controversially declared himself a better fighter than Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Robinson in the latest episode of HBO's 24/7 Mayweather vs. Mosley.
Mayweather didn't back off those comments during a Thursday teleconference to preview his May 1 fight against Shane Mosley at the MGM Garden Arena.
In fact, Mayweather (40-0, 25 KO) elaborated and said a victory against Mosley would further prove his point.
"Things change, it's out with the old and in with the new," Mayweather said. "Muhammad Ali was one hell of a fighter, but Floyd Mayweather is the best."
Asked where he would put Mosley (46-5, 39 KO) on his all-time list, Mayweather said he wasn't sure Mosley should be ranked.
"I don't know how Mosley can call himself great or say he's a future Hall of Famer because we don't know how long this guy was taking enhancement drugs," Mayweather said.
Mosley's name was prominent in the 2003 BALCO investigation, which also included notable athletes such as Barry Bonds, and it was revealed he had taken illegal performance enhancers before a fight against Oscar De La Hoya.
Although Mayweather said beating Mosley would build on his legacy, he didn't have any compliments for his opponent.
"He's a fighter that always worries about landing one big shot and worries about who is strong," Mayweather said. "I worry about being smart and winning."
The conversation naturally drifted toward Manny Pacquiao, whom Mayweather was originally slated to fight in March before the two sides couldn't agree on drug testing procedures.
Mayweather had no slot for where Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KO) ranked in the all-time great list, but assured it was nowhere close to him.
"We know he's been knocked out twice and he's been out-boxed by Erik Morales," Mayweather said. "But they still give him boxer of the decade. That's something I don't understand."
"All I'll say is this: If you're a clean athlete, take the test. Show the world."
Mayweather harped on the idea that Pacquiao gets more credit than him despite his undefeated record.
Mayweather said he heard detractors after every one of his victories and already planned on it happening again after the Mosley fight.
"When I go out and beat Shane Mosley, they will say he's over the hill," Mayweather said. "There's always an excuse."
Although the bout is between two of the biggest names in boxing, a title will not be on the line. Mosley's WBA welterweight championship belt is safe even if he loses.
Mayweather said this did not bother him and that he no longer cared about titles.
"At this level, for Floyd, it's not about belts," said Leonard Ellerbe, Mayweather's promoter. "It's about fighting for his legacy and it's about money."
As far as Mayweather is concerned, however, his legacy should already be intact.
"I got respect for Sugar Ray Robinson. I got respect for Muhammad Ali," Mayweather said. "But I'm a man just like them and put on my pants just like they put on their pants. But what makes them any better than me?"
Floyd. You're a joke. You don't prove to be unbeaten by beating up a small guy and now fighting an old guy who's out of his prime. You've ducked Mosley so many times before just like you're ducking Miguel Cotto or even Joshua Clottey today. You're just fighting grampa Mosley right now because you know that you can finally take him down (finally). Your recent fights will only prove your only legacy of the only fighter who ducked the best fighters and cherry picked small weak fighters and brags how you beat them. You got the nerve of a chicken. The only way you can be as great as Sugar Ray Robinson is for you to fight real tough competitors like Joshua Clottey or Miguel Cotto. Stop going after Pacquiao by losing weight... I don't even think you'll win a belt at bantam weight. You're a blabbering joke to boxing.
Floyd is not just a joke. Floyd is a DISGRACE to boxing.
First he insists on implementing bloodtests outside the ones normally required by the NEVADA com, now he insults WBA by not paying the sanctioning fees. Then he thinks he's better than Ali and Robinson.
Well, I guess when you have too much xylocaine in your brain, you get delusional.
That comment was meant for April first.
Too much time spent at the Roller Rink on Boulder Highway.
He will never be an admired sports legend. He is a punk.
Mayweather couldn't shine Sugar Ray Robinson's boots. I've been watching Robinson's classic bouts. In his prime he had it all -- power, speed, agility, an iron chin, a brilliant tactical mind and HEART. He dominated as both a welterweight and middleweight.
This a man who fought, count 'em, 202 bouts, compared to Mayweather's piddly 40. He took on the best fighters in his day multiple times, without hesitation. If he lost, he'd eagerly jump into a re-match and regain his title. If you gave Robinson modern training methods -- forget about it! -- Mayweather wouldn't last five rounds against him.
Couple of thoughts.
1. This will come as new to Muhammad Ali.
2. If Mayweather is the greatest ever, why is he ducking Manny Pacquiao?
The only achievement he deserves is scumbag of the decade.
Great job Napoleon.
damn I see floy'd has alot of haters on here!Imo he's good fighter but far from great..
yall talkin all this mess about mayweather, but he is still undefeated!! and to the guy who said mayweather is ducking pacquiao, if anyone is ducking anyone is manny, Manny is the one who does not want to take the Olympic testing! whats he got to hide?? mayweather is the best, period!! and miguel cotto is no where near ready to fight against mayweather, yall are all ignorant in boxing!!! bring anyone to mayweather, floyd will tear that dude up!!!
Floyd. You're a joke. You don't prove to be unbeaten by beating up a small guy and now fighting an old guy who's out of his prime. You're just fighting grampa Mosley right now because you know that you can finally take him down (finally). Your recent fights will only prove your only legacy of the only fighter who ducked the best fighters and cherry picked small weak fighters and brags how you beat them. You got the nerve of a chicken. Hey Floyd! How does it feel beating up a small guy? Shane, I mean shame on you! You pink blooded coward! Stop bragging about your lopsided fights! Pick a real fighter you numbskull! And when you're fighting, stop running away... it makes your fights more boring!
Floyd, beating slower and smaller fighters doesn't make you the greatest. It only proves that you are a coward and an opportunist abusing weaker people. It only proves that you are not man enough to face a real tough fighter. And by bragging how you beat up a small marquez, well, you've just hammered a nine inch nail right into your forehead. You can fool the filifinos and latinos, but you can't fool Americans. You're a joke! Go fool your dumb stupid fans instead. We can see right through your dumb, stupid and lame antics. Floyd, you're a joke to boxing.
Mboogie, last time i checked Pacquiao was a champ. He doesn't have to prove anything to anyone. He only has to follow the rules of the Nevada Boxing Commission, not Mayweather. Mayweather will fight PacMan (if he isn't a career politician) after Freddie Roach is too sick to train. Not before.
Like Ali did when he was fighting, Mayweather understands the value (to his paycheck) of making outrageous statements and making people mad so that we can't wait to see him fight so he can be beaten. Ali didn't become truly great until he tasted his first defeat and came back to win again. Let's see when Floyd loses (and he will at some point) what he's really made of.
Forget him being better than SRR, he's not even as good as a prime Sugar Ray Leonard. Watch how he dismembers Floyd Mayweather senior when they fought (youtube)if you don't believe me (junior and senior have identical fighting style).
@Mboogie: I totally agree with you. Floyd is undefeated among the losers in this world. And yes Floyd's only legacy is that he is the best and the greatest coward in boxing's history ever. Also yup.. i agree with you... he can tear apart and beat up any other wimp as long as the wimpy guy or girl is not a real fighter and as long as he stops running away during fights. in which case he would have to put up the blood testing deal again which is no more accurate than a urine test. Floyd... your a joke and Mboogie, you're as lame as he is. Oh pretty Floyd boy, what will you think of next?
What is Mayweather basing his outrageous claim on?
Don't just tell me you're the greatest, tell me WHY.
Mayweather has no legendary fights like Ali's Thrilla in Manila or Rumble in the Jungle. And he'll never come close to the 128-1 record that Sugar Ray Robinson racked up by the time he was Mayweather's age.
Floyd Maymeather is a boxer full of himself, a punk at best.
Why don't you fight Pacquiao, Joshua Clottey or Miguel Cotto ?
Always an excuse to fight the best.
The best fighter ever was Rocky Marciano, he was 49-0 and took on all fighters, never ducked a one of them, never bragged about how good he was, just fought and knocked everbody out.
The best pound for pound fighter of the last 10 years is Pacquiao not you.
Floyd, when you can knock out Pacquiao, Joshua Clottey and Miguel Cotto and then go 49-0, only then will we consider you one of the best, until then your just another punk fighter than noone really cares about.
When you need to toot your own horn all the time about yourself, that says what kind of boxer you really are.
Nobody cares.............
I will start off with a quote from Floyd (the best fighter in history) Mayweather " Rickey fought one hell of a fight, he is deffenetly one of the toughest fighters I have ever fought." Floyd let's get something straight, Ali and Sugar Ray had tougher people sweeping up their gym. Ali would fight Pac and Coto at the same time and make it mandatory that they were on HGH if the money was right. I personally think you could beat Pac, Coto and everyone else that you have ducked your whole career, and if the odds were right I would put money on you. But please do not insult the boxing fans intelligence with your charade , everyone knows your defense is so good that you will not step into the ring.
Floyd Mayweather is an exceptional fighter that can beat most of the fighters out there in his era, except Manny Pacquiao and Paul Williams. Manny Pacquiao does not take orders from the Mayweathers (father, son, or uncle). He was willing to do whatever the governing authorities required him to do for that fight, including drug testing. The Mayweathers have no proof or evidence of all their accusations of Manny Pacquiao. They has disrespected the Nevada State Athletic Commission and the World Boxing Organization. They tell Manny Pacquiao what he has to do. Floyd Mayweather does a lot of talking about keeping the sport of boxing clean, however, in his last fight with Marquez, I thought it was dirty for him to come into that fight overweight, and pay Marquez $600,00 for being overweight. Now that is dirty. He already had the speed, height, footwork, and boxing abilities over Marquez, and then what does he do, don't let nobody knows what his weight was for that fight. And he will NEVER be compared to Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, or Manny Pacquiao. Now these guys are true fighters who take on ALL comers.
There's more to being a great boxer than wins and losses, Mr. Mayweather listen close, you have to have style, respect, admiration by the public, be a role model to youngsters, behave in public, respect your parents, in short just be "good people". You, Mr. Mayweather have none of those qualities and probably never will, and thats a shame. Take an inventory of yourself, you'll find the shelves are bare.
Floyd Mayweather is in a 21st Century Dream world if he thinks he tougher and better than the Warrior's of yesteryear. 15 rounds was the level of the true champion. The fight wasn't stopped because of a little cut over the eye. No standing 8 count. Floyd Mayweather has never shown the true heart of a champion. Could he stand up to 15 rounds of the relentless aggression of a LaMotta, Fullmer, Basilio, who would never stop coming forward even with cuts over and under both of there eyes. This was the era of Sugar Ray Robinson. Floyd Mayweather needs to get a reality check.
Floyd Mayweather is trying to play all of us. He makes these outrageous comments like: "I am better than Ali" or "I am the best boxer ever" to create controversy and hype to sell more tickets.
28 comments for this one article alone in the Las Vegas Sun? No other boxing article gets this much attention. That's because everyone hates Floyd Mayweather with a passion.
But Floyd is laughing all the way to the bank. With a net worth of 200,000 million dollars. Highest grossing pay per view fight in history. Hard to believe more than any of Tyson's fights, but true. Also, a multi-million dollar endorsement contract with Reebok.
Personally, I dislike everything about Floyd Mayweather, but boxing needs a villan. And who better than a loud mouth, wanna be gangster, talented coward like Floyd?
I never watched Floyd's fight live... i'd rather watch him over the internet or not at all because it's not worth the dough. In his previous fights, he just dances away from his opponent and throws a cheap shot then dances away again. Cheap shots and run. Chicken style. And he does that over cherry picked fighters he like and knows that he can beat. He will never do it if it was Cotto or Clottey. Heck, he won't even fight them at all. 1. they're not small and 2. they're not slow and weak and 3. they're not old. 4th reason why Pretty Floyd Boy will never fight Clottey and Cotto would be because they're both fighting men who doesn't duck a fight. All of Floyd's fight are truly BORING. Only suckers who doesn't learn will watch Mayweather live. I repeat... ONLY SUCKERS WHO DOESN'T SEEM TO LEARN WILL WATCH PRETTY FLOYD BOY'S BORING FIGHT LIVE. For Mayweather, a sucker is born everytime someone watches his boring fights live. Don't be a sucker again and save your money guys. If you must watch the outcome, just wait for it over at youtube. Floyd... you're a blabbering joke to boxing.
Who cares? Boxing is the past, mma is the future.
Free Speech. :)
LMAO you know he's doing this to create hype for the fight right? and he fought marquez as a tune-up fight, after being gone from boxing for so long it'll be idiotic to go and fight the likes of manny cause he probably would lose. He also never bragged about beating marquez, he actually had positive things to say about marquez, sidecomment youre just talking out of your a**. You know this is the same as when ali said he was the greatest back in the day right? he did it to create hype, and people were basically saying what most of these commenters were saying, they were saying ali was a moron for saying all of this. Ali wasn't a mr. nice guy, he was the biggest trash talker in the history of boxing, he has a bigger mouth than mayweather, he did all that talking to create hype just like mayweather, you guys are stupid and do not know boxing if you think mayweathe is serious. He is playing a role, and santiago jason said it best, playing a role as a villian. Now I've never met mayweather but i have many friends who work on the strip and they tell me mayweather is the nicest guy they have ever met. He's soft-spoken very polite always saying sir, ma'm, please and thank you. And he's also a very big tipper....on another note Paul Williams would beat mayweather and pacquiao
The biggest honor that one can get is when someone else calls you the greatest; and on the other hand, if we hear someone proclaiming himself the greatest, either he has low IQ, low self confidence, or someone looking for much needed attention.
The best in history is quit a claim.... My top ten...
Sugar Ray Robinson
Muhammad Ali
Rocky Marciano
Jack Dempsey
Roberto Duran
Joe Louis
Willie Pep
Benny Leonard
Jack Johnson
Henry Armstrong
I'm glad Floyd is feeling good, but there are a lot of greats not even in the top ten. My "favorite" of all time Joe Frazier doesn't even make my top ten.
George Foreman, Cesar Chavez, Harry Greb were not bad either!
Why would anyone pay money to watch Gayweather?
If I wanted to see a Rhumba, Tango or Cha Cha, I can tune into Dancing With The Stars for free.
yeah you're right NYreb... my ass, just like mayweather, talks s--t too only my ass tells the truth about itself... and you're right, that's my ass talking... my ass and mayweather are on the same level you see. wait till you hear what i really have to say about mayweather's dumb self proclamation. :) Yeah and i agree, Paul Williams can knock those two wannabes out cold.
All you stupid critics dont know anything about boxing. To up and coming boxers and todays pro fighters knows floyd is the best. There is nothing wrong with believing in yourself and having superior confidence. Just because he makes his fights look easy and his opponents are in life and death fights means he hasnt fought anybody, "BULL". It isnt his fault the competition cant compete with him. He will never get his credit because everyone hates arrogence and cockyness but if you dont believe in your skill your knocked out before you step in the ring. You guys dont understand and want understand till you lace up the gloves and fight till then your all on the outside looking in. As a 20 year old undefeated amateur boxer floyd is one of the 3 fighters a study. Benard hopkins, Marco Antonio Barerra. How many rounds have floyd lost, Why does his opponents land at the lowest percentage in there career and he is a sharp shooter. How the hell is he duckin fighters there all just going to lose your an ediot for thinkin cotto or clottey has a chance and manny doesnt have enough defense or gets hit way to much and no fighter i've seen has the skills to even compete. Floyd beats people off perfect timing, cat like reflexes and conditioning. His 41-0 and the guys he beat arent push overs you idiots. Genero Hernandez champion for 10 years without a loss till floyd whipped his ass, Angle Manfredy was killing everybody till he was 2nd round stoppage to floyd, Gave the beast Diego correllas his first lose and a ko lost at that, costillo had 43 kos in 50 fights but couldnt drop the pretty boy. Zab judah a offensive monster a super athlete was completely dominated which was never done, dela hoya was 160 pounds on fightnight floyd was 147 a welterwieght beat a middle wieght but yall say floyd picks on small fighters, Hatton the bull dog is a machine and has tons of heart and skill but dominated by mayweather, Marquez went to war with manny but didnt have a chance with floyd, when mosley destroyed margerittohe was awsome but when floyd dominated him he was old, he didnt look old when he hit floyd with those bombs huh? Message to all floyd hatters, everybody hates greatness and will overlook it definately if your a rich blackman. You can deny it all you want but african american is the most hatted race but dominates the sport world thats the animosity.
If floyd suck so bad, how about all of you ignorant critics who never boxed before get in the ring with mayweather, you wouldnt land a punch and he will kill you. Its not called running and cheap shots 'sidecomment' and other dummys who think so, its strategy and its called a pop shot a single power punch. We are in a envious society but jealousy is a female trait if you so called men havent noticed. Eveybody hates anyone whos more wealthy, better looking, stronger, faster or a standout period. All of you are a joke and a sad case. Realise what he is, stop wishing and praing he will lose because its not going to happen.