Floyd ‘retired’ and (like you said) was only entertaining a fight with Oscar. Joe is mentioning fighting his stiffest competition in (or around) his weight class.

They were both full of crap with retirement talk, though Floyd actually canceled a fight. If Joe retires after signing a Pavlik match, then that’s something.

Mayweather never signed on the line… I wouldn’t really call that a cxlation. We’ll see how Calz feels after the Jones fight ;), perhaps retirement will seem much more appealing then. Looks like all the “duck” talk on the boxing forums is finally getting under Joe’s skin though… I don’t think he’s got the balls to move back down to SM and fight Pavlik, he’s just trying to save face for transparently calling him out and then running when Kelly wanted the fight.

I’m not really comparing Floyd and Joe—it’s just that this is why you never buy into a boxing retirement.

I agree I would not compare or group Sloppy with Floyd. But he certaintly seemed as if he was taking pages out of Floyd’s scrapbook a few months ago. Jeez.

It’s about time de-throning was back on top—Calzaghe-Pavlik! It’s on baby!