Diddy steps between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Rick Ross at Vegas club
by Scott Christ on Jan 6, 2010 6:46 AM EST
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Since there's so little going on in the boxing world right now, things like Wladimir Klitschko dating Hayden Panettiere and Floyd Mayweather Jr. continuing his moronic feud with alleged rapper Rick Ross seem worth discussion to me at the moment.
TMZ says that Mayweather and Ross nearly had a fight break out at a Vegas club last night, before Diddy stepped in to break up the entourages and pass the peace pipe. After that everyone peacefully partied.
Nelly was also on hand but did nothing. Way to go, Nelly.
I know Floyd Mayweather is a trained professional boxer and one of the best in the world and all that, and that he can surely handle himself in a street fight, but if you take away the entourages, how long do you figure this lasts before Ross simply picks Mayweather up and throws him through, onto, or into something? The size difference is pretty big. Mayweather walks around at, what, 160 at the most? The guy doesn't stray too far from his 147-pound fighting weight and he comes in at about 5'8". Ross is no giant (IMDb says he's 6 feet tall), but a big dude.
I think I'd sooner pick Mayweather to lose a fight to Ross than I would Mayweather to lose to Paulie Malignaggi.
Anyway, kudos to Diddy for stopping a couple of grown men from acting like idiots, I guess.
And now we continue to wait for news. Who else is pumped for the Roman Karmazin fight on Friday? My God...
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I gather that PBF always travels around Vegas with an entourage and this whole beef thing with Rick Ross probably stems from PBF’s longtime association with 50 Cent, but at the end of the day – who cares really? He should be more worried about locking up the megafight instead of going to the clubs and acting all tough when you have bodyguards flanking you all the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKDealPZygY
Hustler for Death, No Heaven for a Gangster
it pains me to see such a great movie being treated like this
i do admit that hitler has some good points though
The Dude Abides
by battle axe of doom on Jan 6, 2010 2:00 PM EST up reply actions
I thought the horrible subtitles made the bit, actually. It was bootleg movie from hong kong bad. And fucking awesome.
Ricky Hatton came closer to beating Manny Pacquiao than Marquez did to beating Floyd.
-SC
by The Lethal Haze on Jan 6, 2010 2:05 PM EST up reply actions
The feak show continues
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant"
---Vernon Forrest 2006
by The Midnight Rambler on Jan 6, 2010 9:37 AM EST reply actions
I know Floyd Mayweather is a trained professional boxer and one of the best in the world and all that, and that he can surely handle himself in a street fight,…
I don’t know man…he’s got brittle hands. I wouldn’t be surprised if he broke his hand after one punch.
Hitting a big guy hard enough to knock him over.... Yeah I agree with you.
Some people are acting like Pacquiao should be expected to have just gone, "Yeah sure, let’s do something I’ve never done before because your dad made some dumbass baseless comment."
(SC, 28/12/09; http://www.badlefthook.com/2009/12/27/1221143/mayweather-pacquiao-update-bob#comments)
Might do him
some good to be thrown through something. Couldn’t hurt.
by Don From Prov on Jan 6, 2010 10:37 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Wait just a damn minute here,
theres NO WAY lil’ floyd woulda mixed it with Ross,…less of course Rick would submit to random blood testing first. Peace!!
That you tube
video is freakin’ hilarious, wonder if Top Rank is behind it. Peace!!
Floyd by Armbar
"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment."
-Lao Tzu
Rick Ross would get his face broke...
Any idiot… including the one who wrote this piece that thinks some guy off the street is going to beat up a world class boxer is ignorant. Even a contender lightweight would brain damage you into diapers. If you are not a boxer… or have never fought someone who trains you have no place to even suggest anything otherwise. I’ve boxed for 6 years… a good solid amateur boxer has such an advantage in a street fight that it’s not even funny… not to mention a world class boxer… and Floyd is even better than that… he is as elite as they come.
Saying Rick Ross could beat him up is like saying that some guy could school Kobe in basketball or outride Lance on a bike… just because they are bigger.
Let’s not be ignorant people.
Fights aren't formal affairs
No one is going to play in the field of their opponents expertise.
"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment."
-Lao Tzu
by RoyalB on Jan 6, 2010 11:57 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
As much as I am amused the irony you have display here
by calling someone ignorant and then clearly showing yourself to be ignorant of this site, the writer and the whole point of the small piece of writing. It’s merely a little passing interest story and to be fair Rick Ross has plenty of experience fighting dirty and could probably head butt Mayweather to bits.
Of course that misses the point that this isn’t really a very serious piece and your reaction to it is a bit out of line. Respect is important on this site, especially for the very appreciated bloggers who give up their time run it voluntarily. Calling one of them an idiot shows an attitude which frankly sucks and while I am in absolutely no position of authority on this site I would personally appreciate it if you could contribute without crass, unneccesary insults. Perhaps I’m over reacting but this is an excellent site and the quality of the posters is a big part of that.
"Honey i forgot to duck" - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Jan 6, 2010 1:03 PM EST up reply actions
You didn't over-react.
I did it for you, below… :)
Some people are acting like Pacquiao should be expected to have just gone, "Yeah sure, let’s do something I’ve never done before because your dad made some dumbass baseless comment."
(SC, 28/12/09; http://www.badlefthook.com/2009/12/27/1221143/mayweather-pacquiao-update-bob#comments)
Hehe
I really had to bite my tongue!
"Honey i forgot to duck" - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Jan 6, 2010 2:44 PM EST up reply actions
Right, except that being 'big' isn't necessarily an advantage on a bike or playing basketball.
Having an extra 100 lbs of natural weight is rarely a bad thing in a street fight.
Besides which, watch your tone. Calling SC an idiot is inflammatory, uncalled for, and lest I forget to mention, really fucking brave of you. We don’t do flaming here.
I boxed and kickboxed competitively to a decent level, and I know full well I wouldn’t want to fight a guy who was 5 inches taller and carrying an extra 100lbs. Not because I’m afraid, but because it’s that much harder to hurt a bigger man, and that much easier for him to simply jump on you. In an enclosed environment, you have one shot at a KO, and if you miss, you’ve got this massive bloke dragging you to the floor? Yeah, man… easy…..
I’m not saying this guy beats Floyd in a street brawl, but the size differential IS against Floyd, whether you like it or not. Also, there is no telling how vicious, experienced or natural a fighter this other guy is. I think of it like this;
There are people who can’t fight.
There are people who can fight.
There are people who are ‘fighters’.
Fighters aren’t necessarily people who get paid for it, or do it every week, but they are those people we all know who are just a bit more dangerous. With all my training, and sparring, and competitive fighting experience (plus a few scraps in the street thrown in for good measure….), I don’t class myself as a hard bloke. I’m not a fighter. My brother in law is a much harder guy than me, and he never trained a day in his life. I’ve seen that motherfucker FIGHT, and he just plain CAN. He is tough, vicious, and hits people HARD, instinctively and naturally. Apart from that he is the nicest guy you could meet. But then most of the really hard guys are.
My point is, you just don’t know enough about this Rick Ross to assume he can’t fight. I would suspect that if he is willing to go toe-to-toe with Floyd fucking Mayweather, he must fancy himself a bit, you know? A complete pussy walks the hell away, fast…..
Some people are acting like Pacquiao should be expected to have just gone, "Yeah sure, let’s do something I’ve never done before because your dad made some dumbass baseless comment."
(SC, 28/12/09; http://www.badlefthook.com/2009/12/27/1221143/mayweather-pacquiao-update-bob#comments)
Being big is definitely an advantage in basketball
Have you played basketball competitively? Being big is something you can’t teach and is a huge advantage (its actually a disadvantage in cycling).
That being said, Floyd would win this fight, because having once played basketball competitively the skill level difference between myself and those who didn’t play constantly (I was on a low level college team) and those who played pickup ball all the time was enormous. Those who played competitively were so much better than those who just did it for the hell of it. And compared to us Pros were 20 times better than us. When we played a bunch of people from a Div 1 college team we got murdered.
Simply put, the pros are so much better that anyone who doesn’t actively try to compete in it, just have no chance. The skill difference is genuinely that large.
The skill gap in basketball is astounding
Maybe amongst the biggest in sports.
"Honey i forgot to duck" - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Jan 6, 2010 2:45 PM EST up reply actions
I think that the skill level
gap in boxing is quite steep as well. Think of folks you know who competed pretty successfully amateurs—not Olympic level of course, maybe Golden Glove winners—and of those, the ones who went on to fight as pros. Some I can think of, found only local success as pros; yet there was one in particular who was good enough to win a NABF type title, but was absolutely crushed when he tried to step up to the world class stage. I don’t know, used to calculate the same kind of thing when listening to area blues guitarists (an awful lot of blues got played in Rhode Island) and some were of the “local good” level, some got placed in the “regional” level, and a few obviously had “national” or “international” talent—and they later proved that to be accurate.
by Don From Prov on Jan 6, 2010 3:23 PM EST up reply actions
Who’s talking about a sport? I’m talking about morons fighting in a club.
I’m not trying to make a serious case out of this, but we’re not talking about Rick Ross trying to use his jab effectively, break down Floyd’s defense and cut off the ring. I’m talking about a far bigger man picking up what is frankly a little man and throwing him, or perhaps hitting him with a champagne bottle.
Even money on Ross’ pants falling off during melee.
Bad Left Hook
"If bulls**t was poetry, Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini's name would be Shakespeare." -- Dennis Rappaport
Being 'tall' is an advantage in basketball.
Being ‘big’, ie heavy, not so much…..
Some people are acting like Pacquiao should be expected to have just gone, "Yeah sure, let’s do something I’ve never done before because your dad made some dumbass baseless comment."
(SC, 28/12/09; http://www.badlefthook.com/2009/12/27/1221143/mayweather-pacquiao-update-bob#comments)
Saying Rick Ross could beat him up is like saying that some guy could school Kobe in basketball or outride Lance on a bike… just because they are bigger.
It’s incredibly not anything like that at all, and I’m pretty sure the tone of the article breezed right past your head, but I hope you feel better now having gotten your serious thoughts on Mayweather-Ross off your chest. Sorry I greatly offended you.
Bad Left Hook
"If bulls**t was poetry, Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini's name would be Shakespeare." -- Dennis Rappaport
Mayweather-Ross
FOTY
"Honey i forgot to duck" - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Jan 6, 2010 4:08 PM EST up reply actions
I should also say that I don’t know if Floyd has some sweet muay thai/jiu jitsu skills that I’m unaware of, too. I also don’t know if maybe Floyd can jump extremely high and kick Ross on top of the head.
Bad Left Hook
"If bulls**t was poetry, Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini's name would be Shakespeare." -- Dennis Rappaport
He did fight that big dude in WWE, that has to mean something
"Good, so it can’t go any deeper." - Arturo Gatti after being told he was cut to the bone
Yeah, that’s true. Big Show is waaaaaay bigger than Rick Ross.
Bad Left Hook
"If bulls**t was poetry, Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini's name would be Shakespeare." -- Dennis Rappaport
It's not a matter of beating him up
But lets just say one of Ross’s 20 guys manages to break Floyd’s elbow. That’s $20 million out the window for Floyd, and just plain stupid on his part to even let it get there.
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
Why don't these two get together
and add up the cock measurements of every member of their entourages. The winner gets Nelly.
Wear something sexy to my funeral.
by Pops Daniels on Jan 6, 2010 12:20 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
LOL
Some people are acting like Pacquiao should be expected to have just gone, "Yeah sure, let’s do something I’ve never done before because your dad made some dumbass baseless comment."
(SC, 28/12/09; http://www.badlefthook.com/2009/12/27/1221143/mayweather-pacquiao-update-bob#comments)
who the fuck is rick ross
The Dude Abides
by battle axe of doom on Jan 6, 2010 2:00 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
He makes shitty rap music.
Ricky Hatton came closer to beating Manny Pacquiao than Marquez did to beating Floyd.
-SC
by The Lethal Haze on Jan 6, 2010 2:02 PM EST up reply actions
I used to hate Rick Ross
He’s a bad rapper, and he used to be a CO. I have no problem with prison guards, but I do have a problem with a CO rapping about how he’s fucking Pablo Escobar (or Freeway Ricky Ross for that matter). But then, I saw this.
The man wears a necklace that is shaped like his head (including beard). I cannot hate a man who is willing to wear something as hillarious as that. God bless you Rick Ross.
I think I would wear myself around my neck if i had enough money to get one made. It would definatly be one of a kind since no-one would get my face
"Good, so it can’t go any deeper." - Arturo Gatti after being told he was cut to the bone
I do want to say...
I’m really sorry if my Rick Ross-Floyd analysis truly bothered anyone. Wasn’t meant to be that at all. It’s just ridiculous bullshit.
Bad Left Hook
"If bulls**t was poetry, Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini's name would be Shakespeare." -- Dennis Rappaport
I was deeply upset. Truly.
But since your apology was so heartfelt and stuff, I’ll quote Doc Holliday (the Val Kilmer one, not the fucking stupid pointless one from “Wyatt Earp”…); “There. Now we can all be friends again.”
Some people are acting like Pacquiao should be expected to have just gone, "Yeah sure, let’s do something I’ve never done before because your dad made some dumbass baseless comment."
(SC, 28/12/09; http://www.badlefthook.com/2009/12/27/1221143/mayweather-pacquiao-update-bob#comments)
But who does more hustlin'?
Rick or Floyd? That would be close. I’m going with Floyd on that one tho…..
Wow.
Floyd couldn’t even get this fight done.
Wear something sexy to my funeral.
by Pops Daniels on Jan 7, 2010 12:31 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
:D
Some people are acting like Pacquiao should be expected to have just gone, "Yeah sure, let’s do something I’ve never done before because your dad made some dumbass baseless comment."
(SC, 28/12/09; http://www.badlefthook.com/2009/12/27/1221143/mayweather-pacquiao-update-bob#comments)
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