Mandatory Eight Count: Your Mayweather Family Court Update

it’s suicide in my opinion. He’s going to get slaughtered and then where does he go? He’s not exactly a draw, in any sense of the term. In today’s world of scripted champions I’m surprised he’s not at least got him some sort of world title shot to soften the impact of the bludgeoning he’s going to get

“Water wet”
“Bear shits in woods”
“Pope Catholic”

Maybe we’ll see Floyd back in sooner than we think. But this I know: When Lil’ Floyd is retired, he, his uncle, and his dad are going to be broke in short order.

Is Big Floyd still training anyone? Guzman split with him, right? Doesn’t seem like he’s had a fighter of consequence since that Hatton travesty.

. . .paying to stay out of the hole is one of the fastest ways to run through a big pile of cash.

That’s what I’ve been thinking. Floyd’s ticket to ride won’t come cheap either, he may actually have to go to work.

Unlike other former greats that left the fight world empty in their absence and longing for their return, Floyd, in my mind, has never been either as popular or of as much consequence as he and others would have one believe.

His troubles are not insignificant nor are the charges against him. Yet despite ranked briefly (and debatably) as the P4P best in the world, he was neither the most popular not the most exciting man to be considered as such. His stature was never as commanding as Muhamed Ali or Mike Tyson; two men who personified Boxing during their reign…and whose legal troubles were boxing’s as well.

His ability to draw audiences was significant but let’s be real. He was no Oscar de la Hoya. Not even close.

Floyd had a window of opportunity…in spite of himself. In Oscar’s absence, he was the number one PPV draw; his ascent ironically due to the promotion of his fight with the Golden Boy. But unlike his performances in the ring where he always found a way to win, he’s squandered it. Fighting so infrequently as to make even his most diehard supporters yawn, he miscalculated….and got hit with a punch he never saw. Manny Pacquiao

Manny has replaced Floyd. He has become the stir that stirs the drink. And how does Floyd counter? Ceratinly not by fighting … at least not in the ring.
Frankly, arm chair analysis aside, the fact is Floyd has lost it. He has “acted out” in a series of unseemly and possibly illegal ways…not in the ring.

Not too cool Floyd. Not cool at all.

and the biggest problem for Floyd is that some of us just don’t care. we still have our game. Bradley will fight Alexander. Donaire will meet Montiel Cotto will still fight. And Manny will continue to reign.

I’m speculating that in the end Floyd gets some measure of celebrity justice. That he goes free after paying a fraction of the norm. The biggest punishment however, especially for a narcissist like Floyd, is returning to a public that cares …but not nearly as much as they once did.

As I’ve said many times, “Floyd, you could’a been someone. you could’a been a contender”

the best fights actually happened after floyd retired the first time… well to start, oscar needed a new dance partner since floyd b*tched out of a rematch, so pacquiao beat oscar and took the title as biggest draw. next, cotto took over and fought gomez, and briefly enjoyed a period of invincibility and fame for being #1 welterweight (hbo still have a some of his nuts under the table) and then fought margarito… also 2008 saw donaire darchinyan and katsidis casamayor, 2009 we had mosley margarito (exciting fight, and the lead up, whether you agree or disagree), berto collazo, williams started a breakout run, beaing middleweights including winky wright… cotto clottey… by summer of 2009 147 was “boxing’s hottest division”… then floyd came out of retirement… and now look, 147 is a dead barren wasteland after floyd took a dump on 147…. with the exception of williams…. clottey, cintron, cotto, mosley, berto, pacquiao circa 2009 were all warriors and would have fought each other and would have made a lot of money and some classic fights at that, instead floyd fought marquez while the #1 welterweight begged to fight him all of 2009, then begged pacquiao (but they didn’t want him to ruin a potential fight between them two), so with none of the other guys having a chance to fight pacquiao nor mayweather, with mosley the top guy only interested in fighting those two, berto had to truck on, cintron moved up in weight, cotto had his one chance at pacquiao before moving up in weight also, there goes 147 lb division. i could go more in detail if you want, but floyd basically held the 147lb. division for hostage for 1 year by fighting two crappy fights, two fighters over 35 at that, then retiring. holler!

floyd basically held the 147lb. division for hostage for 1 year by fighting two crappy fights, two fighters over 35 at that, then retiring.

Jeff Lacy had nothing to do with his brother….but his brother was a piece of trash who was a convicted sexual predator who mercilessly beat his wife and then to avoid jail shot and killed two police officers who were coming to serve him with an arrest warrant. He wasn’t violently killed. He was killed violently after starting a gunfight that left two officers dead and one other wounded.

I feel terrible for the Lacy family but I feel all the more disgusted by the meaningless loss of two officers lives because some scumbag didn’t want to ser ve more time for the long lis t of crimes that he committed.