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Floyd Mayweather's Comments on the UFC

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#1 ·
Raise your hand if you're 39-0. If you've lifted your arm and your name is not Floyd Mayweather then you need to pack your belongings and get the F out of asgard. Dude has mowed through the absolute best talent in boxing and this weekend, fight fans are going to have their arms bent behind their back and forced to make the decision on just exactly how they would like their KOs served. Floyd Mayweather vs. Juan Manuel Márquez will be going down at the same time as UFC 103...and Dana White believes they drop a nuke on the 'ratings war' and come out the victor. In the meantime, Floyd Mayweather doesn't even know who Rich Franklin is. Check out what he told Cagereport.net regarding the upcoming fight and UFC in general.

Rich Franklin
"Who’s Rich Franklin? There’s 8 year old kids just starting out in my gym who punch better than that guy. I’ve seen that guy try to punch and felt sorry for him, embarrassed for him – I think Roger [Mayweather] still has some spaces left in the beginners class, might want to get the basics down before he goes head to head with me. I mean come on, until he generates a revenue of 2.5 million he don’t even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as Floyd Mayweather let alone be trying to compete with me."

Brock Lesnar
“The main difference between Boxing and MMA is the fact that boxing is a real sport and requires skill to reach the top. When you watch boxing you know you ain’t [going to] see some WWE clown walk in and take the belt after a couple fights. It ain't happening. That’s because it takes years to perfect and master the sweet science, MMA is nothing more than a sideshow act that probably won’t even be around in 10 years time. Boxing ain’t going anywhere, write that down."

Mayweather vs. Marquez
"What you’re getting here is two of the best pound for pound fighters in the world going at it to determine who is number one, what they got there is two journeymen, bar room fighters who can’t tell a fish hook from a check hook...I’m gonna give the people at home something to talk about the next day; everyone is going to be talking about the Floyd Mayweather fight that was on last night. Ain’t gonna be no one talking about those two guys who rolled around on the floor for 3 rounds. That’s why I was and still am the PPV king."

Cro Cop
“I think he forgot he has a right hand, give him a pair of 12 ounce gloves and Vlad Klitchko would tear up that ass in seconds."

Tim Sylvia
"Look, I just watched an ex-UFC heavyweight champ, some overweight unathletic chump get one-punched by an over the hill broken boxer, Mercer. Don’t get me wrong, I love Big Ray but his best days are behind him and he one punched an ex-champ, what more do I need to say? Just imagine what happens if a heavyweight contender lays hands on a MMA fighter. We both know what the aftermath will look like.”

MMA fighter's getting paid
"If so many people want to watch those guys fight then why isn’t Dana White paying them like it?"
From MiddleEasy.com, I know how I feel about this but how do you guys?
 
#11 ·
I think someone needs to tell Floyd that Money, fame and showboating are secondary in combat sports. The main impetus is the fight itself and Floyd doesnt deliver!
This guy likes to shell up and backpedal throwing boring jab counter punches.
Combat sports should be primarily about the fight, if people put aside the star power and marketing of the Floyd vs De la hoya fight which was stupidly overhyped and knew how the fight was going to pan out then I dont think it would of set ppv records.

For me Floyd makes Thales leites look exciting.
There are many other boxers who are exciting and come to display the sweet science but are not marketing drones. Most of Floyds fight highlights are the pre bout talk and him running his mouth but not much of the actual fight.

I wonder how many people feel robbed when they bought into his hype and paid for the ppv.
 
#12 ·
Definitely agree that Mayweather is an MMA fan. Nothing wrong with him hyping his fight and I agree, Ace is not a very good boxer. Vitor on the other hand... I'd definitely like to know what Mayweather thinks of him. Vitor vs Mayweather in the cage would be a slaughterfest, imo.



I hope we see Prime Crocop come out, like he said he was going to. Following Nog's example would be nice.
 
#15 ·
sat is going to be a fun night...its debating for me tho my dad loves boxing and i love ufc...hoping his ass aint home so i can order ufc. Right now on a viewerschoice .ca poll

What Event Will You Be Watching This Weekend?
Neither
0 %
Both!
0 %
Mayweather vs Marquez
89 %
UFC103
11 %
 
#16 · (Edited)
lmao @ the comment about Rich Franklin's hands.

bigups to money mayweather!

and smh @ people who hate on floyd's ''hit & not get hit'' boxing style. you wanna see people swinging around guaranteeing a KO or something like idiots?
 
#30 ·
Floyd is an awesome boxer "no doubt about it"! Hes also an mma fan but thinks boxers are better with their hands (which they are) so he isnt far off talking about boxers beating up mma guys in a boxing match. But a boxer in an mma match would only have a punchers chance and thats just not enough to be a champion. I wish he would do a demo fight with an mma champion, that should shut him up.
 
#27 ·
Me neither bars here don't even show boxing PPV's cause nobody cares and we have bars that show the mid afternoon live PPV broadcasts of the European UFC cards.
 
#19 ·
Disclaimer: I like this card..not my favorite but anticipating to see how some guys do in their returns.


I dont understand Dana/joe silvas logic on this one. Three of his top fights are "newcomers/returners" to the UFC...belfort,trigg,crocop. Although crocop returned 3 months ago..he's still relatively new to your casual fans and that al/turk fight was meh.

Vitor is exciting but never had a fedor status in another organization. I like trigg but his biggest claims to fame are losing twice to hughes. Dos santos may be a top contender within next few fights but no one knows who he is generally.
Actually, I think dana knows boxing will outsell them..hence why there is no title shot..not even a fight for #1 contendership. Was swick/kampann i guess but that got canned due to injury. End of the day, the card has decent fights with decent names but if it doesnt sell its not like UFC lost some "blockbuster fights" they couldve saved for another card.

Boxing will outsell because their fans are starved and get a good fight once in a blue moon so yea they're goin to come out the woodworks. If UFC came out 3 times a year and this card had Brock Vs Shane, Machida Vs Shogun, Silva VS Marquardt, Rashad VS, Rampage, and Penn Vs Sanchez ..it would clearly shit on boxing
 
#20 ·
fact is most UFC fighters are horrible when it comes to pure boxing skill. Aside from BJ and Anderson most everyone throws pretty bad punches, and that's all the boxing fans see, they don't see the skill it takes to be good at everything else in mma. We've seen time and time again what happens when a fighter focuses on one skill area and neglects all of the others. Mayweather versus pretty much anyone but the top HW's and Silva would be a win for mayweather in a boxing match, anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't understand how good he is.
 
#22 ·
I would highly suggest we stop posting Floyd Mayweather comments on this site. All Mayweather is trying to do is stir up the MMA community and steal some buys. He's clearly afraid of the UFC from a business standpoint and their ability to generate buys.

You don't believe me? Then why has Mayweather mentioned the UFC every single time he fights since he's come back? He's throwing buzz words around and trying to get people's attention with outlandish comments. He mentions Franklin's boxing and then falls back on a comment he makes in EVERY interview "I make 2.5 million." He has no point about Franklin. Yes Rich's boxing LOOKS bad but it's been effective against everyone he's faced hasn't it? MMA striking =/= Boxing striking. It's a completely different sport, stop making a direct connection to the two. Chris Lytle and Marcus Davis are both pro boxers but don't have a traditional boxing style when fighting in MMA matches. They can't afford to use a 100% technical style and sacrifice their TDD and kicking.

His second point about Lesnar is funny...isn't he the one that went to the WWE when he was "retired." Didn't he have a wrestling match with The Big Show? So wouldn't that make him a professional wrestler too? Look, Lesnar was a top-level college wrestler before he entered the WWE. He is a freak of nature physically and would excel at any sport he would enter. If he went into boxing he could possibly steamroll several of the 20,000 paper champions who call themselves "World Champions."

It's also funny that Mayweather has started throwing around the phrase "pound for pound" lately. Considering he ducked the world champion in his natural weight class (Shane Mosely) and the true #1 pound for pound fighter Manny Pacquiao. He also rejected a fight with Antonio Margarito in 06. Now I'm in no way a follower of boxing but there are only 4 people he has faced who's names I even know. Ricky Hatton, Oscar De La Hoya, Zab Judah, and Jose Luiz Castillo

The Crocop comments are something the MMA fans and analysts have been saying for years. Though I might tend to agree with him about the Vlad comment and the Tim Sylvia comment. There's a reason he's an ex champion. The talent level of the Heavyweight division was nowhere near what it is now.

Remember when he talked all that shit before and Sean Sherk challenged him to an MMA bout? He backed down right away and appologized, saying that he "respects MMA and MMA fighters."

All in all Floyd is trying to steal viewers from MMA with his comments. He realizes that he needs to say some bizarre shit to sell his fight when matching up against the UFC. Like I said before, lets just stop posting his comments anywhere on this forum. Floyd is just trying to promote his product by breaking down his competition. MMA fans getting pissed over his comments and posting them everywhere is only going to give the midget more attention than he deserves. We all know he's going to run around the ring, bounce off the ropes, and throw a single counter punch for 12 rounds.

I've already wasted too much time talking about him here.
 
#25 ·
Haha! You gotta love Mayweathers consistency. He's just having a laugh at everybodys expense. Thats the Mayweather way. You would think we would be used to it by now the way he goes on about MMA.

Having said that, saying his boxing style is boring is just as uneducated and trollish as Floyds comments. His boxing skills are fantastic.

Ignore the little fool. If we are really lucky he might lose and then the whole MMA community can dance a little jig.



If was Mayweather far as I remember. I never recalled Dana saying anything bad about any boxer except Floyd.
 
#26 ·
Boxing is boxing MMA is MMA, Ive seen a few topic's about this and Mayweather's comments but you really cant fight MMA the same way you fight boxing a match.

Boxing has a quite a few aspects but nothing like MMA, you have every other aspect of MMA you need to be savvy at that it slow's progression in one singe aspect down.

To me MMA will always mimic reality more than boxing, Floyd can say boxing will be around in ten years all he wants (and it probably will to some degree) but they said the titanic was unsinkable too and we all know how that ended.
 
#31 ·
Ok one simple question for everyone; but let's take the he said/she said out of it (dana and floyd are very similar hype machines).

Why is it OK for brock lesnar to be a 1 dimentional fighter and make the transition to MMA and learn the other modalities but a boxer cannot? Why is it that IF floyd tried MMA, we are all ASSUMING he would not train the other disciplines? He is a freak athlete, just like Lesnar. He finds the tiniest mistakes every single opponent makes and capitalizes on it. I am actually a big mayweather hater, but can appreciate his skill set. I just don't get why people assume boxers would only box an MMA fighter in an MMA match. A bit of hypocritical logic me thinks...
 
#33 ·
It's not like Boxers have NEVER tried MMA. It's just that that style is not effective and boxing will teach habbits that are bad to have in a cage. Styles like kickboxing and wrestling lend themselves to MMA more than straight boxing.

Someone like Alves would tear Mayweather apart with vicious leg kicks until he was a cripple. The competition in MMA right now is pretty rigid and well rounded, a boxer would need a lot of training to overcome their bad habbits and develop TDD, ground game, kicks, distance, etc.
 
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