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Anyone have info on the ring size?
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Wait, boxing doesn't have a standard ring size? I had no clue.
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I'm assuming the bigger the ring, the better it is for the defensive boxer?
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No necessarily it would just make it easier for Floyd to get to the corners in a smaller ring he likes to fight off the ropes at times
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Word on the street is that pac is sparring with erislandy lara. Even though he is a southpaw, I like his exit strategy. He is slightly taller than floyd and has longer reach. Could help Pac prepare for floyd running around and work on how to cut the ring off better.
edit: Just saw that Manny confirmed it in a video interview from youtube
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edit: Just saw that Manny confirmed it in a video interview from youtube
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The bigger the ring, the better it is for the more technical boxer. Gives them the space they want.
Good call bringing in Lara for sparring. I heard Luis Arias was in the mix too for Manny's sparring partner.
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Good call bringing in Lara for sparring. I heard Luis Arias was in the mix too for Manny's sparring partner.
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View media item 1477666Floyd Mayweather: Trash talk was just self-promotion, now unnecessary vs. Manny Pacquiao
View media item 1477667LAS VEGAS -- Years ago, Floyd Mayweather regularly repeated his father's original charge that Genaro Hernandez was "a piece of garbage," promised to beat Diego Corrales "on behalf of battered women everywhere," and berated Arturo Gatti so mercilessly that promoters arranged for separate fight-week press conferences.
All three of those deceased champions faced Mayweather in crossroads fights, and all three went to their graves harboring some sense of resentment over his verbal fight-week treatment of them.
Mayweather has been understated in the lead-up to his May 2 welterweight blockbuster against Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas.
From boxing's pinnacle, with pay-per-view running a record $99 for Mayweather-Pacquiao and the Grand Rapids native projected to earn a nine-figure windfall under even worst-case projections, Mayweather no longer engages the level of pre-fight banter that left some of his most significant opponents mentally wilted before opening bell.
And when he was the biggest trash-talker in the game, he said it was "absolutely" all centered on self-promotion.
"I've always thought that," Mayweather said. "At first, it was like, one way or another, by communication or by my boxing skills, you will watch me, you will see me, I will be seen. But I'm in a position now I don't have to do that."
It wasn't always that way.
When Mayweather fought Zab Judah in 2006 -- a fight nearly scuttled by the latter losing to Carlos Baldomir -- Mayweather said before the fight that he predicted that upset loss because "Zab worries about too many things outside the ring instead of taking care of his job," and said Judah was "worried because he's not getting any money" due to tax liens.
When Mayweather fought De La Hoya in 2007, he engaged a pitiless series of media-tour verbal assaults, and at one point stole De La Hoya's food and was accused of stealing his luggage.
Mayweather said the luggage was a mistake, but taking De La Hoya's food during the Washington tour stop was just another way to goad his opponent.
Richard Schaefer, then the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, called Mayweather's behavior "childish" and "insufferable" and threatened to send the fighter home if it didn't stop.
Mayweather never let hypocrisy get in the way of a good rant, like chastising Diego Corrales over a spousal-abuse case, or Judah over tax liens, neither of which are foreign to him, either.
Nor did he acquiesce to attempts to rein him in. When Gatti was scheduled for his press conference first, followed by Mayweather, the latter crashed the Copacabana night club in New York early. Gatti stormed out.
That contrasts with last week, when Floyd Mayweather Sr., who trains his son, said his son asked him to tone down the pre-fight chatter. Mayweather Sr. and Freddie Roach, Pacquiao's trainer, have engaged the nastiest pre-fight banter thus far.
Bob Arum promotes the low-key Pacquiao, and also promoted Mayweather from 1996-2006.
Mayweather has taken regular shots at his former promoter over the years, which Arum has downplayed during this promotion.
"There's no reason for any animosity," Arum said. "If he had done something really bad to me ... but he hasn't, nor have I to him. So a lot of this rhetoric that went on was the normal rhetoric you have in a situation like this."
Mayweather, 38, is about the engage the quietest big fight of his life, if things don't change in the next four weeks.
"It was a lot to make this fight happen," he said. "In the past, everyone was saying it was Floyd (who was blocking the Pacquiao fight). And my thing was this, if I didn't have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.
"That's no different than in the past, like I look back at certain things, 'Damn why did I do that?' Like, you're older, you're wiser, and my focus should only be the fighters that I'm facing. Those are the only people I should have a problem with or a beef with, not anyone else.
View media item 1477667LAS VEGAS -- Years ago, Floyd Mayweather regularly repeated his father's original charge that Genaro Hernandez was "a piece of garbage," promised to beat Diego Corrales "on behalf of battered women everywhere," and berated Arturo Gatti so mercilessly that promoters arranged for separate fight-week press conferences.
All three of those deceased champions faced Mayweather in crossroads fights, and all three went to their graves harboring some sense of resentment over his verbal fight-week treatment of them.
Mayweather has been understated in the lead-up to his May 2 welterweight blockbuster against Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas.
From boxing's pinnacle, with pay-per-view running a record $99 for Mayweather-Pacquiao and the Grand Rapids native projected to earn a nine-figure windfall under even worst-case projections, Mayweather no longer engages the level of pre-fight banter that left some of his most significant opponents mentally wilted before opening bell.
And when he was the biggest trash-talker in the game, he said it was "absolutely" all centered on self-promotion.
"I've always thought that," Mayweather said. "At first, it was like, one way or another, by communication or by my boxing skills, you will watch me, you will see me, I will be seen. But I'm in a position now I don't have to do that."
It wasn't always that way.
When Mayweather fought Zab Judah in 2006 -- a fight nearly scuttled by the latter losing to Carlos Baldomir -- Mayweather said before the fight that he predicted that upset loss because "Zab worries about too many things outside the ring instead of taking care of his job," and said Judah was "worried because he's not getting any money" due to tax liens.
When Mayweather fought De La Hoya in 2007, he engaged a pitiless series of media-tour verbal assaults, and at one point stole De La Hoya's food and was accused of stealing his luggage.
Mayweather said the luggage was a mistake, but taking De La Hoya's food during the Washington tour stop was just another way to goad his opponent.
Richard Schaefer, then the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, called Mayweather's behavior "childish" and "insufferable" and threatened to send the fighter home if it didn't stop.
Mayweather never let hypocrisy get in the way of a good rant, like chastising Diego Corrales over a spousal-abuse case, or Judah over tax liens, neither of which are foreign to him, either.
Nor did he acquiesce to attempts to rein him in. When Gatti was scheduled for his press conference first, followed by Mayweather, the latter crashed the Copacabana night club in New York early. Gatti stormed out.
That contrasts with last week, when Floyd Mayweather Sr., who trains his son, said his son asked him to tone down the pre-fight chatter. Mayweather Sr. and Freddie Roach, Pacquiao's trainer, have engaged the nastiest pre-fight banter thus far.
Bob Arum promotes the low-key Pacquiao, and also promoted Mayweather from 1996-2006.
Mayweather has taken regular shots at his former promoter over the years, which Arum has downplayed during this promotion.
"There's no reason for any animosity," Arum said. "If he had done something really bad to me ... but he hasn't, nor have I to him. So a lot of this rhetoric that went on was the normal rhetoric you have in a situation like this."
Mayweather, 38, is about the engage the quietest big fight of his life, if things don't change in the next four weeks.
"It was a lot to make this fight happen," he said. "In the past, everyone was saying it was Floyd (who was blocking the Pacquiao fight). And my thing was this, if I didn't have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.
"That's no different than in the past, like I look back at certain things, 'Damn why did I do that?' Like, you're older, you're wiser, and my focus should only be the fighters that I'm facing. Those are the only people I should have a problem with or a beef with, not anyone else.
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I don't think Manny understood that question about Lara lol. He just answered it with a "yeah sure, next question" tone.
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Either Floyd is being forced by Showtime to keep it quiet or he doesn't want to rile up a sleeping beast 
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I think he really does look at Manny as a threat... And he's not ******* around. He knows EVERYBODY will be watching... People that don't know anything about boxing will be watching this...
I think he s taking it serious and don't think he needs to play that role to sell tickets. Tickets are going to sell themselves...
I'm so hype May 2nd is gonna be an incredible night.. People can talk about how it's a few years to late and yadda yadda yadda... That fact is it's happening and I can not wait!
I think he s taking it serious and don't think he needs to play that role to sell tickets. Tickets are going to sell themselves...
I'm so hype May 2nd is gonna be an incredible night.. People can talk about how it's a few years to late and yadda yadda yadda... That fact is it's happening and I can not wait!
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I mention this earlier, since he moved to SHOWTIME he hasn't been trash talking. Hardly if any. Those days been long gone. People just haven't been paying attention.
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When manny was selling cigarettes Floyd was throwin them thangs. When manny first laced up the gloves Floyd was already a seasoned young fighter. This why nobody can beat Floyd, this is his life he been doin this. He's just too good to lose IMO
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Either Floyd is being forced by Showtime to keep it quiet or he doesn't want to rile up a sleeping beast
Sad thing is, pac man and roach doing all this talking gonna wake up the beast inside Floyd
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This. Since Showtime guaranteed him a certain amount per fight - he doesn't need to sell the fights with trash talk and wild antics.
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He didn't call canelo chuckie and Blake griffin?
he wasn't trash talking going into the maidana rematch???
Who's not paying attention.
Guerros pops and Floyd sr all that ish was to hype the fight.
Floyd's a lot more respectful now because he's grown up but **** still occurs on some wwe tip trying to promote the fights.
he wasn't trash talking going into the maidana rematch???
Who's not paying attention.
Guerros pops and Floyd sr all that ish was to hype the fight.
Floyd's a lot more respectful now because he's grown up but **** still occurs on some wwe tip trying to promote the fights.
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Floyd hasn't been talking smack about pac because sh*t just got real. Floyd knows he has the talent and skills to be victorious, but respects Pac and knows what a monster Pac can be. All that smack about " Pac is nobody, Pac is not in my league, Yada, Yada," was just to get the die hard floyd fans wet and excited and push Pacquiao off.
Floyd: "He is not just any other fighter"
Floyd: "He is not just any other fighter"
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Really? Calling him Blake Griffin and Chuckie trash talking? Bruh go watch the 24/7 before fighting, Oscar, Hatton, Ortiz etc....
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I get your point he has turned it way down as far as straight up being disrespectful like he did to oscar, mosely, etc but he's a bit more mature now.
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Ever since he signed that deal he stopped talkin ****. I used to like the old **** talking Floyd cuz it would get everybody so mad
No he's more of a "humble Floyd" but I think it's all for show
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I don't think he goes in bad on the opponents he really respects and sees as a threat.
He was the same against Cotto. He had respect for him as a boxer.
And it's evident in the video that
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He was the same against Cotto. He had respect for him as a boxer.
And it's evident in the video that
dominikin
posted, that Floyd actually looks at Pac as a real threat and that he can't just be playing around.-Drew
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Can't wait for this fight. Hopefully they engage and we see some good blows. Doubt it tho. Money gonna stick to what he does best. I see money winning this via UD
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Commercial for the fight is out. 
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whew.Commercial for the fight is out.
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Pacquiao out here talking big **** man Floyd bout to punish this boy.
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