Mark Cuban Is Trying To Kill Floyd Mayweather Jr.
December 21st, 2007 . by DellFloyd Mayweather Jr. is considering participating in MMA/ultimate fighting, with the full support of Dallas Maverick’s owner Mark Cuban. When these two participated with each other on Dancing With The Stars I knew they would link up for business deals, but I didn’t think it would be THIS.
This is the sort of thing that happens when a superstar athlete is so good they get bored with their profession. The competitive edge that lives within them is so unsatisfied it seeks out new challenges to conquer. Roy Jones Jr. started rapping, and then gained 35 pounds to fight heavyweights. Michael Jordan started playing baseball. Tom Brady started trolling for gay sex on Craigslist. The list goes on and on…
Floyd has ABSOLUTELY no place in MMA, he is the best boxer in the world (operative word being BOXER). Boxing is more of an artform than ultimate fighting, an entirely different beast all together. I fear that if he goes through with this, it’s going to be disasterous.
More of an artform? I respect your opinion, but that is a fairly ignorant statement that boxing fans seem to make all too often. Mixed martial arts requires much more ability and endurance than boxing, perhaps Floyd recognizes this. He probably also realizes that MMA is where the future is at.
Yes, it’s definitely more of an artform than MMA. I don’t have anything against it, and I like watching it, but it’s an entirely different beast than boxing.
Judging from the way you phrased your response, you’ve been in your fair share of MMA vs. Boxing arguments, which I have no desire to participate in. I dont understand why fans of boxing and MMA have to argue over nothing constantly.
I dont view each sport as competition for the other, they require totally different skillsets.
It would be disastrous not only for Mayweather, but for the sport of boxing itself.
I agree. Nothing good would come of it. Can you imagine Mayweather vs. Kimbo Slice? Mayweather does not belong in MMA.
mayweather.should just haf to follow what oscar de la hoya is doing. promote boxing.and hire a smart fellow to run it.like ceo richard schafer.instead of the one being used by mark cuban for his promotional hd net and mma promotion. mayweather says he wants to be a billionare. so he shouldnt be a follower but a leader.shift to mma? randy cotoure gets 250k last fight(thats why he left ufc) in boxing mayweather got 20Million. so why shift. couture needs to fight 100 times to get what mayweathers getting.whats the point??
[...] Sr. gave a HILARIOUS interview to FightHype.com regarding his son Floyd Jr.’s talk of joining mixed martial arts. In case you need your memory refreshed, Floyd Sr. and Floyd Jr. do NOT get along whatsoever and [...]
Floyd is a business man, if he joins HDNet with Cuban, it will be a $30 mil guarantee for the fight… if not, then he will likely get a share in the company itself. He is going to do business with Cuban no matter what, but if its fighting, he will be compensated heavily. And the only disaster would be boxing losing its biggest draw… Floyd can learn to do this if he puts his mind to it… Brock Lesnar is main eventing a MMA card after 1 fight… he only had wrestling in his background and he is learning… Floyd has boxing… seriously, if he learns to sprawl and stop those takedowns… who in his weight class is going to wanna stand with Floyd when he lets them hands go sans boxing gloves?
lol…oh boy are you all in for a rude awakening..I have watched fight since i was 3 years old…In the ring and on the streets.When i watch an MMA fight i see 5 to 10k fans (sometimes more and rightfully being I also love MMA) I see everyone cheering when something happens,but to be direct…its 9 times out of 10 happening in the stand up…and including puches to the face..I mean really guys.I have watched UFC since gracie and severn and tank and all vitor clear up to today. Sure u see a good arm bar and millions of rear naked chokes….but isnt “most of the MMa …ufc…versus…wec…etc knockouts…with puches and to the face….lol…sure they are…so your math…AND …lol…isnt floyd mayweather the best man…on his feet…punching to the face than anyone? IF you disagree…do your research….I have hated floyd mayweather since day 1…After the hatton fight I love him as the best…and he is..(maybe) hes not meant for mma…but really…why argue…why not vote yes!!!!! lets see it man,,,,good or bad…lets see what holds supreme!!!!!!!! I hate for it to be in our minds…lets push the issue and find out…Truthfully…I just want to see it and know for sure…Any suggestions and comments just email me… I like to conversate the fight game.. farnsworth_2@hotmail.com!!!
MMA and boxers are all fighters that are courageous and hold tons of respect…dont hate either….love the honor and courage of both…and cheer both sides to the finiish…..we are all champions!!!!!!!
i think that if floyd maywheather entered the world of MMA he would get killed there are alot of factors that go into an MMA fight such as punches, kicks. takedowns, and submissions i think he would get massacered
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Mayweather’s a smart person. He isn’t going to go into anything without being prepared, first. He might lose but that doesn’t mean he didn’t put a great amount of time to study mma and his opponent. I think he’ll win. Especially if his mma opponent tries to strike with him. Kicking or punching….Kicks, to most veteran boxers, are real easy to defend because they are real slow compared to punches. We spare kick boxers all the time. They’re easy to spar with for the most part. As for leg kicks?? Big deal…We can kick to the legs, too. And one or two leg kicks ain’t gonna stop the onslaught they they will receive seconds latter. The only thing that would stop it, would be better hands. As for Kimbo Slice. I know amature boxers who would KO him with easy. He’s really nothing special. Even though Mayewather is about a hundred pound lighter than Kimbo, Mayweather would beat the fuck out of Kimbo until Kimbo got Mayweather to the ground. I will tell you this….You will see a world champion boxer win a mma belt way before you will see an mma person win a boxing world title. Boxing is way more difficult.
Oh, I foresee this…MMA will be nothing more than the tough man contests, that you see on ESPN, after Mayweather and more of the elite boxers come down to expose mma fighters to who they really are….That is that they are nothing more than the average tough man fighters. Nothing more…
You guys better pray that Mayweather loses this fight if he decides to join mma…Because, if he don’t…You can expect a flood of boxers coming down for a temporary mma fix before they go back to boxing to earn better money in boxing…
You guys who think Mayweather would have a chance in hell against a well versed fighter such as anderson silva , have obviously never put any time in on the mat. Anybody with a halfway decent takedown could end Mayweather immediately unless he knocked them out with the first punch, and that is a big if!
I would love to see b.j. penn and mayweather fight.Mayweather would probably last less than a minute. He would have to put in a minimum of ten years on the mat to have any kind of chance.
more of an art, first off, wrestling and full contact grappling, even gi grappling have been around far longer than idiots in 100 round fights with padded gloves and brain damage, in the 1800′s boxing was seen as a sully on society, drunken minorities would beat the crap out of each other in bare knuckled fights till one man could no longer get up for the next round, not when he stayed down for a ten count.
the romans employed wrestling and grappling back in the carthaginian wars, standing around hitting each other in the fcae without utilizing your other assets is about as samrt as marching in roman columns and holding formation today in full scale war, and it was the same back than.
MMA is the full aspect of combat, if you were in a fight for your life, you would use everything, boxing is a white washed filtered, padded, administrated limited aspect of one phase of combat.
And your art comparison, MMA is baroque porn with no punches pulled, victorian string quartet blazzing symphony number 9 or the flight of the bumbble bee with slash on guitar, Boxing is like watching some flash in the pan like the matrix on nbc at 11:00 pm on a tuesday, censored and stripped of whatever appeal it once had.