Money mayweather retired from boxing today rather than fight de la hoya again?

Question

is it because he is worried that a judge might sell him out on his or her score of the fight? He beat de la hoya convincingly in previous fight yet he only won by split decision. nis there any chance he comes back to fight someone else where the judges might be more honest scoring the fight? because he was robbed on one judges score card in de la hoya fight.

Answer 1

I dunno if I 100% believe this yet.  Could be a build or something.  I just can't see him missing out on such a big payday with little risk.  Let's face it ODLH had trouble tagging him whereas Cotto or Margarito would be a far bigger risk imo.

Answer 2

It's impossible for De La Hoya to beat mayweather now. A second fight would've turned me away from the sport. Mayweather is good enough to beat De La Hoya now (in his prime it's a whole different story). One Judge went for De La Hoya but must have been high or something. The winner of Cotto and Margarito is the real next contender which will be Cotto without a doubt.

Answer 3

If he was to fight De La Hoya, he wouldn't have destroyed him. C'mon That's crazy talk. We all know that Mayweather can't hurt Oscar and that's why he was supposed to fight him again.

I don't think he is retiring. The boxing world is better without him anyways. He wants people to miss him, but he is NOT going to get any of that. I wouldn't be surprised if he is just building the hype between for the rematch with De La. I don't believe that Mayweather beat De La Hoya all that convincingly. He did win with a close decision but none of them proved to master their opponent.

Answer 4

idk

Answer 5

I think it's the plan he put together to get DLH to offer him more money.

Last time they fought, DLH lured Mayweather out of retirement and Mayweather got $25 million or something like that. Now that DLH really wants to fight him and believes he can beat him, Mayweather knows that DLH will offer a lot more this time to lure him out of retirement. I'm expecting DLH to offer Mayweather about 50% of all revenue. Reason being is that they'll both probably make more than they did for the first fight, so both of them are gonna make a lot of money fighting each other than the would fighting someone else.

In shorter words, I just think this is fuel for the storyline (and a build up for a lot more $$$).

Answer 6

he is scarred of loosing!

Answer 7

DLH's abandoning the jab turned the fight in Mayweather's favor in the later rounds.  But up to then it was DLH's fight.  I think Mayweather sees a rematch with De La Hoya as more risk than he cares to take at this point in his "undefeated" career.  He probably does lack the drive he once  had, which probably also concerns him with the risk of a rematch.  I have no problem with his retiring.

Answer 8

I agree that the one judge was blind in his scoring of the fight. How he had De la Hoya ahead is beyond me. I do not think he was afraid of losing to De la Hoya in any way. In fact I think he would have dominated more. I just think he lost his desire to train and put his body through the grind. we all know he has enough money and he does have any endeavors to give him income. It is a shame that he is retiring in his prime, and who knows, 20 million is a lot to walk away from so maybe he will change his mind.

Answer 9

Yeah, like Floyd really has something to prove by fighting Oscar again.

Answer 10

I think his decision had nothing to do with a fight.  He has been saying it since 2006 that he was done.

Had he fought DLH, he would have destroyed DLH.  But then it would be fight Cotto, then fight Margo and Mayweather knows he is in a no win situation.  So instead of putting himself through it anymore, he simply retired.

He will be missed by his fans, and missed even more by his haters.

EDIT:  Mayweather is honest about his desire to make money and does not need any phony retirement to hype anything... Did he pull anything like that when he inked a 20 million dollar deal to wrestle Big Show?  NO... he was upfront about it... the haters ain't got a clue and are hoping against hope he isn't serious...

As far as boxing getting better without him... this is true because?