Floyd Mayweather Jr Interview

[Iccz]

Just seen it on Sky Sports News, a few questions to him about coming out of retirement etc...

He said he's coming back to fight because he misses the sport and living in Vegas you always "want to go out and roll the dice and either get a 7 or 11 on your first roll", he says he wants to add another great, not good fighter to his list - being Marquez.

With regards to Pacman he said he wants to take 1 fight at a time and isn't talking about him right now.

He also spoke about Hatton, said he should hang his gloves up and start getting the youngsters of the country under him in Hatton Promotions.

He also denied the reports of playing online boxing games.

The interview is still going on now on Sky Sports News

[danuk]

I'm glad he's back. I never thought for a minute that his retirement would be permanent, boxing is in his blood.
He's right with what he's saying about ricky, he should retire and concentrate on his promotions. I believe ricky will have one more fight, in England, against a nobody, as a way of saying goodbye to his fans.
With regards to pac I'm glad floyd isn't getting drawn into talking about potentially fighting him as jmm is a great fighter who commands floyd full attention at the present time. Dispose of jmm then start talking up a fight with pac.

[Spligsey]

I managed to struggle through it - a typical Sky Sports News interview - no substance whatsoever (something i was expecting anyway).
I didn't know it was on until i flicked through and saw them showing some footage of about 5-6 big motors queued up outside the main entrance to Sky's place (another classic piece of Sky footage).
Still, at least they didn't milk it
Interesting to see sky are going the Box Office route on this fight - considering Mayweather / De La Hoya was a "free" - even Matthew Hatton V Zab Judah isn't enought to tempt me

[redcat1]

Yeah i saw this, thought he came across very well. He plugged his fight against jmm a few times. Will sky be brave or stupid enough to put this on ppv ? i hope not

[Iccz]

Originally Posted by danuk

I'm glad he's back. I never thought for a minute that his retirement would be permanent, boxing is in his blood.
He's right with what he's saying about ricky, he should retire and concentrate on his promotions. I believe ricky will have one more fight, in England, against a nobody, as a way of saying goodbye to his fans.
With regards to pac I'm glad floyd isn't getting drawn into talking about potentially fighting him as jmm is a great fighter who commands floyd full attention at the present time. Dispose of jmm then start talking up a fight with pac.

Yeah Hatton hiomself said he was going to have a fight to say goodbye to the fans here in the UK.

Originally Posted by Spligsey

I managed to struggle through it - a typical Sky Sports News interview - no substance whatsoever (something i was expecting anyway).
I didn't know it was on until i flicked through and saw them showing some footage of about 5-6 big motors queued up outside the main entrance to Sky's place (another classic piece of Sky footage).
Still, at least they didn't milk it
Interesting to see sky are going the Box Office route on this fight - considering Mayweather / De La Hoya was a "free" - even Matthew Hatton V Zab Judah isn't enought to tempt me

Yeah it was expected the questions would be poor, that's what happens when you let the public come up with them. Same old questions.

Originally Posted by redcat1

Yeah i saw this, thought he came across very well. He plugged his fight against jmm a few times. Will sky be brave or stupid enough to put this on ppv ? i hope not

He always comes across well, the whole attitude and playing up to cameras before fights is pure promotion, when he is doing interviews etc he puts on a sensible head and always talks well.
Box Office fights are usually UK names, i'd imagine if they show it, it'll be on SS.
Khan is on box office in his next fight against Kotelnik, I think the Mayweather fight would get easily as many people wanting to watch it as Khan...

[danuk]

For anyone that missed it:

[Iccz]

Amazed at the pure number of people that turned up for his training session!
They were like sardines in that little gym

[Mr Jason B]

Im a big fan of JMM but I really cannot see how he can win this. The fight is taking place at 147 and Mayweather is a LOT bigger than JMM, I think I read he has something like a 5 inch reach advantage. If that was not bad enough I cannot think of anything JMM does better than FMJ - Floyd is a better counter puncher, faster, hits harder....it really does not bode well.

O yeah, there is no ****in way Im paying SKY for this on PPV, money grabbing bastars

Hopefully Mayweather mans up and fights Pac man next to decide who really is the P4P no.1

[danuk]

Originally Posted by Mr Jason B

Im a big fan of JMM but I really cannot see how he can win this. The fight is taking place at 147 and Mayweather is a LOT bigger than JMM, I think I read he has something like a 5 inch reach advantage. If that was not bad enough I cannot think of anything JMM does better than FMJ - Floyd is a better counter puncher, faster, hits harder....it really does not bode well.

O yeah, there is no ****in way Im paying SKY for this on PPV, money grabbing bastars

Hopefully Mayweather mans up and fights Pac man next to decide who really is the P4P no.1

I thought the fight was taking place at 144? Doesn't matter if its 144 or 147 though it's definitely advantage mayweather.
I agree about the PPV' i'm not paying for it, i'll just find a stream of it

[danuk]

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