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Floyd Mayweather Retires; Perfect Boxer Retires For Good
Topic Started: Friday Jun 6 2008, 10:32 PM (180 Views)
WeatherManNX01
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The Yanks are coming!

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After Floyd Mayweather Jr. easily outpointed Carlos Baldomir to win the welterweight championship in November 2006, he stood at the podium at the post-fight news conference and broke down in tears as he stunningly announced his retirement from boxing.

Despite the emotional outpouring, few believed Mayweather was serious, rather that he had simply been overcome by the moment.

As it turned out, he had been.

Less than two months later, Mayweather agreed to face Oscar De La Hoya. In May 2007, Mayweather outpointed him in a fight that shattered all boxing revenue and pay-per-view records. After beating Ricky Hatton in December, plans were in motion for Mayweather-De La Hoya II to take place Sept. 20.

But cross it off the schedule.

Mayweather, 31, announced his retirement from boxing again on Friday in a move that appears much more serious than his impromptu declaration two years ago.

The rematch with De La Hoya has been canceled and Mayweather will forego the accompanying $20-plus million payday.


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Cougar
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He's retiring at 31? Wow. Well, I guess he a huge load of money, so he can afford to. And perhaps he wants to keep his record at 39-0. Hmm...I wonder what his reasons are for retiring, his competition isn't huge, so he can probably dominate for a good amount of years.
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PSUSyr5
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I wonder how beat up he is actually. 39 matches today when everyone is bigger, stronger, and so on, maybe his body is telling him it's enough. Even with all that training (which I feel like some of it would take its toll on him as well, though I never was a boxer so I really can't say for certain) for each fight, there probably is some sort of damage.
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I'm sure. Again I don't know these things but boxing fights are usually spaced out quite a bit.
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