Mayweather is back.

[Chris]

Fighting Victor Ortiz on September 17th. Confirmed on his twitter.

Good fight.

[Neil Young]

Nah, it was sunny and dry in May.














Sorry, that's appalling.

[Mr Darko]

Didn't see this coming - Ortiz has done well since his loss to Maidana but can't see anything other than a UD for Mayweather.

He's probably only fighting because he spunked all his money on gambling again.

[Darth Marty]

Its a good warm up fight before he batters the pacman.

[JohnOK]

I hate Mayweather. He has so much talent but is so much of a cunt i can't wait till the day he is beaten out of sight.

[Pablo]

Didn't see this coming - Ortiz has done well since his loss to Maidana but can't see anything other than a UD for Mayweather.

He's probably only fighting because he spunked all his money on gambling again.

Really? I did. Neil's joke's have become ever more obvious in recent weeks. he's become a parody of himself

[Leyton388]

****ing hell this lad has more comebacks than Rocky.

[Baracus]

not really another comeback. He choose not to fight as he had legal issues to sort out regarding a criminal matter.

[Neil Young]

Really? I did. Neil's joke's have become ever more obvious in recent weeks. he's become a parody of himself

I may be a parody of myself but at least I'm not a cheap imitation of somebody else.

[marcus50bucks]

Very happy about this as I am a massive fan of Floyd's. I think this would be a good warm up fight for Floyd in preparation for a fight against Manny (hopefully this is Floyd's motive) as Ortiz is a southpaw and people have said in the past that Floyd struggles against southpaw fighters. The Castillo 1st fight and the first two or three rounds against Judah springs to mind. I also think Ortiz has good power behind his punches which could pose Floyd some problems. If this comes off I expect Floyd to win quite convincingly in the end. It would definitely sell tickets too in my opinion as Ortiz is already been built up as the next golden boy.

[Mr Darko]

With regards to the terms when trying to set up the Pacquiao fight (drug testing until 14 days before fight - then changing to random testing up until the actual fight) did the Pacquiao/Roach camp ever give any statements about why exactly they won't agree to it?

Seems strange - it's obvious Pacquiao wants the fight (much more than Mayweather) so why doesn't he just agree to the terms? It's hardly an outrageous request asking for drug testing is it?

[marcus50bucks]

PAY-PER-VIEW FLOPS SEE SKY BOX SMARTER

Thursday August 11,2011

By Bill Bradshaw and Niall Hickman

SKY Sport is opting out of pay-per-view boxing presentations after a troubled spell with the sport.

A dispute with Amir Khan’s management and two disappointing features starring David Haye have persuaded Sky to pull out of more pay-as-you-watch deals.

Khan’s big fight in the United States against Zab Judah was switched to Primetime when Sky became unconvinced about charging to watch the fight.

Dull fights involving Haye against Audley Harrison and Vladimir Klitschko also gave Sky Sport food for thought and they decided it is expecting too much of an audience who pay a significant monthly subscription to shell-out for individual fights.

“We spend too much time trying to do deals on boxing for a limited return and do not think it’s fair on our audience to ask them to pay more for boxing,” said a senior Sky source.

“That is not to say we will never return to pay-per-view. It’s just not right for us at the moment.”

Sky’s decision will not be welcomed by all promoters but gives others a chance to bring boxing to terrestrial television. Channel Five has had notable success with presentations in recent months.

http://www.express.co.uk/othersport/...ky-box-smarter

I can understand why sky have come to this decision as some of the performances on pay per view have been pretty poor to say the least. Thank you David Haye! I am peed off that the Mayweather fight is going to be on Primetime as they are gonna want us to fork out £15. One thing I liked about sky is they still showed big fights on without charging but you cannot say the same about primetime. I am suprised sky are not gong to be showing the Mayweather fight. I wonder if they will come back if a fight between manny and Mayweather is ever arranged.

[-V-]

Sky have came to this decision purely because they aren't making a profit from it anymore. Simple as. Not enough people willing to pay for a **** sport and boxers/promoters being overpaid. Its laughable to suggest they aren't doing it anymore because they suddenty think its 'unfair' on skysports customers and they feel sorry for us.

They are still cunts and they will go back to pay-per-view as soon as they find a big enough superstar to make them money

[Alex]

There is probably only 2 boxers out there at the moment that I would pay to watch, and there currently avoiding fighting each other.

[marcus50bucks]

It's long but a really good read this.

http://www.mlive.com/mayweather/inde...ail_floyd.html

Distractions won't derail Floyd Mayweather's preparation for fight against Victor Ortiz

Published: Sunday, August 21, 2011, 10:00 AM

By David Mayo | The Grand Rapids Press The Grand Rapids Press

LAS VEGAS -- Exactly one month before the fight, Floyd Mayweather stood virtually nose to nose with yet another distraction last week, this one involving the man from whom he took his name. It started as good-natured ribbing -- all of it with HBO's "24/7" camera whirring and a boom microphone hovering -- but quickly devolved into the two Floyd Mayweathers bellowing vile curses at each other, eyes popping, neck veins bulging, and the father stalking out while the roiling emotions within the son led him to continue the verbal fight in his dressing room, almost as if practicing lines for the next time around.

Their bickering is legend, of course.

But no one in Team Mayweather ever has seen a confrontation between them quite as nasty as this one, and when HBO's all-access series begins this week, with re-broadcasts on CNN, viewers are sure to get another eyeful of teeming dysfunction.

Welcome to Mayweather Fight Camp No. 42, which everyone here expects to culminate the same way as the first 41 -- victoriously -- and what the principal deemed just another day at the office.

By the time Mayweather steps into the ring with Victor Ortiz for their Sept. 17 welterweight title fight here, he will have been idle for 16 1/2 months. He didn't intend it that way but the right fight didn't materialize -- in other words, no progress on the Manny Pacquiao front -- so it took longer than expected.

There were other issues, too.

Regardless what you think about the polarizing, 34-year-old Mayweather, his ability to fight through distractions is beyond compare, because they have been so public and personally threatening, and because he remains pristine inside the ring regardless how dire the upheaval outside.

He was asked if, given the opportunity, he would exchange his eight-figure boxing windfalls for the right to be a common citizen in a workaday job, unencumbered by legal entanglements and irrational jockeying for his attention.

"I don't know," he said. "That's something that I ask myself a lot, though."

This time, the distractions are overpowering.

The same day as the argument with his father, Mayweather was hit with another lawsuit, at least the third one pending against him, by two men who say he gave the say-so for a 2009 shooting incident in which no one was injured. Mayweather was investigated by Las Vegas police but not charged and vehemently denies ordering the shooting, for which another man faces trial next year on charges including attempted murder.

"I can just say that when I wasn't on this level, when I didn't have the money that I have, I didn't see any lawsuits, I didn't have any problems," Mayweather said. "All of a sudden, you reach a certain level, you get lawsuits from left and right."

The most pressing legal issue is a stack of four felony and four misdemeanor charges related to an alleged domestic incident involving the mother of three of Mayweather's four children.

Today, Mayweather said the most important thing in his life is keeping tabs on his daughter Iyanna, a brilliant 11-year-old with a kind heart who openly engages other children in the gym, sharing candy, laughing, playing, all within boundaries respectful of the adults surrounding her. But Mayweather is estranged from his three children with Josie Harris, his accuser in the domestic case, after she secured a protection order prohibiting him from contacting them.

"Every day, I just say, 'That's life,'" Mayweather said of the legal predicaments engulfing him. "It's just life. I'm happy every day to hang out with my daughter, to spend time with my daughter. That's what I do every day. All I do is I come to the boxing gym, I train, I work hard, and I go and spend time with my daughter. That's what's important."

He lives a privileged life. Promoters cater to him. Employees serve his every whim, from continually mopping sweat so he won't slip as he circles the heavy bag, to shoving gobs of Vaseline up his nose between rounds of sparring, to placing his five-figure sports bets at local casinos.

He can't go anywhere without recognition. This is the fame and fortune he sought when he got into professional boxing. He still is learning to cope with the pitfalls.

"I try to keep everything private -- try to," he said. "Because, you know, everything I do. ..."

He likes watching new-release movies. So about once a week, he rents out an entire theater so he and his team can watch a midnight flick without conflict or interruption.

"It's uncomfortable," he said. "But it's life."

He does his roadwork in different locations, in the wee hours of the morning, to keep the tails away.

"If I sent one text message, like, 'I'm going to the gym,' it could be 3 o'clock in the morning, and the gym would be packed at 3 o'clock in the morning," he said. "If everybody knew I'm coming, it'd be packed at 3 in the morning. The gym will have 100, 200, 300 people sometimes. So I block everything out. It's like that every day."

An ever-present figure in training camp is Shantel Jackson, a model who has been around Mayweather for years.

They were engaged last year and the woman whom Mayweather commonly calls "Ms. Jackson" sports a massive ring as evidence.

"Expensive rock," Mayweather said.

There is no timetable for a wedding but Mayweather's fiancee offers at least one quality virtually no one else in his camp does: She generally only speaks when spoken to, and sometimes not even then.

"She's quiet," Mayweather said. "She's real laid back, real, real quiet, don't say too much, keeps to herself."

That isn't something Mayweather is accustomed to in his family dynamic, either.

Wednesday's verbal showdown with his father may be a focal point when HBO debuts the four-part "Mayweather-Ortiz 24/7" on Saturday, but the fighter said it changes nothing in their relationship.

"Having a disagreement, it doesn't matter," he said. "I will always want to see my dad succeed, always."

He does not hate his father but loathes his father's approach to their boxing relationship. Floyd Mayweather Sr. unquestionably was the original molder not only of his son, but also his brother, Roger Mayweather, who trains his son. That he takes every opportunity to let people know it rankles the son.

Throughout their nasty disagreement last week, the only one keeping quiet was Roger Mayweather, which was particularly interesting, since he later left the gym to attend an anger-management class as part of a plea deal in an assault case.

The fighter said his father's weakness as a trainer isn't technical. It's his overarching desire to be seen as the reason a fighter succeeds.

"He wants to be the star and he wants to get all the glory, simple as that," he said.

He added that he and his father go through the ups and downs typical in any family relationship -- magnified and multiplied, of course -- but that his father must quit bringing the fight to the gym.

There's a real fight in 27 days.

"There's already enough negative energy with lawsuits and things, coming up on the regular," he said.

Sugar Ray Robinson, generally regarded as the closest thing to a perfect fighter, excelled for 25 years in a sport he said he didn't like.

Mayweather, an undefeated pro for nearly 15 years, including multiple stints as the sport's pound-for-pound king, was asked if he can identify with that sentiment.

"It's my job. What else can I say?" he said. "When you come to work, you try to have fun. We have a lot of interesting characters in our camp. There's a lot of trash-talking and the gym is packed every day. Once your training camp and your boxing gym is packed every day, once you get to that arena, you're so used to it already being packed and people making noise. And trash-talking is something I'm accustomed to. So once I get in that squared circle, I can block everything out."

What he likes best about his violent professional life is fight night itself, the event, the opportunity to ply his trade for millions of viewers worldwide, which he called "amazing," not unlike his ability to fight through the turmoil around him.

Boxing is yet another twisted family relationship, in a way.

It spawned much of the turmoil.

At the same time, it is his only safe house, his only true refuge.

"That's my home," Mayweather said. "Just another day. Just another fight."

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