Dear Floyd Mayweather, Ditch The Gambling, And Do What You Say You Do The Best...Box! |
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| Written by Michael Woods | |||
| Friday, 25 February 2011 15:03 | |||
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Hey, I'm 41, I mean no offense. But I'm in a business, where in theory at least, I get better as I get older. Makes sense..with age often comes wisdom, or at least, accrued experience and knowledge. FOLLOW Woods on Twitter @Woodsy1069 PacquiaovsMosley says:
Happy Bday Floyd. We want you to fight Pacquiao. brownsugar says:
personally I still can't understand the compulsion to gamble... I can understand why people want to fill their crackpipes,.. heroin syringes and liquor glasses,.. but gambling... I just don't get it. Yeah Mayweather has gotten into some precarious situations with his sometimes buffoonish behavior... but compared to the likes of Linsay Lohan, Sheen, and many other so-called elite celebrities he's a boyscout. ...And Manny is not a good standard to hold Mayweather to because he has enough skeletons in his closet to fill a small cemetary too. The will to complete is not anything that we can browbeat into a fighter... if he doesn't have the will,.. or desire... which he has said oft times to various confidants who leak this info on the web... then he should just quit. brownsugar says:
I beg to differ RG,.. The reason why Pacquiao is not even a distant 2nd to Ali as far as fame and historic relevance is concerned is because Ali had the misfortune of being born into an era of tumultuous strife and social upheaval. the Civil Rights Movement was in full swing and would continue to cascade around the globe to places as distant as Russia, Bosnia, China, Mindanao and eventually South Africa (and hopefully Dafur).....continuing up to our present times (look at Egypt) ... President Ferdinand Marcos asked for the Thrilla in Manilla to take place in Quezon City because he thought it would help quell the growing unrest in Mindanao...later the first multilevel Mall in the Phillipines would be built in Quezon City and named the "Ali Mall".... so saying that Filipino's didn't know who Ali was is like saying that the Filipino people were so primative that they didn't know what "fire" or the "wheel" was either...... Is Manny the current P4P #1 Yes,.. and is he currently and immensely popular fighter... Yes again, absolutely... but Pac never had to face one single day in jail,.. or go on trial for what he believed in,.. that's the difference between Ali and Pacman... If the times were different and Manny was forced to make a choice between boxing or fighting for his civil rights... I'm sure he would have made the right choice.... but it was never an option.....But it's those choices that has placed Ali into a completely different stratophere as far as his life having a global impact outside the ring..... in addition to Ali being added to elementry and middle school history books so that the younger generations who came after him could know what he stood for. And it's those choices that have endeared him to multiple generations worldwide... it's also the reason why 8 DVDs have been released about Ali in the past decade...I'm still looking for first Pacman DVD that I don't have to special order.....the only other athletes that I'm aware of making it into a Public School History book is Jack Johnson, Jackie Robinson...and Marciano If you google "the worlds most famous boxer",.. Manny is listed around 9 or 10 on several lists with Tyson always coming in at a close second. isidro says:
happy bithday Floyd... aragornn23 says:
@brownsugar Radam G says:
I expected for you to differ, as my Pacland kakabayans expected, B-Sug. [You are an ex American military man who was fed the Armed Forces status agreement pact made with the Marcos government and tons of propaganda about clans and tribes of the Philippines.] The truth is not always easy to accept. But I'm going to throw it to you. Even in Muslim Quiapo City, adjacent to Metro Manila, ninety percent of the Muslims there didn't know Muhammad Ali, the American boxer. They had not ever even seen a boxing match. [Besides doing the 1970s, 80 percent of the Philippine Islands did not have electricity, telephones or any form of communication, other than word of mouth by boat and ship travelers. Back then one area of greater Metro Manila would be modern and up to date, but next to it -- places like Tondo City and Quiapo City -- the population would be in the 17 century. The Marcos government use to hide areas of dirt, poor Manilans by having high walls built around them, and corrupted militias restricting them from mingling with and/or being seen by tourists and American GIs.] The other 10 percent of Muslims didn't accept GOAT Ali as a true Muslim. Don't believe the propaganda of his world-wide heroism and visability. brownsugar says:
thanks for the comments aragornn33,.. like you say a good percentage of the best fighters come from third world countries and impoverished areas all over the world....Pac has found monumental success in the U.S. and commands huge turnouts in the largest venues in the country...while enjoying a paycheck that most fighters can only dream about.... All because he's an all-out all-action warrior who brings it all to the ring... you should be proud if your Pinoy... and happy if your a boxing fan... but nobody expects Pac to duplicate the things Ali did.......at times it seems like Fate...History... God... or whatever you want to call it picks certain people and puts them into extraodinary circumstances.......circumstances that eventually embellishes them in history forever... Ali was just one of those people.. if anything... Pac is enriched... not dimmished by the life of Ali. the Roast says:
My stance on Floyd is simple. He's not an active fighter. It's over. We all have to move on. brownsugar says:
Well said Roast.... and happy birthday to you too Floyd... you non-fightin mutha f@%#!*..... brownsugar says:
Thanks for the comments RG, I did see the booing at the beginning of thefight and wondered why..but the audience was digging Ali after he started "performing" . Good comments Radam G says: I'm glad that you like it, Fe'Roz. But holla at us more often so that we can appreciate ya witty posts and wisdom. Man, we were gettin' ready to send the bloodhounds and special forces to hunt for ya! Hehehehehe! Holla! khoy says: It's really funny when someone is trying to be smart or something...ali mall is named after Ali the boxer not someone else.. after Ali commented that Philippines has no major shopping mall govt built this mall and named it after ali the boxer...trust me my grandfather is part of the project that time... khoy says: Don't be fooled by the informations given to you... Radam G says: The info is not hard to find in the age of rapid, reliable info and WiliLEAKS. Nobody needs to listen to manufactured nonsense or glorified propaganda in person or on the web nowadays. Don't be fooled by someone trying to impressed upon you that the Philippines did not have a major mall [palengke] in its major city until the late 1970s and named after an American boxer. {Next they will try to convince you that every Filipino Muslim with the name Muhammad Ali got it from GOAT Ali.} That would make absolutely no sense, since the Philippines have been an Asiatic shopping mecca for tourists long before "The Thrilla in Manila," and in the smallest of Philippine cities there are malls. Tons of tourists and business people come -- and have been coming -- from all over the world to buy Pinoy rare clothing materials of silk and pina, hand-weaved rug, all types of human hair to make those $5,000-dollar weaves and hair extentions worn in the U.S.A., Lazy Susans and just plain-old various types of woods, stones and medals for building and making carvings, houses and coffins, materials for making false teeth and implants, etc., etc. #1 PacFan says: The whole problem with Floyd is that the man is excessively jealous over Pacquiao in terms of fame. Can't anyone get the picture yet? He will never fight Pacquiao as I've said from the beginning. Everytime Manny Pacquiao's fight is announced Floyd tries to steal his limelight. I mean can't the man just grow up already cause he is acting like a child. If you aint going to fight the man then stop talking about the man it's that simple. brownsugar says: #1, nothing could be further from the truth... to suggest that Floyd was run out of the ring for fear of Pac is ludicrous at best...If anything he's just tired of the grind.....according to another site Floyd has been in discussion with Nelson Mandela's grand daughter. ...Nelson being a former amateur is a huge fight fan and has invited Floyd to his 93rd birthday party..(I'm sure Pac got an invite too). Nelson is very intent and adamant on seeing the fight made...... you never know. ultimoshogun says: I read that same article, brownsugar...Uncle Jeff also states in that interview that Team Mayweather still intends to make the Pacman fight happen, but I think a tune up fight this summer would be good for Floyd. brownsugar says: that'd be awesome!!!!!!! Radam G says: For a couple of years now, Uncle Jeff has been saying that Money May was ready to fight Da Manny. Uncle Roger have been saying that Money May would fight and beat Da Manny's arse. "I don't care what type of syet he got in hisself (sic)," Uncle Roger screams and cusses. "My nephew will kick his muthafu**in' a$$." [Not even in a dream.] Bruidodow says:
hi,i'm new here,so much need to learn
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That was COLD, Editor M. What is this? In last week of this month of luv, put da SLAMMY on my favorite pugilists. Masterweaver F-Lo got up into Da Manny's grill. All because Da Manny is the world's most popular THRILL. When the world was smaller, Irish GOAT Ali was certainly at the top of the hill. But in this day and time, with social media outlets on 90 percent of the globe and population growth, the GOAT Ali popularity has stood still. He has few new non-boxing fans or even the fanfaronades under 30 years old. That is very easy to check out with Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YourSpace, real space and any other type of space. The fans of Da Manny are 3 years old to 113 years old. And, once again, those who are 30 years old and below, who never been around boxing, don't know of and/or never heard of GOAT Ali. But they have heard of Da Manny and know exactly what he does and where he is from. Ask them who GOAT Ali is, and they will tell you somebody from "Arabia or Africa." Older peeps are dead wrong for assuming that youth know and think what the elders think. There are a lot of readers up in da hizouseee tranferring their thoughts and perceptions on the youth. Just based on the amount of peeps who have been born -- about 4bil and have died 2.5 bil -- common thought should tell a person that Da Manny is more known and popular. Of the people of the world who has never expressed much interest about boxing, they don't know who in the heck is Jack Johnson or Jack Dempsey, Sugar Ray Robinson or Jack LaMotta. Enough of that.
When it comes to Money May, don't believe da HYPE! As his father and uncle are, so is Money May -- a straight up bullspitter! If he bets 3,000 bucks, he is going to exaggerated it to 30,000 or 300,000 for the shock value and amazement of his groupies and fanfaronades. Sometimes when he is letting it rain -- like at one his WWE fake beatdown of Big Hurt [or whatever dat joka's name was -- the 1,000,000-dollar bills, the 100,000 ones and the 10,000, 1,000, 500 and 100 were FAKE! Money May is a showman and a showoff and stingy like five bugabears and 30 muthasuckers. C'mon! Money May luvs to play games. You already know. The dude will get 15-20mil in a bout, but will holla to everybodeee, dey momma, dey brother and sista, that he made 40 or 50mil. Money May, after burning up and wasting so much of his money when he was 24 years old and up to 31 years old, is now tightwad and fibbing about big spendin' and sendin.' It is all called BIG IMAGE building because that is what the fans want to hear. Tons of fighters lie about how much money that they made and gambled. Money May is not a high risk taker in squared jungle or in the gambling culture. He won't ever be on skidrow from gaming gambling. Remember how people use to say that Micheal Jordan was gambling away all his money. Dude would do $10,000 but let the media say hundreds of thousands. Oh YUP! Money May is getting long in the tooth, but is stay deep in the pockets and has a lot of ZEROES behind the ones and twos on his Bankrolls. Money May got the PRIZES of life on lock. The PRIDE is for another day. Holla!