WHAT NOW FLOYD, SR.?
By Ed de la Vega, DDS
PhilBoxing.com
Tue, 05 May 2009
Los Angeles, CA: After a four fantastic days at Las Vegas, it is now time to sit back and reflect on the events this past weekend.
And boy, what an event and what a week-end!
Last Saturday, after seeing Ricky Hatton get knocked-out cold by a Pacquiao left hand to the chin, one can?t help but feel concerned for his health.
Indeed, the Brit who never lost to anyone before in the weight class of 140 lbs. woke up and recovered enough to walk back to his dressing room. Still, it would be hard to believe that he did not suffer some sort of a permanent damage which may show up in the future.
On the other side of the coin, while we feel for Ricky Hatton, we have nothing but contempt for his trainer, Floyd Mayweather Sr. I mean, the man is a motor mouth and he was telling everyone within an ear-shot weeks before the fight that he is the best and ?Freddie Roach is just a ?joke?.
Thanks to Manny Pacquiao the true Mayweather color came shinning true.
After the fight, Mayweather showed total lack of class and very poor sportsmanship.
The guy who loves to proclaim himself as the ?best there is? did not even show up at the podium with the Team Hatton during the official post-fight conference.
Was he perhaps scared that the media will expose him?
If his absence was because he rode with Hatton and Oscar de la Hoya to the Valley Hospital, I would have thought more of him as a trainer.
But he did not!
To make things worse, he could not even muster enough guts to admit that they lost! Or perhaps accept the reality that Hatton did not learn anything from him sufficient enough to counter what Roach has taught Pacquiao.
And, he still continues to be adamant that he is better than Freddie Roach!
In fact, if Hatton?s performance last Saturday was the best Mayweather could do to get Hatton on par with Pacquiao, Mayweather totally failed as a trainer.
Mayweather insisted that Hatton did not hold his hands up as instructed.
If one is on the blaming game, they should look no farther.
Mayweather did not train Hatton well enough. If he could not even train him to listen and carry such a simple instruction how can he expect him to learn the many other things needed to beat Pacquiao?
But why put all the blame on Hatton? Could he not at least accept the fact that he is partially responsible for the loss too?
Word is Mayweather may not be part of Team Hatton anymore. That is well and good for Team Hatton.
Apparently he and Gareth Williams do not see eye to eye.
Word leaked out that Mayweather was in many occasions late for training and after the fight, blamed Hatton for the lost. Of course such misgivings would not sink well on Team Hatton. And, it would not be a surprise if they let him go.
So, what now Floyd?
I am guessing that he will still remain in the ?training business? and some people will still believe in him.
Nothing awfully wrong with that! After all the dude needs to make a living.
But for now, until he proves himself to be on par with Freddie Roach, I guess it would help him a lot if he just concentrates on the task ahead:- training boxers!
After all from where he stands, boxing is about who beats up the other guy better and not about grade-school class poetry.
Leave the hype to the promoters and their publicists, Floyd.
Just concentrate on what you are supposed to do
Oh, along the way would just kindly shut up?
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