Money Will Keep Mayweather Away From MMA
There have been all kinds of rumors and talk in the past about Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. coming to the world of mixed martial arts, though I doubt it will ever happen, especially now.
The undefeated boxing phenom has been offered a whopping $20 million dollars to step into the professional wrestling ring against 7 foot, 430 pound Paul Wight (a.k.a. “The Big Show”). The match will take place at WWE’s Wrestlemania XXIV at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida on March 30.
With this payday, Mayweather has now padded his wallet from such avenues as boxing, network television (Dancing With The Stars), professional wrestling, his own promotions company, and a laundry list of endorsements and sponsors. What does this all mean for MMA? Simply put, if you ever thought that Mayweather was remotely serious about coming to MMA, you were wrong. I don’t think you will ever find someone willing to risk their life for a measly few hundred thousand or even million, when they are getting tens of millions to put on a fairly risk-free theatrical show.
Sure Brock Lesnar took a pay cut coming from the WWE to the UFC, but he’s out to prove something and that is all the motivation he needs (not to mention his paychecks from the UFC are nothing short of a small fortune.) “Money” Mayweather on the other hand is really only concerned with one thing, just take a wild guess at what that is:
“Wrestling takes care of business right on the spot�Whatever they say they’re going to do, they do it right on the spot. There’s no waiting three, four, five months. Quick results, quick money. Quick big money, too.“
Good for Floyd. Keep the show business out of the cage. EliteXC has the dancers. Brock has the body slams. Now we can all stop holding our breath.
He wouldnt cut it in the cage anyway. He is a little b**** if you ask me.
mayweather would dominant the octagon
Money is not keeping Floyd from MMA, getting embarrassed and being beaten half to death is. If you ever believed Floyd was considering MMA, then you’re delusional. I would’nt go so far as to call him a b**** considering his remarkable record in boxing, but he’s definitely not MMA material.
Floyd would not “dominant” nor dominate the octagon. Let me give you my scenario of what’s going to happen. Floyd(or his agent) will approach Dana White with the proposition of him fighting, Floyd would ask for a ridiculous amount of money knowing full well Dana would not commit this amount for a spectacle of a show. Floyd would then claim he really wanted to fight but the UFC refused to meet his terms. This would be a easy way for Floyd to save face and not have to fight.
Put him up against Diego Sanchez, Jon Fitch, or Roger Huerta for exhibition. That should answer our questions.
I don’t fault the man personally.. I don’t care how big a fan of MMA you are I want to know honestly who would turn down twenty million for a staged fight? as for MMA he has no experience so he’d be like a brock lesnar or kimbo slice.. (good/great on the feet but would be destroyed on the ground)
the fact is he isnt an mma fighter hes a boxer and should stay in boxing.mma is too difficult just to walk into with only boxing experience.and i dont think he is stupid enough to put it all on the line when he would be coming to a new sport.
Joe Daddy has already extended an offer to him for an exhibition fight.
Mayweather JR is a punk and a rich one at that. He wouldnt hang more than 2 minutes in MMA I guarantee it hes to much of a chump to make the transition in the De la Hoya fight I thought Oscar won and they gave him the fight, Dude looks like a lady. He wants nothing to do with MMA I promise you he would get destroyed and if from Joe Stevenson better
Here is what I like to know. If the UFC is making so much money. Why do thay pay there top fighters so little? While boxing ratings and UFC just keeps getting more momentom. It seems to me that zuffa and dana white keep getting richer and the fighters are geeting chump chang.boxers get molty million $ deals while mma fighter get a half mil. Know wonder randy left. Do you guys see some of the fight payout. I saw one fighter get $6000. The guy wins and only gets just anough to pay his morgage for two months. If I was a boxer I woudent make the swich
hands down floyd jr. is the greatest boxer on the planet, his hand game is unaproachable, but lets keep it real if he got in an octagon he’d have his guts squeezed out. but on the otherside of the token if joe stevenson, cote, sherk, or any othe top mma fighter got into a boxing ring he would straight embarass them. if mayweather were to apply himself with time he would dominate the mma world, but he’s 31 yrs old and for every one of you geeks who even get bent out of shape about something that floyd himself hasnt confirmed (an mma transition). you truly are stupid as $*!T.
hey floyd i hear you are going to fight against big show. thats awsome.e-mail me please your awsome