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Newzz said:
K. Porter: Mayweather Avoids Young Black Foes in Prime
Posted by: Edward Chaykovsky on 6/30/2015 .




By Edward Chaykovsky


Two weeks ago at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Last Vegas, Shawn Porter handed Adrien Broner the second loss of his professional career. Porter (26-1-1, 16 KOs) had hoped to catapult himself into a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26KOs) on September 12th at the MGM Grand.

Porter's hopes were dashed when Mayweather rejected his advance and advised him to face Errol Spence on the pay-per-view undercard. Porter has no interested in fighting on the undercard, he wants Floyd in the main event.

Kenny Porter, father and trainer, is not surprised by Mayweather's position. He says Mayweather has avoided young black fighters, in their prime, for his entire career. Mayweather has mentioned Andre Berto and Karim Mayfield as the candidates for September.

“We want Floyd,” Kenny told hustleboss.com. “Floyd doesn’t want nothing to do with us and I fully understand. Floyd would never fight a young black African American in his prime. He never has. He doesn’t have any on his fight record. He would have never stepped to ‘Sugar’ Shane Mosley when ‘Sugar’ Shane was 25, 26 years old. He would have never fought Oscar De La Hoya [in his prime]. Andre Berto [in his prime], Paul Williams; I can name them, all down the line."

“Floyd picks who he wants to fight and he already said he doesn’t want nothing to do with Shawn."





He went about this the wrong way:snoop:
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oscar black:dwillhuh:

berto was in line but lost to victor in an elimination match.:yeshrug:


paul williams was good. but i dont think floyd ducked him.:ohhh:


shawn couldn't even beat beat brook and struggled with bone. breh is sloppy and not that good sorry.:mjlol:


shane ducked floyd in his prime:sas2:
 
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Mayweather’s options for 9/12 are Khan and Berto, says Pugmire
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By Scott Gilfoid: It looks Amir “King” Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) isn’t entirely out of the running for a lottery ticket winning fight against WBA/WBA/WBO welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26 KOs) on September 12th in Las Vegas, Nevada.

According to Lance Pugmire, Khan is in the running for the Mayweather fight, as is former IBF/WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (30-3, 23 KOs). We already knew that Berto was one of the guys that had a chance for the Mayweather fight, but we didn’t know that Khan was being factored in.

Pugmire’s sources seem to have some inside information that suggests that the 28-year-old Khan is still very much alive and in the running for the cash out fight against Mayweather at the MGM Grand. If Khan is seriously being considered by Mayweather, then he might be thinking of trying to maximize the millions he makes for his September 12th fight because he’s not going to make a lot of cash if he fights Berto or the other guys he’s been mentioning lately Karim Mayfield.

Those are both opponents that won’t bring in a lot of pay-per-view buys because neither of them has been relevant at 147 for a long, long time. I don’t know that Mayfield has ever been relevant, but Berto used to be back in 2011 up until Victor Ortiz beat him.

“Told that with Special K Brook angling toward Brandon Rios 9/19, Floyd Mayweather 9/12 options are Amir ‘King’ Khan and Andre Berto,” Pugmire said on his Twitter.
Oh boy, this is going to make Khan’s day. He’s been up in arms as of late with the news of Mayweather being interested in Mayfield and Berto for his September 12th fight, but if Khan is still alive in the search for Mayweather’s next opponent, then I’m sure he’s going to be one happy camper.

Mayweather’s fight in September would probably sell well if he signs up Khan as his opponent. Khan is like a windup marketing team all by himself. He’ll do all the hard PR work himself by giving one interview after another. He’s obviously would need to come up with some new things to say because he can only repeat himself so many times with the old ‘I’ve got the style to beat Mayweather’ and ‘I know I can beat him. It’s a chess match and I always do well in those type of fights.’ Khan would definitely need to think up new stuff to say otherwise it’ll be him basically blabbing his mouth off saying the same tired old quotes that he’s been yacking for the past two to four years.

Khan needs the Mayweather fight in a huge, huge way because if he doesn’t get the payday, he’s going to eventually have to fight someone good for a change at 147, and I don’t see him being able to beat any of the actual good contenders.

In the past three years, Khan been fighting weak punchers and guys that were going nowhere at 140 and 147, like little 5’5” Carlos Molina, past his best Luis Collazo and Julio Diaz. Khan also beat Delvin Rodriguez and Chris Algieri, both light hitters.

Unless Khan continues to face guys with a lack of punching power, he’s going to need to show that he can beat guys that being power to the table. I mean, I don’t know where Khan can go fighting guys that are no threat to beating him like what we’ve been seeing. Of course, there are a ton of weak punchers in the top 15, and Khan in theory could fight for the remainder of his career exclusively against those type of fighters, but if he ever wants to fight in a big fight, or fight for a world title, he’s going to need to deal with someone with a lot of power, and I just don’t see it going well for Khan.
 
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Newzz said:
K. Porter: Mayweather Avoids Young Black Foes in Prime
Posted by: Edward Chaykovsky on 6/30/2015 .




By Edward Chaykovsky


Two weeks ago at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Last Vegas, Shawn Porter handed Adrien Broner the second loss of his professional career. Porter (26-1-1, 16 KOs) had hoped to catapult himself into a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26KOs) on September 12th at the MGM Grand.

Porter's hopes were dashed when Mayweather rejected his advance and advised him to face Errol Spence on the pay-per-view undercard. Porter has no interested in fighting on the undercard, he wants Floyd in the main event.

Kenny Porter, father and trainer, is not surprised by Mayweather's position. He says Mayweather has avoided young black fighters, in their prime, for his entire career. Mayweather has mentioned Andre Berto and Karim Mayfield as the candidates for September.

“We want Floyd,” Kenny told hustleboss.com. “Floyd doesn’t want nothing to do with us and I fully understand. Floyd would never fight a young black African American in his prime. He never has. He doesn’t have any on his fight record. He would have never stepped to ‘Sugar’ Shane Mosley when ‘Sugar’ Shane was 25, 26 years old. He would have never fought Oscar De La Hoya [in his prime]. Andre Berto [in his prime], Paul Williams; I can name them, all down the line."

“Floyd picks who he wants to fight and he already said he doesn’t want nothing to do with Shawn."





He went about this the wrong way:snoop:
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Porter on that blow?
 
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L68 said:
we might not be able to call cotto a coward anymore after next year if true:ehh:
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Cottos never been a coward
He's fought damn near everyone
Don't confuse his new snobbih/wanting the advantage ways to him being scared
Cotto a warrior

Canelo will beat him but it will be a great fight
 
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TheLukieBaby said:
So I lose it over people saying Bradley offers a better fight than Berto or Mayfield


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bradley is a HOFer



berto is a bum :ghghgh:



and mayfield is unproven.:stopitslime:



3 men in 7 years have gave PAC a competitive fight. Marquez and MAy beat him and tim had two good fights. :mjlol:



But tim also schooled marquez :ohhh:
 
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seemorecizzy said:
Cottos never been a coward
He's fought damn near everyone
Don't confuse his new snobbih/wanting the advantage ways to him being scared
Cotto a warrior

Canelo will beat him but it will be a great fight
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Cotto and GGG like a year apart look at their resumes and look at who gets called a coward :francis:
 
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