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Quote of the Week – Eastside Boxing
By Zach Arnold | December 14, 2007
Yet another boxing writer shows his disdain for UFC:
Dana White was not able to transfer Jackson from a Mixed Martial Arts combatant into an international star after his victory over Liddell because he didn’t have a diverse enough audience to do so. To his credit, he will continue to sell UFC DVD’s next to WWE collections in Wal-Mart to the adolescence Caucasian youth who follow him, but he will never see an audience of 2.15 Million for a Pay Per View event. So the next time Mr. White is interviewed and is asked about his opinions on the sport of Boxing, let fans be reminded that he did not have enough cash in the bank to persuade Floyd Mayweather into the Octagon because Floyd’s star power is outside of the UFC’s reach and Floyd knows better than to follow a short lived trend rather than an ancient tradition.
You mean to tell me that Mayweather wasn’t backtracking on his anti-UFC stance after his win against De La Hoya?
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God, these children, particularly greedy boxing fighters (Mayweather) and close-minded promoters are so far behind the curve. Boxing must be a shady business for these idiots to be runnin off at the mouth more than George Bush and Dana White combined… I am sick of it. Mayweather, if you are so tough, get raped in the poop hole by Urijah Faber in 2.5 seconds!
Would Floyd Mayweather lose to Urijah Faber by submission in a matter of seconds? Of course he would.
But would it make any business sense whatsoever for Mayweather to go anywhere near MMA for a couple million dollars at the absolute most, when he can continue to make $15 million to $20 million per fight in a different sport in which he happens to be the best in the world? Of course not.
Well I think David’s point is that there’s a lot of running of the mouth with these boxing assholes, how they’d beat any “Ultimate Fighter” in a heartbeat, under MMA rules no less. So that’s the insult, they claim it’s spectacle, not sport; they would win without breaking a sweat; and then actually refuse to fight.
It’s one thing to claim he’s the best in the world at boxing… but it’s another to claim he WOULD be the best in MMA but then not fight. He’s scared shitless, and even if the money were there he still wouldn’t do it.
If they could pull together the money Floyd wanted they could have him. Everyone has a price. The problem is that Floyd Mayweather’s price for a boxing match right now is about on par with about 6-8 UFC PPV’s combined payrolls for 2007. At least….if not more. Its a bit like complaining that Mike Tyson won’t go fight in the UFC for a million dollars in 1995. Its fucking stupid.