With just 10 days left until the world finds out if Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is “The One” to hand undefeated multi-division champ, Floyd Mayweather Jr. his first loss in their Sept. 14 fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nev., Mayweather held an international conference call Wednesday.
After a 15-minute wait for Mayweather to join the call and a couple of dropped calls later, “Money” was able to answer some interesting and some not so interesting questions before Mayweather’s phone was said to have died after a brief outburst from Floyd after a question about his tough fight with Miguel Cotto last year.
When asked about the Cotto fight, Mayweather said, “The only thing he (Alvarez) can learn from the Cotto fight is how to lose.” Going further on the subject of the Cotto fight Mayweather said, “If that’s what he (Alvarez) wants to do. If he wants to learn how to lose, he can go look at the Cotto fight.”
One could say to study the Cotto fight because Mayweather took arguable the worst amount of punishment he has taken in his career, but he did win the fight via unanimous decision. Mayweather said just after the Cotto bout that he wanted to give the fans an action fight and he didn’t move around the ring as much and stood in with Cotto and traded more shots that he traditionally does.
After being asked how he felt fighting on the shortest turnaround between fights in several years, Mayweather said he thought he might be upset he didn’t have time for a vacation, but said he feels great heading into next week’s megabout.
“This camp went great. I was able to get right back into the groove; this camp has been tremendous. I’ve been getting good solid work.”
Mayweather will be remembered as one of the best boxers of all-time, but Mayweather thinks what he has done for his family through boxing is what really matters.
“The most important thing and the great thing about my career is that I put my family in a comfortable position,” Mayweather said.
With all of the belts floating around the sport of boxing these days it’s hard to keep track of all the champions and Mayweather thinks that one belt (per division presumably) is enough and that with all the belts that “boxing is watered down.”
Mayweather went into how he feels that boxer’s these days have it easier coming up than he did when he was an up-and-coming fighter. Instead of having to prove their worth, Mayweather thinks that young fighters are getting title shots without proving themselves first.
If Mayweather would have had it this way, he feels that he would have fought Oscar De La Hoya and Miguel Cotto much earlier, but claims those fights weren’t attainable until he came up with Mayweather Promotions.
“I wanted to fight Oscar way back when, I couldn’t get the fight until I got my own company,” Mayweather said. “I wanted to fight Miguel Cotto when he was undefeated but I couldn’t get the fight.”
Mayweather will earn a record $41.5 million guaranteed purse for the Sept. 14 bout, besting Evander Holyfield’s previous record of $33 million set in 1997, as Alvarez will earn the biggest payday of his career, pulling in a guaranteed $12.5 million himself.
If you weren’t able to snatch up a ticket to see “The One” live in person at the MGM Grand before they sold out in 24 hours—netting a live gate record of $19 million—, you can catch all the action live on Pay-Per-View for $64.95 in standard definition and $74.95 in HD.
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