I'm Just Going To Say It: "Floyd Mayweather, Shut the Hell Up"

Before I get to flaming, I should thank Eric Raskin, who's yellow-bellied attempted at explaining the Floyd Mayweather situation pissed me off enough to say exactly what's been going through my head since I first heard about these bullshit press releases discussing Floyd Mayweather's transition to MMA. So, here goes something. While the MMA fanbase will probably be the only people reading this, I hope that you guys understand where I'm coming from.



Floyd Mayweather, first and foremost, is a bag of wind. His lips keep flapping, air keeps coming out, but they aren't doing anything except cashing checks. Oh, and throwing that "check hook." Mayweather may be laughing all the way to the bank, but the least he can do is put up and shut up.



Mayweather is a stripper, he gets paid great and he puts on a great tease, but he never delivers. MMA is the land of the hookers, they might not get paid the same, but at least they deliver. The least Mayweather can do, if he's serious about jumping into the mix, is step up and open debates with the biggest pimp of all, Dana White, instead of flapping his lips to the playing customer about how bad he is, about how raw he is and about how he'd beat anybody in the world.

As Eric Raskin so remedially pointed out, going from boxing to mixed martial arts is like going from basketball to boxing, but even that comparison doesn't cover it. You might as well say it's like going from bowling to rugby.



We're not just talking about Mayweather making a transition in learning submission fighting. We're not just talking about teaching this boring excuse for a pugilist to utilize the sprawl and brawl, you're also going to have to restructure the guy's entire style of striking.



There are these things that got brought into this sport pretty early on, in fact I think I remember seeing them get used by this Dutch guy over in Japan. Oh yeah, they're called kicks. And then there's that other part of your leg that you use to hit stuff. That thing right where it bends.



If you put Mayweather in the ring, he'd be so confused when he got locked in a thai clinch, that he'd be yelling at the referee to break that up while his opponent kneed his ribs until they were purple.



Mayweather's standup translates so badly to MMA that Danny Abbadi is sitting on his couch laughing about it right now.

Then, once the fight hits the ground, you're talking about putting a guy who's never even had his back on the floor unless he was getting laid trying to defend elbows to his face that will cut him a third asshole, right on the bridge of his nose. I call it a third asshole, because it will only serve to drain the shit that didn't get carried out through his mouth.



As a long time fan of the sport, I'm offended when someone says the sport is barbaric.

As someone who trains in this sport, I'm offended when someone says the sport is easy.



I'd love to see Mayweather step in a cage with those fat gloves on and that big grin on his face. That match would be over so fast that he'd be wondering why Muhammad Ali is shuffling around above his head while Big John is raising his opponent's hand.

Mayweather is a world class athlete, I will not dispute that, but he's not a fighter.

A fighter fights.

He doesn't dance.

He doesn't weave.

And he definitely doesn't say he has a great performance when his opponent is still standing.

A fighter attacks

A fighter takes pain.

A fighter apologizes when he doesn't finish.

Fedor Emelianenko is a fighter.



Mark Hunt is a fighter.



Andrei Arlovski is a fighter.



Floyd Mayweather Jr., not so much.

The problem with boxing is that it's acceptable just to win, and that's why boxing stopped being called fighting. That's why the sport lost its credibility.

In this sport, you can't just win. In fact, you can't just do anything.

You can get a submission and still get boo-ed.

You can get a stoppage and still get boo-ed.



No one is going to cheer for you just because the judges were nice enough not to put a blemish on your record.

In this sport, the fans want you to step into the cage and put your balls out. That's why I love this sport, and that's why I'll continue to love this sport. Because two fighters step in there and want to show that they have taken physical conditioning and combat skills to a new level. They want to assert they're dominance. They want to earn their right to pound their chest afterwards.



A decision does not give you the right to pound your chest. You might walk home with a belt, but people are still going to wonder whether or not you deserve it.



So this is all of the wisdom I've got to offer Floyd Mayweather Jr.

If you are going to show up in this sport, it's time for you to do as the Romans do, and the way we do it here is the way you haven't done it in a long time:

Put up or shut up. We're sick of the talk.