By Craig Daly: Floyd Mayweather is in talks for an exhibition combat in opposition to Mikey Garcia for December ninth on Showtime PPV. Floyd has chosen the identical date because the Regis Prograis vs. Devin Haney occasion on DAZN Pay-per-view.
This implies followers should select between the 2 occasions except they buy each. Most followers received’t need to shell out $100+. It’s unfair to the Haney-Prograis card that he must compete with Mayweather.
That is about constructing for the longer term, because the 24-year-old Devin is a fighter who may very well be a celebrity quickly, and it’s not good that he received’t have as many followers tuning in to see him as a consequence of Floyd’s potential occasion.
The undercard of Mayweather-Mikey is these two fights:
Keith Thurman vs. Eimantas Stanionis
Danny Garcia vs. Erislandy Lara
Based on Chris Algieri, Mayweather has a whiskey, ‘Good Cash Whiskey,‘ that he desires to make use of the December ninth exhibition occasion market to the general public.
Floyd reportedly has a web value estimated at $400 million, so he doesn’t want so as to add to his large fortune.
The previous four-division world champion Mikey Garcia retired simply two years in the past, and he’s nonetheless younger at 35. If this have been an actual combat, you’d need to favor him over
Is Mayweather advertising a brand new product?
“Floyd is absolutely doing this to promote his whiskey when you actually give it some thought. He posts out that he’s making a whiskey. ‘Hey, have a look at me. I’m making Huge Cash Whiskey. Guess what? I’m additionally preventing in December. You guys obtained to test it out.’ It’s advertising 101. Floyd is a really sensible man,” stated Chris Algieri to ProBox TV about Floyd Mayweather Jr. reportedly preventing an exhibition match in opposition to Mikey Garcia on December ninth on Showtime pay-per-view on the identical night time as Devin Haney vs. Regis Prograis on DAZN PPV.
“He did this with the strip membership too. Proper across the time of the [Conor] McGregor [fight in 2017],” stated Paulie Malignaggi.
This is able to be pathetic if the only real purpose that Mayweather has chosen to combat on December ninth is in order that he can market the brand new whiskey that he desires to hawk to the general public.
It’s one factor competing for the sake of the game, however when you’re simply utilizing the event to announce your new whiskey product to the followers, that’s past the pale.
“Anytime he has one thing to promote, he steps again within the ring in an exhibition in opposition to some no-hoper and makes nevertheless a lot cash. However hear, it’s free advertising,” stated Algieri. “He’s paying himself. Floyd’s a enterprise. He’s not a businessman. He’s a enterprise.
“I heard that each time that Floyd would combat in Las Vegas, the city would make a billion {dollars}. That’s a enterprise, not a businessman. Floyd is greater than only a single man, and that’s the issue. He’s not searching for the following technology, and he’s really going to be taking away from these youthful guys.
“That Prograis card is an effective card. It’s in San Francisco. It’s obtained a good undercard with Montana Love coming again. Come on, I don’t just like the head-to-head [with the Prograis vs. Haney event on DAZN PPV on the same night], particularly when it’s like a special sport whenever you do the exhibition stuff,” stated Algieri.
The Haney-Prograis undercard:
Liam Paro vs. Montana Love
Andy Cruz vs. Hector Tanajara
Ebanie Bridges vs. Avril Mathie
Beatriz Ferreira vs. Future Jones
Mikey Garcia = Floyd’s opponent
“Mikey Garcia, why are you coming again? You didn’t like preventing whenever you have been preventing,” stated Algieri. “He used to complain on a regular basis about coaching and preventing. What’s he doing again? It’s unlucky that boxing can’t come up collectively. That is simply one other a type of alternatives for boxing to shoot itself within the foot.”
Regardless of having a great deal of expertise, Mikey retired from boxing two years in the past after his loss to Sandor Martin. Earlier than that combat, Mikey had been inactive for a yr and a half.
It’s a must to query how motivated he was to proceed preventing, although he hadn’t made the massive cash that he may have if he’d stayed lively. Even throughout Mikey’s finest years, he wasn’t a very busy fighter.
“The pinnacle-to-head, it doesn’t make sense. It’s silly, particularly as a result of it’s Floyd. Floyd Mayweather’s identify has a totally totally different pull than anybody else. It doesn’t matter how lengthy he’s retired.
“If he decides he’s going to step again within the ring, individuals are going to tune in, and if individuals don’t manage to pay for to observe, each are going to select one or the opposite, and lots of people are going to select Floyd, and it’s going to tug away from these younger champions,” stated Algieri.
There might be boxing followers that can tune within the see Mayweather, however what may usher in much more individuals to that occasion is the addition of Keith Thurman vs. Eimanatas Stanionis & Danny Garcia vs. Erislandy Lara undercard fights. These guys are nonetheless lively, roughly.
Taking away from youthful technology
“A man like Prograis, who isn’t younger, however he hasn’t gotten the shine that he most likely deserves, and you then obtained like Devin Haney, who has been round Floyd since he was 9 years outdated,” stated Algieri.
“He’s getting a giant shot in one of many largest fights of his profession proper and is absolutely placing every thing on the road in a headliner in opposition to a harmful man.”
It’s not deal for Haney & Prograis that they’ve Mayweather preventing on the identical night time over on Showtime as a result of there might be a good quantity of individuals that can select to observe his occasion as a result of he was once the largest star within the sport till retiring after his huge payday in opposition to Conor McGregor in 2017.
“It’s foolish, and also you’re taking away from the youthful technology. Fighters are people. They’re self-centered, and plenty of them are usually not going to work team-wise with different guys or attempt to construct anybody else up, and that is simply one other instance of that. Floyd is is is out for Floyd,” stated Algieri.
“First off, I don’t like that it’s in opposition to the Haney-Prograis combat as a result of I feel a Haney-Prograis combat may very well be combat for boxing,” stated Paulie Malignaggi about Mayweather competing with that card.
“It’s a pleasant combat, and it’s a combat boxing followers are wanting ahead to. So I don’t like when these fights begin to compete in opposition to each other, particularly any person like Floyd, who’s sort of already out of the enterprise.
“Now he’s going to place a present collectively. We’re speaking about Thurman and [Danny Garcia possibly being the co-feature, which, again, is two still relevant guys. Maybe they’re a little bit on the other side of their prime. They’re still relevant, and all of a sudden, now you’re forcing fight fans to split up,” said Paulie.
Mayweather could have picked a different day
“I hate when that happens. Having said that, Mayweather is a money guy,” said Malignaggi. “Yes, he’s a money guy, and he knows how to sell himself; he knows how to sell the exhibitions. He came out with whiskey as well. It’s some kind of ‘Money’ name. It has ‘Money Whiskey’ or something like that.
“If you check his Instagram, he’s got ‘Good Money whiskey. Everything Floyd is about is branded around money, so, of course, he’s going to name it ‘Good Money Whiskey.’ Plus, it seems like Floyd and [Conor] McGregor are at all times going at one another in a method or one other.
“Conor made whiskey. So we’ll see if Floyd makes whiskey. We’ll see how that one goes. He’s at all times concerned, but it surely’s extra about Floyd than anything, and at a sure level, it’s a must to give again to the game that gave to you. Is he actually doing that? I don’t know. I typically query that since you’re occurring the identical night time as Haney-Prograis, whichis a legitimately good combat.
“Haney is a younger fighter and may very well be a star in boxing. He may very well be a man who individuals begin to concentrate to just a little bit, and Prograis, who’s been world champion in his personal proper.
“So it’s combat, and also you’re sort of nonetheless taking approach since you’re attempting to nonetheless hold that digital camera and the sunshine on you, which I get it. I get the entire ego factor, I get the entire cash factor. I get it, however you would have most likely picked a special day.
“There are those who come after us which might be nonetheless going to attempt to apply their commerce and have and reside their goals by way of the game, and we need to give them that platform to nonetheless be capable of do it,” stated Malignaggi.
