Mayweather v Berto Official for 12 September

Looks like a done deal now. 12 Septemeber, MGM Las Vegas, Showtime PPV.

Hopefully they invest in a good undercard or this will be the first Mayweather fight since Ortiz that I won't be staying up for. More interest in Lee v Saunders than this.

I class myself as a Mayweather fan but this just doesn't have it for me. Floyd can fight anyone and it'll still be big and he's earned an easier fight but Berto is as bad as he could have picked and still put it on ppv. Rubbish.

What a Poopie fight. Berto is ranked #22 in the world, lost 3 of his last 6 and a disgraced drugs cheat. Mayweather is 100/1 on with some bookies what sort of PPV is that.

Undercard is Groves vs Jack world title shot along with rematch of Salido vs Martinez.

I'm happy with that card. Good nights boxing.

Must be feeling his age, but still has one fight left on his contract to fulfill.
Think maybe Khan will be next for fight number 50 as pretty much low risk.

To be fair, come next May when/if FM fights again, he will be 9 months away from his 40th. If he had the same confidence in himself as he did at 30, I don't think he would be fighting Berto next.

If people are willing to buy Floyd's PPVs - usually low risk affairs such as Ortiz, Guerrero, Maidana etc. - then you can't complain about this one. In buying those types of fights you're complicit in this type of matchmaking.

I'm actually fine with this. At least there won't be the usual pretence he could actually lose - or that he even faces a challenge - throughout the (thankfully short) build up.

I'll brace myself for the eulogies on Sep 13th.

You've got to give Berto's agent respect. Has anyone ever gotten a less deserving fighter more big purse events?

kingraf wrote:You've got to give Berto's agent respect. Has anyone ever gotten a less deserving fighter more big purse events?

Haymon. If you put Berto, Ward and Bradley on the same card in the US, they wouldn't sell out a leisure centre.

Well done Floyd. You've had a good career, enjoy your testimonial and your retirement.

500,000 ppv buys. Sh1t fight.

Groves world title shot on the undercard. I hope Sky pick it up for that alone.

I would rather he retire than fight gimmes. It's not like he will try and force a stoppage over his clearly inferior opponent.

It will be Guererro all over again. Least back then Robert had a ranking and wasn't on a bad streak.

I will probably watch, but I won't be sitting up to 5.00 for this garbage, unless there is a cracker of an undercard.

Couldn't really care less what Mayweather does. Pointless fight, even the best undercard of recent years wouldn't entail me doing anything other than watching them on YouTube the next morning. And I still wouldn't bother watching a re-run of the main event.

Still every cloud in that he overlooked the gobsh*te Khan. Perhaps he should look up "pot kettle black" surrounding the way Brook has been baying him to get it on in the ring and kept getting knocked back for not "deserving" a fight with him.

This fight is everything that is wrong with boxing. Effing TV companies are to blame as well as they had the power to simply laugh and tell him to go find a proper opponent rather than this joke who hasn't done anything for years.

Agree about Khan. He has been cherry picking like f..k in recent years and doing to much slabbering.

Hope he lands the Pacman fight and gets ktfo.

AdamT wrote:500,000 ppv buys. Sh1t fight.

Not a chance. Over a million for sure.

Scottrf wrote:

AdamT wrote:500,000 ppv buys. Sh1t fight.

Not a chance. Over a million for sure.

Seriously? Why do you think that?

The Pacquiao fight left a sour taste on people's mouths. I doubt many fans are going to fork out a large sum, to see Mayweather spar with a nobody. (no disrespet to Berto but he hasn't been good recently)

The Guerrero fight went over a million, or at least close depending on who you believe. Guerrero had half the chance Berto does, and Berto has a mouth. Mayweather sells a lot of the PPV by himself, and with it potentially being his last people will get involved.

People always say the 'sour taste' thing after PPVs and buy the next one.

I will be suprised if it reaches a million. There will need to be a lot of pre fight hype.

Excpect some pushing and shoving and other WWE antics.

How would you be surprised when every fight since Hatton has? That doesn't make sense to me.

You don't think this is the first Mayweather fight people have moaned about?

I think Guerrero did 850,000 buys and Maidana 1 did 900,000.

Maidana was a bigger fight than Berto, considering he just beat the overrated Broner.

Looking forward to Truss' D4-esque defence of this utter rubbish.

At least AdamT calls the BS......

TopHat24/7 wrote:

Looking forward to Truss' D4-esque defence of this utter rubbish.

At least AdamT calls the BS......

I'm a massive Floyd fan but can't defend this. Terrible fight Tophat!

Last fight factor should easily make up 100k buys.

But will people really believe it's his last fight, going out so easy.......just isn't Floyd.

Naw he will fight Pacquiao in May, then bow out.

Perhaps he will try and fight more offense against his lowly opponent.After he beats the snot out of Berto, he will proclaim that he is willing to give Manny a rematch and will stop him this time.

Manny fans will buy into the shoulder injury and Floyd fans will think, Floyd will be more aggressive because he will have Pacquiao figured out.

What will really happen, is another sparring session with little action and the fight will still do around 2.5-3 million ppvs. Floyd will want 70% of the cut and will most likely bag another 100 million plus, then retire 50-0 after both guys put us to sleep.

TopHat24/7 wrote:

Looking forward to Truss' D4-esque defence of this utter rubbish.

At least AdamT calls the BS......

352 P4Pers beaten, Brook and Khan fight rubbish. Hagler fought Himansho

Should save him some time.

Haha cheers Rowls

Rowley wrote:

TopHat24/7 wrote:

Looking forward to Truss' D4-esque defence of this utter rubbish.

At least AdamT calls the BS......

352 P4Pers beaten, Brook and Khan fight rubbish. Hagler fought Himansho

Should save him some time.

Just wait, he'll go down the D4 route of championing Berto as some sort of worldbeater and will end the post with "I fancy Berto, Berto UD".

He's probably just waiting for the inevitable sudden elevation of Berto up the Ring rankings so I can go on about p4p properly.....

... "fighters decline rapidly past 35. At 34 I could benchpress 2000 lbs, at 36 i was struggling with my third set at 1750lbs.

Berto to win. Mayweather secures his place in the top 3 atg p4p if he turns back the clock and pulls off the miracle."

Berto.... great triple jab just like Holy... not scared to fight the best... Hagler didn't fight Spinks.... and some people have Johnson at 6.

superflyweight wrote:Berto.... great triple jab just like Holy... not scared to fight the best... Hagler didn't fight Spinks.... and some people have Johnson at 6.

Also feverishly looking forwards to his "Mayweather vs Berto 10 point comparison" in which the undoubted highlight will be "Berto has the same number of characters as Judah, and we all know how much hell he gave FMJ".

this could be like rosario bramble, a fight none of you brits have seen

Even Ali fought fighters like Dunn...

Berto wins this if he comes forward though...

This fight will sell in the States. Floyd always does...

Not that I expect you Brits to understand

Alvarez, Maidana, Manny.....- Cherrypicker

Monroe Jr, Macklin, Murray - Real fighter..We should get behind him.

What's the point of trying to defend Mayweather to people this stupid..

Carry on boys..

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Carry on boys..

Is that the one where Barbara Windsor plays a promiscuous hotel receptionist?

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Alvarez, Maidana, Manny.....- Cherrypicker

Monroe Jr, Macklin, Murray - Real fighter..We should get behind him.

What's the point of trying to defend Mayweather to people this stupid..

Carry on boys..

Usual post-argument from Truss and yet fails to realise the difference in that Mayweather on PPV costs people a bomb and his record of choosing the best oppo around isn't exactly bulletproof.

Unless of course GGG is a $60 PPV fighter every time he fights and is P4P #1.

Wonder which response I'll get. I'm going for "go away" i.e. "I have no comeback".

Steffan wrote:

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Carry on boys..

Is that the one where Barbara Windsor plays a promiscuous hotel receptionist?

That's very good Steffan, genuinely.

Don't pay it... .....

Anyway not really interested in your opinion Coxy....

Rowley wrote:

Steffan wrote:

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Carry on boys..

Is that the one where Barbara Windsor plays a promiscuous hotel receptionist?

That's very good Steffan, genuinely.

I've seen five minutes of one of them movies............

I'll never get that time back...

Nice to see the buffoon roundly and rightly ridiculed. Incredibly accurately too! Well done, Sirs...


(Coxy - see you got one of your predictable replies )

Steffan, Coxy and Toppy...

I'm not wasting my time......

Ok. Don't waste your time (for once). Use it productively and try construct an actual rational objective balanced intelligent argument?

We're all ears................

There isn't really much to say on this fight

Berto will lose...by a lot of points

Rowley wrote:

TopHat24/7 wrote:

Looking forward to Truss' D4-esque defence of this utter rubbish.

At least AdamT calls the BS......

352 P4Pers beaten, Brook and Khan fight rubbish. Hagler fought Himansho

Should save him some time.

Himansho ............Hagler fought in Japan...??

Wow this thread is a bit of a hit job.....and i can't lift 2000 on the bench press

I think it's a Berto like wilder v Fury is a stinker of a fight.......But everybody is having them and when you beat the P4P number 3 you're entitled to an opponent of your choice......

Now I clicked on Rowley's comment because unlike the rest of you guys his opinion is usually worth reading !!

Usually....

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:

Rowley wrote:

TopHat24/7 wrote:

Looking forward to Truss' D4-esque defence of this utter rubbish.

At least AdamT calls the BS......

352 P4Pers beaten, Brook and Khan fight rubbish. Hagler fought Himansho

Should save him some time.

Himansho ............Hagler fought in Japan...??

Wow this thread is a bit of a hit job.....and i can't lift 2000 on the bench press

I think it's a Berto like wilder v Fury is a stinker of a fight.......But everybody is having them and when you beat the P4P number 3 you're entitled to an opponent of your choice......

Now I clicked on Rowley's comment because unlike the rest of you guys his opinion is usually worth reading !!

Usually....

wimp. That's a bicep curl for strongy

I squat planets!

My back won't let me do Squats..........

What happens when you reach 39...