Floyd Mayweather Jr comes clean and confesses

Floyd Mayweather Jr comes clean and confesses

By Johnny Benz (Aug 15, 2007) Doghouse Boxing

Floyd Mayweather Jr has come clean and has confessed why he is no longer retired from Boxing and what it was that changed his mind. Leading up to his fight and even after his fight with Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather Jr. had made it clear in the media that he was set to retire after the De La Hoya fight. Luckily for fans of the sport, Mayweather Jr has since decided to continue with Boxing and plans to take his fists to Ricky Hatton's face on December 8th of this year.

Recently Kevin Iole of Yahoo.com got his readers to post questions to Mayweather Jr. Iole has been doing great justice lately to the sport of Boxing with his columns featured on Yahoo.com. It's hard to keep boxing down when you got significant talent like Iole delivering us the goods via Yahoo.com.

One of Iole's readers asked Mayweather Jr: "I heard after the De La Hoya fight that you were planning to retire since you were undefeated and ranked top in the boxing world. What changed your mind? And did you honestly believe that you won the De La Hoya fight since even your dad said he believed that the decision was wrong? By the way, everything you said on the HBO special didn't happen. You were caught saying that you were going to put Oscar on "ice," if I recall.

WHAT HAPPENED?

Was he a better fighter than you after all? You ran the entire fight." - Wendy Cabral

Floyd Mayweather Jr responded to the tough questions, stating: "I changed my mind because of my fans. I went on a

nationwide tour after the Oscar fight to speak with kids in number of cities. Everywhere I went, my fans urged me not to retire."

Mayweather added: "Then, Hatton went on HBO and disrespected me so now its on for Dec. 8. I clearly won the Oscar fight. If you ask my dad that question today, you will get a different answer from him having watched the fight on replay. Oscar is an excellent fighter but he will never be able to beat me."

Kevin Iole after seeing Floyd Junior's answer to the question above, called Floyd Senior for his response. Floyd Sr told Iole: "I never thought Oscar beat Little Floyd anyway. Little Floyd definitely won the fight.")