Floyd Mayweather jokingly offered to step into the heavyweight division to face one of the Ukrainian world champion brothers Klitschko after his last victory over Victor Ortiz.
World Boxing News looks back on the days when Floyd Mayweather was so frustrated with the competition that the welterweight wanted to fight in the heavyweight division. After defeating Victor Ortiz in 2011, Mayweather sat on the microphone to challenge the all-conquering Klitschko brothers.
Vitali and Vladimir were then the leaders of the upper division. Even if they were far from taking the world by storm, Mayweather had the audacity to call him when the whole world wanted a great fight with Manny Pacquiao.
The
34-year-old dominated the WBC welterweight world champion in four innings. In
the end, the undefeated fighter won the title at Ortiz after a controversial
knockout. Mayweather
claimed an eighth world crown, surpassing Manny Pacquiao’s seven.
‘Money’ man has now admitted his frustrated for not being challenged by other fighters in the welterweight division.
He said, tongue-in-cheek, that he may blow up to heavyweight to challenge WBA, WBO and IBF champion Wladimir or WBC belt holder Vitali. “I’m tired of beating up these guys. I’m thinking of moving up to the heavyweights and fighting the Klitschko brothers. Who has one major challenge left at 147lbs that the whole boxing world hopes will happen in 2012.
A fight between the cheeky American and the Filipino ballad-singer Pacquiao, 32 would be the fight with the highest incomes of all time. It would ultimately decide pound for pound best fighters of this generation, since most of the lists do not match who is number one. With 140-pound champion Amir Khan in 2012, Mayweather is believed to have another option. In addition, each of these fights would receive warm greetings from the fight fans. The two
Both would assure the 147lb champion
of another huge payday.
