So after May 2 and seeing the recent string of possible opposition for
Mayweather to fight on the PBC Series, is there a big fight left for him?
Amir Khan, Keith Thurman, Danny Garcia, and Shawn Porter had their auditions, and so far no one stood out the most.
So are there big fights left for Mayweather. Nazim Richardson spoke to On The Ropes Boxing and feels there are.
“That’s a very good question,” Richardson said. “Yes there are very big fights — every Mayweather fight is a big fight because he’s so big. Now, are there any super fights to be able to be made? That’s what is interesting now. I don’t know if there’s a super fight there. Amir Khan has all of England backing him, so you can make that a super fight but Amir Khan can do that with Kell Brook.”
But every Mayweather fight is big, according to the trainer.
“Mayweather is in a position where every fight is big because he’s so big now,” stated Richardson. “He’s in a position where anybody that wants to fight him has to earn the position. Guys like Porter and Thurman, are these guys big enough names to say they deserve a Mayweather fight? It’s not whether or not they want to fight Mayweather, shit, you want to fight Mayweather, I want to fight Mayweather for what they’re paying. I’ll come down to 154lbs, I would lose that 100lbs.”
But the only super fight according to Richardson is Gennady Golovkin for Mayweather.
“Golovkin is beyond a super fight. Golovkin would be bigger than Pacquiao, but to me it doesn’t make sense to embark on that kind of challenge just for the challenge. We can’t rely on one dude to give us everything we need to see in boxing. Between Bernard Hopkins and Floyd, the only thing we missed was ‘fanman’, that’s the only thing we haven’t had yet. We can’t get it all out of one fighter.”
