Mayweather on a fight with Golovkin: ‘That’s easy work’

Floyd Mayweather believes he’d beat Gennady Golovkin, but as is usually the case with Floyd, a number of conditions would need to be met before the fight ever happened.

Floyd Mayweather is apparently retired. After his win over Manny Pacquiao in May, he had one more fight on his deal with Showtime. Instead of taking on another big-time opponent, he took a gimme fight with Andre Berto, relinquished his titles (not without some drama, of course), and said he was done with boxing.

You know, until he decides to come back.

The 39-year-old made some waves recently when he made some statements about 160-pound king Gennady Golovkin. In a recent interview,  Mayweather called a fight with Triple G “easy work”:

“I can barely make 147, so how am I gonna fight at 160? Triple G, not being disrespectful, but he’s straight up and down, no special effects. That’s easy work.”

Boxing  trainer Abel Sanchez also recently stated that Mayweather is angling for a comeback:

“[Mayweather] is saying things about a comeback, he just seems to be fixated on Golovkin. I’ve seen three or four pieces in the last couple of weeks where he’s talking about beating Golovkin. It looks like he’s laying the ground work for something, whether it’s Golovkin or somebody else. Floyd’s laying the ground works for a comeback.”

But this is Floyd, after all, so nothing is ever going to be straightforward or easy. He wants Triple G to go up in weight before he apparently comes down to fight him:

“When you hear stuff about Triple G, like I said before, I told Triple G what he had to do if he wants a fight with me. He’s gotta call out Andre Ward, beat Andre Ward, and then I’ll fight him. I haven’t seen him call out Andre Ward yet.”

The problem with that is that Andre Ward is now fighting in the 175-pound division, two divisions above Golovkin. Ward, who takes on Sullivan Berrera tonight on HBO, is on track for a fight with Sergey Kovalev, so it’s highly unlikely Golovkin would fight him. Golovkin’s main goal right now is a fight with Saul “Canelo” Alvarez later this year anyway.

So essentially Floyd wants him to go up two divisions, win, then likely drop a division or two to fight him. Yeah, sure.

What’s even stranger is that Mayweather did speak about a potential opponent for his comeback, but it’s not Triple G or any huge-money name. It’s Danny Garcia?

“If I did think about coming back, there’s only one name I’m looking at and that’s Danny Garcia. I have to say Danny Garcia because you look at Danny Garcia, he’s undefeated and he’s a world champion. If I’m going to fight a guy, it’s going to be a world champion.”

Garcia (32-0, 18 KO) is the WBC 147-pound champ and a formidable fighter, but he’s not exactly a draw.  He also conveniently holds a belt that Mayweather dropped when he stepped away from the ring, with Garcia winning the vacant title by defeating Robert Guerrero in January.

Almost everything Mayweather does is puzzling, so none of this is all that surprising. We’ll have to see how it all plays out.

Floyd Mayweather believes he’d beat Gennady Golovkin, but as is usually the case with Floyd, a number of conditions would need to be met before the fight ever happened.

Floyd Mayweather is apparently retired. After his win over Manny Pacquiao in May, he had one more fight on his deal with Showtime. Instead of taking on another big-time opponent, he took a gimme fight with Andre Berto, relinquished his titles (not without some drama, of course), and said he was done with boxing.

You know, until he decides to come back.

The 39-year-old made some waves recently when he made some statements about 160-pound king Gennady Golovkin. In a recent interview,  Mayweather called a fight with Triple G “easy work”:

“I can barely make 147, so how am I gonna fight at 160? Triple G, not being disrespectful, but he’s straight up and down, no special effects. That’s easy work.”

Boxing  trainer Abel Sanchez also recently stated that Mayweather is angling for a comeback:

“[Mayweather] is saying things about a comeback, he just seems to be fixated on Golovkin. I’ve seen three or four pieces in the last couple of weeks where he’s talking about beating Golovkin. It looks like he’s laying the ground work for something, whether it’s Golovkin or somebody else. Floyd’s laying the ground works for a comeback.”

But this is Floyd, after all, so nothing is ever going to be straightforward or easy. He wants Triple G to go up in weight before he apparently comes down to fight him:

“When you hear stuff about Triple G, like I said before, I told Triple G what he had to do if he wants a fight with me. He’s gotta call out Andre Ward, beat Andre Ward, and then I’ll fight him. I haven’t seen him call out Andre Ward yet.”

The problem with that is that Andre Ward is now fighting in the 175-pound division, two divisions above Golovkin. Ward, who takes on Sullivan Berrera tonight on HBO, is on track for a fight with Sergey Kovalev, so it’s highly unlikely Golovkin would fight him. Golovkin’s main goal right now is a fight with Saul “Canelo” Alvarez later this year anyway.

So essentially Floyd wants him to go up two divisions, win, then likely drop a division or two to fight him. Yeah, sure.

What’s even stranger is that Mayweather did speak about a potential opponent for his comeback, but it’s not Triple G or any huge-money name. It’s Danny Garcia?

“If I did think about coming back, there’s only one name I’m looking at and that’s Danny Garcia. I have to say Danny Garcia because you look at Danny Garcia, he’s undefeated and he’s a world champion. If I’m going to fight a guy, it’s going to be a world champion.”

Garcia (32-0, 18 KO) is the WBC 147-pound champ and a formidable fighter, but he’s not exactly a draw.  He also conveniently holds a belt that Mayweather dropped when he stepped away from the ring, with Garcia winning the vacant title by defeating Robert Guerrero in January.

Almost everything Mayweather does is puzzling, so none of this is all that surprising. We’ll have to see how it all plays out.