Floyd Mayweather Fights Weren't Fixed: Leo Reyes Should Be Ashamed

I recently was googling Floyd Mayweather's name for news, as I usually do to see if there is any news.

What I found was a disgusting article by Leo Reyes, a columnist for this web page and it was about how he thought Shane Mosley and Juan Manuel Marquez fixed their fights with Floyd Mayweather.

Crazy, right? Let me explain why.

Well, in his article he makes it clear he feels Mayweather-Mosley was fixed and his reasons for believing this go something like this.

Shane Mosley is a partner in Golden Boy, so clearly Oscar de la Hoya and Shane got together and agreed Shane would lose and take a $8 million payday instead of beating Floyd and becoming the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world again.

Make no mistakes: if Shane would have KO'd Floyd Mayweather and became the only fighter to beat him, he would have been the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world coming off a KO over Antonio Margarito and then knocking out Mayweather would have made that happen.

Also, Shane would have been awarded a fight with Manny Pacquiao and made far more than $8 million. After beating Floyd, he would be in the highest demand to fight Manny, so Golden Boy and HBO would have to at least pay him $25 million, so clearly it makes more sense to lose and take $8 million right?

Reason No. 2: Shane clearly hurt Floyd and didn't finish him. Well this is my favorite one because his explanation is Shane saw that he hurt Floyd got scared because he wasn't supposed to do that.

Seems valid. Oh wait, I forgot. After Shane hurt Floyd the first time, he hurt him even worse, buckling his knees a few seconds later. Why would he continue to throw brutal shots if he was being paid to lose?

Let me explain to you why Shane lost: because he, like every other Mayweather opponent, saw how much clean accurate counter punches hurt.

Shane got tired in the 6th round of the fight because he was already training to fight Andre Berto for three months and then you add on three more months for Floyd, and you find your explanation right there.

It's not because he was paid to lose or because he was too old. If you watch that fight, you will hear Larry Merchant say about Shane, "When you're used to being to fastest guy in the ring and you come in against someone faster, it changes everything.''

That is exactly what happened that night.

He also feels that Juan Manuel Marquez was paid to lose to Floyd in their fight in September 2009. Well, lets hear his reasons.

Again, Oscar de la Hoya promoted Juan Manuel Marquez, so if he and Floyd wanted to fix a fight, this one would again be easy, right?

He talked about the fact that again, Oscar knew Mayweather-Pacquaio would be the biggest fight in boxing. And how they knew if Floyd made Marquez look bad, they could get the upper hand in the fight.

However, they fail to realize Manny fought Marquez twice before and the two fights combined had Manny winning by just one point.

Again, the fact that Marquez was the No. 2 pound-for-pound champ at the time and a win over Mayweather would make a rubbermatch more lucrative than the Mayweather bout.

Because everybody knows what happens when you get these two in the ring, it's like Gatti vs Ward on speed. Not to mention, Marquez would be the only man to have ever beaten Mayweather.

So again let me tell you why Floyd won his fight with Juan Manuel Marquez. Floyd was not only bigger and stronger. but he was far faster. He had better reflexes and far better timing.

Not to mention, Juan himself was a counter puncher, so Floyd knew he didn't fight great coming forward, but also he he wouldn't have a choice.

This man, Leo Reyes has no base of fact in calling these allegations yet he does two times in two different articles.

Do you want to know why? Because he is not really a boxing fan so he finds it hard to believe that somebody can be so skilled that he could dominate two of the best fighters in the world with no problem.

Well Leo, he's been doing it for 14 years and 41 fights; now get over it.