As Floyd Mayweather, the world's top boxer, prepares to take on The Big Show at WrestleMania, there are increasing questions about whether it's worth the risk of injury -- after all, just because professional wrestling is scripted doesn't mean a wrestler can't get hurt. In this video (via DC Scrap), Evander Holyfield and Roy Jones ponder the possibilities:
Holyfield said, "I wouldn't take that risk," although the way Holyfield was talking, I got the sense that he was saying he wouldn't take the risk of an actual fight with Big Show, not a scripted pro wrestling match.
For the record, Mayweather weighed in at 159 pounds and Big Show, who bills himself as "the largest athlete in the world," weighed in at 441. Although WWE has been known to bill its wrestlers as being larger than they actually are, I can believe that Big Show really does weigh 441.
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Evander Holyfield on Floyd Mayweather in WWE: 'I Wouldn't Take That Risk'
Posted Mar 19th 2008 7:58PM by Michael David Smith
Filed under: Boxing, Pro Wrestling, MMA/Boxing
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1. Floyd Mayweather Junior has just joined Mike Tyson, Dennis Rodman and Muhammad Ali in joining the pro wrestling circus. Have fun Floyd enjoy the media making fun of you.
Posted at 12:12AM on Mar 20th 2008 by George B Vieto
2. Like boxing is any less of a circus?
Posted at 2:25AM on Mar 21st 2008 by WJS