After a weak episode three, which may have actually hurt the fight, episode four needs to bring it home, like only Floyd Mayweather can.

Floyd rents out Circus Circus for his family and friends.

When Victor trains and is able to throw hard shots, he looks like a killer. He doesn’t have to get out of the way of punches in training though.

Floyd is shown on Conan O’Brien. Floyd says he came in on a 40 minute jet ride and after the show, will go back on his jet and back to Las Vegas for training. Miss Jackie is interviewed about watching Mayweather and she shows a little bit of doubt in sort of an anything can happen kind of way. Chili would’ve never been afraid for Floyd.

It’s noticeable that Danny Garcia wants Ortiz to use his jab more. It’s the only way Ortiz will be able to offset Floyd’s rhythm. But Floyd took De La Hoya’s jab about and Oscar’s jab was much better than Victor’s.

There was a Larry Johnson sighting in Floyd’s gym!

Mayweather shows such respect for his uncle. It’s like the opposite of the respect he shows for his father. He says that Uncle Roger may be a little older and sick, but he still knows that boxing.

Ortiz isn’t a great trash talker and some of his confidence seems false. But he has to be confident. He can’t go into this fight without it.

Episode four was a solid way to end the series. I still don’t believe Ortiz is as confident as he acts. He needs to dig hard early on to break Floyd’s will.

Floyd’s mad that Victor Ortiz’s story is getting so much attention. He’s also upset that Ortiz idolizes De La Hoya because of all of De La Hoya’s problems.

Roger says Floyd is more than ready while Floyd sips on his Mountain Dew soda and hits the speed bag one-handed.

Ortiz shows up at a local block party on his time away from training. He’s also a celebrity ambassador for Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Ortiz’s favorite basketball team is the Boston Celtics. Um, how?

Both guys host public workouts with the media. It’s the most media that’s ever covered Ortiz. Floyd says he wishes his dad well. He also doesn’t like hearing about Ortiz’s story and says he had a tough childhood too.

Floyd trades his Bentley for another white Rolls Royce. Ray J (Brandy’s brother) comes over to play the piano and sing for Floyd.

Danny Garcia and his two sons watch video of Floyd’s fight against Ricky Hatton and they think he’s a dirty fighter and that his best shot is an elbow, while Victor’s best shot is everything.

Steve Forbes is brought in to spar with Victor to be a Mayweather mimic. He was De La Hoya’s last win, basically to be the same thing before his fight with Mayweather.

Mayweather has a Skype session with soldiers in Afghanistan. He gives them a tour of his mansion, losing connection a few times.

Victor took a day off from training even though the coaches didn’t want him to. They decide to go fishing. Ortiz has built up quite the disdain for Mayweather in these last two episodes.

This was the worst episode of the three as nothing really happened. One thing I really noticed was that Ortiz’s hand speed is crazy fast, but it might simply be him putting on the after burners for the cameras. His shot is using those fast hands to hit Mayweather with something solid. Otherwise, he might be tied up in knots.

50 Cent of all people is telling Floyd how to deal with his father and that he just wants to be part of his success. But then Floyd turns it into a joke about how much money he has. Well, it kind of started out that way anyway until 50 decided to make it a bit serious. Floyd says he doesn’t have to speak to his father again. You have to believe things will be better.

It just hit me, Floyd Mayweather is fighting in two weeks.

Victor says Floyd talking to him is like talking to a tree. Nothing Floyd says to him, he hasn’t ever heard before. Victor was on the Piers Morgan Show and Oscar De La Hoya joined him. Victor tells Piers that fear doesn’t exist in his dojo, I mean, in his life. I think Victor just said that when he was 9 years old, he told himself that he was going to give Floyd his first loss. That would’ve been 1996 when Floyd was in the Olympics. I wonder if I misinterpreted what he said.

Victor’s trainer Danny Garcia said that when a trainer knows what he’s doing, his fighter won’t be overworked.
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24/7 is back and none other than Floyd Mayweather is involved, so you know it’s going to be good. Let’s just hope Victor Ortiz can stay with him. Ortiz has a fantastic story.

Mayweather says no athlete works harder than him, let alone any boxer.

The Ortiz brothers work together to get Victor ready. So it’s the Team Ortiz vs. Team Mayweather too. His brother Temo says that he and Victor were inseparable. Temo says that one day, his mother asked him what would happen if she left the boys. He said she would never leave. And then she left. And then, their dad left them and they had to fend for themselves for three years before going to a foster family.

Victor went to Buck Avila to train boxing and he was very emotional about it. They showed Buck’s wife so it looks like he’s passed.

50 Cent is back with Team Money. Floyd says there’s so many people on his team that he doesn’t know everyone’s name. Roger doesn’t believe in scouting Victor Ortiz. Floyd Sr. is back too. Floyd Sr. says he’s the motivator, innovator, creator of it all since 1971. He says blood is thicker than mud.
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Another fighter training under Robert Garcia, Brandon Rios was added to the undercard of Pacquiao vs. Margarito and he was on the flight from Oxnard to Dallas. He saw a magazine with Pacquiao on the cover and called his picture the Spanish word for “bitch” and said Margarito was going to knock him out. Seeing the same magazine, Margarito tears the head photo of Pacquiao off the cover.

After getting to Dallas, Margarito wanted a sweat and ran on the treadmill. After he was done, he took off his shirt and said that there wasn’t any steroids in his body and that he was all natural.

Freddie Roach doesn’t think Margarito will touch Pacquiao.

While Margarito flew first class, Pacquiao had his own chartered 747 from So. Cal to Dallas.

They show Bob Arum talking about his son who passed away while hiking after falling from the peak of a mountain. He said that Manny dedicated this fight to John, his son. He says that the fight has helped take his mind off the loss of his son.

Manny says he won’t be fighting for long because he has a new job and he wants to serve people. Roach says that this fight could be it unless Mayweather comes to the table and he doesn’t think he will.

They show Garcia’s apology for the leaked video of Margarito and Rios making fun of Roach’s Parkinsons, which made its rounds yesterday.

They both looked great in their weigh-in photos as well. Both look to be in tremendous shape.

Thoughts

This was the weakest of the episodes as the last one usually is. I thought they should’ve gone a bit deeper into Margarito and Rios making fun of Roach, but I’m guessing they didn’t have a lot of time. Want to make Margarito an even bigger heel, show the video and talk about.