When fighters are facing me they re facing the best Floyd Mayweather Jr. once said. When I m facing them I m just facing fighters.
A boxer proclaims his sheer amazing ness to all. There s nothing new about this. But Mayweather well this guy actually has the numbers to prove it 46 o. When Mayweather claimed he is better than Muhammad Ali Mike Tyson said Mayweather was delusional. But for the record Ali lost five matches. And losing is something Mayweather has yet to experience.
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So as boxing fans and those who endure them prepare for Saturday s match between Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao (record 57 5 2) it bears asking Why is this man undefeated
1. First things first Mayweather s undefeated as a pro but he s been beaten.
Annoying guys across America will surely be pointing out this factoid to disinterested friends at Mayweather vs. Pacquaio parties on Saturday. And it s true American Augie Sanchez and Bulgarian Serafim Todorov beat Mayweather at the Olympics in 1996.
I feel like a winner and I m proud because Floyd is unbeaten at the moment and I m really proud that only I was able to beat him said Todorov who was declared winner of the match in a controversial decision and now survives on $500 per month in welfare as CNN reported. The whole world knows about me now. I feared they might have forgotten.
2. Boxing is in his blood.
Mayweather s father Floyd Mayweather Sr. wasn t necessarily a great role model. His career was undone when he was shot he s done time in prison he s been estranged from his son in the past.
But hey He was a boxer who went 28 6 1.
He s the trainer who helped teach his son defense and has stressed it for every fight he s been involved in the Asssociated Press wrote. And he ll be in the corner next week at the MGM Grand arena confident as ever in the abilities of a fighter who was throwing punches before he learned to walk.
If this wasn t enough Mayweather s uncle and former trainer Roger Mayweather was a champion.
My thing is as long as we re telling him the right things his daddy knows what he needs to do and I know what he needs to do Mayweater said last year before a fight.
3. He chooses opponents wisely.
Boxing isn t like football or baseball or basketball or hockey or really any other sport. Because boxers choose their opponents the best doesn t become the best by necessarily beating the best.
This is a business Mayweather said. It s not about working harder it s about working smarter. Before defending his record of selecting strong opponents he added It s about taking less punishment than you can possibly take for the highest reward.
As boxing s highest paid fighter he should know but Mayweather has come under fire in the past for selecting allegedly weak contenders.
He s a master manipulator the likes of which boxing hasn t seen since Muhammad Ali Grantland wrote in 2013 before Mayweather fought Robert the Ghost Guerrero. And with the official announcement on Tuesday of his next fight Mayweather has done it again. He s whipped the boxing world into a frenzy despite choosing the modest profile opponent we assumed all along he was going to choose.
And there was that time Mayweather asked his fans to choose his next combatant. They did and Mayweather promptly chose another dude.
If there is a primary knock on Mayweather it is the sense his critics have that he handpicks his opponents which frankly he does the Ring wrote last year. Then again what great fighter who rose to his station didn t
But like everything in boxing there is room for disagreement.
The fact is no fighter can get lucky 46 times in a row no matter who he or she is fighting Breaking Muscle wrote. While Floyd is deliberate about who and when he fights he also hasn t fought many chumps. For a professional boxer it takes mental fortitude skill and a mixture of timing and luck to excel in the ring. To win 46 fights in a row and suffer no defeats as a professional you have to be great.
4. He s boring.
Mayweather who once partied with Suge Knight and has repeatedly been convicted of battery seems a loose cannon. But in the ring he sticks to the script.
While Floyd wins he does so in an almost boring fashion Breaking Muscle wrote. He doesn t usually brawl as crowds want to see with big punches and fighters standing toe to toe in a slugfest. Floyd fights the way Floyd fights and doesn t let others dictate his style.
5. Oh right He s really fast throws a lot of punches and has an incredible defense.
Sometimes a champ is just a champ.
He s a fighter that if with three punches he wins the round from you he s fine with that Canelo Alvarez who lost to Mayweather in 2013 told FightHype.com. He doesn t expose anything and give a beautiful fight. He doesn t care in what way he wins as long as he wins.
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