How can someone actually be a FAN of Mayweather?

[PittyPat]

I've never quite understood it, either. As a fighter, it's obvious why he has fans... but his ****-talking gets old real quick. Clearly his fans can't get enough of it, or they're just immune to it. Me, I don't have the patience to listen to him constantly - he's so repetitive.

[pbftxrs316]

floyd mayweather is a role model to kids who imitae his moveset when they fight....trust me, i've seen many, many kids imitating him....he has never said or claimed he was a role model, infact, he has claimed he wasn't a role model many times....but he is so ****ing gifted with his fighting style that kids and other fighters can't help but imitate him....oscar, shane, cotto has used floyd's moves, clottey used them onjudah, judah has even imitated floyd in training and actual fights.....i've noticed cotto using floyd's defense against margarito until he realized he wasn't good enough to make it work....shane didn't jab to the body until watching floyd do it, and be very effective with it.....pacquiao even imitated floyd in the hatton fight....they know he's the most skilled fighter of the modern era, and technically speaking, maybe the most skilled ever....that's why i respect floyd---he can contradict himself all day long in press conferences and media day interviews and **** like that...that's never impressed me....

in that ring, where it truly counts, that mother****er is the truth.....he doesn't play in that ring, and his skillset in that ring, is brilliant, which is why he is called a naturally gifted fighter, but more important than even that, he is called a brilliant fighter...merchant says virtuoso a lot when describing how he fights....that's all that should matter in this sport, period....