Let's be honest...Mayweather was boring

[fanofslug]

I get that he was an extremely talented pugilist with stellar defensive skills, but can we at least be honest with ourselves. He was boring to watch. I know even his most rabid fans deep down find him boring, but won't admit this. Can we please drop all the pretence and just admit it: he's one of the most talented fighters of all time, but he was also one of the most boring. His 49-0 is an achievement, I admit, but out of the 49 fights there are probably only a few I find interesting, and that's being very generous.

[Aristocrat]

LOL @ people who say he's exciting to watch

[Larry the boss]

Yet you make a random thread to talk about him

[-PBP-]

Sorry, boxing is exciting to me.

[Larry the boss]

He was exciting to me, i enjoy watching him make fighters miss and his accurate counter shots..And obviously a lot of other people around the world did aswell

[Larry the boss]

Sorry, boxing is exciting to me.

Exactly,the man made you miss and made you pay, that is the definition of boxing

[The Big Dunn]

I get that he was an extremely talented pugilist with stellar defensive skills, but can we at least be honest with ourselves. He was boring to watch. I know even his most rabid fans deep down find him boring, but won't admit this. Can we please drop all the pretence and just admit it: he's one of the most talented fighters of all time, but he was also one of the most boring. His 49-0 is an achievement, I admit, but out of the 49 fights there are probably only a few I find interesting, and that's being very generous.

Yet you made a thread about him. Very wierd.

I enjoyed every Floyd fight I watched. If you didn't, cool.

[Caught Square]

He was never in a Gatti-Ward slugfest but there only a handful of his fights that were boring imo... Berto, Baldomir, Carlos Hernandez 2nd half.

[A-Wolf]

Surely. The main things that made Floyd boring were his use of distance control and his general non-willingness to fight in transition.

Lead, reset. Counter, reset. Jump halfway across the ring in response to a jab, reset. For 36 minutes. **** was like NyQuil.

[BKM-]

He was exciting because you saw an ATG in action and there was always the possibility of him losing his precious 0.