Comments Thread For: Mayweather: I Had a Great Career, I'm Just Focused on Promoting

[turnedup]

I don't see him staying retired, he still has that 50 trademark, his current gaggle of fighters aren't much to write home about but with his new signings I can see him using that 50th fight to put them out there for a larger audience. Him building up a star...i'm not sure he can unless he just happens to sign someone who can either win over or turn over the crowd like he did himself. So yeah we'll get a TBE 50 event it'll be all of his fighters on the undercards and supporting fights.

[Bronx2245]

April 6, 2012:

As the old saying goes, "numbers don't lie," and in the case of the self-proclaimed, greatest boxer of all time, Floyd Mayweather has the statistical numbers of CompuBox to back up his claim.

Going off the numbers—which CompuBox president Bob Cannobbio calculated by fighter's bouts in their prime—they clearly show that Mayweather is on another level, as far as his number of punches landed compared to punches landed on him.

Money May leads both of the main categories that CompuBox calculates by averaging a 46 percent connect rate, as opposed to an astonishing 16 percent punched landed by his opponents on the 42-0 pound-for-pound great.

Mayweather's overall plus/minus number is plus-30 percent—subtracting the amount a fighter is hit from the amount a fighter lands punches—far ahead of any other top fighter, regardless of weight class.

Comparing Mayweather to other top fighters shows that Mayweather is the most efficient fighter that we have ever seen.

The closest opponent of the current crop of top boxers is current super middleweight champ Andre Ward in second with a plus-15 plus/minus ratio, just half that of Money May...

All this statistical evidence, along with Mayweather's unblemished record of 42-0 clearly shows that he is indeed the greatest fighter of the modern era and may also be the greatest of all time.

Compubox numbers show that legendary fighters of the past don't stand up to Mayweather with their statistical averages as well, as CompuBox calculated their scores by going back and watching tape of them in their primes.

Joe Louis is the closest with a plus-26 percent average, followed by Marvin Hagler with a plus-17 percent and Sugar Ray Leonard with a plus-13 percent. Roberto Duran with a plus-eight percent, Thomas Hearns with a plus-six percent and Muhammad Ali with a plus-four percent don't match up with Mayweather numbers-wise either.

The one fighter who many consider to be the best ever, Sugar Ray Robinson, didn't have any film of fights in his prime so he did not receive a number.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...pubox-at-least

[Bronx2245]

Mayweather measures up with greats
May 3, 2012:

So how does Pacquiao compare? The numbers are undeniably impressive. His 21.8 punches connected per round is greater than Mayweather's. But with Pacquiao, the numbers also illuminate his most glaring weakness, one he shares with countless other warriors of the ring:
He gets hit a lot.

Measured against Mayweather's plus-30 rating at 147 pounds, Pacquiao's plus/minus is puny (plus-4.7). Manny throws his jab twice as often as Mayweather, but he connects with that punch only 12.3 percent of the time, compared with Mayweather's 41.6 percent jab connect rate.

More telling is the comparison of power punching. Pacquiao's connect rate on power punches is an astronomical 45.3 percent, only slightly below that of Mayweather, who lands at 47.8 percent. But opponents land 33.6 percent of their punches on PacMan. Pretty Boy's foes? They touch him up at roughly half that rate (18.6 percent).

Perhaps this explains why Juan Manuel Marquez had so much success against Pacquiao, while Mayweather recorded a one-sided rout against JMM. Most likely, it was only Pacquiao's industry and granite chin that saved the day in his three wars with Marquez.


http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...-boxing-greats

[al-Xander]

This guy's promise of hiring Schaefer didn't materialize. He's a joke of a promoter.

For months he used the Swiss banker to insult Hoya, "Richard Schaefer built GBP from the ground up." Multiple interviews about it were headlined by Ben Thompson at floydhype.com and what do we have? Nothing. Mayweather is a cheapskate and afraid to use his money to give Schaefer a try. You can't keep on saying Schaefer built GBP, then chicken out of hiring him.

Remember when floydhype fanboys had so many predictions when Mayweather, Haymon, Schaefer jumped ship to Showtime? HBO will soon become irrelevant doe. TMT will take over the promotion business with Schaefer in it doe. PBC is the future doe.

Boxing is dying.

[b00g13man]

You know a guy is important when people repeatedly take time out of their lives to try to convince you that he's not.

Basically....

[Manic Shot]

Yawn....blah blah bla! stay retired and leave the boxingscene alone!