Is Mayweather Punch Drunk Or Just Really Dumb?

[Roy Jones Jnr]

He is just uneducated but ****** rich so does it really matter?
Plus I doubt you can get punch drunk on a few shots to the head

''Few shots to the head''

Box for 30+ years and this guy reckons he only took a few shots to the head.

[AllBoxingAD]

I notice alot of supposedly boxing fans dont know that fighters take damage from sparring.

That said, Floyd obviously struggles whenever he is in social settings. I dont know what condition he suffers from but there is something there.

The combination of the two will give you what we just saw.

[The Big Dunn]

Floyd has been fighting men since he was 15 and dropped out of high school the next year. He isn't well spoken or intellectual. He tries to make a point and can't find the words. Is what it is.

[Mushashi]

As others have mentioned, he has that whole slowed speech thing going on as the interviewer and audience hang on to every lingering word. Careful to put his words out there like when he used to pot shot and get out of range.

He's not far gone like Floyd Sr as some have suggested, at times he lacks the vocabulary to express himself fully but that's understandable considering he dropped out of high school to fight for a living.

He speaks candidly and seems at ease with himself here, and not the punch drunk, calculated politician he presents himself as

[Kigali]

Big Mayweather here, and have to give it to him business wise and his business brains, having said that he just isn't articulate enough when you hear him. I know he didn't go didn't get further in terms of education and he has done great for himself but Muhammad Ali wasn't highly educated but he definitely can handle himself,[B] Mayweather needs media training IMO[/B].

True...Ali was a natural..plus he had Drew Bondini Brown to copy off of.

[b Murphington]

He was never that smart to begin with. He likes to try to pass himself off as smarter than he truly is. Even in the interviews last night on showtime, he had to gather his thoughts for a solid 5 seconds to answer one question.

But its not clear if he suffers from brain damage or not. Not everyone who boxes gets it. I heard it's anywhere from 15% to 20% of boxers suffer from brain damage. I'm sure how long one does it has a factor. We'll know for sure in the next few years.

What we do know, is that Victor Ortiz had brain damage the very second he put on boxing gloves for the first time.

[dranoel]

I think Mayweather Jr. is autistic. Slightly, as it is even expressed in his boxing. He's detailed and perfect with his craft.
Whereas a normal boxer, I presume, isn't thinking about himself as much as Mayweather did to get things running.

There's nothing wrong with the inability to communicate well; I for one can't keep a conversation rolling, unless it is typed.
I'm too vague and blunt, while severely lacking the empathy required to address situations on the spot. Hell, I start my conversations with half-completed sentences assuming that the other person generally knows what I'm saying based on the historical theme of what has been spoken. I read extensively, so it isn't vocabulary that necessarily keeps from speaking.

But flash some quotes on my screen, and I swear to god, I'll make money.

The chief dealer at the bank doesn't care if I don't speak.
So long as the money rolls in, and shareholder value keeps peaking, I'm good.

But I don't know, it may be something you can master. But I don't care much about it. Money seems to talk a whole lot of different languages. It even makes people's eyes open more than anything I could say intellectually.

You can always form a contingency plan for speaking.

[Luilun]

I stay clear of mayweather interviews in general, mainly due to him being a cringe-worthy idiot, so haven't heard him in a couple of year's, but i definitely noticed this last night, he was really struggling to string a sentence together, took him like 10 seconds to prepare a 10 word sentence in his brain...

He spoke much better before them Madaina bouts I think them sledge hammer fist scrambled his brains. He took more punches to the head from Madaina than his last 10 bouts prior to that

[FinitoxDinamita]

Actually, i do think long years of boxing, head trauma affected him a bit.

I watched some old interviews from the late 90s-early 2000s and he sounds alot better.

[bambam182]

pac-tards think that pac did this to mayweather when he landed his 0ne million punches that they claim he landed.