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Today's records are carefully crafted. In the future they can be crafted even more carefully.
In yesteryear boxing fans were not at all concerned with record breaking. They wanted face breaking, so that is what they got. Today's puny fan is impressed by every record mentioned, even if the category is a new made up one.
Mayweather saw a loudmouth who cannot box begging him to break a record and earn a couple of hundred million dollars. Even Marciano might have been tempted out of retirement to face an opponent who had never fought in a pair of shoes before.
Mayweather's ledger is heavily crafted. That is one reason I have never respected him as an ATG. He has millions of fans who mainly adore his punkism because they are brainless punks themselves. They do not follow boxing, except for record breaking fights, and believe they have seen it all in their idol.
What I saw in their idol was him facing the scrub likes of Baldomir for a trinket at the neglect of men with far more scary reputations. If you really want to be that statue outside the hall of fame, then you take on scary opponents when they are still considered scary. You do not wait seven years for Pacquiao to fade before you consent to fight him, if you want to be that statue. This same delaying tactic is plainly evident in many of his so called biggest wins.
The only Hall of Fame he will be the outside statue for is one he decides to build with his own money. He had the necessary tools. That does not matter. You also have to proceed down the line like TBE if you want to be thought of as that by aficionados.
Because it was another dead encounter, people will soon forget it and stop talking about it. It is no impediment at all to interest in GGG/Canelo, as it turns out.
As for McGregor, he shot off his lips and could not back it up. Even in winning the first three rounds (which he obviously did, despite the scores of judges intent on protecting boxing from an invader), MGregor was unimpressive and a fraud, in my opinion, who should now be hounded out if Ireland.
In yesteryear boxing fans were not at all concerned with record breaking. They wanted face breaking, so that is what they got. Today's puny fan is impressed by every record mentioned, even if the category is a new made up one.
Mayweather saw a loudmouth who cannot box begging him to break a record and earn a couple of hundred million dollars. Even Marciano might have been tempted out of retirement to face an opponent who had never fought in a pair of shoes before.
Mayweather's ledger is heavily crafted. That is one reason I have never respected him as an ATG. He has millions of fans who mainly adore his punkism because they are brainless punks themselves. They do not follow boxing, except for record breaking fights, and believe they have seen it all in their idol.
What I saw in their idol was him facing the scrub likes of Baldomir for a trinket at the neglect of men with far more scary reputations. If you really want to be that statue outside the hall of fame, then you take on scary opponents when they are still considered scary. You do not wait seven years for Pacquiao to fade before you consent to fight him, if you want to be that statue. This same delaying tactic is plainly evident in many of his so called biggest wins.
The only Hall of Fame he will be the outside statue for is one he decides to build with his own money. He had the necessary tools. That does not matter. You also have to proceed down the line like TBE if you want to be thought of as that by aficionados.
Because it was another dead encounter, people will soon forget it and stop talking about it. It is no impediment at all to interest in GGG/Canelo, as it turns out.
As for McGregor, he shot off his lips and could not back it up. Even in winning the first three rounds (which he obviously did, despite the scores of judges intent on protecting boxing from an invader), MGregor was unimpressive and a fraud, in my opinion, who should now be hounded out if Ireland.
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