Comments Thread For: Farhood: Mayweather Struggles With Spence, Crawford, Thurman

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Showtime Boxing's broadcast analyst, Steve Farhood, believes at this point former five division world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. would struggle against the very best fighters in the welterweight division. Mayweather, 40 years old, snapped a two-year retirement back in August - to fight UFC superstar Conor McGregor, who was making his pro debut. McGregor did well in the first three to four rounds, but he was broken down and stopped in the tenth round.
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[FeFist]

He would lose. 40 years old and has pretty much been in retirement. In his prime Pence would give him a rough fight and Crawford would put up a respectable performance.

[Outwest Exp 355]

I think Spence gives Floyd the most trouble because he’s a skilled pressure fighter that can box. And over time he would wear Floyd down. However Thurman and Crawford could be lulled into a technical fight and Floyd is a superior technical fighter, even at the age of 40. I’m not saying he’d definitely win but I think it would be extremely competitive.

[trouser python]

As he touches on at the end, the McGregor fight is not a good gauge at all to be judging how much he has left but in saying that Crawford and Spence would both be really tough fights for him at age 40.

With the McGregor 'training camp' under his belt now though if he fought very soon I still think he beats guys like DSG, Thurman, Brook, etc.. And also think he beats all the current crop of welters in his prime.

They recently posted a thing on the Mayweather Boxing Channel on Youtube with Jeff interviewing the gym and pretty much everyone was just like leave the guy alone you only want him to come back to lose.

When you look at his dominance over such a long period of time, it's pretty special. He had an amazing career.

[CoachMac34]

Is Mayweather not retired?! When the man fought people complained that he was old, boring, and needed to retire. Now that he's gone, they can't stop talking about him taking on current fighters! Please, let's talk Spence vs Thurman, Crawford vs Horn, Garcia vs anyone dangerous for a change...lol. What if Erickson Lubin came down to 147? No more Money May talk, let him enjoy retirement, heck 50-0 and a all-time great!

[trouser python]

Is Mayweather not retired?! When the man fought people complained that he was old, boring, and needed to retire. Now that he's gone, they can't stop talking about him taking on current fighters! Please, let's talk Spence vs Thurman, Crawford vs Horn, Garcia vs anyone dangerous for a change...lol. What if Erickson Lubin came down to 147? No more Money May talk, let him enjoy retirement, heck 50-0 and a all-time great!

Someone on here the other day said they heard whispers he is back in training and I saw the thing on the Mayweather Boxing Channel but as far as I know he is retired. He said in the ring after the McGregor fight "Yes, this is my last fight Ladies and Gentlemen" and the tone of his voice and him saying in the lead up to the fight that his body can't handle training camp anymore, I tend to believe him this time. Surely he is set for life financially.

[jas]

Currently gets dominated vs all of them

Beats all of them in his prime

[cameltoe]

Steve Farhood stating the bleeding obvious.

Of course he took the biggest fight available that would generate him the most money.

Of course he only took it because it represented absolutely zero risk. If it had been that kind of money but against a solid boxer he’d have actually had to get motivated for and train hard for, (i.e Pacquiao rematch) he may not have taken it. Too much like hard work.

This was a fight he could take and basically still keep one foot in retirement the whole time.

Of course those guys give Floyd a tough fight. The man is 40.

I don’t see any of them troubling Floyd in his prime though.

[IronDanHamza]

He's heading toward 41 years old and is way past his prime so you'd hope that he'd struggle with today's best fighters.

[skinnystev]

somebody needs to tell creep farhood floyd mayweather is retired f8ckin d8p****