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First off, I am not a Mayweather fan. I am a boxing fan but the most recent dumping on Floyd is out of line; OK, we boxing fans may have dumped on him at one time or another but fine, that’s what we do. He gets paid for attention and at one time or another we all have different favorites in different bouts.
Now that this mega-event with McGregor is going to takes place there is dumping by MMA fans and casual MMA/Boxing fans alike. Maybe that’s deserving of him for taking part in this event to begin with, but come on for $100 Million, like it or not but accept it, boxing at the highest level is all about one thing. Same is true for McGregor as to why, the money, more than he would ever make or deserve otherwise but for his self-promotion and for that he gets an A+.
Why do boxing fans want to see him tore down but to build up McGregor? He’s the greatest boxer of his generation, as was the “GOAT, Sugar Ray Robinson”, one and probably only one of the few things that 50%+ boxing fans can agree on is that Ray is the GOAT. So I use Ray as a comparison to Floyd not they are comparable but they can be compared.
Of course, Floyd doesn’t have as many fights 49 vs 198 but comparable or higher than competition for his era. Competition, there’s the big word, no he didn’t have Pender, Fullmer, Basillio, Olsen, Maxim, Graziani, Turpin, LaMotta, Gavilan, Bell, Armstrong, et al. but he did have Pacquiao, Maidana, Alvarez, Cotto, Ortiz, Mosley, Marquez, Hatton, DeLaHoya, Baldomir, Judah, Gatti, Castillo and Corrales. Not a bad bunch of names, either way both fought the best of their respective era.
He is also famous/infamous for something else he had in common with the GOAT, they didn’t get hit a lot. Both avoided punishment through skills. Ray was the foundation upon which all the “Sugars”, “The Greatest” and “Money Man” built their styles. Hitting without getting hit, that is what the “Sweet Science” is all about, right? I don’t like his style, it bores me but he wins and like it or not it’s copied because it’s effective and just like Sugar Ray Robinson kids can copy but no one can compare to the original. In 10, 20 years from now he will be a legendary.
Also, like it or not, Mayweather has been the driving influence in boxing during the recent decade(s) of drought. He and he alone has been the one to drive interest in boxing when no one else could, of course Pacquaio and now Alvarez but their influence is only relative to Mayweather. In a drought you may not like the rainmaker but you need the rain.
I don’t expect boxing purest of which I am one or racist of which I am not, to love him but serious boxing fans need to give him his credit. It’s a lose/lose for Mayweather vs McGregor. He wins, it’s he should have won he fought against an MMA champion but boxing amateur. I can hear it already,” if it had been in the MMA cage” then……
On this one, we true boxing fans should stick together and not let the boxing casuals and MMA fans denigrate one of our own. Like him, love him or hate him but please support the sport and support him against folks that want to degrade him for being a boxer in the sport of Boxing.
Yes, it’s about the money and Mayweather could care less about how we feel and yes, it’s not an event that’s worthy of breaking Marciano’s record but he is still one of our own; like it or not.
Now that this mega-event with McGregor is going to takes place there is dumping by MMA fans and casual MMA/Boxing fans alike. Maybe that’s deserving of him for taking part in this event to begin with, but come on for $100 Million, like it or not but accept it, boxing at the highest level is all about one thing. Same is true for McGregor as to why, the money, more than he would ever make or deserve otherwise but for his self-promotion and for that he gets an A+.
Why do boxing fans want to see him tore down but to build up McGregor? He’s the greatest boxer of his generation, as was the “GOAT, Sugar Ray Robinson”, one and probably only one of the few things that 50%+ boxing fans can agree on is that Ray is the GOAT. So I use Ray as a comparison to Floyd not they are comparable but they can be compared.
Of course, Floyd doesn’t have as many fights 49 vs 198 but comparable or higher than competition for his era. Competition, there’s the big word, no he didn’t have Pender, Fullmer, Basillio, Olsen, Maxim, Graziani, Turpin, LaMotta, Gavilan, Bell, Armstrong, et al. but he did have Pacquiao, Maidana, Alvarez, Cotto, Ortiz, Mosley, Marquez, Hatton, DeLaHoya, Baldomir, Judah, Gatti, Castillo and Corrales. Not a bad bunch of names, either way both fought the best of their respective era.
He is also famous/infamous for something else he had in common with the GOAT, they didn’t get hit a lot. Both avoided punishment through skills. Ray was the foundation upon which all the “Sugars”, “The Greatest” and “Money Man” built their styles. Hitting without getting hit, that is what the “Sweet Science” is all about, right? I don’t like his style, it bores me but he wins and like it or not it’s copied because it’s effective and just like Sugar Ray Robinson kids can copy but no one can compare to the original. In 10, 20 years from now he will be a legendary.
Also, like it or not, Mayweather has been the driving influence in boxing during the recent decade(s) of drought. He and he alone has been the one to drive interest in boxing when no one else could, of course Pacquaio and now Alvarez but their influence is only relative to Mayweather. In a drought you may not like the rainmaker but you need the rain.
I don’t expect boxing purest of which I am one or racist of which I am not, to love him but serious boxing fans need to give him his credit. It’s a lose/lose for Mayweather vs McGregor. He wins, it’s he should have won he fought against an MMA champion but boxing amateur. I can hear it already,” if it had been in the MMA cage” then……
On this one, we true boxing fans should stick together and not let the boxing casuals and MMA fans denigrate one of our own. Like him, love him or hate him but please support the sport and support him against folks that want to degrade him for being a boxer in the sport of Boxing.
Yes, it’s about the money and Mayweather could care less about how we feel and yes, it’s not an event that’s worthy of breaking Marciano’s record but he is still one of our own; like it or not.
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