Mayweather has a better resume than both Marciano and Calzaghe, and he has generally looked more impressive in compiling it. If Mayweather can get by Manny Pacquiao on May 2—and I'm already on record predicting that he will—he will most likely retire undefeated.
If he does it, I'll consider him the best unbeaten fighter of all time. And win or lose, he's a first-ballot Hall of Famer. No matter what happens on May 2, Mayweather is among the all-time greats.
If Mayweather can take care of business against Pacquiao, the other great star of his era, and retire undefeated, it will rank among the greatest boxing accomplishments of all time.
But whether it will be the greatest boxing accomplishment in history and enough to establish Mayweather as the best ever will still remain open for debate. Since the dawn of the gloved era in the late s, the great sport of boxing has been full of remarkable achievements by great ring warriors.
And the greatest achievements of all time have been events that occurred within historical contexts that made them possible. One of the greatest pound-for-pound punchers ever, Bob Fitzsimmons was history's first three-division world champion and knocked out heavyweights who outweighed him by 40 or more pounds. Joe Gans was lightweight champion in the early 20th century.
The first African-American to hold a world title in boxing, he was an innovator and hailed by his contemporaries of all races as the "Old Master. For a brief period of time in , Henry Armstrong held the world title at featherweight, lightweight and welterweight simultaneously. Mayweather is acquitted. After police head off the initial fight, Mayweather returns shortly before dawn and beats Harris in the back of the head and threatens to beat his children if they call the police, according to the arrest report.
He pleads guilty to misdemeanor domestic assault and harassment and is sentenced to 90 days in jail, the Associated Press reported. In , the NFL suspended Rice for two games for hitting his then-girlfriend, now-wife Janay Palmer, knocking her out, and dragging her unconscious body out of an elevator at an Atlantic City, New Jersey, casino. Commissioner Roger Goodell eventually suspended Rice from the league indefinitely. That decision was eventually overturned in federal court, but no team has signed Rice since.
Football has something boxing does not. Some are famous names: Jack Johnson beat women some of them white as he rose to fame in the early 20th century. Decades later, Joe Louis beat Lena Horne. In , Robin Givens wrote a first-person account for Time explaining why she stayed after Tyson hit her. Leonard told sportswriter Buzz Bissinger he hit his wife, Juanita Wilkinson, while she was holding their infant child and threatened to kill himself if she left him. Bowe was not only arrested for second-degree assault, but served prison time for kidnapping his first wife and their five children.
Edwin Valero, a WBA and WBC featherweight and lightweight champion, committed suicide in a Venezuelan jail cell after his arrest for stabbing his wife to death. Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. Mayweather comes from a troubled home. His mother was a drug addict. His father was a drug dealer who was part of a family of renowned boxing brothers. Newman has known Mayweather since he was an 8-year-old watching his father and uncles fight and mimicking their every move.
We are conditioned to expect domestic violence among poor people because economic insecurity is often tied to increases in domestic violence, according to the American Psychological Association. But leaning too heavily on that correlation can be dangerous. Being brought up in poverty alone does not cause domestic violence. Rich men enjoying the spoils of generational wealth beat up their partners too, and they use the same excuses to explain or minimize it.
Regardless, you cannot deny the fact that Floyd Mayweather is a brilliant boxer and one of the smartest fighters to have ever stepped into the squared circle.
During the media day for the event, Floyd Mayweather got into an altercation with Logan Paul's younger brother Jake Paul, a Youtuber-turned-boxer himself. In the past, Mayweather has expressed his desire to fight 'The Problem Child' in an exhibition. Given the events that transpired, we can probably expect that fight to be announced soon as well. New User posted their first comment. Log in. MMA News. Floyd 'Money' Mayweather. Modified 07 May News.
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