Pbfs last prime fight was against jmm. Every since that fight he's shown a slight decline in each fight after. At almost 41 and coming off a two year layoff it's pretty safe to say he's shot At least in the sense of what we're used to seeing him operate at. I ve never seen him look as slow and his reflexes are gone to. His balance was also off.
Can't really read much into how he looked last week. It wasn't a real fight, he looked as good or bad as he wanted. I'd safely say that he's still probably top 10, maybe even top 5. Hardly a shot fighter. Faded? Yeah. But not "shot"
Even though he carried Conor. The speed was not there his balance was horrible and his reflexes were gone. I ve watched pbf for years and have seen a gradual decline in him since his fight with marquez. Hell forget the conor fight he looked like **** and shot against berto.
Yet I think even today's deteriorated Floyd can beat Thurman, Porter and D Garcia. Don't wont him to fight Spence or Crawford though
I'd still confidently pick him to beat someone like Garcia. Porter and Spence probably beat him up and maybe stop him(see Maidana fights but obviously more towards the favor of Spence and Porter)
He's shot to ****. He won but I thought he looked terrible. I think if he was in there with Thurman, Brook or Spence we'd all be in unanimous agreement that he's shot to pieces.
Both of Foreman and BHop were elite in their 40's. Both fought in, won, and successfully defended titles well into their 40's. Both past prime, but both were among the elite of their respective divisions.
He isn't shot but he has diminished. That being said he is forty something so it's to be expected. In some respects he has kept himself in great condition and hasn't taken hard beatings. He's somewhat fresh despite the brittle hands and long camps.
Older but not shot. I still think that he beats all writers but he would have to work very hard. Buy the way, don't use the mcGregor fight as a measuring stick. He carried Conner for half the fight to give viewers their monies worth.
If he has indeed lost a step, and it's a big if, it's only an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny one. All this talk of him being ''shot'' is 100% pure damage control from his doe-eyed groupies and the pro boxing/we hate MMA crew who are still in morning about their hero getting schooled for 4 rounds by a 0-0-0 MMA fighter and boxing being thoroughly exposed for being the inferior combat sport I, aka Serge, and many, many other erudite fight fans have known all along it is. MMA>>>Boxing and that's coming from someone who is a longtime super mega hardcore fan of boxing too. I'm a way bigger fan of boxing than I am of MMA, but I'm not one of these ignorant boxing fans that thinks boxing is the supreme form of combat and fighters from other codes cannot even compete with them. Stipe>>>AJ Jon Jones>>>Usyk Robert Whittaker>>>Ward (although to be fair even under MMA rules serial cheat Ward's dirty tactics would get him DQ'd if the ref wasn't from the US) Tyron Woodley>>>GGG Sugar Mac>>>Thurman Max Holloway>>>Terence Crawford Cody Garbrandt>>>Loma Demetrious Johnson>>>Rigo