Great fighter and one of the best, however his obsession with keeping his 0 has damaged the sport badly. I watched a recent Joe Joyce interview and all I think is what a throwback fighter and I will continue to pay money to watch his fights. Just because a fighter loses his 0 doesn't mean they're not talented if they're a good fighter they will be exciting to watch. A lot of our favorite fighters back in the amateurs picked up losses, but why is it in the pros, if a fighter loses they are totally written off?
Only in Mayweather’s deluded mind is he The GOAT. And people paying silly money to watch his exhibitions which are no more than public workouts only fuel that delusion.
I disagree with blaming Floyd but agree with the idea. Floyd saw the 0 culture and took advantage of it. Floyd had little ability to market between his boring talking and his brittle hands, so he fixed what he could, jazzed up his persona and made a billion dollars. The 0 culture preceeded Floyd and was a byproduct of the PPV era where you had to build a fight between two guys with sterling records, like Trinidad vs. De La Hoya etc.