Is Mayweather the best pure boxer since Whitaker ?

It's interesting that, me and my mate were talking about this. Do you think tougher times in terms of 'how boxing was', made for more swarmers? With it being a typically tough way of fighting?

 

Funny how the man who is probably the best swarmer going has height to burn, Paul Williams. He's just not a skilled enough boxer to box on the outside though, and so he uses his assets in a different way, works ok for him though.

 

Hm, nah I think the main reason is a different one. In the past trainers tried to use the natural gifts and instincts of a fighter and refine it. Going with what it´s natural with them. Nowadays, at least with most trainers, a trainer has a system and has every fighter fighting this system/style - with slight variations.
I maybe wrong but that´s what I see is happening.

 

Nah bodhl, i think you're right. I don't know too much about training really but i always hear people saying things like Emanuel Steward is basically an example of what you're saying.

 

We'll stick with Whitaker because he was a superior boxer to Mayweather. :good

Anyway, I think Roy Jones Jr was a more effective and better boxer than Floyd Mayweather, but if we are going to reduce that point to who had the better "pure boxing skills" then yeah, I'd probably give the edge to Floyd (even though I misinterpreted the question and voted no on the basis that Jones is the best boxer overall since Pea), but even then I'd say that point is ineffectual, because Jones was better and more effective overall and that's what counts, not picking out one aspect of a boxers' game and portraying it as the be all and end all.

Jones>Mayweather.

 

maybe