How many welterweights survive the shot SSM landed on PBF in R2?

Honestly either, both were corkers, but I meant the first.

 

Nah. Mayweather started boxing at the age of 7. He was 33½ when he fought Ortiz coming off a fifteen month layoff - that's 26 years on the odometer.

Mosley took it up at 8, and was 38½ when he fought Mayweather coming off a fifteen month layoff - 30 years in the sport for him. Just four more than Mayweather.

Shane had boxed about 350 rounds professionally heading into the Mayweather fight. Floyd had boxed about 300 rounds.

Mosley had "more miles" on the clock, but I wouldn't characterize Floyd as having "a lot less". Unless you're talking way back in the amateurs (Mosley had 266 bouts compared to Mayweather's 92) - but that was in the headgear era; besides, they were both pretty dominant and neither took many beatings in the amateurs, if the point here is to hone in on cumulative wear 'n' tear.

 

Exactly. He was only 5½ years Shane's junior, and had debuted in the pros just three years after him.

Ehh, don't go inflating to exaggerate your point now. He was 38...and Floyd, again, like you acknowledged up above, was 33.

Idk, man - power's, famously, the "last to go". There's a reason Shannon Briggs was taken semi-seriously contending even into middle-age. It sure wasn't because of his skills, know what I mean?

I'm not sure that wide a gulf exists between his 28yo power and 40yo power. Now, if you're talking speed and reflexes - hell yes, Shane was most of the way shot by 2010.

But pure punching power? Ehh...was likely comparable to what it'd been. (at least at welter...and he was already fighting at welter at 28, in late 1999 )

Absolutely agree - and the lightweight version, despite not hanging around all that long or accomplishing anything significant - is probably among the scariest h2h beasts to ever lace up in the 135lb division. And that's an original eight division, mind you, with LOADS of p4p-tier history and tradition! So I don't say that lightly...

The welter Shane wasn't as fearsome as the LW, but still a clear h2h ATG. (though he did have a perfect foil that had his number, in the underrated Vernon Forrest).

Dream fight. Probably makes my top ten list of "if I had a time machine" match-ups at welterweight.

I don't disagree. If he won it would be another controversial fight haunting Floyd for his entire career, where some (like with JLC I and Maidana I) just remain convinced he should've lost.

 

I didn't call either the GOAT. I said they were perfectly engineered to be pure efficiency boxers. And they were. More so than Ali, or Durán, or many other guys who are greater than both of them.

 

Mosley put him through the meat-grinder but I don't think he loaded up on any single shot quite like that one in my OP, simply because he didn't need to. That was a desperation bomb against Floyd. Antonio stood in front of him and took every lump Shane fed him, like a whipped cur. There was no need to go maximum force on any single blow, because he was landing anything and everything he wanted.