His style isn't friendly to the casual fan, and the casual fan generates him the most money. Mayweather is undoubtedly technically brilliant but if it wasn't for his undefeated record he generates no where near as much money.
He would be doing Ward numbers if he hadn't ran his mouth and made a circus around himself being a predictable WWE caricature, at least you can tell when it's an act and when it isn't unlike Broner who doesn't even have half the ability yet goes twice the distance on the obnoxious prat persona. He used to be an exciting fighter, he has more than enough ability to knock many of these guys out, he had to let his hands go against Cotto and nearly dropped him flat on his face in round 12 with a beautiful uppercut, wish people got him to throw combinations more because he rarely does it these days if he's not under threat.
Actually, Boxing is the only sport I follow... I loathe Track, probably why I'm not big on Floyd post Castillo.
And your not now? He's the man at 147 and he's beat the current man at 154 and the current man at 160. atsch
Mayweather became a duck after Castillo. When he avoided Margarito, Williams, and Cotto, that was it for me to some extent. I still supported him against Pac because I was convinced Pac was juicing and gave Mayweather the benefit of the doubt that he wanted to clean the sport. But more PED users have come out of his camp, and Mayweather himself have worked with 2 out of the 3 biggest PED dealers in boxing. :think The final nail on the coffin was Guerrero and then the Maidana fights.... The P4P King who claims to be TBE, whose fanboys claim is the fighter of the decade and fighter of the era, yet almost his entire resume post Castillo is pretty average at best.