I feel like for die hard fans, Mayweather is pretty underrated. Ifeel like fan's hate over modern boxing and love for old boxing may play a factor in this one. Mayweather defense is really underrated too. I feel bad for him people never tried to rank him at top 10. The reason why mayweather deserves to be top 10 (or 5 in my opinion...) is becuz he had perfect defense. He literally used every single textbook defense and just like Ali, Mayweather is one of the guys who could readjust his style during a fight. I also feel like Whitaker's defense is kinda overrated too considering fans say his defense WAY better than Floyd. When I talk about Floyd's defense people say it's laughable or I'm outta my goddamn my mind. Do you know what is boxing defense ? It consist of counterpunching, head movement, shoulder rolling, parrying, footwork & blocking. Mayweather's defense is much more complete than Whitaker, literally look at this: Blocking: Mayweather Counterpunching: Mayweather Head Movement: Whitaker Shoulder Rolling: Mayweather Footwork: Draw Abilty to adjust during a fight: Mayweather Handspeed: Mayweather Fans might get too dazzled when watching whitaker dodges a flurry of punches. And maybe becuz fans think that defense are just dodging punches even though there's so much more of that. Winky Wright is an example of a good defensive fighter even though he never dodge that much. Here: Heck! there's a video of mayweather being a perfect defensive master 10 minutes. I feel like that highlights show how good mayweather as a defensive master. Can't you see how marquez had so much trouble ? and if dominating marquez is not good enough to show how good mayweather is, I really don't know what will. Not to mention that Whitaker is dirtier than Floyd. No hates for whitaker, but you gotta admit that whitaker is a really dirty fighter. you might hate it but this is the truth. Try appreciate Floyd's defense man... Just try appreciate it.
Mayweather isn't underrated. He's actually rated pretty fairly unless you read a Floyd fan / Pac fan / casual interpretation They must be the voices in your head as no one underrates of criticises Floyd's defence. Never seen that, ever. Instead of starting numerous poor bait threads for a dopamine hit please bump old ones. It clogs up the page quality.
There are still people not willing to concede that guys like Chavez and Whitaker had inferior careers. Time will sort this out.
Well, shameless self promotion has kind of been my thing around here for nearly 20 years. But in this case, I honestly did attempt to break down almost every angle I could think of in terms of the pros and cons that constitute Floyd's legacy.
Be consistent Rummy even with your self promotion (Love it)- You are sooooo close to hitting the point where you will shoot up in the numbers and surge to a mil its a grind for the first 150k or so but hold out and keep the quality coming!
The opening line gives you the answer to your own question - people incapable of objectivity when it comes to Floyd Mayweather think he is underrated? What a surprise.
