Mayweather like Hopkins will age like fine wine!

Dont think Floyd WANTS to fight on til hes old.

Couple more years and hes done

 

And thats why he is great, and still the best in the sport.

 

He is 36.

A couple more years he will be at Hopkins age atsch

 

hopkins was able to move better and that helped against the bigger guys. money will eventually be outworked

 

Say what? :huh

 

i think he will be able to box at the highest level until he's in his early 40s, he can fight semi elite (like hopkins) opponents i think past 50. i'm not 100% sure, time will tell.

 

The key to fighting past your prime like Hopkins is doing is taking very little punishment in the ring, so maybe.

 

More or less


40 is the new 50





But being real, Hopkins is a freak. Floyd wont be active at that age, and if he is he will be Roy Jonesing about the ring. He rely's on his physical atributes more than Bernard.

 

the main thing about bernard is that a loss doesnt damage him that much but a loss would practically end mayweathers career because of his ego. mayweather has that aura of invincibility around him.

 

Gotcha

 

Nope, they are different.. Way different.

Both are intelligent as **** but Floyd relies more on his physical gifts more than intelligence while B-hop has limited attributes but uses his intelligence more to compensate. Add to that the discipline outside the ring. B-hop is living clean, I don't really know about Floyd. All I know is he doesn't eat clean.

 

Mayweather will age like fine wine so long as he continues to cherry pick and stage manage his career. The moment he takes the hardest challenges available, he'll be through.

 

Age ''like fine wine'' as Lennox Lewis said...

 

Are you crazy, Floyd works incredibly hard and eats clean. That whole "money" and "partying" persona is all fake, it's not the real Mayweather. This guy just stays in great shape all year round. That's some monstrous dedication for someone who should have a lack of dedication being an undefeated fighter at the very top.

 

The problem is even if he were to take on all-comers, this era is just way too weak to really get that much done against Mayweather (so long as he doesn't decline substantially over the next couple years).

Pacquiao? Don't see it, especially after his KO loss. Alvarez? He's got some nice attributes and explosive combination punching, but I think he's too slow of foot and easy to hit. Marquez? Been there, done that. Bradley? Completely outmatched. Same goes for Guerrero, Thurman, Berto, Khan, Alexander, and the like.

His toughest fights would be Martinez and Trout at 154. Bigger, rangier southpaws with athleticism, superior movement, and quick right jabs. Doubt those ever happen, but I think they'd be quite competitive. Certainly could see him losing, despite the differences in technical ability and fundamental skill. Still, I really don't see either of those two as good enough to really put in on Mayweather.

It's too bad this era doesn't have a legitimate H2H historically great fighter or two competing at 147-154.