I was having a conversation with a Mayweather fan on another site who kept claiming that Mayweather was the greatest boxer of all time based on the percentage of his opponents punches he dodged and the percentage of his own punches he landed. I countered with As well as remarking that his overall output was 38.6 punches a round in a weightclass where the average is 58.7 and if he punched more frequently he would likely miss more frequently. My question is who is more accurate than Floyd Mayweather historically. Someone measured tape of Joe Louis and found him slightly better. Lennox Lewis too. I'm assuming Alexis Arguello, Ray Robinson, Jose Napoles, Benny Leonard, Ricardo Lopez, Julio Cesar Chavez, and maybe a couple of others. But has anyone ever measured their accuracy so they can say definitively how accurate their connect rate was?
It's all beside the point. Floyd Mayweather is a master of hit-and-not-get-hit. That is his game -- great feet, defensive technique and awareness, and ring generalship. Other fighters base their game around stamina, a killer punch or height. Boxing is so deep, you could no doubt find several if not a dozen fighters with a better connect percentage. That takes nothing away from Floyds accomplishments.
I don't buy into Compubox. It seems to be often inaccurate, as I highly doubt Mayweather landed 200+ punches on DLH (unless punches to the gloves count), DLH landing over 120 on Mayweather (unless punches to the elbows and air count)...DLH 260 on Tito and 160 vice versa, Gatti landing 41 on Mayweather, Tony Thompson outlanding Wlad Klitschko in their first fight, etc...In their defense it's not an easy job to get it really accurate with fast world class boxers. No question thought that Floyd is difficult to hit and is an accurate puncher.
