Unpopular Opinion, perhaps? But Shawn Porter beats a prime Mayweather

Well you do kind of hate Porter's guts, so you might not be all that objective on this one. But Porter did run Thurman damn close, who we're both fanboys of, I had it a draw, and many others on the RBR had it a point or two towards Porter, it was truly a damn near impossible to score fight, and the only reason why Porter lost was because he was slightly troubled by Thurman's far superior to Mayweather's power and similar timing. Porter has mauled and beaten the hell out of Berto, Broner, Granados, Malignaggi and Alexander, all of whom aren't exactly walks in the park. He's not exactly the average fighter that struggled badly against Diaz anymore, sure he makes some of the same mistakes and smothers his own work and is far too reckless, but he negates most of those flaws with his sheer beast like physicality. The only guy to legit beat him is Brook, and cleanly, but Mayweather isn't the size of a Middleweight with Super Welterweight punching power like Kell. Its not out of the world crraaazzzyyy to think that Porter might do enough to win a 7-5ish decision on fans and some ringside observers scorecards at the very least.

 

I misremembered, I actually scored Thurman-Porter for Porter 116-112, Pinoy scored it for Porter 116-112 as well, moparfan had it 114-114 as did Pimp C. Although I left the it could also be scored 115-113 or 114-114 caveat.

 

That's also debatable since Maidana beat Broner 117-108/116-109ish and that's with 2 knockdowns, yet the correct score of Porter-Broner was 118-108 and that's with Porter being dropped. So Shawn beat Broner more decisively including being dropped than Maidana did when he was the one doing the droppingx2. Maidana-Broner was at times competitive, it could be argued Porter even won the round he was dropped in, that was as close to a shutout as you could get.

 

Where did I say Broner was on Mayweather's level? I didn't. I was responding to IB saying Maidana was better than Porter, which I don't necessarily agree with.

 

Maidana would have probably been stopped by both Brook and Thurman, he was dropped by Khan, Ortiz and Josesito, which no one seems to remember, and hurt a few times by Soto Karass, he'd have been KO'd cold if he tried that **** with Kell or Keith. And now here you are kind of comparing Thurman and Brook to Mayweather....Neither are all that similar, close, but not quite.