Video: A quick look at Floyd's Final 10 Fights

Just finished watch your video. THoughton it was very good. Well balanced and it leads me to believe Floyd's legacy is likely to improve over time.

 

Thanks for your video's. I have only been following boxing for like a year and half not counting Hajime no Ippo. And your channel is a great way to catch-up on a lot of the great boxers. Kovalev is my favorite active boxer so its nice to see that he often comes along on your channel. Keep them vids coming!

 

Great vid as always, Rummy. It does give people the chance to see an unbiased perspective on Mayweather Jr. Not the easiest balance to achieve, I fear.

Your summation provides the greatest interest to me, inferring that both FMJ and arch-nemesis Pacquiao (as well a their respective camps) capitalized on a rare situation, from which both sides made a truckload of cash. Why should either of them want a fight in 2010 when they could string a paying public along for five years and ultimately draw a massive buy-in, when the time came? I tend to agree with this idea. But, while it might have suited them both financially, in the longer run, I feel quite certain that FMJ drove this opportunity, with Pacquiao an uncomfortable but nonetheless willing enough passenger.

Where I do think an important point needs to be made more strongly, is that the financial relevance of their bout in 2015 completely outweighed it’s sporting relevance. Had it happened in 2010, the sporting relevance would have been momentous and the result so much more meaningful. Instead, one has to wonder how much care was being paid to meeting genuine and timely sporting challenges, when there was a grand money-making strategy in play.

What this supplementary portion of FMJ’s career does for his standing, on paper, looks very shiny indeed. But, the names on paper neither take away from the true level of FMJ’s opposition, at the time he fought them, nor from the context of the fights themselves. And, if it was a brilliantly executed financial exit plan then the question of how much FMJ genuinely enhances his legacy with his opponent selections, will always, to my mind, leave doubts.

 

A lot of fair points in this post. :good

 

Manny couldn't have been seriously competitive with Floyd at any point in his career. The result would've been about the same in 2010 and Pacquiao would've been categorically dismissed as a blown up feather, etc. It's wishful to think that that fight or others (such as a walk in the park against Williams) would've placed him much higher in the ATG rankings. In order for him to enter top 5 discussion, he would've had to have beaten Golovkin.

 

Thanks. I think that with the cold light of day dawning on that period of Boxing history, it is easier to take a view from the middle ground.

However, I suspect contention will remain across the spectrum of many observers, for some years to come. It will be very interesting to see how the Mayweather Jr story is written, as time goes by.

 

Your Floyd bias is disgusting.