Legendary champion Floyd Mayweather has a record of 50 wins and won titles in five divisions. Mayweather officially announced his retirement a few years ago, and although he has made several comebacks since then, he has never played a real professional game again.
Today, Mayweather is 46 years old, and as a Hall of Famer, he has sealed his own miracle, but despite this, Mayweather is still the darling of the media, and his old rivals have never stopped commenting on Mayweather.
Sean Mosley "Sugar Nuggets" is just as legendary as Mayweather, but the two are 6 years apart and more like fighters of a "different era".
In 2010, Moseley challenged Mayweather, who was already past his prime, but confident that he was the one who cracked Mayweather's complex code.
Throughout his career, Mayweather stood out for perfection and achieved flawless results, but it was true that Mayweather's strength was not widely recognized, and many felt that he lacked a heavy punch.
In the confrontation with Mosley, Mayweather has a record of 40 wins, almost half of which are points wins, the outside world generally believes that Mayweather's skills are unmatched, but unfortunately heavy punches are a little embarrassing, so Mayweather really lacks heavy punches? Mosley has a strong say on this issue, refuting the claim that Mayweather's power is underestimated.
Two years after Mosley and Mayweather, he rose to the 154-pound welterweight division to challenge Carneiro Alvarez. Alvarez is a recognized heavy gunner in the industry, at least a standard attacking fighter, but in Mosley's view, Mayweather's strength is quite comparable to Alvarez.
"When I played Mayweather, he was really great and Mayweather was actually as strong as the 154-pound Alvarez," Mosley said. ”
The idea that Mayweather lacks strength is more like a subjective assumption, or that Mayweather simply lacks strength at a specific stage.
Mayweather initially rose from the 130-pound super featherweight division, at 130 pounds, he was a recognized heavy gunner, and later even after moving into the 135-pound lightweight and 140-pound ultra-lightweight divisions, he was still very strong, such as when he challenged Arturo Gatti in 2005, and no one thought Mayweather lacked heavy punches, right? In the end, Mayweather submitted to Gatti in 6 rounds, knowing that the "golden boy" Oscar de la Hoya, who is recognized as stronger in physique and strength than Mayweather, won 5 rounds in the confrontation with Gatty, although this comparison is not necessarily accurate, but at least shows that Mayweather's strength is not as weak as imagined.
However, as Mayweather moved up to the 147-pound welterweight division, his style changed dramatically, and he won more with technology, which is understandable, after all, as he grew older and moved up the ranks, Mayweather needed to adjust to the new situation, and his strategy of 130 pounds and 135 pounds at the time could not better adapt to 147 pounds.
Because Mayweather's technology is too brilliant, it completely replaces his power, in other words, in the face of the new situation, Mayweather needs to outwit and win with skill, which also makes the strength and heavy punches gradually marginalized.
Mayweather's situation is also reflected in Alvarez. At 154 pounds, Alvarez almost all stopped his opponents with heavy punches, but after rising to 160 pounds and 168 pounds, the situation also changed, he no longer blindly suppressed his opponents through strength, but used more technique, although Alvarez's technique is not as good as Mayweather, but he is also quite good, but Alvarez is a standard attacking fighter, although the style has changed, but the difference is not obvious, he will not be like Mayweather to control the rhythm of the whole court, this is the difference in playing style, So Mayweather's power has been weakened, and few people can increase their strength as they grow in rank, perhaps Manny Pacquiao is an exception, which is a big "strange man" in the history of boxing.