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As far as the sweet science of boxing is concerned, Floyd Mayweather Jr. certainly deserves a room among the most gifted technical fighters down the stretch of boxing history, but it’s simply hard to buy his claim to be the greatest, so as to tower Mohammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Leonard. Being undefeated is the only credential he could present in order to substantiate such an audacious claim. What a plain absurdity; to nullify his argument is no hard as eating fried chicken. After all, the gravity of his undefeated record is hardly stronger in comparison to the equally unblemished records of Ivan Calderon, of the now retired Joe Calzague, and that of the late Edwin Valero. Mayweather’s only strong point over those people is his being a multi-division world champion but only at the expense of lesser opponents who have had no potential at beating him.

For his apparent mastery at the art of ducking, Mayweather has been flooded with adverse criticisms and people starts branding him a coward, quiet safe to give credence to it. Fearing defeat and possible punishments in the ring once he obliged at the clamor of the fans, he elects to abide by his habit of running away from real opponents as if they are hungry crocodiles chasing him; in addition he refuses to abandon his fighting style that seems to rain down the crowd with sleep-inducing medical tablets.

His immaculate record as a marketing tool now becoming less attractive, the shrewd native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, visibly changed strategy by making out of himself the most villainy character in boxing- past and present. And, because gallantry appears to be out of the stuff he is made of, Mayweather, a five-time world champion, resorts to mind-boggling trash-talking which he often than not fail to live with it. Fight history wise, during the promotional days of his fight against Oscar dela Hoya in 2007, he, appearing like a tiger ready to devour the former, made it known the world over that he would beat Oscar dela Hoya, so brutally. But come fight day, Mayweather made a running track out of a boxing ring; he was lucky enough to escape defeat via controverisial split decision.

Time dragged back to 2009 and fresh from a tad worthless victory against the bloated lightweight inhabitant Juan Manuel Marquez, the egotistical American champion did not budge from his ways. Month's later, in a supposedly gigantic ring confrontation against the current pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao, it appeared everything was already falling smoothly in place, until in an apparent display of cowardice like a subdued dog in the face of intimidation, Mayweather came up with a quite bizarre idea of demanding Pacquiao to undergo the unprecedented Olympic drug testing style in professional boxing; albeit, Mayweather himself included. Pacquiao whose tenure of fighting in the US now borders to a decade and never for a time tested positive of allowing himself a drug-enhanced fighter, cried harassment and refused to concede to Mayweather’s caprice, resulting to the collapse of the fight, leaving fans by the millions in bitter disappointment

In the subsequent and still hot people’s debate, Mayweather is slowly seeing himself at the receiving end of his very own canny trap, whereas, Pacquiao, leaning on the more rational side, is winning the sympathy of the people. Some goes to the extent of rallying a boycott against Mayweather’s fight with Shane Mosley on May 1. From the looks of things, it is seeping through the veins of Mayweather; so to thrust himself in the market that appears to be swiftly losing the appetite to buy his fights, Mayweather as fast as his running in the ring, sticks to his marketing tool many notch higher.

In a clear display of disrespect to the worthy greats like Mohammad Ali and Sugar Ray Robinson as well as to the intellect of the people, Mayweather proclaims he is the greatest fighter of all time. And quite strangely he brands HBO commentators except Lennox Lewis to be incompetent for their jobs and of course how would he be able to let pass Pacquiao? Mayweather questions the Filipino’s hard-earned achievements without any qualms about it. Nonetheless, these are just major revisions of his old music. All he wants is to poison people’s mind with hatred because it seems to be the only way he could sale his fights most effectively. With that being said but with due respect to his talent, when he retires, Mayweather will find no trouble claiming a place in boxing history as the greatest ever in the arena of self-hyping.

Author: Unofre Pili

Source: Bukisa.com