Boxing: Floyd Mayweather Jr. launches blistering criticism of boxing today: “Everyone is a Champion”

In the exact way he made use of to throw his very best punches to defeat his opponents in the 50 fights he won during his professional career, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has returned to the fray with a statement that shakes up the key governing bodies of expert boxing.

Uppercut

As he prepares for a Might 14 exhibition combat versus Don Moore on the helipad of a Dubai lodge, the previous tremendous welterweight winner criticized the very simple way a fighter now manages to win a title in the absence of defending champions.

“The activity of boxing is incredibly diluted, every person is a champion. I am not criticizing any boxer, I’m just chatting about me, I’ve hardly ever received a vacant belt. Every single time I received a belt, I went and beat the winner to get it. Nothing at all was handed to me. I under no circumstances experienced a Floyd Mayweather to have my back again and assist me and explain to me you can be wonderful,” he mentioned.

And Mayweather’s remarks are real, because the Earth Boxing Council, the World Boxing Affiliation (WBA) and even the International Boxing Federation (IBF) have designed so numerous new titles in dispute that when a winner receives weary of ready for a knowledgeable opponent to protect his scepter, and this one does not appear, he chooses to adjust division, leaving the belt vacant at the mercy of mid-level boxers who can aspire to get it.

Imposing champion

In the case of “The Dollars”, his aggressive stage was so high when he stepped into the ring that he attained just about every option to become universal winner in the tremendous featherweight, lightweight, tremendous light-weight, welterweight and super welterweight divisions.

And for these who criticize his design of defending the titles he at the time held, it is sufficient to know that he gained by knockout a lot more than 50 percent of the fights registered in his job, 27 out of 50.