re: Floyd Mayweather is an incredible boxer.

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The only thing that can save boxing is two heavy weights emerging to walk to the middle of the ring and beat the shite out of one another. The small, fast, technical shtick has run its course.

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With the general public, hence the money, this is correct.

With boxing aficionados, not so much.

With boxing writers, it's a mixed bag because they realize that boxing needs money in order to survive but still appreciate a true technician.

Guys like Mayweather often are not disciplined enough to avoid the challenge to go toe to toe with guys to "prove" themselves. Got to give the guy props for avoiding that bait.

Guys with similar styles to Mayweather but a little more pop and a vocabulary go down as legendary. Think of a young Sugar Ray Leonard. The guy could slip punches like nobody and put a man on the canvas in a heartbeat. Of course that may just be my nostalgic recollection.

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This is a gimmick, it was always a gimmick, and it will always be a gimmick. The only thing that can save boxing is two heavy weights emerging to walk to the middle of the ring and beat the shite out of one another. The small, fast, technical shtick has run its course.

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Boxing needs another Hagler/Hearns type of fight to get the general public interested again. Those guys whaled on each other the entire fight.