{"id":35401,"date":"2025-07-31T17:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35401\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:09:09","slug":"zab-judah-names-the-five-fighters-in-history-greater-than-floyd-mayweather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35401\/","title":{"rendered":"Zab Judah Names The Five Fighters In History Greater Than Floyd Mayweather"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the eyes of many, retired pound-for-pound superstar Floyd Mayweather<\/a> is one of the greatest fighters to have ever laced up the gloves.<\/p>\n

But in the opinion of former undisputed welterweight champion and Mayweather opponent Zab Judah<\/a>, there are at least five legendary fighters that are even greater than his former rival.<\/p>\n

Throughout the course of his 21-year professional career, Mayweather became a world champion in no less than five weight classes, defeating the likes of Canelo Alvarez<\/a>, Oscar De La Hoya<\/a> and Manny Pacquiao<\/a> to name a few.<\/p>\n

After beating MMA fighter Conor McGregor in his 50th and final professional outing back in August 2017, Mayweather would go on to draw the curtain on his career without suffering a single defeat.<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking to VladTV<\/a>, Judah was asked for his top five fighters of all time and left Floyd off the list.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m trying to see who I put first under me, I\u2019m trying to see. Let\u2019s see, Mike Tyson, Pernell Whitaker, Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad Ali, legends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judah was beaten via unanimous decision when they clashed back in April 2006, surrendering his IBF welterweight title in the process at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n

Victory over Judah saw Mayweather become a welterweight world champion for the very first time, having already captured world titles at super-featherweight, lightweight and super-lightweight up until that stage.<\/p>\n

Judah isn\u2019t the only man to claim that there are a number of fighters better than his former rival, with Top Rank CEO Bob Arum also doing the same.<\/a> Mayweather remains steadfast in the opinion that he is the best of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the eyes of many, retired pound-for-pound superstar Floyd Mayweather is one of the greatest fighters to have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-35401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}