{"id":109632,"date":"2025-09-02T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/109632\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:28:08","slug":"floyd-mayweather-names-the-opponent-that-stood-out-in-his-50-fight-career-hes-the-best-i-faced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/109632\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather Names The Opponent That Stood Out In His 50 Fight Career: “He’s The Best I Faced”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Floyd Mayweather<\/a> Jr is often regarded as being one of, if not the greatest fighter to have ever laced up the gloves.<\/p>\n

He burst onto the scene during the late 1990, entering the paid ranks just a few months after he captured a Featherweight Bronze Medal at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n

\u2018Money\u2019 would go on to become a world champion in no less than five weight classes during his tenure, ranging from super-featherweight up to super-welterweight where he defeated the likes of Juan Manuel Marquez<\/a>, Oscar De La Hoya<\/a> and Manny Pacquiao<\/a> along the way.<\/p>\n

Known for his outstanding defensive skills, Mayweather remained unbeaten throughout the course of his 21-year professional career, defeating each and every one of the 50 opponents that he crossed paths with.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Million Dollaz Worth Of Game Podcast<\/a>, Mayweather gave an insight into his 2015 \u2018Fight of the Century\u2019 with Filipino icon Pacquiao and reveals exactly why \u2018PacMan\u2019 was the best fighter he ever faced.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best fighter I ever fought probably was Manny Pacquiao.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s because of his movement. He\u2019s a hell of a fighter, and I can see why he won so many fights, and I can see why he\u2019s going down as a Hall of Famer. It\u2019s just certain moves he makes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although their monumental showdown in Las Vegas failed to live up to expectations, boxing fans were treated with a fight for the ages when the former pound-for-pound stars locked horns for the unified welterweight championship in May of 2015.<\/p>\n

Mayweather got the nod on all three of the judges scorecards on the night<\/a>, handing the Filipino icon the sixth defeat of his glittering professional career, where he became a world champion in eight weight divisions, a record breaking accomplishment for one of the greatest fighters to have ever graced the sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather Jr is often regarded as being one of, if not the greatest fighter to have ever…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-109632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}