{"id":35244,"date":"2025-07-31T07:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35244\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T07:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:12:11","slug":"floyd-mayweather-comparison-given-to-current-pound-for-pound-star-for-trademark-move-by-joe-rogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35244\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather comparison given to current pound-for-pound star for trademark move by Joe Rogan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the future of boxing, it is unlikely that fans will ever get to experience a fighter that truly resembles Floyd Mayweather. <\/p>\n<p>Retiring with a professional record of 50-0, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/features\/the-eye-watering-amount-of-money-floyd-mayweather-earned-for-conor-mcgregor-fight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mayweather ended his career against Conor McGregor<\/a> in a huge blockbuster fight. <\/p>\n<p>As well as facing the UFC star, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/news\/canelo-reveals-hardest-fight-after-naming-floyd-mayweather-his-most-difficult-opponent\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mayweather has wins over the likes of Canelo Alvarez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/manny-pacquiao\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manny Pacquiao<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/oscar-de-la-hoya\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar De La Hoya<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Although no fighter may be able to retire with another 50-0 record, one fighter has received a comparison to \u2018Money\u2019 due to one trait. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224972634-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Shakur Stevenson celebrates in victory with world title over his shoulder\" class=\"wp-image-25065\" \/>Photo by Cris Esqueda\/Golden Boy\/Getty ImagesJoe Rogan compares Shakur Stevenson\u2019s defensive abilities to Floyd Mayweather\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>In a recent episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/joe-rogan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Rogan<\/a> Experience featuring Mike Vecchione, the pair engaged in a conversation about modern day boxing. <\/p>\n<p>Within this conversation, they began speaking about current WBC World Lightweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/shakur-stevenson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shakur Stevenson<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Stevenson\u2019s last fight would see him successfully defend his title against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/william-zepeda\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Zepeda<\/a>, making it three title defenses for the 28-year-old. <\/p>\n<p>Talking about the fight, Rogan was full of praise for Stevenson. Describing the fighter as \u2018super skillful\u2019, Rogan went on to say, \u201cHis last fight, best Philly shell since Floyd Mayweather.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The podcast host added, \u201cHis defense was \u2014\u2014- incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stevenson\u2019s win over Zepeda improved his professional record to 24-0, as he was able to score a unanimous decision victory over the Mexican. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Joe Rogan does not believe that Devin Haney should still be undefeated <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on another former lightweight, Rogan discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/news\/violent-ballerina-vasiliy-lomachenko-receives-enormous-praise-as-the-boxing-world-reacts-to-his-retirement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently retired Vasiliy Lomachenko<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Rogan has previously compared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/news\/joe-rogan-touts-giant-lomachenko-oleksandr-usyk-as-the-best-heavyweight-since-muhammad-ali\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oleksandr Usyk to a large Lomachenko<\/a> and has often spoken of the fighter in high regard. <\/p>\n<p>Reminiscing on \u2018Loma\u2019s\u2019 2023 fight with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/devin-haney\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Haney<\/a>, Rogan believes that the wrong fighter got their hand raised on the night. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like he got robbed in the Haney fight,\u201d Rogan said about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/vasiliy-lomachenko\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/vasiliy-lomachenko\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lomachenko<\/a>. \u201cIt was a bummer to me because I was like, this is kind of a great comeback story.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the future of boxing, it is unlikely that fans will ever get to experience a fighter that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6748,20979,7880,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-35244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-floyd-mayweather","10":"tag-joe-rogan","11":"tag-shakur-stevenson","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35244","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=35244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}