{"id":623131,"date":"2026-06-05T18:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/623131\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:39:17","slug":"roberto-duran-says-weak-floyd-mayweather-doesnt-deserve-unbeaten-record-he-lost-those-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/623131\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto Duran says &#8216;weak&#8217; Floyd Mayweather doesn&#8217;t deserve unbeaten record: &#8220;He lost those fights&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Floyd Mayweather is hailed as a great of both the modern era and in the history of boxing, but four-division world champion and eternal fan-favourite <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/roberto-duran\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roberto Duran<\/a> thinks that \u2018TBE\u2019 does not warrant such appreciation, nor his fabled 50-0 professional record.<\/p>\n<p>Mayweather is one of few pound-for-pound talents to hang up the gloves without a loss to his name, praised as one of the most skilled defensive fighters of all time, with his supreme boxing mind outfoxing a host of other elite operators over the course of his career.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the eyes of the aggressive, hard-hitting and fan-friendly Duran, that style doesn\u2019t wash. In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/r_Z2ERRIhVI?si=vyILgzgQsEQkcC1b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One On One Boxing<\/a>, \u2018Hands of Stone\u2019 labelled Mayweather as \u2018weak\u2019, declaring that he would have been able to give the Michigander his first taste of defeat. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMayweather, for me, is a boxer that is weak. He doesn\u2019t like being hit to the body and as soon as he gets hit there, he turns into Road Runner and I have much more experience than him, [so, I would beat him].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continuing, Duran went on to state that he believes Mayweather has truly been beaten on three occasions during his career; insinuating that Jos\u00e9 Luis Castillo, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/de-la-hoya-feels-cheated-out-of-one-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar De La Hoya<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/12046\/9296343\/floyd-mayweather-toughs-out-points-win-against-marcos-maidana-at-mgm-grand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Marcos Maidana should each have been awarded a victory in their controversial bouts with the American<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe fought a Mexican, the Mexican beat him, but they gave it to Mayweather. Then he fought another, he lost but he got the decision. I believe that he has lost three fights, but they have gifted him those wins.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mayweather may still lose his beloved unbeaten record, which is expected to be on the line in a professional rematch with Manny Pacquiao this September, when he ends a nine-year run of inactivity.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather is hailed as a great of both the modern era and in the history of boxing,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-623131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623131","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=623131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}