{"id":698354,"date":"2026-07-18T12:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698354\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T12:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:03:15","slug":"floyd-mayweather-sr-believes-his-son-should-have-lost-one-fight-during-unbeaten-pro-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698354\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather Sr Believes His Son Should Have Lost One Fight During Unbeaten Pro Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Floyd Mayweather Jr\u2019s<\/a> father and former trainer, Floyd Sr, has sensationally claimed that he believes his son should have been handed at least one defeat during his glittering career.<\/p>\n

\u2018Money\u2019 Mayweather is often credited with being one of, if not the greatest fighter to have ever laced up a pair of boxing gloves, an opinion that is shared by fans and analysts around the globe.<\/p>\n

The Michigan-native became a world champion in no less than five weight classes during his decorated 19-year professional career, ranging from super-featherweight to light-middleweight.<\/p>\n

Mayweather produced a number of legacy-defining victories during this time<\/a>, defeating boxing icons such as Canelo Alvarez, Oscar De La Hoya, Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao along the way.<\/p>\n

Despite his success and being one of the few fighters in the sports history to retire unbeaten, Mayweather\u2019s father Floyd Sr believes the former pound-for-pound great did not deserve to be handed one win in particular.<\/p>\n

In a resurfaced interview with HBO\u2019s Larry Merchant, Floyd Sr admitted that he believes his son was lucky to be declared the winner at the conclusion of his 2007 showdown with Oscar De La Hoya.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just gonna be honest with you, man. If you want to call fights by scoring, points system, who\u2019s throwing more punches, you had to give it to Oscar. If you\u2019re just going on a guy hitting a guy with single shots, you have to give it to my son.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy son had good defence, he caught a lot of punches with his shoulder and his arm, but it\u2019s still about a guy throwing punches. If he touches you, he\u2019s scoring \u2026 I thought the fight was a close fight, it\u2019s just where the point system goes. If you look at the point system, who\u2019s touching who the most \u2026 You\u2019re gonna have to give it to Oscar if you\u2019re going by point system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayweather controversially defeated De La Hoya via split decision back in May of 2007, dethroning \u2018The Golden Boy\u2019 of his WBC light-middleweight title in what was the third defeat of his illustrious career. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather Jr\u2019s father and former trainer, Floyd Sr, has sensationally claimed that he believes his son should…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-698354","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\/698354","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=698354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}