12/28/2022 0 Comments Floyd mayweather fight night champion![]() ![]() This, overlapping with Paul’s internet megastardom and cross-generational reach, is what helped him earn a fight against Mayweather: boxing’s “cash cow” who earned $800 million over a career besting deserving contenders and Hall of Fame contemporaries. While Paul brings nothing to the ring in terms of pugilistic bona fides against a living legend, among his most bankable attributes is one that he was born with: his whiteness. But it is colored most distinctly by a thread in the sport’s DNA that makes the event, against the avalanche of criticism that has come its way, unmistakably boxing. Paul is a collision of everything spectacle and circus, mismatch and mayhem. Related Story Social media and big money mean celebrity boxing is here to stay Read now The event has been rightly called a “ mismatch,” a “farce” and appropriately dubbed a “circus show” by welterweight champion Keith Thurman, who further described the event as “not boxing.” Closer scrutiny of the fight, and its two participants, reveals otherwise. Paul is yet to earn a victory in a career that only spans two exhibition fights, one in which he earned a draw, and the other a loss, both against social media rival KSI. Mayweather will bring a perfect 50-0 record to the ring in Miami. Yes, you read that correctly, Floyd Mayweather – the greatest boxer of his generation and arguably one of the greatest fighters of all time – will share the ring with Paul, a self-proclaimed “YouTuber” who made his fame online. ![]() Yet despite these changes, there are hallmarks of the sport that doggedly remain.īoxing’s starkest mutations and mainstays will be on full display Sunday when Floyd Mayweather squares off against Logan Paul in Miami. Some things have changed beyond recognition in the sport of boxing.
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