“Mystic” Zach Hirsch recently interviewed unbeaten Boxing Hall of Famer and legendary former five-division world champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather (50-0).
His thoughts on influencer fights.
People all over the world want to be entertained, why not? You got people from all walks of life getting involved whether it’s MMA, boxers, or YouTubers. I’m all for it.
On what motivates him to keep training after all he has accomplished in boxing.
My philosophy is never stop gettin’ it. If you can recall, everybody in the boxing world was saying Floyd was tarnishing his legacy. Everybody knows what I always said: currency over legacy. But now everybody is getting involved in exhibitions. At first it was tarnishing my legacy and hurting boxing and now everybody is doing it. When you’re the first you always take a lashing. It is what it is.
Best advice he ever got throughout his career.
The less you get hit, the longer you can last.
The #1 fight he would want to make in boxing.
Terrence Crawford vs. Errol Spence is a good fight. Devon Haney vs. Shakur Stevenson, that’s great matchup. Teofimo Lopez vs. Gervonta Davis. As far as the Heavyweight división, Usyk vs. Fury, we need to match those guys. Deontay Wilder vs. Anthony Joshua.
Thoughts on keeping boxing a clean sport.
Remember I was the pioneer of random blood and urine testing. I talked about that and again I got backlash for that. But I don’t really care. I’m going to always speak my mind. I’m going to always speak on what I truly believe should help the sport or should just help athletes period. But hopefully we can clean the sport of boxing up. And I want the fighters to be clean and the coaches and everyone that is involved in the sport of boxing to push for clean athletes in the sport.
The King of Ducking has spoken… lol
Who did Floyd duck?? Margarito?
Most fighters on their primes like Miguel Cotto ( he paid a big amount of money to Top Rank for his freedom and avoid a planned fight with Cotto), a prime Pacquiao, Paul William and so on
I’m not about to get on Floyd for not fighting Manny Pacquiao earlier, for me that’s both of their faults and Cotto became legit middleweight champion of the world after fighting Matweather, so he still had something in the tank. Paul Williams was a good fighter but obviously he didn’t have much longevity and he lost a fight to Quintana I think it was. He was definitely good, but I don’t think very popular. And you can’t fight EVERYONE. Oscar fought some really good guys, but even he missed Vernon Forest and Winky Wright.
At the end Floyd did fight Berto when there were so many better options, if you want to go there, fine, but he was at the end there. I don’t look back on his career and think he ducked his way out of a lot of fights.
Don’t compare this to De La Hoya. That guy fought everyone in their primes and I would argue that if all fighters in history went through the list of elite prime fighters that Oscar went through, none of them would be undefeated and all would have multiple losses. Regarding Winky, Oscar came up from the lighter weight classes and people forget that. Winky was way too big for him and so was Vernon. Oscar should have never fought above 147.
I am not criticizing Oscar in any way, I am using the fact that he fought such an impressive line of fighters to say that NO ONE fights everyone or everyone in their prime. It’s impossible. Opponents will slip between the cracks.
Paul did lose to Quintana but he also lost to Martinez which was his defining loss. Paul was bouncing from 147,154 and 160 at the same time because most boxers were ducking him. Floyd would have outboxed Williams but Floyd would not box him due to his size and it really was not a fan friendly fight. Paul had a great chin and was a heavy handed boxer.
Margarito and Paul Williams.
I live in Vegas and know people in the Mayweather camp that at the time, actually admitted that Margarito was being avoided. It was considered a ‘dangerous fight’
Floyd Mayweateher made a career fighting scrubs or over the hill fighters. The only fighter he faced ahead of his prime was Canelo Alvarez a fight that pretty much made Alvarez. He ducked Manny for years waited until he was done before fighting him. Looking back at Floyed record and the fights he took Alvarez has beaten bigger names. I hate Floyd because I don’t think he faced the type of challenges he could have faced same as how many people is hating on Alvarez when in fact he faced bigger names.
LOL @ Floyd claiming to be clean!!! That’s the best joke I’ve heard in awhile.
If you have no evidence or knowledge of wrong doing on a person that still don’t drink or get high then you should STFU! period
Who are you to tell me to stfu?? You know had xylocaine injected into his hands before every fight to numb them, right? YES, I know that’s not a PED. However, if you think he’s clean then you are blind. All of them are at that level. He only fought in Vegas for a reason. Also, look up his vampire facials he would get. There is plenty of evidence of him juicing, just look around on YouTube.
If you remember, Floyd started using blood testing as an excuse not to fight Manny. I felt strongly he would beat Manny when they did eventually fight but Floyd would have beaten most guys he boxed even if they were in their prime. Master boxing counter punchers are just not fan friendly matches for the most part unless they just really are a few levels ahead, like Gotti vs Mayweather.
Great boxer, a twit as a person.
Colson, that’s probably the easiest way to explain it yes.
Like him or live him… Which either he really doesn’t give an f… He never got beat or beat up and made a squillion. Good for him and he is still somewhat relevant in boxing terms. The tall poppy syndrome of bringing people down in they’re prime is just as bad as anything he has ever done. And I’m not a fan of the reported things he has done
Little Floyd is an over rated clown who is FAR from the GOAT
Currency over legacy, great and heavy line. Teofilo Stevenson chose legacy over currency, where and how he died?
MF’ers like you need to devote your time to politics since you want drama, name any pass or present champion who defeated more Hall of Fame fighters in their prime than Floyd. You can’t! Start thinking you dumb fake aSs fan go eat a Taco have some rice and hit us all back.
“….go eat a Taco have some rice and hit us all back.”
– Red beans and rice…..
Go eat some fried chicken and watermelon and then rob and kill a few people then hit us back. Floyd is overrated.
While Floyd was an amazing boxer I can’t help but think he strove to remain undefeated as much as he dared to be great. If boxers of past generations were handled like some guys today are, 49-0, 50-0, etc. wouldn’t be that uncommon.
I haven’t always been on Floyd’s side, and I don’t always like him quiet frankly. However, I’ve always respected him and I always will. He’s legit, even if he took the path of least resistance sometimes.
Floyd is the GOAT like it or hate it period
Please review a below list of boxing qualities to determine which fighters (historically) satisfy ALL boxing qualities:
1) Great defense.
2) Great with combination punches.
3) Great list of defeated opponents (no excuses).
4) Great chin.
5) Great will and determination.
6) Great conditioning.
7) Great gym rat.
8) Stays in great shape.
9) Great discipline in ring.
10) Great ring mind.
11) At least stinging punching power.
11) Great jab.
12) Great ring movements.
13) Great body punching.
14) Great record.
15) Great inside fighting.
16) Great outside fighting.
17) Great at putting pressure on opponents.
18) Great with all punches.
19) Solid mean streak in the ring.
20) Great counterpunching.
Is FMJ one of the fighters??
Good luck.
There’s a long list of fighters who fit the bill. They are the all time greats.
Great interview. Floyd, one of the greatest, naturally-gifted fighters of all-time. Always appreciate his perspective.