Tale of the Tape | Floyd Mayweather’s Logan Paul draw is an embarrassing new low for the sport of ‘celebrity’ boxing
- The 44-year-old legend was clearly better than the 26-year-old Logan Paul, but YouTube star gets ‘win’ by staying in
- Next up former UFC champion Tyron Woodley will take on Logan’s younger brother Jake Paul
He’s never been much liked as a boxer due to his frustratingly boring defensive strategy, nor as a person given that he has shown throughout his career that he is out for himself and couldn’t care much about anything else. There is good reason why his nickname is simply “Money”.
After retaining the World Boxing Association title against Andre Berto in 2015, Mayweather then fought UFC superstar Conor McGregor in what was a great trash-talking promotional escapade. This made their boring, slow-moving fight even more anticlimactic, as Mayweather simply held guard until McGregor got tired, and that was that.
Then there was Japanese kick-boxer Tenshin Nasukawa, the cash grab of all cash grabs. Some of this late career money-grubbing would be understandable if Mayweather wasn’t already stinking rich and posting photos of his uber expensive watches on Instagram on a daily basis.
What makes Mayweather the most legitimately loathed boxer is his transgressions outside the ring, which include domestic violence against women. A boxer hitting anyone outside the ring is a violation of the sport’s ethics, and plain disgusting. Mayweather, in most people’s minds, is unredeemable. He is, and always will be, a villain through and through.
