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It will take a smart guy to beat him. Mayweather hasn't fought to many guys that are ring smart- the obvious exception being Marquez and the size differential there was huge. He fights a lot of guys that are good at throwing punches, but not so good at figuring out how to hit a guy that doesn't want to get hit, and knows how to avoid it. Another thing, smart fighters don't get hit with a lot of right hands (because you can see them coming forever) but dummies eat them like popcorn; James Toney had a real good run exploiting this same tactic, even as a weeble of a blown up MW.
"Knowing how to fight" is not a prerequisite of becoming a professional fighter; in fact, it is very very rare in this era of boxing. Mayweather controls the distance every time he fights and a guy that knows how to fight would contest that with him. It may not lead to an exciting fight, but that it the beginning of the way to beat him.
Floyd is brilliant in the ring but not only that he's brilliant at implementing his game plan. He can adjust and change his game during a fight like nobody else. Either someone will have to get lucky or just simply outmuscle him and over power him and again I don't see him losing to anyone. Even if there was a prime pressure fighter it would be very difficult for such a fighter to beat Floyd. Floyd is too crafty to be outboxed and too quick and too in shape to wilt under the pressure from another fighter. Floyd could fight 30 rounds if he had too, amazing talent.
I agree with that. But I don't know that he is too crafty to be outboxed, as I have never seen him fight another crafty fighter that tried to out box him. I don't know of anybody currently fighting that fits that bill, either, not near his weight class.
The biggest part of Mayweather- or, really, any smart fighter- being able to implement his game plan is his ability to control distance. To keep it at range when he chooses, or to make the other guy come to him to get pot-shotted with right hands, or to make the other guy stand there and wait on Mayweather to steal the right hand. The guy that can beat Mayweather is the guy that can force him to close distance when he doesn't want to, or make him fight when he doesn't want to.
It can be done, no fighter is unbeatable, but I don't think that there is anybody around to do it because it requires a skill set that is very rarely taught any more.