Yep, Americans with their obsessive focus on being #1, and nothing else matters except #1.His squeaky clean record is his angle.
To the mainstream masses, yeah, a single loss would destroy the illusion he created, but the masses don't know he ducked every top prime guy for 8 years (Ricky Hatton excluded, Hatton was the sole top prime guy Floyd fought during those 8 years, and Floyd had help in there from ref joe cortez.)
His record is NOT squeaky clean, he should have 2 losses on it.
1. Every real Boxing fan KNOWS Castillo whupped him that time in 2002 and got robbed.
2. The real fans also know that in the Judah fight, there should have been an automatic DQ the instant Floyd's cornerman climbed into the ring during the rd and went after Judah. That was complete bull$#!t. Ref richard steele was about to take points from Judah for Judah's foul tactics, but crackhead roger's actions of storming the ring during the fight, that's an automatic DQ anyway you slice it! Steele broke the rules of Boxing there, and he was told by someone to keep that fight going after they cleared the ring of all the rioters.
A case could be made for a 3rd loss against Oscar De La Hoya instead of a split-decision. Crap-tastic fight because of Floyd's unwillingness to fight, but I think De La Hoya won that one on effective aggression. Not that it was very effective aggression, but Oscar was the only one doing a damn thing in there.
PLUS Floyd had all those losses as an amateur unlike Sugar Ray Robinson as an amateur.
It's why Floyd's a bronze medalist.
Real fans knows it's not a squeaky clean undefeated record at all, but the mainstream idiots don't their @$$hole from a hole-in-the-ground regarding Boxing.


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