Good topic.

I think to truly assess the competitiveness of a fight you have to go beyond the 10-9 scores round after round.

A 10-9 round can be anything from a back-and-forth ebb and flow round, where each has his moments....... to an absolute whitewash of a round, where the ONLY reason it's not 10-8 is because there wasn't a knockdown.

A fight can have all of one or all of the other... or some combination of both. In the end, they're all 10-9 rounds.

You can have a 120-108 fight where every round was grueling and judges basically had to toss a coin to choose a winner in every round. And you can have a 120-108 fight where it was over before it even began.

My point in the Floyd-Canelo fight is that there was never a moment that you felt Canelo was in it. It was a boxing lesson for 180 seconds of EVERY round. No... Canelo was never hurt. That means NOTHING. Canelo's got a tough chin, and Mayweather was not going to risk a lucky punch (ala Canelo-Khan) by trying to hurt Canelo. So he did the smart thing. He totally and utterly shut him out. No round was even close. THAT... is not a competitive fight. Floyd, who has gone on record saying what his toughest fights have been, has never mentioned Canelo in any of those conversations.