Good points, nothing to add about Mayweather. I don't think even Roy got old "overnight" though. He'd already slowed some before he even moved up to HW to fight Ruiz, not a lot, but it was there. For me the Richard Hall fight was the last time he was really the same freaky athlete he'd been for the previous decade.
Dropping back down to 175 probably did take a lot out of him, but for instance, I think he looked better in the rematch with Tarver for a round and a half than he had the entire first fight which he clearly won imo. He just got caught with a huge punch, that could have happened even before he moved up to HW, at least imo. Once he'd been knocked out like that it obviously put the fear in him, the Glen Johnson fight is probably still the worst he has ever looked, was more of a mental thing imo.
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