(Photo credit: Sumio Yamada) By Chris Williams: In the last four months, WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KOs) has taken a great deal of criticism from boxing fans for his previous performance against Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KOs) from last May.
Fans believe that Mayweather’s skills have eroded and that he’s no longer the same fighter he was 12 months ago in his fight against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. Even trainer Freddie Roach has come out of the woodwork, saying repeatedly in the last month that he believes Mayweather’s legs are gone.