How tall was he?

Fact!

​@@christusomnipotens3751 6'

@@christusomnipotens3751 Mayweather had a longer reach though lol like Crawford does height means nothing when you’ve got the longer arms and faster feet

Many newer boxing fans today don't realize just how good Diego Corrales was at this time. He was one of the best fighters in the world, and Floyd just dominated him. Incredible.

Well said

I always said that about floyd and not only 10 but the whole 12 💯

I know he worked really hard for good cardio but he has to have some crazy genetics too, sustaining that speed for that long

Many trainers have said Floyd’s gift is his conditioning

It’s his best weapon. He used it to destroy Conor. He came out barely through any punches until 4th round by the 10th Conor couldn’t continue. Floyd uses that cardio better than anyone else out there! It’s a combination of his defensive ability and cardio. He can stay safe and wear you out with out ever slowing down.

The same my side man

Shit gives you goosebumps? You shouldn't be rubbing shit on your skin.

I have always thought it's his strongest point that put him where he is. From his earlier fights he's been listening to him attentively and do exactly what he said.

Floyd cherry-picked his opponents after this fight. He was a favorite because he chose 'b' and 'c' level opponents.

@@MrMarco855 Let me give you a graph of every Floyd fight AFTER Corrales: Carlos Hernandez, 33-2-1 future IBF Super Featherweight champion, had wins over Gregorio Vargas and Narciso Valenzuela Romo (who knocked down De La Hoya in their fight), went on to beat Justin Juuko, a 23-1 Steve Forbes and former world title challenger Juan Carlos Ramirez. Jesus Chavez, 35-1 future two division champion with wins Emanuel Augustus, Javier Jauregui, an 18-2-1 Louie Lejia, Troy Dorsey, and 33-1 Juan Jose Arias. Went on to beat Sirimongkol Singwancha, Carlos Gerena, Carlos Hernandez, and Leavander Johnson. Jose Luis Castillo TWICE (first fight was a robbery) Victoriano Sosa, 35-2-2, former world title challenger who had wins over Francisco Lorenzo and perennial contender Harold Warren. Philip N’Dou (no relation to Lovemore Ndou), 31-1 with wins over 21-1-2 Jesus Zatarin and 26-0 Cassius Baloyi. Demarcus Corley, 28-2-1 former WBO lightweight champion who had wins over hard punching Randall Bailey, Inaugural WBO Latino welterweight champion Felix Flores, and Ener Julio. Would go on to become an underrated journeyman, and also went on to beat Darryl Tyson, an 18-0 Gabriel Bracero, a 23-1 Paul McCloskey, and a faded Vivian Harris. Henry Bruseles, 21-2-1, basically just a crappy version of Miguel Cotto. Only notable wins were an old Ben Tackie and an old Cesar Bazan. Then came Arturo Gatti, who he schooled with ease, back when the two weight champ was still at the top of his game. Gatti had beaten Wilson Rodriguez, Jesse James Leija, Gabriel Ruelas, Tracy Harris Patterson, Calvin Grove, Micky Ward twice, 55-3 former champ Joey Gamache (although the weight advantage was INSANE) former champion Leonard Dorin/Doroftei, and 32-0-1 Gianluca Branco. After Floyd he beat 37-0 Thomas Damgaard as well. After that, former world champion Sharmba Mitchell, who had beaten an old Bazooka Limon, 32-2 kickboxer turned boxing champ Khalid Rahilou, Rocky Lockridge, Terron Millett (who once dropped Zab Judah), Felix Flores, Vince Phillips, 38-2-2 fringe contender Carlos Vilches, Ben Tackie, Lovemore Ndou, 35-1-2 Michael Stewart, 30-2 Reggie Green, and he went on to beat 33-1-2 Jose Luis Cruz. Speaking of Zab Judah, that fight’s up next, he was a former Undisputed Champion at Welterweight, in addition to being a multi-weight champion. After that, one of the slowest unified champions of all time, Carlos Baldomir, he beat both Gatti and Judah but had insane weight advantages over them. And now we get to the bigger fights: Oscar De La Hoya, five division champion with a stacked resume. 43-0 two-weight champ Ricky Hatton, whose aggressive style got dismantled by Floyd (albeit with some help from Joe Cortez) A slightly past it JMM, above where he fights best, but still dangerous, and also a good counterpuncher. Then came three weight champ Shane Mosley, who actually had Floyd hurt at one point, however Floyd recovered and won the fight. 29-2-2 Defending Welterweight champion Victor Ortiz, he had wins over former WBO Bantamweight champ Alfred Kotey, Mike Arnaoutis, Nate Campbell, Vivian Harris, 27-0 Andre Berto, Tomas Barrientes (who had a win over Augustus)and Emmanuel Clottey (1994 Commonwealth Games participant), former champ Carlos Maussa (albeit he sucked as champ), and 1996 Olympian Dairo Esalas. Then came a 37-2 Miguel Cotto who was already elite by this time but went on to be a legend. 31-1-1 two weight champ Robert Guerrero, had wins over 23-0 Selcuk Aydin, Michael Katsidis, Malcolm Klassen, Vicente Escobedo, 35-1 Spend Albazi, a 23-1 Jason Litzau, two of the worst champs ever Eric Aiken and Juan Polo Perez, 30-2-4 Enrique Sanchez, and a 28-1 Berto. Went on to beat 24-1-1 Yoshihiro Kamegai, Victor Ortiz, and got a 2nd win over Berto on the last ever Showtime card 2 months ago. After that was a 42-0-1 Canelo who got schooled by the more savvy Floyd, but bizarrely CJ Ross scored the fight a DRAW. Followed by the two Maidana fights. Maidana was a former champ on the comeback trail after humiliating the undefeated multi-weight champ Adrien Broner. The first fight was tough for Mayweather, the second not so much. Then came the Manny Pacquiao superfight that turned out to be a stinker, and I will not elaborate on the fight itself but Manny was already a legend by this point. Lastly in terms of world level fights, the Andre Berto fight. Berto was 30-3, was a former champ, and had tried so hard across several years yo get a Mayweather fight. When the time came however, this man looked terrible against Floyd, just looked like a deer in headlights. As for the McGregor fight, it’s the weakest in his entire career so it doesn’t count toward much besides Conor’s fame from being a two weight UFC champion.

​@MrMarco855 shut up

@@MrMarco855like Canelo Alvarez?

@@pandarasengan6709 Canelo was obviously a top-level fighter, but he was still a kid at the time. Floyd still deserves credit for beating him, but Floyd definitely cherry-picked his entire career. You can only find a few fights in which his opponent was top level and not compromised in some way. Smaller, at the end of their career, coming off of a loss, he even closed out his career against a non-pro fighter. Hard to defend that. If you examine his career and most of his opponents, you'll find the same thing,. In his very best prime years, Floyd had 8 fights. Most/all were against lower-level opponents or guys compromised in some way. Guys like Baldomir and Mitchell were old/far past their best. Guys like Victoriano Sosa, Philip N'Dou and Henry Bruseles were overmatched B/C level guys. Corley had just lost to Zab Judah when Floyd chose to fight him next. Zab had just lost to 36 year old Baldomir when Floyd chose him next. Gatti was washed up, far past it, he retired soon after. Those were the 8 guys Floyd fought when he was 25 to 29. Meanwhile there were a dozen or so better fighters in/near their prime ready and willing but Floyd ducked them.

Agreed.

Pretty boy was unstoppable

Goat

😂Obvious you are from Floyd era, there are more than enough boxers that would beat him. Every fighter is beatable. Corrales in the first fight proved that. Fighters like duran, hearns. Pernall Whitaker, even a prime Oscar I think would have beaten him. He was a old time great but not unbeatable or the best ever. In the last years he ruled boxing never went outside Vegas never took big risks. The canelo fight was impressive. On his boxing style was winning more than entertaining never took any risks. Mostly one... One two but not combinations. With that defence and stamina, very very smart. Most entertaining was outside the ring and I personally do not like his attitude

@@marcdikhoff4309Fighters usually get better as time goes on because advances in sports science and technique used become more refined. You can really judge fights based on their career and how good they were against their own competition and Mayweather had a better career than the guys you named.

I've seen this fight so many times and never noticed that! Def props to Roy!!! 💯💯

This is the comment I was looking for!!!! That was a dope moment, Roy knew the assignment

Facts 💯

​@@DJSwavor I was looking for this comment as well. Seen this fight a few times and never noticed. But Roy is a stand up dude for that.

💯

Just another couple of demented and incompetent hating clowns. I was glad to hear no Merchant, but these two are just as dumb.

They became a believer 😂

I use to see the biased but i slick think they tactically beef up the underdog on purpose to create the tension for viewers

Naw one of the announcers lost to Floyd so he was salty

hindsight is a beautiful thing lol

Brushing their teeth with it

sheesh😮

Such a disgrace

I can’t unhear it😂

Terrible, said Floyd didn't wanna go toe to toe with Diego.. lol

Good catch never noticed that 🐐

beautiful

Anything that's not a jab is a power punch. Actual fans are aware of this fact. 🙄

What to feel about Mayweather as person... Well, first off he packed his wallet with hefty and healthy networth; Does not take any crap in his body and does not get wasted. Did not have any felony charges and did not beat his women. He does seem to be a normal person just like anyone else.

@@ondaride777 There's still people who don't like him for his cocky attitude, and for some reason think that he's a boring and too defensive fighter (like that would be something bad to begin with). I guess they haven't seen some of the absolute highlights from his earlier years (like the fight in this video), when he knocked people out cold right and left. It wasn't until he started having problems with his hands that he became the GOAT in defense.

Not everyone can relate to greatness, hardwork and dedication that Floyd has 🐐🥊. Especially the white hillbillies that are always desperate for a white hope in boxing 🤣

@@nj1255He wasn't cocky he was confident and backed it up.

They were 100% bias, it was unbelievable

Floyd look awful young

His cardio is unreal.. I wonder how many miles he ran to get into this shape

Crazy you say that because Plant vs Benavidez is a prime example of that. It reminded me of this fight stylistically but Floyd never got tired in the slightest like plant did.

@@TheVeteran919 Man Plant was winning those first few rounds until he got off his bike and started giving free hugs

@@TheVeteran919 NO, it was not. Plant started to fade in the second half. Floyd literally never looked like that even in the 12th round of any fight. Stop typing nonsense!

They hold all of their fighters back

They did hold him back but remember at this time Oscar De La Hoya was the biggest name in boxing and they were promoting him. This is also why it took so long for them to fight each other.

@@ftejeda23 Bob Arum said it wasn’t any money in a Floyd/Oscar fight…funny how Floyd buys himself out and immediately fought Oscae

100% facts! Floyd ended up being the highest paid athlete ever once he left and got with Al Hayman

@@tcincali9642hell yeah and this fight made so much money imagine what kind of fight it would of been if they fought earlier before Oscar was a dope head lol

And the co-commentator, the late great Genaro Hernandez. Floyd can be many things outside of the ring, but he shows respect when its due.

He paid for Corrales funeral too.

and he paid for pernell whitaker’s funeral

The Haters' don't care Nothing about The People That They Hate,,, Lives...

@@sydneycampbell4233 100% They hate certain people and can't get past it.... but we have never needed them, only God, and He has favored us.

The greatest boxer of all time in my opinion

If he threw more it'd be even more impressive. Like if he had that killer instinct

@@jorge5275he did early in his career before hand injuries.

@@hornkneekneegrow7942 not really? Were they broke in the Castillo fight?

This was good but his performance against Canelo and Cotto were better imo

@@survivingsobriety2562don’t forget the gatti fight that was haarrd to watch

@@mopar_keys I forgot about that, he almost beat him to death made him look like a amateur

Corrales and Canelo were, in my opinion, Floyd's best performances. But I was most impressed with his performance against Canelo because, he was already 36 years of age, yet he fought like he was 28. Incredible how he just dominated Canelo.

​@@mopar_keys EXACTLY what I was thinking! That Gatti fight watching as a young kid made believe he was the best. As an adult, I thought how much of a warrior Gatti was too. A lot of fighters would've quit sooner

But I thought people said Floyd Mayweather never fought anyone and that he avoided them at their best? Hmmm 🤔

Ig thats true Respekt

Man he bet on Floyd once and got 20 bucks stop believing niggas bro

Nah u rich 😂

@@finessekid3661 lmao I wish. Floyd was a favorite for most of his career and his odds were super bad that's why you had to bet so much to make any money with him

So... What would YOU say is his "best" then??? Or are you just one of THOSE guys...

I disagree with you and the title man. Best performance was against Gatti. It was literally a man vs boy performance, a hof’er vs an part time amateur…it was that dominant.

How is it the most complete?

@@theonewhoisbetterthanyou3570 Good point on the Gatti fight, but I don´t think those 2 were his best performances. Why? Because neither could compete with him and Floyd just ran through them. He mainly showed off his offensive prowess those nights. I think the Alvarez and Cotto fights will always be the ones where Floyd showed off most of what he could do. And the Berto fight as well. Offense, defense, experience, ring generalship... he showed it all. And Cotto actually pushed Floyd, so he made him show grit and fortitude as well.

@@SuperCrazyEstonian i also like that about the Burton fight. Emmanuel gave Floyd a fight and Floyd showed a lot in that fight too. Like in all his fights he had great shot selection and i think in the Burton fight he showed impeccable body punching, level changes, and aggressive defense. He always set up his counter to the body of Burton using his bobbing/weaving.

Floyd the best

Yes i have been looking for this comment. That was so nice to see, this is why Floyd is one of the greatest ever, he was intensely humble. His reaction when beating Genaro is very emotional to watch because he had realized his dreams of being champion.

He sparred 15 minute rounds, with two different fighters switching each round! TBE!

plus 10 miles of running daily and 15 rounds with a new sparring partner each round, and those rounds last from 10 to 20 minutes each. fresh as the first round in the last round guaranteed.

😢 Nope!.. I was searchin' for a kleenex too😢😂😂 *Factz*

And after all the insults chico threw at him. He paid for chicos funeral and never said a word. Chico wife came forward and said floyd did that for his family. TBE!! people find reasons to hate him and he cashes in on it.

​@@TheLibra926 floyd threw the insults

@@david-lm7iu nope floyd whooped his ass

@TheLibra926 boi can't read nobody said he didn't whoop his ass I said floyd threw the verbal insults 🤡🤡

​@@TheLibra926 yup big difference 😂

Yea I think he actually really hurt it this fight (right)

I was to young to see this version of him but this version better then Money mayweather, quicker, faster, stronger

I initially thought he should’ve boxed on the outside, but then I realized that when a fighters mobility and hand speed is way faster it doesn’t matter. When Corrales would miss Floyd would quickly step in and deliver punches that barely catches the human eye. Unreal. The best chance he had was to throw combinations and hope it hurt Floyd.

Floyd Sr isn’t dead. His uncle Roger passed

Lmao casual…. Floyd sr is alive. Roger passed away

Wtf is u talking about 😂😂

@@Basedmike17 bro ur 7months late lol I already got corrected… get a life instead of scrolling through YT comments

@@BiggBlamm how you mad because you ain't know something? Your comment was like the 3rd comment from the top but u wouldn't know that either because u a little slow

True

Mayweather fans always make up their own stories. Corrales landed 4 punches in that round. Floyd should have been disqualified and lost the fight. He committed a double foul in the 7th round. He hit Corrales on the back of his head, foul #1. Corrales was down on one knee for 2 seconds before he got hit, foul #2. That's the same thing Roy Jones did and they DQ'D him. It was Roy's first loss.

@MrMarco855 lol... giving up the back of your head should not win the fight... white dudes always find ways to discount Floyd's greatness... sorry non of your "hypes" were able to dethrone the king... bet you think "Conor did pretty well" in their fight too... lol

It’s usually the white folks that are so desperate for a white hope so they hate on greatness like Floyd 🥊🐐

I just say haters gonna hater. This is gonna sound kinda racist 😂 but the only people that hate Floyd or deny his greatness are those who don’t box, don’t know anything about boxing or Mexicans 😂

I will say that Floyd is possibly the greatest ever BUT Ray Robinson@welter and Ray Leonard would have prob beat Floyd but you cannot ever count Floyd out! Floyd beat his opponents with his MIND but Sugar Ray Leonard was very fast and quick and could fight in the pocket beautifully (Leonard brutally dismantled Floyd's Father back in the day when they were prospects). Floyd would have his hands full against Leonard but we'll never know!

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@KeojiMaru”This is gonna sound kinda racist, but the only people who hate Floyd or deny his Greatness-are those who don’t know anything about Boxing - and Mexicans.” I disagree. I don’t think that sounds “kinda racist”. I think it ‘sounds _really_ racist’. It sounds _kinda_ like ‘Misogyny’ - to imply that nobody would dislike someone that savagely-beat the shit out of multiple Women, countless times, in front of Her Children. But, what do I know.

Floyd is the warrior. “Hardwork! dedication!” - Floyd mayweather jr 🥊🐐

I Love My Brother Corrales!!! May He Always Be Blessed IN THE EVERLASTING KINGDOM OF HEAVENLY FATHER GOD ALMIGHTY... HALLELUYAH

Exactly!

It really was. Many parallels.

You mean Genaro Hernandez. He grew up a block away from me I was privileged to know him and his family. Hernandez was a true class act. One of the nicest professional boxers of all time. RIP.

That's because he respected Floyd! He actually boxed Mayweather notice when the other commentator talks negative about Floyd he doesn't say anything....RIP to a class act

And people have nerve to say prime for prime Canelo beats Floyd 😂😂 Floyd at this weight at this time would beat Canelo at his size rn

@@lildbabyy2541 this Floyd was at his peak as a boxer .... !!!

@@Chan_Chal_Chit_1 pure dominance

@@lildbabyy2541 true ... Imagine what Floyd could do ( in his prime ) to an average guy who was the same weight !!!

@@Chan_Chal_Chit_1 he’d go to prison!!!