Floyd Mayweather Jr is one of the few great champions in boxing history to retire with an unbeaten record.
Mayweather’s outstanding professional career began back in 1996. just a few months after he captured an Olympic Bronze Medal in the Atlanta games of the same year.
He captured world titles in five weight classes before his retirement in 2017, defeating the likes of Oscar De La Hoya, Canelo Alvarez, Miguel Cotto and Manny Pacquiao amongst many other great fighters.
After remaining unbeaten in all fifty of his career bouts, ‘Money’ finally walked away from the professional side of the sport in the summer of 2017 when he defeated MMA legend Conor McGregor in their monumental crossover match-up, which Mayweather won via tenth round stoppage.
Speaking with FightHype, Mayweather shared details of some of his hardest opponents, claiming he had no more than five tough fights during his career.
“I probably had six tough fights, if that, probably five tough fights.
Cotto was a tough fight, Emmanuel Augustus was tough, Cotto you know he was tough.
[I can name] those two that I can name off the top of my head, probably a few other fights but we got through it.”
In a separate interview comparing the two fighters, ‘TBE’ made it clear that Cotto was the toughest opponent he had ever faced.
“Emmanuel Augustus was tough, Miguel Cotto was tougher. Cotto was the toughest facer I’ve face so far”.
Despite making an exit from the professional side of the sport eight years ago, ‘Money’ Mayweather has had a number of exhibition contests, coming up against the likes of Logan Paul. Aaron Chalmers and Tenshin Nasukawa.
