{"id":306863,"date":"2025-07-31T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306863\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:10:09","slug":"zab-judah-names-the-five-fighters-in-history-greater-than-floyd-mayweather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306863\/","title":{"rendered":"Zab Judah Names The Five Fighters In History Greater Than Floyd Mayweather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the eyes of many, retired pound-for-pound superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/floyd-mayweather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Floyd Mayweather<\/a> is one of the greatest fighters to have ever laced up the gloves.<\/p>\n<p>But in the opinion of former undisputed welterweight champion and Mayweather opponent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/zab-judah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zab Judah<\/a>, there are at least five legendary fighters that are even greater than his former rival.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the course of his 21-year professional career, Mayweather became a world champion in no less than five weight classes, defeating the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/canelo-alvarez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canelo Alvarez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/oscar-de-la-hoya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar De La Hoya<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/manny-pacquiao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manny Pacquiao<\/a> to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>After beating MMA fighter Conor McGregor in his 50th and final professional outing back in August 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/34081958\/emotional-floyd-mayweather-jr-calls-international-boxing-hall-fame-induction-career-highlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayweather would go on to draw the curtain on his career without suffering a single defeat.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/60MhAL59aoE?si=gSarRP08Q8WNs-YU&amp;t=29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking to VladTV<\/a>, Judah was asked for his top five fighters of all time and left Floyd off the list.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m trying to see who I put first under me, I\u2019m trying to see. Let\u2019s see, Mike Tyson, Pernell Whitaker, Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad Ali, legends.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Judah was beaten via unanimous decision when they clashed back in April 2006, surrendering his IBF welterweight title in the process at the Thomas &amp; Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>Victory over Judah saw Mayweather become a welterweight world champion for the very first time, having already captured world titles at super-featherweight, lightweight and super-lightweight up until that stage.<\/p>\n<p>Judah isn\u2019t the only man to claim that there are a number of fighters better than his former rival, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/bob-arum-3-fighters-better-than-mayweather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with Top Rank CEO Bob Arum also doing the same.<\/a> Mayweather remains steadfast in the opinion that he is the best of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the eyes of many, retired pound-for-pound superstar Floyd Mayweather is one of the greatest fighters to have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-306863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114948491464529739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}