{"id":313409,"date":"2025-08-03T02:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T02:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/313409\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T02:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T02:22:08","slug":"bob-arum-says-one-current-world-champion-beats-prime-floyd-mayweather-hes-a-very-unique-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/313409\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Arum Says One Current World Champion Beats Prime Floyd Mayweather: &#8220;He&#8217;s A Very Unique Talent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary promoter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/bob-arum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bob Arum<\/a> believes that one unbeaten star of the sport would have defeated Floyd Mayweather in his prime.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst it remains a topic of discussion within the boxing community, many fans and analysts consider Mayweather to be one of, if not the greatest fighter to have ever laced up the gloves.<\/p>\n<p>The Michigan native remained unbeaten throughout the course of his 21-year professional career, winning multiple world titles in no less than five weight classes along the way.<\/p>\n<p>He boasts victories over the likes of Canelo Alvarez, Miguel Cotto, Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao, defeating the latter in the \u2018Fight Of The Century\u2019 back in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>However, that famous 50-0 record may have been a case of right place at the right time, as, speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sean_Zittel\/status\/1906753799232037349?t=VMBFQsl_JEm4qyUDlMho_w&amp;s=31\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sean Zittel<\/a>, Top Rank\u2019s Arum said Terence Crawford would have beaten \u2018Money\u2019 Mayweather.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCrawford. Because Crawford is a unique kind of fighter that other fights haven\u2019t seen. The ability he has to switch, fighters aren\u2019t used to that. They don\u2019t train for that. I just think he is a very, very unique talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Our relationship] has nothing to do with his ability as a fighter \u2026 As a fighter, he\u2019s a unique, superior guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/mayweather-names-best-fighter-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Bud\u2019 Crawford is widely regarded as being one of the best fighters on the planet right now \u2013 even by Mayweather himself.<\/a> The 37-year-old from Omaha is unbeaten in 41 professional fights, winning world titles at four weight classes including the undisputed championship at super lightweight and welterweight.<\/p>\n<p>He is just over one month away from what is set to be the toughest test of his career, as <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/boxing\/article\/netflix-secures-broadcast-rights-for-canelo-alvarez-vs-terence-crawford-boxing-mega-fight-171914293.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he prepares to challenge Mexican great and former Mayweather foe Canelo Alvarez for the undisputed super-middleweight championship in Las Vegas on September 13, streamed live on Netflix.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary promoter Bob Arum believes that one unbeaten star of the sport would have defeated Floyd Mayweather in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-313409","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\/114962454674422217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313409","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=313409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}