Will Floyd Mayweather Be the Next Undefeated P4P Great to Lose His 0?

If you are a true fight fan like myself, you love all kinds of combative fight sports, which obviously includes boxing and yes, even mixed martial arts.

Did he really say he loves both boxing and MMA? Yes I did.

So who made the unwritten law that one must either love boxing or MMA but not both? That is about as foolish as saying you must pick either T or A but you can’t have both. (T and A can stand for whatever you want it to, wink).

So recently, many of the top pound for pound great champions of MMA have been losing and falling off their top pound for pound undefeated thrones.

In December, the great undefeated Cung Le, one of the greatest kickboxing and Sanshou champions ever, lost to Scott Smith by a last minute fluke knockout, after utterly dominating him for the whole entire fight.  Le was seen totally exhausted and in need of a serious nap after pounding Smith with everything he had, including the kitchen sink.

Then in May, undefeated UFC light heavy weight champion Lyoto Machida, whom many considered to be the greatest UFC fighter of all time—who has reportedly never lost a single round in UFC history, and who has been considered to be the most elusive fighter in UFC—gets knocked out hard by Shogun Rua in the first round with ease.

The great Machida was helpless on his back, absorbing excessive damage from Shogun until the referee was forced to stop the fight. Lyoto left the octagon with a bruise the size of an orange on his always unblemished face.

Which brings us to the most shocking upset of them all. The greatest MMA fighter of all time, Fedor Emlianenko, shocked the world last Saturday when he was forced to tap out in the first round in what seemed to be a fight that he was winning quickly, without much effort at all. Fedor knocked down Werdum seconds into the fight and anxiously jumped on him, pounding away, hoping to end the fight instantly until he got caught in an arm bar. This would end the reign of the Last Emperor’s 10-year dominance in MMA.

Fedor came into this fight with an excellent record of 31-1. However, many do not consider his one loss a true loss, for it was due to an illegal elbow strike to his head. So in essence, he was viewed as undefeated.

Watching Fedor, the greatest MMA fighter of all time, tap out so fast like that is just simply shocking.

So cross over to the sport of boxing and think of the number one pound for pound undefeated great Floyd Mayweather Jr. who is now sitting on top of the world with a big win over Shane Mosley and a perfect record of 41(25)-0.

Unlike the top pound for pound undefeated MMA greats that I just mentioned, Floyd is not humble at all. Mayweather does enough trash talking to make up for the lack of trash talking that Le, Fedor, and Machida chose not to partake in throughout their careers.

To see a humble undefeated great go down in flames is even worse than seeing a cocky, loudmouth undefeated great lose. A part of us, no matter how big of a fan, would like to see that big mouth shut up just once.

As a big fan of Floyd Mayweather, and one who has made a lot of money on him, betting against others who prayed for his downfall and doubted his superior skills and ring intellect, a part of me cannot help to wonder how it would be if Floyd does indeed lose for the first time.

How will it look like? How would he take it?

Will it humble him? Will it make him even more greater and bounce back from a loss?

Mayweather has had his trouble in the ring only a few times against fighters like Castillo, Corley, Hatton, and most recently Mosley, but unlike any other fighter, Mayweather readjusts over and over again. He figures his opponents out as the fight goes on, knowing exactly what to do and eventually turning any trouble he has ever experienced into another easy Mayweather clinic.

Which basically tells me that if Mayweather were to lose, he would have to lose by getting stopped. For as I said many times before, no one out boxes Floyd. No one.

So if Floyd were to get knocked out, which is pretty much the only way to defeat him, how would he take it? How would it all go down? What would happen next?

Would he fight on like a true champion and fight even more safely? Or would he finally stop holding back and unleash the full monster that we all know he is capable of becoming in that ring? Would Floyd lose his all mental game and never be the same? Would he gain even more fans for they would want to see him win now?

How would it be when the great Floyd Mayweather falls off his undefeated pound for pound throne?