No one has solved the Floyd Mayweather Jr. riddle. | Photo: Getty Collection/Illustration
There are many things that define fighters, each in vastly different ways. Yet once every few generations a fighter will identify himself as unique among other thoroughly gifted athletes, many of whom will never quite touch their full potential. It is very rare that an elite athlete not only touches that potential but seems to master it and take it to levels beyond even his own capability. Floyd Mayweather Jr., love him or hate him, is one of those athletes.
This article is going to examine a few of the in-depth details that make Mayweather the fighter he is, a fighter who is without a doubt one of the best of any era, if you look beyond personal bias, status of records and their significance on the landscape of the sport of boxing.