It isn't only the way Floyd Mayweather outclassed Mexico’s 23-year-old challenger, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, last Saturday night awhich makes the case for the now 45-0 undefeated 36-year-old being lauded as the best in the history of the sport at any weight.
It’s the fact his dominance of the sport is inarguable, not only inside but also outside the ring.
In terms of skill there is no fighter on the planet who has fought at the elite level for so long with such consistency.
MARIA DUARTE recommends a British boxing biopic about the stormy relationship between Nazeem Hamed and his trainer Brendan Ingle
When Patterson and Liston met in the ring in 1962, it was more than a title bout — it was a collision of two black archetypes shaped by white America’s fears and fantasies, writes JOHN WIGHT


