The American returns to professional boxing this year. Mayweather early training looks serious.
He first steps in there with Mike Tyson in an exhibition bout in April in one of the big fights ever in terms of exhibitions for the entire sport.
It takes place in Africa in the Congo and sees the sport expand its worldwide fan base once again.
But then it is the real thing in September in a rematch with his old rival and boxing legend as well — Manny Pacquiao.
Everyone that has seen Mayweather train however in recent weeks back in the boxing gym are all appearing to say the same thing.
That he hasn’t missed a beat. He hasn’t lost a step. He hasn’t lost anything. That he still has it.
These are not just by standers either. They are seasoned veterans in the sport and some who know him better than anyone.
Floyd Mayweather is one of the great geniuses that ever stepped into a boxing ring and he knows how to create a stir and get people talking negative for the purposes of selling a fight.
Not always the villain role per se. He’s done it by making people purely jealous as well by making things look so easy his whole career in the ring and in training.
That’s another aspect to his psychological warfare ability that also as it happens meets his salesmanship and business acumen at the same time.
Mayweather is still as resolute, iron clad and as steadfast as ever in his training regime by all accounts.
He is coming in there with someone genuinely almost super human in Pacman in September though who will want to avenge his loss.
50 have tried so far.
All 50 have failed.
All 50 have come up short against Mayweather.
The fact he is still boxing as well and training as well in preparation this early by some that know him best and those that know the sport as well as anyone is testament to his all-time great status.
He turned 49 recently and if he goes in there and outboxes a Pacman who should have beaten a 30-year-old former world champion in Mario Barrios last year, if not for the scorecards to say it was a draw, it just cements his already untouchable legacy already.
His resume is already a list of some great boxers over the years but the longevity he has in the sport is one of a kind almost at this point.
He could look to eclipse Bernard Hopkins’ oldest world champion in professional boxing record at this rate so early.
He is still clearly working as hard as ever and as dedicated as ever but training smarter now we get the sense as well.
To be able to still train at that level.
Pacman will be training well of course as well — at the same time.
Alas, even after all these years, the legendary Floyd Mayweather training routine continues — even at 49 now.
