NBA Legend Shaquille O’Neal Seemingly Chooses His Side in Floyd Mayweather vs. Canelo Alvarez Debate

The top-notch rivalry between the undefeated stalwart Floyd Mayweather and the maiden undisputed super middleweight champion, Canelo Alvarez, is the big story in the world of boxing.

However, recently it resurfaced on social media platforms when the NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal had shared a snippet of ‘The Pretty Boy’ discussing his experience about fighting with Canelo Alvarez.

Mayweather shared his opinion in a media event years after the fight, which caught the attention. According to the Instagram story of the most dominating center of NBA history, Mayweather said, “You can take a guy like Canelo. This guy could do. He can pick and choose who he wants to fight. I’m gonna tell you the truth about Canelo, Motherf****r easy man, cake walk easy! You’ll sitting up here. You’ll praising this dude, this dude was nothing.”

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Notably, the boxing greats of this generation had clashed in 2013 for the light-middleweight champion. Unfortunately, this fight added the only loss in the remarkable numbers of the pound-for-pound king, and it often gives an upper hand to ‘The Best Ever.’

How was the fight between Canelo Alvarez and Floyd Mayweather?

In the jam-packed MGM Grand in Las Vegas, ‘Money’ Mayweather put forth phenomenal tactics and schooled the young Mexican Star, then 23 for 12 rounds.

However, one judge scored the fight as a draw while the other two judges favored ‘The Pretty Boy’ in his 45th consecutive win.

The hype for the fight was pretty intense as a young power gun Canelo was facing a fighter of such a huge magnitude first time in his career. Started slow in the opening round with both fighters, spending most of the time analyzing each other’s movement.

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The duo clarified their strategy in his early throws. Mayweather picked the jab to keep the distance from the classical power puncher. Whereas Canelo attacked to cut the movement of Mayweather around the ring.

Deep down, round by round, the fight inclined towards Mayweather for his incredible display of defense and well-crafted punches. Undoubtedly, it was not the night of Alvarez. However, his class and skills made it certain that he was an upcoming global phenomenon of boxing.

According to USA Today Sports, Canelo has expressed that he had that ‘little itch’ for a rematch.

But it did not seem that it will happen as Floyd Mayweather is out of the competitive sport.