Floyd Mayweather Jr has revealed who he thinks was the best out of the legendary ‘Four Kings’ that took the sport of boxing by storm in the 1980s.
Mayweather knows extremely well what it is like to be the biggest name in the sport, having been pound-for-pound number one throughout most of the 2000s and 2010s, becoming a pay-per-view and box office megastar in the process.
Prior to Mayweather’s rise to the top, there were four other boxing icons that were rightfully regarded as being some of the best around, and those are the ‘Four Kings’ which consisted of Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns.
The quartet of fighters all faced each other in iconic battles, and there has often been a debate amongst boxing fans about who was the best out of the four men.
Mayweather named who he gives that honour to, telling the Fat Joe Podcast that he thinks Duran is the one who ranks above Leonard, Hearns and Duran.
“I’mma go Roberto Duran … Duran was arguably the greatest lightweight ever and became one of the ‘four kings’ at welterweight and middleweight.”
Duran was a four-weight world champion, winning gold at lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, whilst also becoming undisputed during his tenure at 135lbs.
His illustrious career lasted over 30 years, beginning in 1968 and ending in 2001, with Duran’s final record reading 103 wins from 119 fights, so it is understandable to see exactly why Mayweather believes the Panamanian superstar to be the best.
