Floyd Mayweather: Money's pull counter in 2009 was utter perfection

Much is made of how brilliant Floyd Mayweather’s boxing ability was during his illustrious professional career.

He maybe wasn’t the most fearsome fighter in terms of power and knockouts but the American would punish his opponents in other ways.

The 45-year-old finished his pro career with a record of 50-0 with 27 of his wins coming inside the distance.

But boxing isn’t just about delivering the knockout punch and Mayweather is possibly the greatest of all time at evading his opponent’s punches.

Manny Pacquiao, Canelo Alvarez and Ricky Hatton all had to deal with the frustration of being outclassed by the 45-year-old.

It was another of his opponents, though, who was the unfortunate fighter on the other end of a bit of Mayweather magic in 2009.

Juan Manuel Marquez was a three-division world champion but he faced the unenviable task of ‘Money’ Mayweather at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Pretty Boy was dominant throughout and he won via unanimous points decision with all judges siding heavily with the five-weight world champion.

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During the fight, Mayweather executed an excellent pull counter before ducking and dodging Marquez’s right hand.

Floyd Mayweather Jr executes a pull counter and then slips the right hand afterwards (2009) pic.twitter.com/O0pHqnm9t9

It was a moment of class from the boxing legend and it was a tough night overall for the Mexican but he had a great career nonetheless.

After the fight, Marquez said: “The weight was an advantage but Floyd’s a great fighter.

“He’s very fast and a very good counter puncher. I came to fight 12 hard rounds and a lot of people thought I was going to get knocked out.

“But I wasn’t and I hope