Floyd Mayweather is often regarded as the best defensive boxer in history for a very good reason.

The boxing legend has expertly mastered the shoulder roll technique over the years.

Mayweather's dad famously taught him how to do the move when he was just a teenager.

And there's perhaps no better example than when he toyed with Jesus Chavez before forcing him to quit on his stool.

That's despite him later revealing that he broke his hand during the fight.

Twitter user @b0xeofan - an alt account of @b0xingfan - shared throwback footage of Mayweather using the now infamous defensive move.

In the video, Mayweather can be seen expertly dodging out of the way, as Chavez is left chasing shadows.

It really is poetry in motion.

WATCH: Floyd Mayweather demonstrates how to execute the perfect shoulder roll

Check out the video below...

Mike Tyson's former trainer Teddy Atlas explained that it all comes down to timing.

He told The Ring: “Mayweather knows when to use [the shoulder roll] and when not to.

"He doesn’t depend only on that. It’s just an element within his body of work. I think it’s the other parts that also go into the sum of who and what he is.

"It’s the other parts that allow him to be effective. He has quick hands, he can fight in the center of the ring. He doesn’t have to wait to lure you in so that he can counter.

"If you wait on him, his hand speed allows him to get off first. He showed that against Canelo. He doesn’t have to just wait on guys to walk in and then set traps for them.

“Because he doesn’t depend only on a particular style or a particular move, opponents can’t dissect him and say, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to attack.’ You have to find other vulnerabilities, and he doesn’t have many.

"The whole of Floyd Mayweather is greater than the individual parts. When you fight him, you can’t concentrate on one piece of the puzzle.

“Broner, who tries to emulate Floyd, is a good example of that. He hadn’t fought anybody on the level of Maidana, somebody he couldn’t intimidate with his speed and some of the other physical abilities that he has. Maidana wasn’t halfway defeated heading into the fight, and you saw what happened.

"Broner [who was knocked down twice by Maidana en route to losing a unanimous decision] was overly dependent on that move. He thought he could depend on it to a greater extent than he should have.

“Floyd doesn’t pigeonhole himself in that way. He has other things to go to, and that’s what makes him so effective. When he goes to the shoulder roll, it almost seems as if it’s something new and unique.

"You watch him execute it like he does, and it’s seems like you’re seeing it for the first time.

“Where Broner went wrong was having a psychological attachment to a great fighter’s most notable move. But true originals find a constancy in something. Imitators are only hoping to find that. They don’t have complete assurance it will bring them to that next level. Mayweather’s already at that level.”

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