A few weeks removed from Floyd 'Money' Mayweather's final (yet remains to be seen) fight within the sport of boxing against Andre Berto, you could say we are now into a new era in a sense.
Floyd Mayweather regardless of what you think of him, marked an era of boxing as the best of his time - pound for pound.
What will he be remembered for?
In my view, certainly as one of the best fighters to ever lace up a pair of gloves, but will he go down as his self proclaimed mantra 'TBE'?
Not for me, as it stands anyway.
His impact on the sport will probably be best remembered as a man who helped increase fighter purses and financial salary expectations for professional athletes across the board, as lets be honest, there's never been someone who's monetized boxing - or sport in general like he did.
But there's a lot to look forward in this new era of pugilism, with many, many great talents already around - and emerging.
Take the heavyweight scene on it's own, it's a lot better than what it was a few years ago.
Boxing is almost one of those sports that runs in cycles sometimes, pertaining to quality of it's elite level participants at least.
There's some great blood coming through in the heavyweights with the likes of current WBC champion Deontay Wilder and the UK's Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua perhaps the pick of the new blood.
That's not to forget people like Alexander Povetkin and a returning David Haye, too.
Outside the heavyweights you've got fighters like Canelo Alvarez, Vasyl Lomachenko, David Lemieux, Gennady Golovkin, Roman Gonzalez, Sergey Kovalev, Terence Crawford, Adonis Stevenson and many, many more, all making huge strides in world boxing in recent times.
Established campaigners like Miguel Cotto and Wladimir Klitschko are still at the top of their games to boot, to ensure that the transition of eras will be marked by the passing of the proverbial torches from old lions to new lions - will be an interesting one.
Of course you've got tons of prospects and rising stars all around the world also that are breaking through in the pro game at the moment, from America's Errol Spence Jr, to Ireland's Jason Quigley, to many more from the USA, Europe, to most other continents around the world.
The truth is, there's actually too many fighters to name that are lighting up the world of the sweet science at the moment and in all honesty, boxing is really in a tremendous place from a talent perspective.
Even more encouragingly, some of the big fights are finally starting to get made, perhaps helped from added pressure from other combat sports that also continue to prosper (competition is always a good thing).
Than add in the fact that commercially boxing set the all time financial record in world sports this year for Mayweather vs Pacquiao, to the fact that boxing is now once again being shown on major networks in the USA and UK, to the further fact that the TV ratings for boxing's newest franchise 'Premier Boxing Champions' continue to grow.
Boxing's going nowhere, make no mistake about it.
The post Floyd Mayweather era within the sport is bright, packed with talent and growing. In the words of Mayweather himself:
"Men lie, women lie, numbers don't lie."
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