People who state that Mayweather's 0 is meaningless

Of course it is great. Consistency is very underrated.

 

The difference between Floyd having a 0 on the end of his ledger as opposed to a 1 is about $25 million per fight

It's certainly not meaningless

 

His 0 is more meaningful than the total joke records, but his legacy will always be a guy who didn't make the biggest fights at the right time.

I prefer guys like Oscar and Cotto who take bigger risks, but Mayweather is definitely a few notches above Joke Al and Ottke as far as that goes.

 

Mayweather back in 2001 -"Allen Iverson can go out there and have a bad game. I can't have an off night in boxing"

 

If course it's not "meaningless." It's definitely a huge achievement, but not the achievement he claims or his fans want to make it out to be. A lot of cherry picking went into that zero, and there's no way around it.

 

well what do you know.. turbotime the first to reply. :happy:happy

 

Nope. Cotto and Pacquiao needed to happen. But still even without those names his resume is excellent.

 

Agree with Slothrop, it's an achievement that deserves credit, but only for the consistency needed to keep that 0. He'd be higher on my atg list with say 2 losses but wins over just a few of the guys who he didn't fight.

My biggest problem with 0's is that casual fans/fan boys use it as a reason why a certain fighter is great/unbeatable, but beating great fighters>>>>>>>>>not losing to very good fighters

And that's why Floyd is never going to get near his full potential in terms of ATG ranking.

 

Nah, he sucks.

 

Alvarez is 41-0-1 which is almost as good.