Is Floyd Mayweather Jr a 'Living Legend' ????

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by emallini, Dec 13, 2013.


  1. MaliBua

    MaliBua Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Interesting thoughts man.:think

    Can you tell me what is wrong with this era because it feels alot of these ONLY-FIGHTS-WHICH-MATTERS do not happen. I did not follow boxing back in the day because I was barely born but feel like those fights which were the most importand always came through.

    Damn shame really.
     
  2. HoldMyBeer

    HoldMyBeer Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    its not the era that is 'wrong', its the money that has changed the playing field
    with all the belts, no one federation, and many paths of least resistance open, promoters know there is a LOT of money to be made by milking belts without having their fighters actually fight the best in the division

    this is a big problem in Europe, but in truth, its the fragmented state of boxing which facilitates this - no point blaming promoters if they have free reign to do what they want
     
  3. Pimp C

    Pimp C Too Much Motion Full Member

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    He will be remembered as one of the best defensive fighters of all time a hof boxer and a top 20 atg by any rational boxing fan. Irrational haters like yourself who don't know talent and can't give a great fighter his due because he tooled your hero's won't but your opinion is irrelevant anyway troll.
     
  4. miketysonko

    miketysonko Boxing Addict Full Member

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  5. KillSomething

    KillSomething Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Floyd is a legend like it or not. Regardless of what he does from here on out (50-0 is going to happen, he'll find the right guys), he's really changed the boxing game. He has more power than any athlete has ever had, and it wasn't just handed to him. Of course he's a cherrypicker, but history doesn't tend to remember those things.
     
  6. HoldMyBeer

    HoldMyBeer Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    if Floyd - pacman happens, the cherrypicker tag loses weight
    Floyd still has one of the best resumes in boxing
     
  7. northpaw

    northpaw Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    If you go by Floyd's contemporaries, that is other boxers and what they have to say about his accomplishments, as opposed to "random internet guy" then he is a living legend.....There's no doubt that he is a legend,
     
  8. prelude

    prelude Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    RP: There was a legend from the West name Floyd that nobody could touch.

    GP: Isn't that the so called health come first legend, the one that his health alway come first when they wanted him to fight the legend from the East :lol:.
     
  9. Lemonade

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  10. Staminakills

    Staminakills Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    i'm shocked this question is being asked. greatest fighter ANYONE on here has seen live, (no one on here has seen better) one of the biggest athletes in the world never mind just within boxing. he has done more than ANY boxer and done it FAR better than any boxer..

    so fact is he is a "living legend" even though truth is those two words contradict each other.

    how can one be a LIVING legend, but if anyone is anything like that its floyd far and away ahead of all the rest
     
  11. KillSomething

    KillSomething Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Historically, yes because 50 years from now nobody will appreciate that the fight back in 2010/11 would have been an ATG classic fight, but now is more of a one-sided exhibition for Mayweather. To me, it would reinforce the cherrypicker label because now if the fight happens it's going to appear that Mayweather was waiting for Pacquiao to show weakness...like Mosley...and Cotto. I don't even care to see the fight now because it's a foregone conclusion that Mayweather would dominate him.
     
  12. box4life11

    box4life11 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Great defensive fighter but according to stats rigo is better and wlad ties with him and I can provide a link to prove that claim.:deal

    And who's my hero please show me one post from the last two years where I said canelo wasent a bum :deal



    Ps: He will go down as one of the biggest duckers of all time and fighting khan next isn't helping his already cowardly momentum
     
  13. HoldMyBeer

    HoldMyBeer Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    if that were true, the fight would have been signed already
    remember, few people thought Floyd would fight canelo but that fight got signed, sealed and delivered pretty quick

    could Floyd have fought some better opponents than he did over the past few years?
    sure he could
    but his resume is still formidable and it would be dismissive in the extreme to call him a career cherrypicker
     
  14. mrjotatp4p

    mrjotatp4p THE ONE Full Member

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    Can't believe some of the **** I've read in this thread from so called boxing fans.

    These *******s can't post a damn thing with substance to save their life. Mentioning Floyd's outside the ring issues and judging him on that! If that's the case then the ATG list would have to be cut from 100 to 30 bc tons of ATG have hit women, robbed, and some have even killed someone. Smh

    Floyd is a living legend and is cut from the same cloth as this before him. He also has a good résumé as well. This site is infested by non boxing fans.
     
  15. box4life11

    box4life11 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I'm not easily fooled by Floyd's bs so my opinion tends to sting a little lol