Very pathetic thread. Floyd is great. He always was and always has been held to a higher standard than any of his contemporaries whether it's boxing or mma. Even today, some of you in this thread are people who prompt GGG up on a pedestal even though he really hasn't done **** especially given the fact that he's 34. This thread only exemplifies there's always a double standard especially when talking about Floyd. If we use TS logic against other fighters such as Manny and Joe Calzaghe who gets praise on this board as well (let's hold all fighters to Floyds standard), Floyd still ranks above them. A lot of you posters remind me of gold diggers and feminist. I **** you not. You want equal opportunity but don't produce the same results, don't measure by the same standard and you want selective passes for your fighters while crucifying others for the same ****. You're inconsistent. The logic is all screwed up. It's just pathetic. You're irrational hate as always just propels Floyd and makes him richer if you haven't figured that out by now. Regardless if you do hate a guy, you're still a fan keeping a retired fighter more relevant than any active fighter today. Hence this 40 page thread. You're his number 1 fan here on ESB. Good job!
Mayweather could've unified the division after he beat Pacquiao while roided to the high heavens. He was scared of Kell Brook though. Fortunately GGG was not scared of Kell Brook. Or unifying. Or traveling. Or VADA testing.
Sure he didn't it takes two to tango but at the end of the day blame PBF right? Oscar nor Mosley wanted a piece of him back in the day when they were prime he was simply too high risk low reward back then for them.
I've never seen a fighter more terrified of another fighter than Mayweather was of facing a prime Margarito
Well research piece and a nice read. You can pick holes in any fighters resume. But as much as I dislike mayweather, it is undeniable that he is a great fighter, once in a generation talent. Along with pac and jones jr, the cream of the crops, the most accomplished fighter in the last 25 years.
'' Boxing is a business not a sport anymore " Eddie Mustafa Muhummad Boxing has always been run by greed and grubs. Legacy doesn't mean anything anymore same with integrity. I'm sure fighters would be willing to fight anybody but a major draw card is now like a brand. If a fighter loses the brand value depreciate's . Boxing is controlled by the major cable ppv network's Showtime and HBO. A champion boxer is like a major star in a tv series why would you want to kill your major star.
All I want to know is who did Floyd duck? Kostya Tyszu was with a rival network. Margarito turned out to be a fraud. Paul Williams was relatively unknown and shortly after becoming champion he lost to Quintana. Cotto and Floyd had conflicting schedules in 2007, and Cotto went on to fight Gomez and Margarito as planned, while Floyd mulled over a rematch with Oscar. Cotto lost and Floyd retired so no duck there. He beat Oscar convincingly so the rematch wasn't warranted, so no duck there either. Pac ducked testing in 2010, and after that lawsuits and promoters kept the fight from happening...who am I missing? Martinez? He was campaigning as a MW while Floyd was at 147....Anybody else???
All I see here are two long paragraphs of crying that doesn't deal with the point. I agreed that Floyd is Great - that's the first thing I wrote. I don't care for GGG, this thread is about Floyd Mayweather's career. Even then, GGG's career isn't over yet and GGG doesn't need to fight even lower-mid tier HOF-bound fighters at or near prime to become a 'Great'. You can't use that logic for Manny. https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...ly-top-15-of-all-time-in-atg-rankings.563769/ Manny is one of the last people in history you can use that logic for. You remind me of another minion who would give your wife to Floyd in order to please him. Floyd hasn't gotten a penny from me. I never bought a fight of his, never bought anything of his. My dislike for Floyd's boxing comes from a different place to those that are dumb enough to end up unknowingly hyping him. Yes, Floyd is retired and doesn't have the ability anymore to right his wrongs. His wrongs are not known by the mainstream, but it's truth talkers like me who will trickle it down to the mainstream and your hero will lose his lustre.
Why do you want to know that? It's a red herring and isn't the topic of the thread. But anyway, 'excuses' are what you're having to turn to. They were all prime stylistic threats and the fight could've been made if Floyd made it happen rather than the landscape resulting in them fighting x, y, z when it technically didn't have to be that way. Floyd could've made it happen just like he cherrypicked Judah after he lost to Baldomir. Oscar didn't lose convincingly in the eyes of the public. I see it as 8-4 Floyd but the public certainly didn't. Floyd is now having the sport cleaned up by Lomachenko.
And Floyd was a part of the problem, not the solution as he championed that movement and continues to do so with TMT, it is their strategic vision funnily enough. He needs to heed Ward's advice sometimes.