Is Floyd Mayweather the GOAT

For the hundredth time NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE'S BEEN PROVEN TO BE THE BIGGEST CHEATING COWARD OF ALL TIME THOUGH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Neither of those things happened, and it was Floyd who took PEDS before their fight.

 

Yes.

No.

 

top 10 maybe,richest yes!

 

Maybe

 

Yes he is the greatest of all time. He is FLAWLESS. The Mozart of boxing. He is 50-0 and has dominated many Hall of famers. You put Ali in his shoes and he will not duplicate what Floyd has achieved. What more would you need to be considered GOAT? Fighting Canelo a hand behind your back and win 12 rounds? Let's be serious. He has fought in exciting divisions full of talent and came as being undefeated. The question should rather be is he the greatest athlete of all time.

 

It isn't fact though. You would offer up facts as to why you believe one fighter is or is not the GOAT, but that doesn't make your opinion of the GOAT a fact, it is still your opinion. Pound for pound rank is the same thing. The arguments are based on fact but the label of GOAT or P4P is opinion.

 

No. Floyd isn't the GOAT, but there's no question he was an AMAZING fighter.

 

I recall Mayweather had the single best Compubox plus/minus percentages when it came to the "hits landed vs hits taken" percentages in boxing history. Add in that with his flawless record and number of credible champions and greats on his resume, and I do think he's a contender for that title, yes (there's plenty of candidates for GOAT). You can pick away at the presumed context with his wins, but you can do the same with every single boxer in history. People sell him short because they personally don't like him.

 

Floyd made top fighters look like they didn't belong in the ring with him. Nobody made Corrales, Hernandez, Gatti and Marquez look as bad as Floyd did.

 

Oscar beat a younger Gatti and Genero worse

 

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is not a GOAT boxer, but his resume is one of the GOAT.
In my opinion Joe Louis has a better resume.

 

He has a case for being the GOAT in terms of ability. You could certainly put forward an argument. But under traditional criteria, he’s not. His resume is great, but with a lot of asterisks.

Ali in his shoes?

Floyd would never have taken the fights and the risks that Ali took.

 

Eh...Gatti was in better form going into the Mayweather fight than he was when he faced Oscar, and faced Mayweather at 140, rather than as a blown up welterweight. Plus, the ass kicking he took in both cases was pretty comprehensive.

Genero was also better at 130 than he was at 135. The only real mitigating factor was that Chicanito was apparently debating retirement in the not too distant future, but was still in solid form when he ran afoul of a young Mayweather.

 

WTF? Gatti was a war-torn fighter by the time he faced a fresh Mayweather(and so was Chicanito for that matter).