Why is Mayweather not the greatest of all time?

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  1. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    He’s been posting that for years. I’m not going to pick through it again, but it reads like a layperson trying to decipher the work of a healthcare provider.
     
  2. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    It’s called bureaucracy.
     
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  3. cslb

    cslb Puerto Rican Uppercut Full Member

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    That is incorrect. There are other utilities for the IVs that Mayweather took than for covering up the use of PEDs. I am not saying that he didn’t use it for that purpose but it is incorrect that it was the only possible use for the IV.
     
  4. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    And his record for drug testing is spotless.

    In fact, I can remember boxing fans backing Pacquiao’s refusal to do extended testing and villainizing May for ushering extended testing into the sport. The man cleaned things up.
     
  5. Loudon

    Loudon Loyal Member Full Member

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    You’re not on this planet are you.

    WTF?

    Nobody has a retroactive TUE clause adding to a fight contract.

    That should have set off huge alarm bells.

    And what does it say about USADA, for approving it?

    How’s that not the biggest joke??
     
  6. Loudon

    Loudon Loyal Member Full Member

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    Do me a favour.

    You couldn’t pick anything out of that article.

    Nothing.

    Thomas Hauser is a highly respectable boxing writer of many years.

    Then there’s you.

    A guy who’s just compared a retroactive TUE to a parking ticket.

    A guy who’s no idea what an IV of saline is, or what it’s used for.

    You have zero knowledge of the subject, yet will just keep supporting Floyd.

    Seriously, you questioning Thomas Hauser is beyond cringeworthy and embarrassing.
     
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  7. Loudon

    Loudon Loyal Member Full Member

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    Another beauty by you.

    You really are something else.


    Clearing up the sport??

    Ha!


    By taking an illegal IV??

    In his home, and not in a medical facility??

    Without reporting it??

    An IV that is banned by both of the leading agencies??


    You should be ashamed of yourself.
     
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  8. Raybans

    Raybans Pro Gamboa Full Member

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    Going back to the question in this thread. The answer is Mayweather is not the greatest of all time because there are other boxers with more wins over fellow atgs.

    Some will say Mayweather has the best skills of any boxer of all time and that can be argued with reasonable conviction and is based on opinion and what you like. But that is a different subject to being the greatest which he did not prove in comparison to other boxers with better wins on their resumes against prime atgs.
     
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  9. Cobra33

    Cobra33 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Because he never wanted to see how truly great he could be always interested in the money aspect of it then for the challenge of it.
    Always trying to angle for some type of advantage and not just wanting just the challenge of it.
    Nothing at all with doing that but don't act like he sought greatness all the sudden.
     
  10. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    He’s a journalist.
     
  11. Marvelous_Iron

    Marvelous_Iron Active Member Full Member

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    There's a video of him bench pressing over twice his body weight, something like 50lbs shy of the power lifting record for his weight, unless you have spent the amount of your life lifting that he has spent boxing you're not moving that kind of weight without some kind of juice
     
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  12. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Do you have a link to that video?

    I benched withing 15 pounds of twice my body weight at one point and was only on bong hits and IPA.
     
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  13. young griffo

    young griffo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    So is Evander Holyfield’s yet you have no qualms in labelling him a “walking PED laboratory” .

    The Balco Evan Field's thing is a smoking gun just like Floyd’s illegal IV use was. Neither passes the sniff test yet you’ll die on the hill defending the one you idolise. Ridiculous really.
     
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  14. Greg Price99

    Greg Price99 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Is that similar to bureaucracy?
     
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  15. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Yeah.