Floyd Mayweather vs. Sugar Ray Leonard

If he doesn't want any part of today's WW do you think he will ever get in the ring with Leonard?









































































J/K MAN

 

Floyd lands a titanic right hand and leaves Leonard in the ring convulsing like an infantile ******.

 

That's what he probably does to Ellerbe when he mentions Leonard's name.

 

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Ellerbe: "Floyd Darling, Leonard is talking a lot of jive about fighting you and said after his last fight, "You've just seen more value for money in 4 rounds than what you've seen in Mayweather's entire career, let's just leave it at that"

Mayweather: That mother****a can say what he like, I ain't getting in the ring with sugar ray.

 

LAS VEGAS Floyd Mayweather Jr. stood toe-to-toe with Sugar Ray Leonard. Twenty years ago and in a boxing ring, this would have been one of the greatest matches in boxing history. But on this night two years ago at the annual boxing writers' dinner in Las Vegas with the two men dressed in suits, it was merely a war of words.

Mayweather was explaining to Leonard how and why he would have beaten Leonard if they had ever met, how it was a battle Leonard would lose when Mayweather landed a vicious body shot.
"A lightweight beat you," Mayweather said, referring to Leonard's loss to Roberto Duran.

Eventually, Leonard walked away.

It was more than the kid tugging on Superman's cape. It was the kid ripping it off his back.

Though Mayweather is arguably more talented than Leonard was, Mayweather's brashness has not made him the kind of endearing figure that the charismatic Leonard was during his boxing career.
That is why when Mayweather steps into the ring on Saturday night against Oscar De La Hoya at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in a 12-round WBC junior middleweight title match, many in the sellout crowd will be rooting for De La Hoya to whip Mayweather.

Mayweather's bravado is borne of his miserable upbringing and his prodigious talent. He uses it to mask his insecurities outside of the ring and to herald his invincibility inside of it.

To this point, the 30-year-old Mayweather has had a great deal to brag about: an unblemished record, world championships at 130, 135, 140 and 147 pounds, a lengthy stint at the top of the mythical "Pound-for-Pound" list and ring earnings that have made him a multimillionaire with a 12,000-square-foot house on a cul-de-sac in a secluded Vegas community, and a fleet of luxury cars. He may be the best pure boxer since Sugar Ray Robinson and Mayweather believes that he would have beaten him, too.
"I feel like I would have won," Mayweather says. "I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me. I've seen a lot of film of Ray Robinson. He kept his guard low and he stood flat-footed."

While most of Mayweather's critics would argue that he has no respect for the legends that preceded him, Mayweather sees himself in the same picture frame with the greats.

"When they mention those legendary fighters, my name will come up," he says. "You go to any boxing gym in America and ask the kids who they would rather be, me or Oscar, and they're all going to say me."



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i honestly think only hearns would beat mayweather at WW

i think mayweather would be too clever for SRL and outbox him winning a UD

 

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WTF is that article supposed to prove.

Wow, you just let the cat out of the bag, Mayweather says he can beat Leonard so it must be true.

He also said he's better than Robinson and Ali.

 

And your credibility is going......going.........GOOOONNNEE!

 

how

its IMO

and i believe mayweather could beat sugar ray

 

Faded Oscar took Floyd in his best condition and almost won the fight (well he did in my book). I can't even imagine how Leonard would embarass him in a ring and probably even stop him late.
Leonard is close to what everybody call a perfect fighter. Mayweather wouldn't do sh*t against him. Netither in or out the ring.

 

Aww dont take it too hard. Its just something to show that the greatest of my generation has thought about fighting Leonard contrary to your hater opinion.