Mayweather: Why does his resume get so much criticism?

that would be great. sign it up and line them up. :good

imo, even if floyd is older than pac, he could be fighting well past into mid 30's and could still improve his already good resume. his style is suitable for longevity.

 

This is a very good resume. But when you say you are one the greatest fighters of all time you need a better resume then that. How many of those guys are future Hall of Famers...2--Marquez and De La Hoya. De La Hoya was his best win, because Marquez was jumping 2 weight classes to fight him. And he beat a De La Hoya how Mosley did 7 years earlier. He needs to do more. And the nice thing he has chance to do more, so good comp out there.

 

How come when JMM and Hatton call him out he accepts the challenge instantly but when SSM or Williams challenges him he finds an excuse.

 

Come on. Floyd walked into WW at a time when the top fighters were mediocre at best. At 147, he's never fought anyone worth a ****. The calling out thing is utter nonsense, because everyone calls out Floyd (does the name Paul Williams ring a bell?), but for some reason Floyd only hears the call-out of those who are way past it or much smaller than he. Remarkably, Mosely and Williams didn't yell loud enough to get Floyd's attention.

 

He's fighting Pacquiao right now, and it's the fight that EVERYONE wants to see.
And besides if he beats Pacquiao I bet he'll fight Mosley next.

 

Mosley has ducked him in the past in favour of DLH.

Williams at the moment is high risk low reward. maybe if Williams can get to WW an carry on winnin it might happen, but then people would say he's weight drained so it won't mean anything.

 

That was back when DLH was regarded more highly than Floyd, besides being a huge draw, and Mosley had to jump two weight classes himself to fight Oscar. There wasn't any "ducking" involved.

The main reason Floyd's resume catches hate is because he calls himself the best fighter ever, yet every single name on that bottom list has a better resume at Welterweight, the weight Floyd's been fighting at for four or five years now. Floyd has had tons of opportunities to fight the bottom guys(aka the best opposition) and hasn't stepped up. And as others stated, every one of those fighters would have beaten everybody in the top list.

As to those fights that probably will happen, they haven't happened yet, and Floyd's history shows that them getting made is no guarantee. Once Floyd starts making them, the critics lose a lot of the basis for their arguments against him. Floyd knows that, yet he's done nothing.

 

this is the reason he chose to fight DLH then Hatton. in a sport where any fight can be your last, he went and made lots of money against two of the best guys in his surrounding weight classes.

JMM was a comeback fight.

at the moment Pacman is the biggest draw by far, i gurantee that fight will happen.

 

It's ok for Floyd to make money fights, as long as he throws some legitimate ones in-between or he states that as his only motivation for making said fights and just admits that he's all about low risk-high reward, not about facing the best. Unfortunately, he does none of that. He plays up his "0", calls himself the best ever, and makes excuses as to why other fighters aren't worthy to face him, when he's had no problem facing such luminaries as Baldomir or dragging fighters up beyond their best weights, like Marquez and Hatton. Things are pointing to him taking another tune-up in the UK next. I would be fine with that, if he has a contract signed saying he'll fight Pacquaio or Shane next. But I don't think he'll have that.

Every fighter on that bottom list has fought someone from the same list. Floyd has fought none of them while he's had ample opportunity to do so. That's very telling. The easiest way for Floyd to defend his resume is to remedy that.

 

The fanboys cant defend this except by minimizing SSM or Paul,

 

Honestly its a very good resume. I think the reason for all the hate is b/c there are hardcore PAC fans AKA "*******s" and hardcore Floyd fans AKA "Floydettes". They got this war going on about who the best boxer/fighter is P4P is for this era.

Both PAC and Floyd are really under the microscope. Fans on either side are over analyzing each fighters resume and discrediting each of their best wins and focusing on how to respond to remarks made from either side. While there are some truths to what has been said....much of it is spun in a way to meet the posters agendas.

Floyd and PAC both have stellar careers at the moment......I think its more than safe to alsom mention PAC does have the better resume. But some of the comments slung towards floyd and his resume are overboard, in an attempt to somehow "win" a battle in PAC's name.

 

That's it exactly. It's not that Floyd hasn't been fighting good fighters in recent years, the problem is that his opponents, while very good, were clearly not the BEST OPPONENTS AVAILABLE TO HIM. That's the key.

In his last 3 fights, he could have elected to fight Mosley, Cotto and Pacquiao, but he didn't and the 3 guys he did fight were all less worthy than the 3 guys he should have fought.

Ofcourse, had he taken the 'right' fights, they wouldn't have been as good for his mainstream recognition or his bank account as DLH and Hatton were, and that's what Mayweather has been about the last few years.

 

His list of WHO HE DIDN'T FIGHT p3wns the LIST OF WHO HE DID FIGHT. Great job defending Fraud.

 

Good post!:good

 

the comparison between the guys flloyd has fought, vs has NOT fought illustrates why, on paper, he will not be an alltime great. if you set up this thread to say "check out who flloyd fought, very impressive. and here are the dudes he missed, no big deal". you did the opposite. when he got in the ring with chico, back in the 130 days he took a chance, fans and boxing insiders were picking correlas to win a good deal of the time. and there hasn't been a real threat since.
i think, your thread had the opposite reaction to what you wanted, and it made me move pbf (or money or whoever) down on my p4p list.