Are some people seriously rating Floyd Mayweather as the best WW ever?

Only a fool would make that statement saying he was the best WW ever. Quit making **** up.

 

Who said Floyd is the best welter ever? Our forum doesn't have the joyboy equivalent of marcela.

 

What does it matter anyway mayweather is a topguy in the lowerweights when people will look back in 10 years and a decent welter. I will look back at him like that, pbf topfighter at the lowerweights, money mayweather decent welter who ducked, chased big money and didnt gave us the fighst we wanted from him.

 

:shock:

 

I knew something was off about him, so I denied his friend request. Now I know what was off.

 

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The Sugar man doesn't look too happy.

 

lol ya, I was confused when he sent me one, but I was like screw it o well

 

Floyd's victories over Castillo and Corrales had nothing to do with his welterweight resume, did they?

Anyway, not to trying to make out these guys have great resumes at 147, though they are pretty good. Just pointing out how the best welterweights of Floyd's era managed to all fight the best and their resumes had alot of good names on them.

Floyd only fought three welterweights, and only one can be classed as a truly great win. The other two were good wins against Judah and Baldo. As were his victories over JMM and Hatton, but they weren't exactly established welterweights No doubting his skill, but he can't be compared to the best welterweights all-time based on that.

 

Mayweather

-Top 3 if not #1 130 pounder
-Promising, but not a lot of time at 135 lbs.
-Not much at 140, but I do feel the Gatti win is almost underrated in how much it gets the "he was shot" treatment. One of the best one sided beatdowns of the past decade.
-Welterweight is a historically rich division, so he doesn't crack any top 10 or 15, but I don't think you'd be garbage for saying he's a top 20. Let's not pretend Judah, Baldomir, Hatton, Marquez, and Mosley aren't a group compiled of past and present lineal kings at the weight, several top 10 P4Pers (including a couple of at the time top 3 P4Pers), and future HOFers. To whomever said something about Cotto's not being much further behind, you are very hypocritical if you study his 7-2 record at the weight which featured Carlos Quintana, Judah, Mosley, Alfonso Gomez, and his well spoken of Clottey performance.
Either way, Mayweather is certainly the P4P and PPV king in the P4P and PPV eras. Oh, and he's the most accurate puncher ever recorded. And undefeated...

 

Whoa?!? Sorry sir, but that seems like you're letting personal dislike or out of ring incidents cloud your judgment.

 

Good try.

 

There are no welterweights right now who should be rated in the top ten of welterweights and that's an understatement.

 

:verysad

 

Sugar Ray Leonard IMO

I don't think Mayweather's resume at WW is as bad as people make it out to be though.

Mayweather-DLH at 154 to me is similar to Mayweather-Cotto at 147
Mayweather-Hatton is similar to me as Mayweather-Clottey
Mayweather-Mosley is similar to me as Mayweather-Margarito

Sure I would like to have seen him fight those guys, other then Clottey which would have probably been a real whack fight. But guys act like Mayweather faced no competition at WW.

In reality Mayweather faced like 4-5 different styles at WW. From slick athletic counter puncher, to pressure inside fighter, to slugger, to boxer/puncher, to technical. He faced hand speed, athleticism, IQ, size, chins, strong jabs, body punchers.

You may not like the names on his resume it is what it is. But you gotta respect how he fought these different styles and found ways to neutralize each opponents specialty. Not many fighters can do that. And that's what is special about his boxing.

 

Henry Armstrong > Mayweather's entire career