Floyd Mayweather ATG Ranking ?

If there is one who selected Cotto as a handpicked opponent,it is probably you.

You actually put a bet that Cotto will not win more than 2 rounds!!!!! If that is not a handpicked opponent, I don't know what to call that.

Opponents who are not handpicked would have better odds than that.

BTW,you still owe me an avatar bet.

 

He avoided too many challenges to be between the 25 greatest.

 

Cotto won 3 rounds on 2 judges scorecards and matched my prediction on another. So i was very close. Dont worry ill get to your avy widdle fellah.

 

He is top 100, I don't know that I'd consider him a top 50 ATG just yet.

Proclaiming himself the greatest despite his underwhelming resume these past few years isn't that impressive to me and I'm not placing him amongst the very greatest based on what he supposedly can do instead of on what he's done.

The guy for the most part since moving up to 140 has managed to not fight the elite fighters available to take on fighters he should easily beat like Ortiz, Baldomir, Gatti, Marquez cheating him on the scales..and the ones he did face he did so when they were older and past their prime (Cotto, 38yo Mosley).

His best wins in that time were vs Hatton who he made move up to fight him when he could have fought him at 140 after Hatton beat Tszyu and Mayweather beat Gatti. And an old and rusty DLH, which he gets credit for going up to fight and allowing many to have many advantages over him, but it wasn't a very impressive performance and he was fortunate Oscar faded.

Infact whenever Floyd faced an elite fighter who wasn't completely shot or ancient they gave him a bit of trouble (DLH, Castillo, Cotto, Hatton..and even shot Mosley put him on ***** st though he did well to shut Mosley out after that). Corrales was the only exception, his greatest win all up and most flawless performance. No disrespect, but if Corrales is your greatest win, and you managed not to fight so many great fighters that you could have, you don't deserve to be up there.

There are two left who are still elite and can prop up his legacy up there with the best, but if he avoids them as usual I personally won't consider him anywhere near the level of the Whitaker's, Leonard's, Hearn's, Duran's, Armstrong's, Greb's, Robinson's, Ali's..If he doesn't fight Pacquiao or Martinez I'll see him as a great talent with a carefully managed career once he reached the point where he could pick and choose his fights which cost him a legacy as one of the greatest.

 

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Yea, but I think 50 is taking it a little too far. But, I see your point and would agree.

 

Do you reckon he can crack the Top 40? If so, who could he defeat of the current generation to do that?

 

How the hell is Roy jones 29 and floyd 47?

 

These make believe lists are a waste of time and usually biased as ****. Fact is floyd is one of the greatest fighters of this generation. He will be remembered as one of the best boxers to ever lace them up.

 

Not many of those fighters has changed the game the way that Floyd has. At worst he is top 20. Even the way he preps on the pads. A new breed of fighter with the defensive craft he has created and perfected will be born. Not many on that list did that

 

Pac still ranks higher than Void in ATG rankings.

 

Behind GGG and Ward for me.