Better Legacy: Bernard Hopkins or Floyd Mayweather jr?

To me the "0" only means something if you took on 5-6 fighters you were expected to loose against and won.

For example when Duran fought Moore, Al Bernstein said that 9 out of 10 boxing experts asked, picked Moore to win, yet Duran ended up destroying him.

Virtually nobody gave him a change against Hagler and yet he can very close to pulling of the upset of the decade. Hell had he won that fight it may very well have gone down as one of the greatest upsets of all time, as it stands he still accomplished that by being the only fighter to beat a prime SRL.

Win or lose you want to see an ATG fighter push himself to places even the experts don't expect him to go.

Ali fighting Foreman is another example of this.

Hopkins even stepping into the ring at 49 and taking on such a dangerous fighter is something to be respected regardless of the outcome.

 

Floyd will forever be remembered as a coward who avoided Pac like the plaque. Of course, the *****s can't see this but the rest of the world does.

 

cowards, do not fight 47 fights do they keyboard warrior?

 

I'm not talking about the balls to get in the ring cause it takes a lot. But we are discussing ATG status here and for someone to avoid his biggest rival like the plaque is pretty weak.

 

who ran from the following
1, drug testing after floyd accepted his 10 million dollar per pound weight clause!!
2. record 40 million dollar payday, to fight for 6 million. nsac records prove this
3. stadium, cuts, postponed jail sentence, bigger than me, lawsuits.
was this ****ing me? who, resigned with a guy that is robbing him blindly. was that floyd too? visionquest is the definitive source here fool!!

 

This thread is moving in bizarre direction. Floyd Mayweather is the better boxer and has the better wins. Bernard Hopkins proved, by at the age of 50 stepping into the ring with a power house who had killed a man, that he has bigger balls than Floyd or just about any other boxer. But for a legacy it's not enough to try. You actually have to win.

Had Hopkins won, that had been boxing history.

 

the whole sport must be full of cowards because mayweather has won more lineal championships than everyone, more lineal defenses than everyone today, and beat more champions as well


Boxing is dead...everyone are cowards

trolls get a life, facts mean more than your opinions

 

Mayweather does have the better wins, is a better boxer, and has won more lineal titles...also more combined defenses of those titles.

As far as powerhouses....Mayweather just fought Maidana twice who has fought better overall competition than KOV and before Mayweather beat him twice he has a 80% ko ratio

Diego Corrales was the favorite before they fought and just as feared as KOV is today in his prime...was undefeated when he and Floyd met

you gotta have some balls to fight for a lineal title in your 18th pro fight against a guy who is in most HOF besides the IBHOF...HE IS ON NEXT YEARS BALLOT
he has balls as well.


Mayweather suffered from the same thing that plagued the p4p kings right before him, Roy Jones and Pernell Whitaker....they were so dominant until they were past prime that people were annoyed they don't have more competitive fights...its not their fault


some people like great losers and moral victories.....their are no moral victories in boxing

 

Yes they do fool Flora did . He fights when he knows he cannot lose Floyd is the biggest coward in boxing PERIOD!!!

 

Give up Flo Mos Bernard wiped the floor with Flora. Fans prefer a fighter over a cowardly woman beating prima donna

 

you probably never hit a heavy bag, sparred or had an am fight in your life

your posts are a joke, you are hell a disrespectful to proven athletes....trolls like you should be banned.

 

I boxed am & pro helped train fighters reported & wrote for several boxing mags Ive been in & around the game 30 yrs.
Loved every minute
Judging by your posts you are a junior high school kid who knows NOTHING about the sport
I speak as I find about fighters. Just give my opinion for what its worth If you don't like that don't read my posts OK

 

The polls are overwhelming

 

I'll decide once they both retire. Totally different accomplishments to consider.

BHOP more so for unifying all 4 major belts, tons of defenses, winning in fights we was suppose to lose, and longevity. However he was in shitty weight class and 2 of his best wins (DLH, Tito) were much smaller guys coming up in weight.

Mayweather has longetivity, titles in several weight classes, beat decent competition, tougher/more skilled weight classes. Never got in the ring with his toughest peers.

I dunno, how do you compare?

 

Was incUOTE=C.J.;16652280]I boxed am & pro helped train fighters reported & wrote for several boxing mags Ive been in & around the game 30 yrs.
Loved every minute
Judging by your posts you are a junior high school kid who knows NOTHING about the sport
I speak as I find about fighters. Just give my opinion for what its worth If you don't like that don't read my posts OK[/QUOTE]

Step in the ring with a current matter fact the ones you call cowards today... champion sparring and your whole tone would change you ain't no future hall of famer...act ya age not your shoe size n
Have some respect... They'd knock you to Tahiti


Either way your tone It's throwed...I've done contact sports Since I Was 14...take kwon do, high school wrestling, college boxing... I train fighters as well....I'm 29 that's over half my life taking bumps n bruises And sacrifices


I'd expect more from a vet like you