ESPN ranks Floyd Mayweather, Jr as the 17th best athlete of the last 20 years.

now now, pipe down and act like an adult. there's no reason for the childish name calling. Don't regress to how you troll boxing fans.

 

Floyd lost to Castillo and Maidana and drew wtih an old Oscar.. He isn't that good..

Roy Jones was better..

 

ya but could Jordan to it away at Stoke on a winters night?

 

when messi is breaking every record their has ever been in soccer:good

 

that's an unfair comparison though. My friends and I actually had this discussion last night. He's a swimmer..yes there's different styles BUT a swimmer has what...maybe 7 events per olympic? a basketball player has one lol

 

only in the eyes of a casual sports fan

you see their is competition in international soccer unlike basketball:good

 

4 diff. games. and there's been lots of dominant basketball players.

Epic. It goes to show you that not only is this guy the greatest swimmer of all time and the greatest Olympian of all time, he's maybe the greatest athlete of all time. He's the greatest racer who ever walked the planet.
—Mark Spitz

 

Messi's inability to win the world cup will always be an asterix. :rofl

 

Just saw the list can't really complain Lebron is #2 but lot's of great name's, should feel tried a lil bit with his caption but should he beat Pacquiao impressively all the talk should stop but it won't.

 

funny that Reggie and Kenny kept making fun of his pick lol.

here we go again with the "watered down" era...just seems that way because of how dominant Federer was at the peak of his powers.

if he played in such a weak era....why is a 32/33 year old Fed still #2? lol

Laver is of course great....but even he says Fed is GOAT.

to summarize, I think Fed is GOAT now but it probably won't last forever. It's like Maradona....Messi surpassed him a few years ago IMO and he's just pushing the bar up further