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

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  1. crosbyshow

    crosbyshow Active Member Full Member

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    If we are talking about ATHLETE

    In the 90S....it's Roy Jones Jr !!!!

    Jordan-Woods and Jones !!


    Jones is a far superior athlete than Floyd


    In the 90s Jones has dominated his Sport with big fashion !!
     
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  2. PolishNavy

    PolishNavy Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    After Pack Man beats Floyd, Triple GGG goes to 5 and Floyd drops off list. Jordan then added to honorable mention.
     
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  3. dellboi94

    dellboi94 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    You know it's true though, if he was in a **** car, no one would have heard of him.
     
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  4. afterglow

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    Nobody is calling him the GOAT.
     
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  5. afterglow

    afterglow Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Dominated his sport? Who did he beat to do this dominating?

    Cops and cab drivers?
     
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  6. cereal monotony

    cereal monotony Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    It's hard to compare athletes across different sports...but the thing is, boxing usually gets the short end of the stick when it comes to comparing top athletes...since 1995 the only other athletes i wouild rank above fmj would be rjj, jordan, usain bolt and randy moss.
     
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  7. MVC!

    MVC! The Best Ever Full Member

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    Nobody calls the FED the goat, well nobody dumb. :lol:

    How can you be goat when you've been so thoroughly bested by your rival so frequently?

    23-10.

    Stats don't lie. Nadal is Federer's dad. :bbb

    Roger should change his name to Roger Nadal. :yep

    Great name that is.
     
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  8. MVC!

    MVC! The Best Ever Full Member

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    I have Brady/Floyd/Jordan/RJJ/Tiger/Roger/Nadal all in the same breath. :hey
     
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  9. afterglow

    afterglow Well-Known Member Full Member

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    The majority of tennis consider Roger to be so. And the ones that don't have him right up there.
     
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  10. MVC!

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    That was the case before 2008.

    After 2008, :nono:nono:nono

    Any objective ****yst/fan would not consider Fed the goat, not anymore.
     
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  11. LordSouness

    LordSouness Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Roger Federer, Michael Schumacher, Lionel Messi, Tiger Woods, Stephen Hendry, Tom Brady,
     
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  12. Tekniqs

    Tekniqs Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yo Laver and Sampras are dumb? Becker? Blake?Mcenroe?

    the list goes on and on bruh
     
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  13. Tekniqs

    Tekniqs Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Alright MVC since we're going by "stats"...if Pacquiao beats Floyd, would you consider Pacquiao greater than Floyd?
     
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  14. MVC!

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    Tennis is different from boxing.

    Rafa and Roger played in their primes (2008), Rafa bested him. Should have been a sweep too, 3 sets to 0 but Rafa did not push it and almost threw it away. :admin

    They played 33 times, 23 of which went to Nadal. Nadal has proven to be the vastly better player.
     
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  15. LordSouness

    LordSouness Boxing Addict Full Member

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    So who has overtaken him in the all-time rankings post-2008?

    Nadal is great, but take the clay season off the calendar and his legacy isn't as great.

    Djokovic is spectacular, but he's not close yet (Fed, Nadal, Sampras, Borg, etc) - he might get there one day, but to be the greatest involves being the best consistently for longer than he has.
     
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