FLoyd Mayweather: An ''ATG''??

just thought id throw my two cents in on the big floyd mayweather debate!!

ive seen a lot of FLoyds fights, and have been following him for ages.He gets routinely critisized on this forum and everywhere else too.

First things first. Nobody can disagree that he is one of the greatest pure BOXERS, skillwise, in history. if you feel he is boring even still, nobody can deny his boxing skill and know-how.

He is a multiple weight world champion! HE was a world champion within TWO years of turning pro!as recently as 2001, he was fighting at super featherweight!!! It can be argued that he didnt fight the best in each division while moving up, but HOW many boxers in the last 20 years CAN claim they have fought the best of the best each time?
Its not like he has been fighting bumms in each weight class since moving up?
Castillo, GATTI, judah, baldomir de lahoya and hatton. Those are not 'bumm' fighters!

On the other side of the coin, One thing i would absolutely LOVE to see is FLoyd mayweather fight somebody who has a clear physical advantage, and who has skills to match! I dont think anybody who is floyds size can beat him. He is just too skilful. However somebody like moseley, or COTTO, who have a clear physical and strength advantage, as well as possesing skill, could deffinetly trouble floyd!

I WANTT to see floyd cornered and in trouble. I want to see his battling instincts take over, and to go into overdrive! i have little doubt that he would rise to the occasion and produce a stunning performance against either fighter. But he is rightly critisized for not taking these dangerous fights on!

Nobody can deny that floyd mayweather HAS carefully pickd his fights. Thats not to say that he chooses easy fights each time, but he has not always gone for the most difficult fight at the time. But is that not testimony to how great this guy is?? It seems that EVERYbody wants to see floyd in a hard hard fight, just to see what he produces!!! How many boxers out there are critisized as badly as floyd for not taking these difficult fights? its because he is so great that we all want to see him fight a cotto or a moseley, or even a pacquiao.

At the same time i feel as boxing fans we have a right to feel aggrieved at being robbed of these potential mega-fights. At the end of the day the fans pay the bills, and i DO feel FLoyd owes us a fight against a true world-class welterweight!

But the blame cannot be put purely on floyd. The way boxing works right now, with all these titles around and how ''what makes money makes sense'' has taken over, to some extent we must just blame the player, but also achknowledge that the game is flawed. He is simply playing the system, making as much money as he can for him and his family with as little risk as possible, and then getting out! How many of us would not take the same option?

However all this considered, until he fights somebody like pacquiao cotto moseley or someone as dangerous, he cannot be considered a top 20 all time great. Which is a shame because skill wise he would be up there! But it is not too late. we could still see a pacman/cotto-mayweather fight. or even moseley-mayweather fight. If these happen, there will truly be nothing left to say for the doubters.

p.s. just for the record, i feel he beats cotto pacman AND moseley if those fights took place.

 

lol this is the first time i have posted about floyd! and i only have like 20 posts in total so i doubt it!