floyd Mayweather has only fought fights he knows he can win

Floyd had the skill and ability to be a top 20 ATG, but he doesn't have the resume.

 

Floyd was a heavy favorite. Doesn't that tell you how good Floyd is?

Also, 130 Floyd was one of the best fighters I've ever seen.

 

You PBF haters have no shame? Fights fights he only thinks he can win? You do realize that in his prime PBF was favored over any fighter in the world 154 and down don't you? If that's the case he should have never fought anyone And yes that includes both Williams and Martinez. The funniest thing about this is that the TS is a GGG fan a guy whose best win is Martin Murray yet he has no problems with GGG being 35 in a weak division hiding in the bathroom whenever someone mentions Ward's name. GGG could have dared to be great by fighting Ward when Ward was at 168 instead he's still waiting.

 

Because great fighters took fights they knew they would lose atsch

You don't think this song and dance has been rehe****d for the last half decade? You're a broken record, OP. An alt.

 

Boxing fans are naive. Boxing has ALWAYS been a business first, and sport second.

You think fighters take big fights for the love of the sport? NO! They take big fights for the big paydays.

 

Floyd was his own worst enemy.

 

Every fighter thinks they'll win against whomever they fight.

 

I'm as big as fan of Williams as anyone but it's not like he was this unstoppable force that people make out. He could and in all likelihood would have been comprehensively out boxed. I'm not a fan of Margo but feel he would have lost handily too.

If those two had been in the ring then there'd be another two boogeymen in their place that FMJ apparently ducked. Face it, he'd have had to go all the way up to 160 to face a p4p rated talent for people to pick an opponent over him.

Do fans makes such bold demands of anyone else?

 

I know for the Diego Corrales fight he was the underdog at the time

 

So ****ing true.

 

Regardless of outcome Ricky Hatton was the only fighter he fought who was close to prime.

 

Log off

 

I think Floyd deserves a lot of credit for the Shane Mosley fight. Shane was coming off of the best performance of his career when Floyd took him on. Remember in that RA The Rugged Man classic radio call, Floyd was being called out for ducking Shane. Just a few months later the fight happened. Floyd was also heavily criticized for ducking Cotto. Cotto had a pretty damn nice roll going when Floyd took him on. I don't know when I look at his record I see a lot of good names on there. I think more than 10 of his opponents we'll probably see in the Hall Of Fame some day