Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. the ATGs

The only 1s I'd pick over PBF would be:

Meldrick Taylor
Sugar Ray Leonard
Pernell Whitaker
Sugar Ray Robinson
Thomas Hearns

The rest can't beat him they dont have the style to do so.

 

Yep. Maybe Chavez, Griffith, Duran and Gavilan as well. A few others would be close calls too.

 

Meldrick Taylor yet not guys like Gavilan among others?

 

Floyd struggled with old de la hoya and arguably lost to castillo and yet he beats all these hall of famers,who in many cases are naturally much bigger??!!
If floyd fights on for longer or fights better fighters i am going to love it when hes brought down to earth as were nunn,curry,jones,mosley and others who were considered 'pretenders' for robinsons crown.
Man how much kudos does beating an undersized and underskilled hatton bring? :nut
If he has a carrer defining fight where he actually has to come through adversity and pull it out of the bag against a prime great opponent or even if he loses leonard/duran style but shows his toughness and skills then he will rank higher,he is too much of an unknown quantity as of now...
There have been many fighters in history who had sublime skills or looked great against lesser opposition,we cant rank these at the top echelons until they actually defeat great opponents...
Unless folks are saying money may is so great that he dont need to prove it?

 

Just constraining it to the welterweights of the last ten years, I think the likes of DLH, Quartey, Forrest, Trinidad, Mosley and Whitaker could all beat Floyd at 147. Floyd wouldn't be without a chance of beating them all too, but I think the welters around today aren't equal to the talent of the welterweight division a decade ago. I'd be surprised if Floyd came out of an era like that without two or three losses at least.

 

Just wanted to mention some welterweights becuase that's the division Floyd's currently fighting at and many are under the impression that he is becoming a great welter. All I have to say that the likes of Judah, Baldomir and Hatton would have been destroyed amongst the welters 10 years ago. Heck, even an Oba Carr or Jose Luis Lopez would have done the business on them imo.

 

Floyd should be compared to the atg super feathweights and lightweights. Its stupid to put him against a guy that started at 147. This is why he ranks higher than carlos ortiz and arguello IMO. Those guys lost to mediocrities in their own prime and own weight classes, while floyd moved all the way up to 154. De La Hoya would have crushed arguello and tko'd ortiz.

 

many atgs of the past depended on fighting smaller blown up featherweights, rather than moving up and fighting welterweights. I mean floyd could have done what ortiz and pryor would do and fight someone like prince hamed, but he had bigger fish to fry.

 

ricky hatton is a p4p fighter, and zab judah would have probably beaten ortiz and arguello if they fought him at 147. What i meant was that instead of fighting featherweights, he fought castillo, de la hoya, corralles.

I'm postive hatton would have ko'd flash elorde, sugar ramos and those other featherweights that carlos ortiz loved to pick on.

Arguello dropped decisions to vilomar fernandez, marcel and arguably lost to ramirez. You're going to tell me he would go up in weight and beat judah, hatton and de la hoya, in a weight class he didnt do **** in, i dont think so.

 

at 130 arguello lost to fernandez, at 135 he got a gift against jose luis ramirez. You think the castillo-mayweather 1 fight was a bad decision? Ramirez beat arguello like 8-4.

Mayweather was able to beat Genaro and Corralles quite easily and he removed all doubt in the castillo rematch. On top of that, he had wins over decent ifghters like chavez, manfredy and carlos hernandez. He could have stayed at lightweight and fight blown up featherweights like hamed.