Floyd's resume is now brilliant and he will go down as one of the best boxers to ever lace up boxing gloves. Only mother nature can beat Floyd now, and i'm not sure who he'll fight next. Basically for anyone to stand a chance of beating him, Floyd will have to climb up a few divisions just to give these guys a chance and even then he might be too good. He's one incredible boxer and boxing will miss his boxing ability when he's gone. It's a shame, but boxing looks to be in a very poor situation when the likes of Mayweather, pacquiao, cotto etc are gone, which is not going to be long now.
Mayweather is an ATG fighter and I'm not even a Mayweather fan but he is clearly one of the most skilled boxers of all time. I don't think he personally would have been able to beat the likes of Heards or Leonard but he is still a great fighter.
Mayweather has beaten all before him. Unequivocally the greatest of his generation and indeed an all time great. There is no debate to be had. His record speaks for itself and the history books will reflect this.
History will see Floyd as the top boxer of his era and that no other top boxer of that era could beat him. Marciano is very rated in history and he was losing to guys like Walcott and Charles before he won. Mayweather will go down very highly.
Well they should be heavily favored against Floyd, they started at 147 lbs and became champions at 175 pounds, literally 4 weight classes up from where they originally started. Floyd originally started at 130 lbs and moved up 4 weight classes to WW. I don't know why people have such a fascination of H2H pairings between FLoyd and guys who were naturally MUCH larger than him. I think the guys to match him up against in these mythical H2H matchups are fighters like Duran, Whitaker, Joe Gans, Barney Ross, , Benny leonard, Azumah Nelson, Arguello, Pryor, Chavez sr, and so on, naturally smaller men who were also very successful in the lighter weights like FLoyd was. Not huge WW's who ended up being champions at 175 lbs.
Nah too many question marks and fighting people past prime and too many flat footed statues on his resume. ATG's fight everyone around them at their peaks not years later.
Not really... He will go down as one of the best defensive boxers ever though. He cracks that Top 10.
