Floyd's Thin Resume

Floyd Mayweather started his boxing career at 130 fighting startup fighters w/ 0 fights like Apodaca and Ayala and Sanders w/ 1 fight. He also fought boxers w/ multiple losses like Kino Rodriguez w/ 9 L, Giepert w/ 8 L, Tony Duran w/ 15 L, Emmanuel Augusts w/ 16 L. He stopped Corrales in their 130 fight. He captured the lightweight title against Castillo via decision and won against Castillo thru another decision in their rematch. Many boxing writers and fans believed that Castillo won in one of these fights. He won the l40 crown against shot Corley who was coming from a loss against Zab Judah.. He defended his lightwelterweight title twice against Bruseles and Gatti both by TKO. He won the l45 by defeating Zab Judah via UD after giving him the fits in the early 4 rounds. Judah was not known to be a strong finisher. He defeated limited Baldomir via UD. He won junior middleweight crown against past prime dela Hoya thru SD. Dela Hoya was competitive in this fight until he got countered by Floyd in later rounds. This victory of Floyd cannot be considered a barometer of his greatness in the higher weight category because the names of renowned boxers like Cotto, Williams, Mosley, Margarito, etc. are not in his resume.

The only fights noteworthy in his resume were his wins against Corrales in the junior lightweight division, Philip N’dou and perhaps when he defeated previously unbeaten and slick Judah in the 145.. In the weight north of 140, Floyd’s wins are against limited fighters like Baldomir and past prime dela Hoya. He also stopped previously unbeaten Hatton in l47 in 10th round which was obviously not Hatton’s ideal weight division.

Despite Floyd’s unbeaten record, many boxing pundits still cannot consider Floyd as the top P4P fighter of today nor even in the top 50 ATB because his thin resume speaks for itself. H2H against Pacquiao, Pacquiao has the better resume because he has beaten 5 HOF fighters (Barrera, Morales, Marquez, dela Hoya, and Hatton). Pac won 4 lineal titles and 6 divisional titles.

Conclusion: Floyd Mayweather’s resume is not impressive as some people believe through these years. His 0 Loss amounts to nothing if he continues to duck the elite fighters in the 147 division. I will not be surprised if Floyd would price himself out against Pac so he can preserve his 0 loss record.

 

It was an eliminator fight. But just the same, Floyd's resume is not impressive as what you guys want us to believe.

 

And Floyd can only beat Zab by UD. That goes to show how impressive Tsyzu was, not in the case of Floyd.

 

Yes, I acknowledged that win by Floyd. Not quite impressive though.

Cotto was the real deal at 140 being the WBO beltholder but Floyd conveniently avoided him by choosing to fight limited fighters like Corley, Bruseles and Gatti. If Floyd believed he was really the best in l40, he could have fought him in a unification fight but knowing he could lose,

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What will that make him when Pac fights Cotto whom Floyd ducked? This will make Pac's resume even more impressive if ever he beats him.

My point here is Pac does not duck anyone. But I cannot say the same thing to Floyd, though, who chose to fight a lightweight Marquez who had not fought north of 135. No wonder, most people consider him Fraud P4P fighter during his time.

 

Yeah, I can probably accept your excuse then. But how come he choose to fight Marquez rather than Cotto in return fight? I have not heard him call out anyone in his division while these elite fighters have been calling him before he retired.