How do you rate Floyd Mayweather Jr

You're a Pac fan right... Team Pac pretty much admittedly do this.

 

Pac went in multiple times with the best fighters available in his weight classes - HOF class Barrera, HOF class Morales, HOF class Marquez.

Mayweather retired rather than make fights with Cotto, Mosley, Margarito and Williams. He made up drug test excuses to hide behind when a fight with Pacquiao was there to be made. He fought Gatti then jumped division when HOF class Tszyu was in that division.

This is the difference. :deal

 

Burley wasn't better than Gavilan.

 

You're talking ****. The man beat 10 Hall of Famers (most of them multiple times), and a couple of others who ought to be, not to mention an enormous amount of contenders. He was matched hard early on as well. Not pampered.

 

outside of gavilan and basilio at 147 mo one he fought was an all time great at their best weight.....gene fullmer randy turpin are in the hall mainly for beating a past prime SRR, neither will be remembered as top ten middleweights ever....burley is P4P better than every one he fought, even gavilan imo a lil more skillful than the keed not to take nething away from him....lamotta and graziano are hof but graziano never beat a great fighter n lost the series to a past it zale....most the hall of famers on his ledger are their for beating past prime versions of himself

 

He's a great fighter whose reputation is built more on hypothetical head to head match-ups than for his actual resume, which is pretty thin. If he would have made more fights against better competition, he'd be rated more highly and more respected.

Even if he did that, though, he is a little overrated in a fantasy H2H sense. Most of the greats from the previous generations would beat him at their best- DLH, Mosley, and Whitaker would all beat him in their primes, Chavez @135, Pryor @140, Hearns, Leonard, Benitez, Duran, etc all beat him as well. Not that that's a black mark on Floyd, but when people say he'd beat those guys easy it's a little cringeworthy.