How Would Floyd Mayweather Jr. "The Best Ever" Fare Against Some of The Best Ever?

yeah Pryor is a terrible terrible style match up for Floyd. Floyd isn't winning rounds against that guy ... he might win a few rounds against Hearns if he can extend it to the middle somehow. (Pryor did beat Hearns in the ams, but that was a different game before he learned to decapitate people with the right hand).

 

Pryor is a head to head nightmare. He was winning his loss pretty handily in my opinion and got caught, stood up, and I think the stoppage was a bit premature, but amidst all his other problems it definitely was a result of physical decline. Endless stamina, quick hands, power, broken rhythm, movement, endless angles ... I can't see Floyd stopping that onslaught. His small size is his weakest feature. One of the hardest nonconventional styles to face, ever. Any boxer who needs space gets screwed over by him in his prime. I think a huge one shot puncher has the biggest chance of beating Pryor.

 

Light Middleweight
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Fernando Vargas Win
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Vernon Forrest 50/50
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Julian Jackson Win
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Sergio Martinez Win
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Wilfred Benitez Win
..
WelterWeight
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Sugar Ray Leonard Loss
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Sugar Ray Robinson Loss
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Thomas Hearns Loss
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Felix Trinidad Loss
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Pernell Whitaker Win (147 Whitaker, loses 135)
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Paul Williams Win
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Antonio Margarito Win
...
Light Welterweight
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Win
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Kostya Tsyzu Win
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Oscar De La Hoya (Prime) 50/50
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Aaron Pryor 50/50
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Hector Camacho Win
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Miguel Cotto (Prime) Win
...
Lightweight
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Roberto Duran Loss
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Marco Antonio Barrera Win
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Alexis Arguello Win
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Shane Mosley (Prime) 50/50
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Erik Morales Win

 

So why was Bernard Hopkins Light Heavyweight champ at the age of 49 until recently? Why hasn't the recent generation dethroned Mayweather, Klitschko, Pacquiao yet?

 

Though not addressed to me, I think the easy ascension to title shots and the creation of media champs has produced an "unearned" generation who neither perfect their technique with increasing challenges coupled with a decrease in popularity in boxing which keeps truly athletic people looking for safer pay days after seeing what has happened to so many ATGs like Ali. Pac came up the hard way for sure. The stars under 30 ... probably not so much. More "modern training" and conditioning, less basic survival technique.

 

Floyd's best is 130-140

Moseley is a killer there
Duran is a killer there
And then you have pacquiao

Floyd In His prime gives them all a great fight though

At 147 he's dead against the greats

Leonard hearns or Robinson murder him

Paul Williams would have killed him if he wasn't a coward

 

how cam a guy who struggled with Castillo at 135 beat the greatest lightweight of all time at his best weight

 

theres

 

That's what Zab Judah thought......

 

:thumbsup

 

Light Middleweight
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Fernando Vargas wins
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Vernon Forrest: wins
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Julian Jackson: wins (Jackson has a fair punchers chance though)
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Sergio Martinez loses
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Wilfred Benitez loses
..
WelterWeight
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Sugar Ray Leonard loses
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Sugar Ray Robinson loses
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Thomas Hearns loses
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Felix Trinidad: Wins
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Pernell Whitaker: wins (60/40 Whitaker at LW)
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Paul Williams: wins
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Antonio Margarito: Wins
...
Light Welterweight
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Julio Cesar Chavez: wins (50/50 at 130)
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Kostya Tsyzu: wins
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Oscar De La Hoya: (Prime) wins
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Aaron Pryor: loses
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Hector Camacho: wins
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Miguel Cotto: (Prime) wins
...
Lightweight
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Roberto Duran: loses
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Marco Antonio: Barrera wins
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Alexis Arguello: wins
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Shane Mosley: (Prime) wins
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs. Erik Morales: wins

 

Then why have some of the best fighters of this generation used techniques used by past fighters? Hopkins is an old-school fighter, and has beaten men half his age with them. Floyd and Toney, two of the greatest defensive fighters ever, use the Philly Shell, an old school technique. Golovkin and Kovalev both use the old-school technique of shifting.

If these great modern fighters are so much better, why do they use techniques from the past?