Is Mayweather overrated.....

He's underrated. He's make world champion fighters look average, and as such people say he hasn't fought anybody and ducks challenges which is hilarious to me. Mayweather has beaten far greater opposition than the people he is falsely accused of ducking.

 

I concur! 100%... op


Void doesn't fight the best!

 

Hes overrrated in a sense that hes not at the status of a Duran, Leonard, Pep etc. in terms of greatness, yet he makes a lot more money and gets special treatment and advantages. Like his boy 50 Cent, hes good at what he does, but hes no Pac or Biggie. Not even close. I think a lot of things and people are overrated today because technology, social media, population, all amplify importance and accomplishments of people.

 

No being that he usualy loses them. Mayweather is vastly underrated.

 

Fantasy fights are not reality

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is more important and not some filthy imaginations
Evrybody is OVERRATED in fantasy fights
Mayweather is no exception, so yes :nono

 

certainly not by you, which fights does he lose?
fab 4? yes active, none

 

To beat Mayweather it will take outsdanding boxing skills, the displine to use them and one punch power. A pressure fighter is never going to beat Mayweather unless he has help from bad scoring and Mayweather is injured going into the fight.
At 130 and 140 no one beats Mayweather. His tougest bout at 130 would have been against Alexis Arguello. At 140 a bout between Mayweather and Pernell Whitaker would be intresting


135
Benny Leonard
Pernell Whitaker
Both would be great fights. Both Leonard and Whittaker are better boxers than Mayweather. Mayweather is not that far behind them and he has physical advantages that work in his favor.
147/154
Flex Trinidad. I was watching some clips of Trindd the other day to see if I thought he could beat Mayweather. I'm on the fence here. While not a classic "boxer" Trinidad dose a good job in keeping his distance/out boxing Mayweather which I beleve is the key rather than pressure. He dose have the other key in beating Mayweather that is one punch power. I'd pick Myweather with some heasition.
Thomas Hearns. Hearns has everything needed to beat Mayweather. He acatualy has everything needed to beat everyone 147/154. Size, power and skills.
Ray Leonard. I think Leonard has magic powers. That last statment is not true. Leonard is the guy who finds a way to win even if the other guy is better and or has better physical tolls. I think Leonard some how some way finds a way to win regardless of who he fights. Mayweather is no expetion.
Ray Robinson I'd pick Robinson over Mayweather in a fantisty fight, because I expect both boxers to bring their A games and not only be in their best physical and mental shape, but to also have the best stragity, and fallow through with it. Robinson would stay on his back foot and out box Mayweather.
However. If this was a real fight where both boxers are human beings not idealistic fantasty boxers. I'd go with Mayweather. Robinson's bigest flaw is that he'd often chose to fight rather than box losing to lesser guys than Mayweather.

 

He's not over-rated but he is over hated.

 

Few names for you, you tell me what you think please.

Mayweather vs Mosley @ 135
Mayweather vs Duran @ 135
Mayweather vs Chavez @ 135
Mayweather vs Pryor @ 140

 

First of all you have to get him in the ring to fight you and that's very hard if you're dangerous :deal. You don't even have to beat Mayweather, all you have to do is scared him into ducking you .

 

In fantasy match ups he tends to be overrated, though his skills are obviously super super elite for the seamless flow of defense into offense, but I have watched a whole lot of fights, and saying Arguello would be tough for Floyd is a joke: movement troubles Arguello a whole lot, whether from Vilomar Fernandez or Pryor. I think Floyd could make that look like the corrales fight, only more dangerous for Floyd, but not much. Without mobile feet you are a sucker for Floyd.

The big welters of the 80s would probably have him beating the likes of Benitez and losing to someone like SRL or Hearns in all likelihood. Duran was also a bit concerned by movement (kirkland lang, SRL rematch, problems with Viruet, etc), so I can't see Duran actually beating a Floyd with a great gameplan.

I think the toughest night for Floyd is someone who doesn't give him space (carlos hernandez, Jesus Chavez, hatton, Castillo - all fights where he looked uncomfortable pushed back) so in my mind Pryor is a nightmare for him. This is why I really really want to see if Pac is relentless enough to impose that kind of pressure ... now I doubt it.

I don't think Trinidad has what it takes to trouble Mayweather ... but he does have the great equalizer, I just think he's sylistically an elite Corrales.

Despite the left handed difficulties, i think Floyd could solve Pernell with offense, but that's a pick em. Floyd's offensive prowess is far far greater than Pernell's, quite possibly one of the worst finishers in any era.

 

I think barring a lucky shot the Floyd Mosley fight woud always look the same: Mosley too open and wide with poor defensive instincts, Floyd too tight and unreachable.

Chavez would get Whittakered with movement as long as Floyd kept throwing.

Pryor has the best shot for sure, that kind of pressure is NO JOKE and I think it's a style Floyd could not adapt to very well because it's too relentless. Chavez was NOT fast and relentless, he selected his shots wonderfully, but he did not bring the frenetic insanity of Pryor.

 

In fantasy matchups, yes. Because he never lost. Had he convincingly beat a couple of atgs in their primes, it would be easier to say he's not. He's without a doubt one of the most skilled ever but there is stil that slight doubt how good he really was. He beats Pac and all doubts are erased. I don't buy into the notion that he would destroy Pac. He very well might but to actually see it would erase all doubts

 

Correct :good