Is Mayweather the best Super Featherweight ever??

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  1. Sugar 88

    Sugar 88 Woke Moralist-In-Chief

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    Evidence to the contrary?
     
  2. IsaL

    IsaL VIP Member Full Member

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    Showing you boxing knowledge here eh?

    First of all, Morales lost to Zahir Raheem at lightweight not SFW.
    Second, Morales was shot, and you're going to use this fight? :patsch
     
  3. Jake LaMotta

    Jake LaMotta Lights Out Full Member

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    Yeah but GGG would drop to 130 and KO him so this is irrelevant
     
  4. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    Nowhere close.

    He only fought 5 fights at 135. The Augustus and Sosa fights are irrelevant when discussing ATG LW's and what they've done.

    So essentially you're going off of the two wins over Castillo (criminally underrated) and his wipeout of Phillip Ndou, who while top 10 at 130 the year before was not ranked at 135.

    He's on "divisional-ATG-lists" at 130 and 147 for me. Not nearly enough fights at 135 (5), 140 (3), or 154 (3) to rank in those divisions (although the three guys he beat at 154 are high quality victories).
     
  5. Ducklerr

    Ducklerr Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Correct. He is not a top 20 LW all-time in terms of resume.
     
  6. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    By the time Morales got to 130, Floyd had already left the division over a year before.

    Morales would pick up two of his finer wins against Chavez and Hernandez... men that Floyd beat at 130 three years earlier.
     
  7. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    Erik Morales' entire 130 resume in sequential order:

    W KO3 Guty Espadas Jr.
    W UD12 Jesus Chavez
    W UD12 Carlos Hernandez
    L MD12 Marco Antonio Barrera
    W UD12 Manny Pacquiao
    L TKO10 Manny Pacquiao
    L KO3 Manny Pacquiao

    His super featherweight record in total is 4 victories, 3 defeats.

    His super featherweight resume is significantly behind that of Mayweathers'.
     
  8. Oxygene2

    Oxygene2 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    ???

    Floyd's chin is very good.
     
  9. Vanboxingfan

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    This. :deal
     
  10. Vanboxingfan

    Vanboxingfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    For me I'd consider him an ATG at 130 and that's it. No way is he an ATG at 135, 140, or 154, and I'd be hard pressed to say he would make a top 20 list at 147, but it might be close.
     
  11. PJ

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  12. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    His 147 resume is highly underrated in my opinion. Like, ridiculously underrated.

    Floyd himself was a much better fighter at 130 but he picked up some great scalps at 147.

    Don't know why people are acting like it's 2009 still when assessing his 147 resume.
     
  13. IsaL

    IsaL VIP Member Full Member

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    These two wins are bigger than ANYTHING Floyd has ever done at SFW.

    Please, Please put Mayweather's resume at 130.
     
  14. The_Destroyer

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    might have been Edwin Valero... :D
     
  15. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    You already know it. Boxrec if you don't.

    It's better than Morales'.