Mayweather is incredible.

Mayweather is a great fighter. It's a shame though he never fought his legacy fights. Two were there to be made. Somehow he avoided prime Mosley and prime DLH.

Pac was always too small and was more involved with the great Featherweights of his time.

But there is no excuse for him to fight DLH and Mosley 5+ years late.

 

Best fighter of the era no doubt.

 

Let me ask you this? When were Oscar Mosley and PBF in the same weightclass together in your so called "5 years earlier"? Not only that they had no interest in fighting him anyway, he was considered too high risk low reward.

 

Floyd was no more "prime" than Shane when they fought.

 

Shane had a tooth ache bro. His dentist didn’t let him take that fight.

 

I just cannot agree that Mayweather reached his full potential. Any discussion about Mayweather always involves how he WOULD fare or what he WOULD do.

Rather than what he DID do. Tell what is his signature fight?

Is it Hatton, DLH, Mosley, Corrales, Pac, JLC, JMM?

Which one of those fights is a signature performance like RJJ pasting Toney or Hagler blowing up Hearns?

 

He's still the best fighter of the era.

 

Cut up and stopped, eh?

He fought the most cautious fight of his life against tiny, shot, recently KO'd Manny.



ROFLcopter needed!!!

 

Mayweather could have left his weight class to move up and fight them. Remember Hearns moving up to fight to Hagler.

 

I dont dispute that. Fact remains Mayweather never had his legacy fight. Because he never fought DLH and Mosley at their peak. The opportunity was there, but it never happened.

 

Maybe in a H2H sense thats possible. But he didn't leave it all out there in terms of in ring performance. He has no signature fight. No rivalry with a fellow ATG. They were all just too old.

 

He didn't have the chance. Those guys weren't interested. They had bigger and more lucrative fights not to mention PBF was fighting at 135 as late as 2003 and they were both at 154. So who does that fight get made when PBF was 3 weight classes below them? Stop it.

 

Mayweather wanted Corrales in 2000 when Mosley was the far, far, far more dangerous test.

 

A) far from the most cautious fight of his life, are you joking?

B) they fought five years (to a day, uncannily enough) after I made this thread. Floyd wasn't the same in 2015 as in 2010.

C) he still won, didn't he? Outside haters' slow-motion conspiracy-theory revisionist fantasies, that is.

 

Mosley wanted Oscar he had no interest in fighting PBF back then. Stop it.