Rate Mayweather's win over Gatti

Agreed....and it was more about "THE WAY" he did it that was the very good part. He did just as well as DLH which was pretty damn good.

 

Its the performance you moron.


What do people cite as Muhammad Ali's best display? Foreman? No. Frazier 3? No. Sonny Liston? No.


They cite Cleveland Williams as his most brilliant display. Its not the quality of Cleveland Williams they talk about, its the quality of how Ali looked in the fight. At his peak.

Boy some of you cats are simple when it comes to the sport.

 

lol, sorry my post ruined your evening with your box of Kleenex and your Mayweather career box-set.

 

Funny. What be even funnier if you'd actually take time to learn the sport.

 

All it did was boost Floyds popularity and gave him his biggest payday at the time....it was to get floyds name out there.....it was a ass whippin that everyone saw coming. They hyped the **** outta that fight. It was great for floyds career, as far as boxing, it was a mismatch....*******s and haters will flip into some bull**** but hats all that fight was. Popularity and money

 

I know plenty about the sport, thanks. I just disagree with your point. You can't separate performance and opponent like that, a world class fighter will always look great against someone 2 or 3 levels below them, it doesn't make it a great performance. A great performance has to be against a worthy opponent.

 

Gatti was the 140lb champion, coming off a winning streak and thought to be bigger then Floyd.


Floyd had a great performance against Corrales, a hall of famer, who was devastating every fighter he came across, in terms of opponent level, its his best performance, much like Ali's best performance based on opponent level is his fight with Foreman.


However, his best performance overall is Cleveland Williams. A fighter nowhere near his best scalps, yet it was a flawless performance, much like Mayweather against Gatti. Nobody expected Mayweather to beat Gatti like that. A schooling on every level.

Again this is a concept you seem to be struggling with.

 

And yet if you took the Williams fight off Ali's resume it would make **** all difference to his legacy, this is the point you are struggling with. It doesn't matter dick if you look great against an opponent not on your level; good for you if you do, but at the end of the day great fighters are judged against their performances against the best. Gatti was never an elite fighter, and was clearly past his prime when Mayweather fought him. Kudos to Mayweather for dominating, but in the grand scheme of things it's still only a mid-rounds stoppage of a B- fighter.

 

interesting numbers on the polls, every choice is about even.

 

He looked awesome in that fight but the Corrales one was even better.

 

Very Good - Obviously the gap in class was enormous at that point in their careers but Floyd put on an absolute masterclass.

RIP Gatti

 

Thats the point you moron.

Gatti compared to Corrales, CAstillo, Chavez, Famoso, Genaro, Hatton, Judah, DLH ect ect means **** all. Hell it means less then Floyd stopping Manfredy in 2.

Its the performance. Again what dont you understand? Have you not been following boxing long enough to realize you dont see performances like that every day? Even when DLH beat Gatti it wasnt that dominating. What Floyd did was on another level, same with Ali, **** who the opponent was.

Jesus. Floyd haters. :-(

 

I guess as i'm not a Mayweather fan boy i fail to get a hard on over a one-sided beat down against an inferior opponent. And for you to accuse me of not following boxing for long and then saying in the same post that Oscar didn't dominate Gatti? Jog on, fan boy.

 

Actually dope, Floyds masterclass against Gatti is well known even outside Floyd fans.

People who dont know Floyd stopped one of the greatest SFW of all time when he was only 18, know that he beat the **** out of Gatti.

infact its a verb, "that boy got Gatti'd"

Hell when the Hatton fight was coming around, thats the reference everyone was using, "Hatton's gonna get Gatti'd"

Also, DLH dominated Gatti, but it wasnt how Floyd dominated him. DLH overpowered the smaller fighter. Floyd technically demolished the bigger man.

Again if you cant understand the difference and why won drew more aw then the other, you dont understand the sport. MMA is more your up alley.

 

lol, so now Oscar did dominate Gatti? Make your mind up, else it'll look like you've been badly owned. Also, i've never disputed that people know about the Gatti fight, of course they do. Gatti has always drawn a lot of fans, even some who would describe themselves as 'casual' fans. In many ways it's the fight that made Mayweather as a mainstrem star. I just don't feel that Mayweather deserves the credit for that performance that you seem to think he deserves as ultimately he was fighting a past his best B- level fighter, no matter how good he looked doing so. I doubt you give the same credit you give Mayweather to Calzaghe for the way he totally destroyed Jeff Lacy.