So Mayweather is essentially retired...

I'm sure others will prove a more insightful view but l'd say he's defensively he's in the top 10 of all time at 130 he's in the top 3 and p4p ranking top 15-25 with me personally having him closer to the front of that range.

 

I wouldn't have him in the top 25, but "ATG p4p ratings" are a bit of a nightmare really.
At 130 he might be #2 behind Chavez, but that's only including the fighters who explicitly fought in the 130 division in the modern era (since the 60s or 70s), rather than large feathers and small lightweights in that range from further back in time (eg. Saddler etc.).

 

Cherry picking coward. Monumentally overrated. Anyone who thinks hes retired is borderline re****ed.

 

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I don't rate Floyd "Money" Mayweather.

"Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather, on the other hand...

 

I believe I can think of 30 fighters more accomplished, but not 40.

In very rough order:

Robinson
Ali
Louis
Pep
Benny Leonard
Greb
Langford
Tunney
Armstrong
Gans
Saddler
Duran
SRL
Charles
Canzoneri
Moore
Johnson
Walcott
Lewis
Whitaker
Jones Jr.
Monzon
Napoles
Hagler
Hearns
Walker
Frazier
Holyfield
Griffith
Hopkins
Foreman

There's 31 already. And I missed some ATG old fighters too if you want to take a few newer names off. But I'd find it hard to nitpick that list too much. The list might actually reach 40. Tiger Flowers, possibly JCC, Jofre, etc.

 

If you continue adding guys with worse resumes than Floyd, I'm sure you'll hit 40 soon.

 

Hes still out training for something and when the new venue opens in lv who do you think is going tp headline?? When i was a kid we had an old five and dime store in town and every year the owner would have a big sale announcing his retirement and the inevitable store closing. People would flock in and spend their $$$ and he would go on with business as usual until the following yr and his next retirement sale. Thats Mayweather. Hes been teasing fake retirements and comebacks for years in order to generate false demand and the suckers fall for it every time.

 

Make the argument then.

 

I'm not a huge Floyd fan but anyone who isn't crazy nostalgic about past fighters or a hater realizes that he's at the very least top 20. More like top 10. I would put him some where around 5-8 personally

 

Are you counting loses as negatives?

 

It doesnt take nostalgia to see that he always had every advantage in his favor and still cherry picked. It doesnt take a hater to see there have been well over 20 men in boxing who accomplished more with less against stiffer competition.