What is everyone's true opinion of Floyd Mayweather Jr?

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  1. teeto

    teeto Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    some tranny
     
  2. TheGreatA

    TheGreatA Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Classy skills, not so classy a personality.
     
  3. PowerPuncher

    PowerPuncher Loyal Member Full Member

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    Some video ho Teeto smashed, what do you think?

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  4. kolcade4

    kolcade4 Keep Punchin' Full Member

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    If Merchant was 50 years younger wouldn't that still make him 70?
     
  5. Blood Green

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    I liked seeing it happen after the Ortiz headbut. I just wish Ortiz got up so there would be more of a fight to watch.
     
  6. Bummy Davis

    Bummy Davis Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Ortiz found a way to quit "Tyson-Like" and I do not think much of the way he gave in after the vicious headbutt....Floyd has a lot of talent, no class but would have not survived the 80's Duran,Leonard or Hearns and possibly not Benitez
     
  7. frankenfrank

    frankenfrank Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    As Floyd was smaller than Leonard , Hearns and even Benitez and would have lost to them (Leonard and Hearns would have stopped him if they fought) , same 4 Curry , Starling , Breland , Brown , etc ,
    Floyd should b compared 2d smaller men of d 80s : Duran , Chavez , Camacho , Ramirez , Randall and all of these were 2 much 4 him .
    D only 3 he might have been competitive against were Pryor , Arguello & Whitaker . His best chance would have been Pryor because Pryor couldn't beat no1 without Panama Lewis' black bottles .
     
  8. TBooze

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    A brilliant fighter, probably going to be a Great, but he should of done so much more. He should be competing with the top 10 pound for pound ever, instead, he has still to prove whether he goes down as an all time top 50 fighter...
     
  9. robert ungurean

    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    :lol:
     
  10. The Mongoose

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    He's dirty with the elbows but every great fighter has at least one little trick like that.

    Ortiz? Nothing unique and I doubt it was even payback for the headbutt, its just something Mayweather always does. Mixed feelings on it, but I put the blame on the ref for his poor communication and ability to control the action.

    Personality? I don't care, just wish he would fight more frequently and against more credible competition in recent years. Pac/Mayweather should already be a trilogy.
     
  11. kolcade4

    kolcade4 Keep Punchin' Full Member

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    Still nobody has mentioned that Floyd may be ducking Pac. Sounds about right.
     
  12. Pachilles

    Pachilles Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Tremendously talented, cerebral fighter. Dumb as **** and delusional. Primadonna. Cherrypicker extraordinaire.
     
  13. duranimal

    duranimal Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I respect him for his superb business acumen, he knows the bizz inside/outside/upside & downside. He's a surviver, he's the biggest $$$ fish out there swimming in a sea of sharks & he knows how to stay out of their jaws. He's always known that it was all about getting too the golden $$$$ goose in DLH at HBO & taking over that prime $$$$$ feasting spot. All roads led to DLH & untold riches & he got himself there.

    He's not interested in legacy & shite like that, this is the hurt & $$$ business & he's going to make sure that he is master of his own destiny & he'll make sure that he'll not be thrown to the wolves by some promoter. He's a success in every meaning of the word with regard too business stratergy in the modern world of PPv boxing.

    Just look at the way he has managed to manouver himself into position & get himself access to the fight with DLH & the HBO jackpot payout by avoiding dangerous challenges & then pick opponants that already have huge fan basis albeit regional/ethnic or generic & hi-jacking them. Just look at the Hatton/Mayweather mutant suffragettes he in the UK that yelp & gush at all things floydie:lol:

    Yeh i respect him BIG TIME as he is indeed a master sheep shearer. I think his only chance to grasp any form of normality is when he can escape to be with his children & shut out the world of boxings predators. But the down side of self promotion 24/7 when employing schizophrenia as a marketing tool is that eventually the actor in the long run takes over full-time. Thats the route he's opted for & thats the price he's got to pay with regard to in the popularity stakes where he's mostly reviled as an individual when in public view.

    I think he's a great boxer but I don't think he's elite & thats down to the simple fact of him having a very mediocre reseme by choice, but he can't have it both ways as in the adulation/respect of his peer's, GLORY or CASH & only the elite have claimed both through history. Yeh i think he's a cherry picking **** & so does everyone else all except the nieve & the gullible, but from a business perspective i'am a massive fan of his & i'am now going to go onto his facebook & tell him i want to be his bwestest of bwest fwends:yep
     
  14. He is an Extremely skilled technician probably atg and hard training athlete which he uses inside the ring to avoid as much confrontation as possible. Winning and avoid taking risks are absolutely everything, he is not at all about the benefit of the sport or sporting triumph, only for money and celeb status. most of all he stands up for isn't respectable or worth a role model which is why he has a hard time hitting it off in the mainstream media circles. (hitting his wife will get him there though)

    he is just a shred business man with a strange disturbed personality complex. and ofcourse he uses money and influence to decide how all fighters are carefully picked and matches prearranged for greatest possible leveridge towards mayweather.

    his resume takes a hit by people who closely follow the sport but in the scheme of things they are all still within the top dog of the sport, and he has beaten every single one of them usually with astonishing success and form.
     
  15. JudgeDredd

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    Very good but not great fighter. We'll never know how great he could've been because he just won't test himself.