Where Bernard Hopkins ranks Floyd Mayweather alltime.

Back then Bernard was hoping for a pay day to fight Mayweather he would seriously have met him a 160 I doubt Nard could make 154. Nard was not serious. BUT Mayweather had the natural boxing talent to be up there he just lacked the cojones & intelligence. In a few years after his last comeback fight he'll be on skid row panhandling & telling folk "I used to be TBE & an ATG " as the cops take him off to jail atsch

 

Why Mongolia ?? What did they do to deseve him LOLatsch

 

No I brought up Hopkins said but you want to take his word up as gospel

 

I don't think you understand what p4p rankings mean.

It's about pure ability, taking size out of the equation.

 

What a silly notion.

There are literally hundreds of thousands throughout time that can beat a prime Willie Pep in a fight too.

...and?

This is a sport with rules. This is boxing. Not Fantasy Bar Fighting.

 

Pac aint one of them :deal

 

Name me one at or below 147, please.

 

No kidding.

My point is that people are making too big of a deal out of a mythical ranking.

It's a great marketing ploy, but it doesn't do anything to actually settle who would beat who if they had the same measurements.

 

What's your point?

 

yeah because know it all cj can read hopkins' mind.

 

I would have mentioned one in my previous post if I thought there was one.

Floyd is the best @ 147, no denying that.

However, in real life, does it matter if someone picks a fight with you and they are 50lbs heavier? If they wanna fight you they will fight you. They don't say "well you are a lot smaller than me so I won't fight you".

 

It's funny you mention "Fantasy Bar Fighting", when the whole concept of p4p is "fantasy".

 

There are 17 weight divisions.

The sport has changed.

P4P rankings mean more than ever and are completely justified, and more accurate in many cases, than purely divisional rankings. Otherwise most weight jumpers would be seen as mediocre-ranked fighters to the unknowing person doing some research to learn the current state of boxing.

With the current state of the sport and the fighters in each division, someone dominating 147 (Mayweather) or dominating two divisions at once (Inoue) or someone who has scooped titles in three divisions in the last couple years (Ioka) deserve some higher merit in a ranking system than someone dominating 105 (Buddler). Being ranked #1 at Lightweight at the moment (Abril/Bey/Vazquez) does not mean you are on par with other #1's in other divisions because those fighters are the least accomplished at the top of a division. Thurman and Khan are mid-top 10 WW's but are better and more recently accomplished P4P than Mickey Bey is.