Why do Idiots think Floyd Mayweather had more talented than a prime Roberto Duran?

Floyd Mayweather doesn't deserve the moniker PBF. At one point he was a flashy kid who fought fringe level elite guys like Corrales and Castillo. But after that he became a joke. A punchline named Money.

 

Yeah he deserved it he rarely got touched up and took little to no punishment. Pbf was a much better nickname than money.

 

Maybe he's the best. But far, far away from the greatest fighter of his era.

 

You missed the point. At one point for about 2-3 years he was deserving of being called PBF, but then in 2003 he turned into a coward.

 

I didn't know cowards beat the likes of hatton jmm PAC mosely cotto canelo and oscar all of which came after 2003.:deal

 

Hatton he dragged up in weight.

JMM he dragged up in weight and cheated on scales

Mosely he waited until Mosley was old as hell

Cotto waited until he was completely destroyed twice

Canelo only half decent win since Castillo, but Floyd was smart to fight him before he developed all his skills

Pac he waited until he hadn't had a KO in 6 years

Oscar faded Oscar took like 4-5 rounds.

He became a coward after 2003.

 

People can say Duran lost and got Ko'd all they want but that was north of his best weight and well past his best. At the end of the day he has the best win in boxing prime for prime against a top 10-15 ATG and is considered the best ever at 135. Also by many ****ysts as the best fighter on film

 

Hey dumbass, you say he won 5 rounds at best. Ask the next Floyd fanboy what rounds he scored, he'll say a different round to you because it was one of those fights, and there you have it, the Fanboys lay open a case for a draw themselves.

Maidana was the effective aggressor. Just becuase you don't necessarily land cleanly all the time, it doesn't mean you're not raking points on ring generalship and effective aggression.

As for Maidana's combos, these are highly unnoticed by the untrained eye. He throws a flurry but each time he does, at least one or two good shots land - but because he doesn't land his whole flurry, the untrained eye thinks Mayweather is defending well against them.

Think and reflect. You didn't stop reading there, you read it all because what I said in that comment was very important.

Floyd is no master of boxing.

 

Hatton was a good win but Hatton wasn't a very good fighter himself, he should have lost to Collazo. I say this as a Brit.

Marquez was small and fat for the weight class, and Mayweather heavily outweighed him. This fight is a farce.

Pacquiao was semi-shot, psychologically shot, injured.

Mayweather's wins come from being in USADA's pocket. IV tells the story, Mr 'everything the government says is correct, politicians are all truthful' guy.

Mosley was from 2010, that's ancient and a joke, thus Pac's win over Mosley was a bigger joke.

Cotto was past prime. Mayweather avoided him in 2007-2009 when he was a killer.

Canelo is flat footed, slow, telegraphs punches and stlystically not favoured against Mayweather. Easy fight and this forum had 85% of people believing Mayweather would win, the highest figure I've ever seen from a Mayweather thread.

Oscar was considerably past prime, a 2007 version of Oscar haha GTFO.


All of these wins of Mayweather have important stories behind them. The story most prevalent is the IV story.

 

Exactly, the people here who disagree really don't understand boxing and their agenda couldn't be more obvious when they're trashing a Top 10 ATG Duran.

 

He's not. Defensive approach is not mastery or difficult when you're playing the Erislandy Lara esque game. Defensive mastery is hard to achieve, and comes when the boxers are actually in the philosophy of FIGHTING. Mayweather is solely an 'outpoint to win and remove the fight element' type of fighter.

Mayweather DID WORSE THAN DURAN, Mayweather QUIT FROM BOXING to escape facing actual challenges in their primes.

Duran was in terrible condition, past prime, fat, old vs Wilfried Benitez. What he did beyond 147lbs is precisely what makes him a Top 10 ATG.

Being the highest paid athlete doesn't mean anything resume wise. You have lost the plot.

47-1-1 he is, but really he's 0-0-0-49 because of IV.

 

I'll take Whitaker over Floyd, Duran, or Leonard because I feel he could control them with his jab.

 

It is an unspoken, but assumed code to fight to win, and not win like a coward - that's a hollow victory. Boyzone understand this phenomenon, describing it as 'when the going gets tough, the tough get going'.
Floyd needs to take a step back more often and think, 'what would Boyzone say?'