Why do people act like Mayweather's 50-0 isn't impressive?

Good resume and without a doubt HOF-worthy.

However, TBE resume in boxing? No, not even close. Plenty of fighters had better resumes even with some losses because they at least tested themselves against the best.

 

But that's a bit different to to this when you're not being in your building up phase of your career. To actually do it to actually beat a minor siderecord and then blow it up like it's some massive thing, is another matter.
If Wanheng had retired 52-0 after beating low level journeyman Marganti, he would have had that exact same retirement record + plus the unbeaten retirement one. Would anyone (besides trolls) think that had been in any way legit? Answer = NO! But he would have had both the retirement records non-the-less. The legend of Wanheng 'Finito' Meenayothin had been born.

 

Boxers records are generally against 70% bums or boxers they'll never lose against so you have to judge them on the 30% they actually fought in competitive fights and Floyds matches up quite well.

 

This Exactly and then some.

 

Who says it isn't?

 

Yep.

Notable opponents beaten:
Harry Greb - Tunney, Walker, Loughran, Gibbons, Norfolk, Slattery, Smith, Levinsky, Miske, Flowers, Rosenbloom
Sugar Ray Robinson - Angott, Zivic, Armstrong, LaMotta, Gavilan, Villemain, Fullmer, Basilio, Graziano, Olson
Henry Armstrong - Arizmendi, Ross, Ambers, Garcia, Angott, Wolgast, Jenkins, Zivic
Ezzard Charles - Louis, Walcott, Moore, Bivins, Burley, Maxim, Yarosz, Overlin, Marshall, Christoforidis, Lesnevich
Roberto Duran - Leonard, DeJesus, Buchanan, Barkley, Cuevas, Palomino, Ishimatsu, Mamby, Viruet, Marcel, Kobayashi
Archie Moore - Bivins, Chase, Williams, Johnson, Satterfield, Maxim, Olson, Cocoa Kid, Marshall
Ray Leonard - Hagler, Hearns, Duran, Benitez, Kalule, Mayweather, Lalonde
Tony Canzoneri - McLarnin, Ambers, Dundee, Singer, Berg, Chocolate, Arizmendi
Jimmy McLarnin - Mandell, Singer, Corbett III, Ross, Canzoneri, Ambers, Leonard, Petrolle, Villa, La Barba
Holman Williams - Cocoa Kid, Booker, Burley, Marshall, Chase, Moore, Satterfield
Gene Tunney - Dempsey, Greb, Carpentier, Gibbons, Levinsky
Manny Pacquiao- Marquez, Morales, Barrera, De La Hoya, Cotto, Bradley, Margarito, Mosley, Hatton, Ledwaba, Thurman
Floyd Mayweather Jr.- Pacquiao, De La Hoya, Alvarez, Castillo, Corrales, Mosley, Cotto, Hernandez, Marquez
Emile Griffith - Ortega, Fernandez, Rodriguez, Paret, Fullmer, Tiger, Archer, Benvenuti, Briscoe
Tommy Loughran - Walker, Greb, Baer, Braddock, Carpentier, Stribling, McTigue, Slattery, Schaaf, Uzcudun, Levinsky, Sharkey
Jimmy Bivins - Christoforidis, Yarosz, Bettina, Soose, Lesnevich, Maxim, Savold, Charles, Marshall, Moore
Lou Ambers - Canzoneri, Armstrong, Jenkins, Cocoa Kid, Villa, Zivic, Arizmendi

Most top ten rated opponents beaten:
1. Ray Robinson 45
2. Archie Moore 43
3. Ezzard Charles 40
4. Emile Griffith 36
5. Manuel Ortiz 34
6. Henry Armstrong 33
6. Muhammad Ali 33
8. Ike Williams 31
8. Joe Louis 31
10. Manny Pacquiao 28
11. Willie Pep 27
11. Bernard Hopkins 27
Floyd Mayweather 25

He's in the conversation, but he's top 15, not the GOAT.

 

I don't believe that Petrosyan is considered the GOAT in kickboxing any more than Mayweather is considered the GOAT in boxing. For his contemporaries I believe Buakaw could dispute his claim much the way that Pacquiao could Mayweather's to even being the best of his era. Besides that, when I followed kickboxing, the afficionados generally disparaged K-1 and Glory at the expense of Muay Thai. There the GOATs were guys like Samart Payakroon or Dieselnoi Chor Thanasukorn. More modern Muay Thai fighters contemporary with Petrosyan would be the 41 year old Saenchai who probably hasn't retired yet only because he's on a 63 fight win streak. Both boxing and kickboxing are a bit more competitive than you let on.

If we're talking about kickboxing streaks then Tadashi Sawamura is 232-5-4 with 228 knockouts but his competition was trash.

 

Because he could easily have a handful of losses on his record, he was never dominant, always handpicked opponents, always retired and came back, was boring, safety first, never fought a prime fighter, never was undisputed, and basically encouraged a generation of fighters to be spoiled self-entitled divas. The sooner we forget about him the better boxing will be.

 

Did you leave anything out?, Perfect.

 

Handful is abit over the top, the only fight he definitely lost was Jose Luis Castillo 1 which would have put him 27-1 and the De La Hoya fight was close but can live with Mayweather winning.