Why is Mayweather not the greatest of all time?

No boxers always made more than Professional athletes. Nolan Ryan was the first player to sign a million dollar contract in 1980 in all the current major sports

 

There is a good book on boxing on this discussion
he Arc of Boxing: The Rise and Decline of the Sweet Science

 

And I’m thin-skinned? Jesus, man. Calm down. I reiterated multiple times that what I was saying was simply a theory (one shared by a lot of people, mind you) I happen to subscribe to. Let’s just leave it. I got no qualms with you.

 

Every athlete on every major sport’s team has a multi-million dollar salary. Only the biggest names in boxing can say anything of the sort. It isn’t remotely close to the popularity levels it once was in America. The 4 major sports have completely swallowed it up, and its participants with it.

 

Your opinion doesn't matter because you are a confused ignorant and racist

 

Who is them? Use some actually names

 

Yes, the very top boxers, but the level just below.

Jimmy Young had a day job even a sa top contender, for example.

 

LOL, OK. You’re not the first one to be sucked into the “everything is racist” movement, so I’ll let it slide.

 

That’s just your fantasy of wanting him to do something that Manny did.

It’s completely unrealistic.

Manny never fought the version of Oscar that Floyd did. And if Oscar had made 147 healthily for Floyd, then Floyd would have encountered the exact same issues that he encountered in their actual fight at 154.

Why would it have played out so differently, that Floyd would have knocked him out?

It makes no sense. The only way Floyd could have knocked out Oscar, would have been on a TKO under the same circumstances as when Manny fought him, where he was depleted and finished.

Floyd could have stopped that version, but even then it’s more than likely that he’d have just gotten a cautious U/D. But a healthy 147 version of Oscar from 2007 or earlier, would never have been knocked out by Floyd. There’s nothing to support that theory.

 

Floyd isn't knocking out too many very good or great Welterweights.

 

What do you think we can learn from this book, that will help us in this discussion?

 

How big of an advantage in every way is it ti fight in yr hometown EVERY fight? & dont give me michig was his home bull****.

 

bull****.you know better than this Philly. Hey the absolute prime Floyd at 130, does he beat absolute Everett? Come on now.

 

Ali is rightly the greatest ever if all time, Sugar Ray Robinson is pound for pound the best ever and Floyd is TBE The Best Ever. As the saying goes give on to Caesar that which is Caesar’s.

 

It seems like the term "racist" is bandied about a bit too liberally here. I think Buija explained well what he meant, and whether one agrees with him or not I wouldn't call it racist.