He avoided Cotto, Mosley,for years, and only fought Cotto and Mosley until they were severely faded. He had Antonio Margarito and Paul Williams sitting at welterweight for years, with titles, and never fought them. I remember him challenging Winky Wright, then backing out and fighting Sharmba Mitchell way back in 2005. There were any number of better fighters in his weight class he could have fought when he went after Guerrero, Berto, Marquez.
Sorry, but hand picking your opponents, often times men smaller than you, or men whose styles preclude them winning, AND you only fight in Las Vegas so you can shoot up your brittle hands?
Does not qualify to be called best ever in my eyes.
You didn't answer the question. Who did he fight, when he could have fought someone else, that was better?
Winky Wright was a Middleweight when Floyd fought Sharmba Mitchell in november of 2005. Floyd has never fought at MW. Stupid comparison.
Any other reaches?
Marquez was a come back fight after almost 2 yrs off and is a Hall of Famer P4P'er at the time, that ktfo Manny Pac AFTER they fought. Wait didnt Pacman and Marquez fight at the same weightclass Floyd and Marquez fought? You guys act like Floyd is some giant at WW.
When Floyd fought Guerrero (who was Champion btw),
who else should he have fought? You bring RG up, but you're not answering the question.
Berto was a retirement fight; Would you like to tell me who Sugar Ray Robinson fought in his last fight?
Miguel Cotto was a weight class behind him for a while, when they were both WWs Floyd was looking for bigger fights until Cotto was big enough to fight him and they fought while Cotto was damn good, AND younger than Floyd.
As far as Mosley, this was while Floyd was still a SLW and Shane was in his prime at JMW, look at who else he called out 1-2 weight classes away from him; who avoided whom? Explain this please:
Oh and both Cotto and Mosley when he fought them were the 2 or 3 top rated WW, Pacman #1 of course.
Antonio Margrito? Are you serous? THATS the big Boogeyman he should hve fought? I'll help you out on this one since you're probably unaware of who he decided to fight instead at the time Margo might've been in the mix.
When they actually made an offer to fight Floyd they were also working on fighting #1 ranked JMW in the World, Oscar De La Hoya for the largest payot in history and at the frst time moving up to a new weight class. You tell me what he should've done.
And Margo isnt the difference maker anyways. Are you trying to say Margo was more dangerous than Maidana, or Canelo?
Pwill? come on dude, he's not any interchangeable than any of the other guys Floyd fought at the same time.
Again, answer the question...Instead of fighting "this guy" at the time he fought him, who else was a better option (ie. more money, higher rated etc.)? Anybody can just throw names out, add some context to who he fought and whom he SHOULD HAVE fought at THAT time instead.
Beside that point though, like I said, which you choose to ignore: Running the table for 19 years against ANY top contenders for 26 straight fights is damn hard to do. The greatest in history havent been able to do that, and 9/10 times when they lost during their reign it was against less than legendary fighters. And THAT appears to be a heavily weighted metric that boxrec is using. In that case it would make sense. And THATs the main point I've made that you choose to ignore.
Instead you rehash the same tired old issues that have been debunked numerous times around here. Some of you guys just hate the guy for the sake of whatever. You haven't even answered the comparible fighters that were available when Floyd had other championship fights that he should have fought instead.
Are you trying to say all 26 Champions were cherry picked when all you could come up with is:
two guys past their prime and these other two guys he never fought? Neither of those two guys he didnt fight ended up being ATG world beaters in boxing anyways.
You MIGHT have had an argument if Paul Williams or Antonio Margarito had EVER become p4p Top 3 at any time in their career and never fought Floyd.
What's funny is the childish pettyness some of you guys have. Because once upon a time a guy named Floyd Mayweather Jr. flaunted his wealth in front of the camera, talked a little shit and you got all butthurt as if it made some kind of difference in your lives. You decided to hate everything about the guy, what he does, how he fights, who he fights, nitpick his personal life, and make up any set of excuses to discredit every accomplishment he has ever acheived in a sport most of you wouldn't last 2 years professionally in... It used to be irritating, now it's just humorous.
Go ahead get whatever it is off your chest, I already know reasonable conversation isn't gonna work. You can't even answer my simple question...
