Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Sugar Ray Leonard @147 lbs.

not a fully fair fight. Both guys are very close to equal terms but SRL & Hearns were huge WW's or almost 154 pounders fighting at WW which is there very 1st divsion while Floyd is an extremely small WW who is in his 4th weight class. The better comparison is in a P4P sense where it would be a WW SRL vs a SFW Mayweather wow that is the smartest thing posted in a long time

The contracted weight was 145lbs. Yeah, that's what I am saying. You couldn't just have great lateral movement against a calculated pressure fighter like Chavez. He was going to hit you. He was just one of those fighters you couldn't run from. You had to be able to MOVE your entire body out of the way of punches. Whitaker had excellent legs that nobody else had my man. He could dodge any punch. Pep and Floyd got hit way more than Pea did and Pea did it against THE BEST opposition possible. They couldn't touch him defensively. godfr33, one of my favorite fights, involving pernell whitaker, was his two matches against james buddy mcgirt, when pernell whitaker, beat buddy mcgirt the first time, buddy mcgirt, made a big stink, about a shoulder injury, and promised, that the shoulder kept him from beating pernell whitaker, then pernell whitaker, beat the brakes off of buddy mcgirt, in the rematch...lol

SRL to fast,would beat the breaks off of lil Floyd imo...SRL Too much of everything all around for Money May.. That's all I need to see. What else can be said?

link for the article........ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1137975/index.htm

yeah........ The contracted weight was 145lbs. Yeah, that's what I am saying. You couldn't just have great lateral movement against a calculated pressure fighter like Chavez. He was going to hit you. He was just one of those fighters you couldn't run from. You had to be able to MOVE your entire body out of the way of punches. Whitaker had excellent legs that nobody else had my man. He could dodge any punch. Pep and Floyd got hit way more than Pea did and Pea did it against THE BEST opposition possible. They couldn't touch him defensively.

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My bad. We know that. I meant to ask the guy who said he disagreed with my opinion on Chavez and Floyd. I was asking him WHY he thought Floyd would win against Chavez. I don't think he would have won at 140 which was Chavez and Floyd's prime weight. Floyd is a lateral mover who relies on reflexes. You have to have legs to fight and survive against fighters like Chavez. Whitaker was the greatest defensive fighter ever. I don't know why these guys continue to argue that. You couldn't even hit him with jabs! Floyd would have gotten hit more against great fighters wh came to fight. I think that has been proven. The main reason Whitaker was able to dominate Chavez wa because of his legs. Floyd don't have those kind of legs and would have had trouble with him and Duran for that matter. Hell, you see how Cotto gave him trouble and he isn't a master at that in your chest, violent style like Chavez and Duran were. god-fr33, prior to the fight between julio cesear (sp) chavez, and pernell sweetpea whitaker, everybody thought, that julio chavez would get to pernell whitaker, the way he got to pernell whitaker's olympic stablemate, meldrick taylor, i think one of the reasons, why pernell "sweat pea" whitaker, was able to handle julio chavez, was because julio chavez, was moving up in weight from 140 lbs. to fight pernell whitaker @ 147 lbs. and pernell whitaker, was much more natural at the weight...that fight, definitely showcased pernell whitaker's excellent defense, which is why i thought julio chavez, out of frustration, resorted to hitting pernell whitaker, on the thighs, and below the belt, but pernell whitaker, deaded that nonsense, with a brutal lowblow...lol

My bad. We know that. I meant to ask the guy who said he disagreed with my opinion on Chavez and Floyd. I was asking him WHY he thought Floyd would win against Chavez. I don't think he would have won at 140 which was Chavez and Floyd's prime weight. Floyd is a lateral mover who relies on reflexes. You have to have legs to fight and survive against fighters like Chavez. Whitaker was the greatest defensive fighter ever. I don't know why these guys continue to argue that. You couldn't even hit him with jabs! Floyd would have gotten hit more against great fighters wh came to fight. I think that has been proven. The main reason Whitaker was able to dominate Chavez wa because of his legs. Floyd don't have those kind of legs and would have had trouble with him and Duran for that matter. Hell, you see how Cotto gave him trouble and he isn't a master at that in your chest, violent style like Chavez and Duran were. Well at 140 its even more of a clear victory for floyd. floyd rips chavez apart. chavez never lands anything meaningful all the way to a clear 12 rd ud.

And that dude saying Pacquiao is an alltime great no he's not stop it man, that dude has only fought one guy that can counter punch his whole carrer and that's marquez, and he really lost those fights to marquez. Marquez doesn't have good defense his feet are slow and his hands speed is okay, Marquez is just smart and great at counter puching his good at knwing his distance little things like that fans don't know nothing about. There is a reason Pacquiao really only fights flat footed come forward brawlers, with no defense at catchweights. pac2, reading is fundamental, my man...what was said was, manny pacquiao, is a potential atg, my man, and unless i'm mistaken, manny pacquaio, is an 8 division world champ, 4 lineal titles, fighter of the decade, etc. etc...i think that is sufficient backup, to make a case for manny pacquaio, to be considered at least a top 30 atg, my man..., pac2, it is one thing, to say that floyd mayweather jr., can beat fighters like sugar ray leonard, thomas hearns, roberto duran, etc., when old school cats like myself, wouldn't bet the ranch on it, because floyd mayweather jr., hasn't found a way, to get his arch rival, in the ring, to prove to us old school cats, that he can beat him...in other words, floyd "money" mayweather, can show me that he can beat manny pacquiao, better than he, or his fans, can tell me...(word)

And floyd is so good that yall clowns have to pick something going oh remember when so and so did this or that to floyd he landed that 1 punch in 1 round lol well all of those fighters lost to floyd. Zab was about to get stopped floyd was beating his body up zab actually has better defense than Pacquiao and extremley fast hands and more boxing skills he just doesn't have the intangibles, the ring smart's the heart , the chin etc. Pacquiao is squared up, so you can go to the body on him zab is angled from a southpaw stance so you have to be more patient for your openings anyway all those fighters lost to floyd. You remember when marquez laded that one punch on Floyd but even though Marquez is an all time great boxer Floyd made him look like he's never boxed before and when Pacquiao fought him at the same weight Pacquiao got his ass whipped lol

My bad. We know that. I meant to ask the guy who said he disagreed with my opinion on Chavez and Floyd. I was asking him WHY he thought Floyd would win against Chavez. I don't think he would have won at 140 which was Chavez and Floyd's prime weight. Floyd is a lateral mover who relies on reflexes. You have to have legs to fight and survive against fighters like Chavez. Whitaker was the greatest defensive fighter ever. I don't know why these guys continue to argue that. You couldn't even hit him with jabs! Floyd would have gotten hit more against great fighters wh came to fight. I think that has been proven. The main reason Whitaker was able to dominate Chavez wa because of his legs. Floyd don't have those kind of legs and would have had trouble with him and Duran for that matter. Hell, you see how Cotto gave him trouble and he isn't a master at that in your chest, violent style like Chavez and Duran were.

And that dude saying Pacquiao is an alltime great no he's not stop it man, that dude has only fought one guy that can counter punch his whole carrer and that's marquez, and he really lost those fights to marquez. Marquez doesn't have good defense his feet are slow and his hands speed is okay, Marquez is just smart and great at counter puching his good at knwing his distance little things like that fans don't know nothing about. There is a reason Pacquiao really only fights flat footed come forward brawlers, with no defense at catchweights.

floyd almost got KTFO by a 39 year old shane mosley coming off 1 year & a half break. wtf do you think srl is gonna do to a boxer who has yet to face a legit prime hall of fame opposition? Stupid example. Should we ignore what happened in the ensuing ten rounds then??

floyd almost got KTFO by a 39 year old shane mosley coming off 1 year & a half break. wtf do you think srl is gonna do to a boxer who has yet to face a legit prime hall of fame opposition?

How do you think it would play out? I'll give my opinion after you. god-fr33, simply put, a fight with sugar ray leonard, and floyd mayweather jr., would result in sugar ray leonard, *****slapping, floyd mayweather jr., around the ring (word)

Leonard UD.

Thats not Floyd fault that he's better than everybody in this era , but it's not hard to see that floyd has the skills to be great in any era, and i'm not just saying that other older all time great fighter's have said it. Evander holyfield etc have said it, i mean it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. And Stop it with the Floyd Sr was anywhere near Floyd jr. as far as skills go Floyd was sparring alot of great fighters when he was like 17 giving them the business, didn't chavez loose to frankie randell floyd was schooling him in at 17 in sparring, and whitaker. Floyd always had the skills and thats for any era miss me with that bs of leornard knocking him out dominating him nobody is saying Floyd can never loose but nobody is knocking him out or dominating him from any era.

How would it play out? How do you think it would play out? I'll give my opinion after you.

for sure puto floyd will duck SRL. everybody knows this, right?

Leanord beats any welter alive today. Different level.