Floyd Mayweather the greatest ever, Period.

He aint the greatest of this era. Pac is, and then you have BH and JC who also are. Earlier generation like DLH are greater and Pernel and so on. Floyd falls further down the pecking order with each decade we go back. Somone who has constantly needed warm up fights for half of his career cant be the greatest at anything, other than being a sympathy case. Lets give FLoyd another warm up fight, he needs it with his self induced, of his own doing, self preservation lay offs.

SRL would have beat FM..ray knocked out his dad..like farther like son

greatest wasted talent more like it.

It's refreshing to see how open to debate you are on this, Barry.

Stupdiest topic i've seen in a while.

I agree, he is very talented and extremely technical but he lacks the heart and true confidence to challenge himself like those greats did. Floyd played this magician role using opportunistic time frames and clever excuse making concepts to conveniently sidestep the fights that people wanted to see. I think him taking this Guerrero fight will prove to be a mistake for him though. He sees a pudgy, slow, make-shift welter who hs a good record that he can "expose" in the ring. I think he will prepare for the Guerrero that fought Berto and that style and he will walk into a a fight with a guy that will stick him up with a long jab in his face all night. Guerrero has already made references to Floyd's size and the need to have several game plans. Ghost will confuse him by boxing and then turning on the pressure and heat periodically to confuse and discourage Floyd as the fight progresses. I think this may be Floyd's last fight if he either loses or gets hurt in this one. Agreed for the most part . But while I think Ghost is a good fighter and can give Floyd lots of problems I think Floyd takes this one easily . He wouldn't have picked Ghost unless he saw something he can run off with . I think most will be surprised how good hell look againest him . But if Ghost actually turns it up and gives Floyd a hard fight I Wouldn't be surprised either ..

Reminds me of all the people who used to say RJJr. was the greatest of all time back when he was undefeated. Prime for prime I still say RJJr. is greater than Floyd. Neither are greater than SRR though.

He's not even the greatest in a decade, in order to become the greatest he would have to first be the greatest in a decade first :lol1:.

I agree, he is very talented and extremely technical but he lacks the heart and true confidence to challenge himself like those greats did. Floyd played this magician role using opportunistic time frames and clever excuse making concepts to conveniently sidestep the fights that people wanted to see. I think him taking this Guerrero fight will prove to be a mistake for him though. He sees a pudgy, slow, make-shift welter who hs a good record that he can "expose" in the ring. I think he will prepare for the Guerrero that fought Berto and that style and he will walk into a a fight with a guy that will stick him up with a long jab in his face all night. Guerrero has already made references to Floyd's size and the need to have several game plans. Ghost will confuse him by boxing and then turning on the pressure and heat periodically to confuse and discourage Floyd as the fight progresses. I think this may be Floyd's last fight if he either loses or gets hurt in this one. If he gets dropped by gurrero, it will be possibly the most embarrassing thing in boxing history.

a film study to......WHAT? oh my, this is great news to me.... a film study to prove floyd to be the goat!!!!... floyd is a great fighter...but not the goat.... no amount of film study will make him the goat... floyd is the ONE who can make himself the goat if he wishes to and if he has the heart to achieve it....not a film study

God this guy. Floyd is one of the best of his generation but also a dissapointment because he really did avoid fighters, im not saying he isn't capable of beating a bunch of the atg but we all wanted to see him fight pacman when pacman was seen as number one or two p4p but him and pacman gave us some BS and the fight never came to be. Floyd is good but best of all time no thomas hearns but have beat him

He is not even near being the greatest ever, its an insult to so many other fighters to say so.

I wouldn't call him the greatest ever but his technical skills and boxing intelligence are off the charts. There's no denying that. Sugar Ray Robinson at welterweight is supposed to have been the purest boxer that anyone has ever seen before or since. Unfortunately no film exists of him at that weight.

Floyd isnt the greatest ever, but i would definitely out him in the top ten best technicians of all time. Love him or hate him, putting everything else aside, Floyd is a truly amazing fighter who can do things in the ring on the level of a ray robinson or ezzard charles, willie pep etc. No he doesn't rank as high historically because those guys just fought in such a deep era under such harder circumstances, Floyd just cant be considered quite as great. I agree, he is very talented and extremely technical but he lacks the heart and true confidence to challenge himself like those greats did. Floyd played this magician role using opportunistic time frames and clever excuse making concepts to conveniently sidestep the fights that people wanted to see. I think him taking this Guerrero fight will prove to be a mistake for him though. He sees a pudgy, slow, make-shift welter who hs a good record that he can "expose" in the ring. I think he will prepare for the Guerrero that fought Berto and that style and he will walk into a a fight with a guy that will stick him up with a long jab in his face all night. Guerrero has already made references to Floyd's size and the need to have several game plans. Ghost will confuse him by boxing and then turning on the pressure and heat periodically to confuse and discourage Floyd as the fight progresses. I think this may be Floyd's last fight if he either loses or gets hurt in this one.

I was going to argue otherwise, but then I saw you had written "period" and realised I was in way over my head. lulz The troll pulls through with a good post.

this film study is video evidence. dude is the greatest to ever do it.

Yeah, wow he's a super goat and stuff...:nonono:

Floyd had to fight the best to be the best. Didn't happen! Floyd even admitted he doesn't fight the best. He fights for money. /End Thread

floyd is the greatest that has ever lived. period.

Hmm, greatest ever I don't know, but definitely greatest of his era. How would he of faired against Hearns or Leonard?