I normally read your mailbags, and when you are not talking about Future first ballot Hall of Famer Floyd Mayweather, you mostly make sense. My question is how can you in your 3/5/12 mailbag honestly say that Manny Pacquiao has edged Floyd in historical status? Manny has no olympic medal. Manny has losses & draws on his record. Manny has been KOd. As much as you & the Floyd haters would like to dismiss these, they did happen in his pro career. You said he has outperformed him against common opponents, lets start with
1 Oscar De La Hoya. We all know Oscar hadn't fought at 147 in over 6 years. When he fought Floyd he was ring magazine's #1 JMW & he fought at that weight.
2 Ricky Hatton. Ricky was undefeated at the time he fought Floyd. All respectable media outlets had him ranked in the top 10 P4P. And he had already won a world title at 147. Floyd KOd him. At the time he fought Manny he was not undefeated, was not ranked in the top 10 P4P & had already been KOd by Floyd.
3 Juan Manuel Marquez. Many fans believe that JMM won all 3 of his fights against Manny P. He was totally outclassed against a Floyd who was coming off a almost 2 year layoff. At the time Floyd outclassed him he was ranked the #2 figher P4P by most.
4 Shane Mosley. Was outclassed by both guys but did still manage to score a KD against Manny. However when Mosley fought Floyd he was coming off a KO victory of Margarito not a loss & a draw like he was when he fought Manny.
If & its a big if Manny manages to beat Tim Bradley it will be the 1st time in his career that he has beaten an undefeated top 10 P4P fighter. Floyd has done it twice (the late great Diego Corrales & Ricky Hatton) all of this while remaining undefeated himself & becoming the 1st fighter to remain undefeated & win world titles in 5 different weight classes. You brought up writers awards to support your argument for Manny (fighter of the decade & fighter of the year awards) are just that, writer awards. I guess you think Steve Nash is better than Kobe, Shaq, Kareem, Scottie Pippen, Isaiah Thomas, etc; because he has won more MVP awards (another writers award).
You always talk about logic in your responses. I just don't see the logic in that statement you made about Manny being better than Floyd historically. Respectfully your Calli Brother David from LA