Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s Place In History...

[S.G.]

between 21 and 40 somewhere

[Truth]

Thread Starter Please Add Some Context..to the thread..
Give a summary of his career..before you let the ignorant just talk ****..

I'm assuming people know his background.lol

for those that don't

5 division champ, 0 loses
beat DLH, Hatton, Corrales, Castillo twice etc.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

he said floyd...not joe calzaghe

he said top 500.....not top 5

[Chunk..]

Mayweather had the potential to be top 10 nevermind top 20, but he blew it by retiring. You dont hand pick every opponent you fight, then take a dangerous fight for a huge payday and get lucky that the guy lets up on you and you pull out the win, then retire when your 30 years old after not fighting the elite fighters of the sport.

Especially when it appears as though he is ducking Cotto and Margarito when they are both in the prime of their careers.

He's a great fighter IMO but he took his money and ran. That's not how a great fighter holds himself up and i don't care how you look at it!

Muhammad Ali, Shane Mosley, Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Roberto Duran, Larry Holmes, Evander Holyfield these men fought all the competition that was available to them they never ducked anybody. Thats a true champion.

Not some fast little lightweight who avoided any fighter whos style would give him trouble, then retired before he had to fight Miguel Cotto or Margarito.

That's not great, that's cowardly IMO.

Money Mayweather took the money and ran.

BTW he's in my top 50.

[DiegoFuego]

He's by far the best fighter of this generation, ahead of Pacquiao, Lewis, Hopkins, Jones, De La Hoya, Whitaker, Mosley, Toney, Trinidad and Morales, so I put him in the top 10 all time or else right outside it. He's never come close to losing a fight and has won titles in 5 different weight classes. The only fight he was in danger of losing he fought with one good arm for 11 rounds and still pulled it out. I don't think you can rank anybody from the last 20 years ahead of him.

[hammerhiem]

High teens based on intangibles (Charisma, impact on the sport, Strength of the divisions he was in) and his fights over multiple weight divisions.

If he had solely fought at LW and had the charisma of a stone then mid 20's.

[Testdead]

top 100.

Will never be rememberd like Calzaghe, Jones, Hopkins. Who actually fought the best.

[-EX-]

Somewhere in the top 30 or 40's. ESPN did a list recently with him somewhere in the 40's.

[-EX-]

top 100.

Will never be rememberd like Calzaghe, Jones, Hopkins. Who actually fought the best.

Calzaghe fought the best when they were past their prime. And he just recently left his country to fight "the best". Sorry Joe aint on Roy and B-Hop's level career wise.

[Lazy Liberal]

Anywhere past the Top 50 is cool with me.