The Mayweather Legacy: Boxing Historians Explain

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Margarito durability and aggression would have been a problem.

Think a bigger, stronger Castillo.


Pwill was just a nightmare with his size and workrate. Pwill was what 6'2?

Nah be he boxes circles round Margarito. That’s an easy fight for Floyd IMO.

Williams would have been interesting. Floyd never fought a guy like him, so I’m unsure how he’d have approached it. In all honesty though I just don’t see Williams having the ability to beat Mayweather. I think he potentially gives him problems but I highly doubt he beats him.

[LeOoze]

So all those top guys who fought each other ducked floyd who didn't fight any of those guys?

Got it.

Can you read? Mosley had a toothache :[

[Left Hook Tua]

Nah be he boxes circles round Margarito. That’s an easy fight for Floyd IMO.

Williams would have been interesting. Floyd never fought a guy like him, so I’m unsure how he’d have approached it. In all honesty though I just don’t see Williams having the ability to beat Mayweather. I think he potentially gives him problems but I highly doubt he beats him.

Floyd does box circles around marg

Marg will get hit a ton

Will it be enough to keep marg off though? All 12 rounds?

Pac broke the dudes face and made him look Chinese and dude kept coming

Floyd hands will probably break before marg face does

[IceTrayDaGang]

Come on. He would have done what cotto did to Margarito the first few rounds for the whole fight. Only though fight for mayweather on that whole list would probably be cotto at 140.

Did you guys forget about mosleys tooth ache?

coulda woulda shoulda but didnt... that's what floyd's career has been all about! "well he would of done what so and so did"..

[Left Hook Tua]

coulda woulda shoulda but didnt... that's what floyd's career has been all about! "well he would of done what so and so did"..

Floyd didn't need to fight kostya tszyu or Ricky Hatton who were the champs at 140

Floyd didn't need to fight cotto and Margarito who were #1 contender while Floyd was champ at 140

He would have beat them easy anyway

No need for fights between the best guys in the division

Now let's watch the baldomir-mayweather fight highlights.

[LeOoze]

Floyd didn't need to fight kostya tszyu or Ricky Hatton who were the champs at 140

Floyd didn't need to fight cotto and Margarito who were #1 contender while Floyd was champ at 140

He would have beat them easy anyway

No need for fights between the best guys in the division

Now let's watch the baldomir-mayweather fight highlights.

Baldo in 2006 had way better wins than marg and bob arum himself said Cotto wasn’t ready. Cotto also never called out floyd. Oh yeah Cotto also lost to Floyd. Along with Pac.

[Larry the boss]

Arum stated that Mayweather would have fought Margarito for the 8 million, but he wanted a guaranteed 10 million to fight Miguel Cotto and Ricky Hatton. Arum only guaranteed him 7 million. And for those who don’t know Cotto and Hatton were at the Mayweather-Gatti fight and Cotto was ranked number 5 by the ring at the time (Proof: Listen to the commentary Jim Lampley at the end of round 5) . Cotto had just moved up to the 140 pound weight class and he didn’t make an offer to fight Mayweather after the Gatti fight.

Arum said Mayweather also asked for $20 million to fight De La Hoya, a fight Arum said he wasn’t interested in participating in. “That’s not in the cards,” Arum said. “He wants $20 million for the De La Hoya fight? It’s not there. Sometimes, my man, you gotta know when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em. We’ll talk about things down the road.” Notice this part Arum was talking.

[pasawayako]

Floyd mayweather jr resume is a trash, now i understand why people don't even consider him top 20 ATG.

[Larry the boss]

Floyd mayweather jr resume is a trash, now i understand why people don't even consider him top 20 ATG.

Interesting his resume is trash??

Manny
Cotto
Hatton
Jmm
Oscar

just to name a few Manny fought those same guys plus Floyd beat Manny..so why is his resume trash?? and if he is so trash why ave you spent your entire time here talking about him and dedicated your entire profile to be about him??

it just isnt adding up...

[pasawayako]

Interesting his resume is trash??

Manny
Cotto
Hatton
Jmm
Oscar

just to name a few Manny fought those same guys plus Floyd beat Manny..so why is his resume trash?? and if he is so trash why ave you spent your entire time here talking about him and dedicated your entire profile to be about him??

it just isnt adding up...

As what hopkins said "floyd only fought guys under his terms/watch"

PAC- Floyd fought him when he was KO by marquez
Cotto-Floyd fought him after pac and marg destroyed him
Hatton-Floyd fought him at the weight where hatton was bloated and isn't even worthy to be an opponent by any top 10 154lbs.
Jmm- floyd drag him from 135 to 147lbs and also cheated jmm at the scale
oscar-past prime and very mediocre at 154lbs.

Again hopkins and many other boxing legends always say about floyd "FLOYD ONLY FOUGHT GUYS UNDER HIS TERMS/WATCH"..