How good is Floyd's resume?

**hugh grant** · 03-10-2022, 12:58 PM

Nelo is better. He fights unbeaten guys who are bigger. Floyd kind of fought guys at end of career with many losses, or with CW whilst green, or former flyweights with 70 fights under belt. Gets on my nerves when people say why Nelo not fighting Benevidez, Charlo, Beterbiev and cherry picking Bivol? Floyd would keep everyone on edge of seats on who his next opponent was with baited breath and anticipation, and then it would be so anti climatich when he named his opponent, ie guerrero, Baldomir, Ortiz, Berto, Maidana etc etc. And then youd be left scratching head, why not thurman, Spence or let bud step up even you knew he was a superstar in making and we know floyd is leaving sport soon so go out on shield.
But Floyd had a good career. Of course its good, he wanted to be unbeaten and he is.

**hhh1200** · 03-10-2022, 12:58 PM

The only people who say the guy's resume isn't good are the Jokers who purchased PPVs to see Maidana or some other slug defeat him.

Nice resume, not sure where to rank him, but prime Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns at 147 put the Beats by Dre on him and his resume.

**famicommander** · 03-10-2022, 01:08 PM

24-0-0-0 against major world titlists (top champions of the WBA, WBC, IBF, or WBO only; no interim or regular or whatever)
26-0-0-0 in world title fights
23-0-0-0 in lineal world championship fights
12-0-0-0 against lineal world champions
5-0-0-0 against current members of the International Boxing Hall of Fame (that number will go up as more of his opponents retire)

**Boxing-1013** · 03-10-2022, 01:24 PM

Originally posted by famicommander

24-0-0-0 against major world titlists (top champions of the WBA, WBC, IBF, or WBO only; no interim or regular or whatever)
26-0-0-0 in world title fights
23-0-0-0 in lineal world championship fights
12-0-0-0 against lineal world champions
5-0-0-0 against current members of the International Boxing Hall of Fame (that number will go up as more of his opponents retire)

That's all well and good. But exactly who you fight, and when, what weight, where, all matter as well.

**Boxing-1013** · 03-10-2022, 01:26 PM

I more or less agree with your comments VG. There is some obvious cherry picking in the 2nd half of his career, but he still fought a ton of really good fighters and never really had any period where he got really dominated, even in one fight. That is extremely impressive by itself.

He never really had to test himself much; perks of being the super A side. And he didn't fight any great fighter in their prime, but he fought a ton of of good and good+ fighters and performed well every time out.

I would just say, that to your point about fighting guy's past their prime - it could still be a really good win, or it could be just an OK win, or less than that even.

It is not one size fits all as far as beating a guy not in his prime. It's about the exact level and circumstances of the fight when it happened. And that's for each person to analyze and decide.

**djtmal** · 03-10-2022, 01:36 PM

Originally posted by VG_Addict

How good would you say Floyd's resume is? Even if he fought them past their primes, that's still a VERY good resume.

See this is the bait and switch bs that Floyd boys want to shove down your throat.

Either its a upper echelon resume or its not. You can't make up excuses because its Floyd.

You can't say his resume is upper echelon quality, up there with the elite of the elite all time greats, or overexaggerate it due to the fact that he fought the best guys out of their prime.

Then the excuse that we hear from Big Dunn, Larry, Bodybagz, Roadkill or is it Roadblock, Iron Dan, GrandpaBernard, and other Floyd Boys ad nauseum becomes oh, but he was out of his prime as well.

Save that for somebody who only been watching boxing during the Floyd/Ost/Cherrypicking/Health comes first/Protect the zero by fighting low to no risks, era of boxing.

Thats not how you give guys full credit for beating a top fighter. Thats making excuses for shortcomings, and above all, pedestalizing mediocrity.

**TheBoxingInformator** · 03-10-2022, 01:41 PM

Best resume ever by other boxer standards i would say for me not best resume ever but if we go with other boxer standards he have better resume than Lewis,Ali,Pacquiao

**landotter** · 03-10-2022, 01:49 PM

His early resume is excellent.

His later years were carefully handled to protect his "0" and can be criticized.

Overall, he was a hall of fame fighter whose resume is fairly balanced and is not to be scorned, but can be picked at.

**VG_Addict** · 03-10-2022, 01:58 PM

Originally posted by djtmal

See this is the bait and switch bs that Floyd boys want to shove down your throat.

Either its a upper echelon resume or its not. You can't make up excuses because its Floyd.

You can't say his resume is upper echelon quality, up there with the elite of the elite all time greats, or overexaggerate it due to the fact that he fought the best guys out of their prime.

Then the excuse that we hear from Big Dunn, Larry, Bodybagz, Roadkill or is it Roadblock, Iron Dan, GrandpaBernard, and other Floyd Boys ad nauseum becomes oh, but he was out of his prime as well.

Save that for somebody who only been watching boxing during the Floyd/Ost/Cherrypicking/Health comes first/Protect the zero by fighting low to no risks, era of boxing.

Thats not how you give guys full credit for beating a top fighter. Thats making excuses for shortcomings, and above all, pedestalizing mediocrity.

Floyd might have cherry-picked after his first retirement, but his resume from 130-early 147 is as good as a fighter can have. Wins over Corrales, Hernandez, Manfredy, Chavez, Castillo, Gatti, Judah and Baldomir are very impressive.

How good is Floyd's resume?