Stop Comparing Bud And Floyd. Bud Isn’t Even Greater Than Tim Bradley

[STREET CLEANER]

Bradley was a quality fighter. He made it work for him the talents that he had, Bud is a more complete fighter. Bradley would had given Bud a hard time during his peak. He was competitive against Pac every single time (I didn't think he won any of the fights) and handled Marquez with the plan they came in. We was able to adjust what was in front of him and always came in excellent shape.

Hard to compare these two because the totally different routes their career had and at the end is who you beat and when.

[djtmal]

" Floyd will always be that boxer that fought Baldomir over Margarito for less money, then went into a 2 year retirement during physical prime when the WW was red hot. "

Facts...

[TintaBoricua]

" Floyd will always be that boxer that fought Baldomir over Margarito for less money, then went into a 2 year retirement during physical prime when the WW was red hot. "

I would’ve done the exact same thing…staying with Top Rank vs. Buying out my Contract en route to making nearly half a billion dollars throughout the rest of my career.

History inadvertently exonerated him when Margarito got caught. And if the fight had happened, I still think Floyd had too much wits to fall prey to Margarito’s “tee off on my chin for six rounds and I’ll catch you in the second half of the fight” strategy that he tended to apply.

[The D3vil]

Sounds good but the competition level is average compared the last era, people always throw around belts etc when they cant name fighters that stand out, they will talk about things like TCs 4 divisions but the best comp was Spence and Postal now Madrimov, in my mind its never about the belts its all about the fighters you beat.

You can only fight who's able to fight you.

[The D3vil]

I can't even refute you as I don't know what the champs have did in the 17 divisions and I'm not sure you do too.
But my guess is If a champ has stayed in one division their entire career, they will have wins over most in their weight class, just like spence has

Nah, plenty of guys who've been in one weight class their whole careers haven't been champions for 6 years & defended their belt 7 times.