Almost every one of those hall of famers that he beat were shot or past their prime.
Manny- koed cold by marquez and then floyd fought him
maidana-already lost to many fighters including khan and alexander
canelo - catch weight weigth drained and green. He would get more credit if he faced him at 154.
Cotto- koed bad by margartia and manny
Judah- koed by kostya
Mitchell- koed by kostya
mosley- shot. Lost twice to forrest and twice to winky. (floyd also ducked winky)
de la hoya- shot and it was a sd life and death win. Koed by hopkins before. He retired two fights after.
Floyd didn't fight a lot of guys that were undefeated in their prime. His best wins are below that were undefeated in their prime.
1. Corrales undefeated - top 5 p4p
2. Hatton - TOP TEN P4P undefeated coming off kostya win
3. Canelo - but it was a cw.
4. Castillo- great win but many thought he lost first fight
Compare it to bud. It's not that far off. Bud has more better undefeated wins against undefeated young hungry lions in their prime than floyd does. In fact, the spence win is better than any win floyd has in his whole career. It was a p4p top 5 fighter who many thought would beat floyd.
Not only that bud BUd never made excuses, never made you do a blood test, never avoid anyone, and moved up 3 weight classes to fight canelo with no cw. Money floyd isn't in the same universe as Crawford. Also Bud never had any questionable close fights unlike floyd with castillo and sd win against de la hoya. It was always utter domination.
Spence > corrales win
135- undefeated prime gamboa
140 - undefeated prime postol
147 - undefeated prime spence top 4 p4p
154- undefeated prime madrimov
168- prime canelo
I think you forgot Marquez as one of his best wins, however mega asterisk with that one. Brought Marquez up to a new weight class where Marquez looked fat, and Floyd didn't care to make the weight himself. That was like bullying on a fighter, however it wasn't just any fighter, it was the one that gave Manny hell, so for casuals, it looked incredible.
Second you said was Hatton being a great win however it was not in Hatton's dominant weight class. He nearly got KO'd by COLLAZO at 147lbs, before Mayweather fought him there. After his loss, he moved back down to 140lbs.
The ONLY problem with your theory is that when it's all said and done, Crawford has only defeated ONE HoF fighter whereas Mayweather & Pacquiao have beaten at least half a dozen each so will go down higher in the history books. Also, Crawford beat both Spence & Canelo at the end of their career's after one had suffered a life-changing car crash (and hasn't fought since) whereas the other had been through multiple wars and lost a couple.
In fact, if boxing WASN'T corrupt, the version of Canelo that Crawford beat should have a couple of extra losses to his name against Golovkin!
I really feel floyds career should not be talked about. Far too cautious to have talking points of any significance.
Only talking points of interest for floyd is why he didn't fight bud, spence, bradley, brook, khan. Why he used cw with nelo? Why he didn't fight abroad? Why so worried about maidanas gloves? None of which is good!
You guys are so full of it. He didn't fight Crawford who was at 135 and with Bob arum dumb ass
Hes literally with Snac and just blew up 3 weight divisions and was the bigger stronger man than a guy thats been there for years
Are you seriously that ****** and naive
Not like carnela was big for that division anyway. They're the same height and carnela is old. Not to mention it was carnela who was caught with steroids
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