Comments Thread For: Larry Merchant on Floyd Mayweather, History and Legacy

[youngswish23]

larry made some good points. i thought that was a good article. floyd is too great for his own good maybe. not the greatest fighter of all time though. maybe the richest. hes prolly top 15 top 20 which is damn good. i respect him alot though and hes a brilliant fighter. just like pacman too. as far as history goes and whos the best we can argue forever. everybodies going to have an opinion thats just how it goes.

[Rome-By-Ko]

so basically emmit smith shouldn't of broke the all time rushing record to show respect to payton? look someone better always comes a long. they thought that there would never be another better than jordan then along comes kobe and lebron. look this is something that you're gonna have to get over. I do believe that Mayweather is better than those greats and when his career is finished and we can finally compare I think more people will agree. But I have no problem with him saying that he's better. If he gave boxing his whole life then damnit he has the right. Don't try to take away the man's freedom of speech. or is that still a right in this country?

LOL I don't seem to remember Emmit saying yep I'm better then Walter Payton.Thing is it would not happen because there has to be respect paid for THOSE WHO PAVE THE WAY.Floyd could feel he is better but to say it all over t.v. when you have no proof to back that up with is plain ******.Oh and that's the reason they lay into his ass not his SKIN COLOR.Say what you want but know there are consequences for the things you say.When you have wholes in your resume at that it's gonna be really bad because they gonna pick every lil thing up and point it out.

[Tweezy316]

no i am asking if you are racist against white people in america


are you?

absolutely not. All throughout high school all my girlfriends we're white. The only problem was every one of them had racist parents. So in order to avoid having that problem again I stopped dating white girls. But I love white people I love everybody. but i'm not gonna hate on the whole white race just because i had a couple of girlfriends with racist parents. So to answer your question nope i'm not racist against ANYONE!!

[Sugar Q]

Dude you are also going off what you see on t.v. you don't know if Floyd is a good dad(not saying he not)but you don't know either.

I gotta say if I was in Floyd's position I would think I was the greatest also and if I was constantly getting attacked by the press I would say it every chance I got cause it's clear people don't appreciate him and if people are booing you you gotta create an untouchable place for yourself no matter what. There would be no way to be so successful if he didn't.

[amayseng]

absolutely not. All throughout high school all my girlfriends we're white. The only problem was every one of them had racist parents. So in order to avoid having that problem again I stopped dating white girls. But I love white people I love everybody. but i'm not gonna hate on the whole white race just because i had a couple of girlfriends with racist parents. So to answer your question nope i'm not racist against ANYONE!!

my best friend is black and i know where you are coming from. sadly people see colors but i think it is bull****.

i have 3 sisters and any of them would be lucky to marry my best friend, hell my mom likes him better than she does me...ha......

for the record, you are just coming off as racist,

i understand some of your points but you have to understand that racism is not present in our generation or our childrens generations..

it was unfortunately here before us.

[Tweezy316]

LOL I don't seem to remember Emmit saying yep I'm better then Walter Payton.Thing is it would not happen because there has to be respect paid for THOSE WHO PAVE THE WAY.Floyd could feel he is better but to say it all over t.v. when you have no proof to back that up with is plain ******.Oh and that's the reason they lay into his ass not his SKIN COLOR.Say what you want but know there are consequences for the things you say.When you have wholes in your resume at that it's gonna be really bad because they gonna pick every lil thing up and point it out.

floyd just started saying he was better than those greats(which i don't have a problem with) but they've been hatin on floyd for years. so you're argument makes no sense. you're trying to avoid the obvious but that's ok. like i said it's easy to think the opposite when you don't have to live it.

[amayseng]

I gotta say if I was in Floyd's position I would think I was the greatest also and if I was constantly getting attacked by the press I would say it every chance I got cause it's clear people don't appreciate him and if people are booing you you gotta create an untouchable place for yourself no matter what. There would be no way to be so successful if he didn't.

well of course sugar, you do have him top 5 haha

[Tweezy316]

my best friend is black and i know where you are coming from. sadly people see colors but i think it is bull****.

i have 3 sisters and any of them would be lucky to marry my best friend, hell my mom likes him better than she does me...ha......

for the record, you are just coming off as racist,

i understand some of your points but you have to understand that racism is not present in our generation or our childrens generations..

it was unfortunately here before us.

you can have your own opinion about me that's fine. if you wanna believe i'm racist that's fine if you wanna believe racism is over that's fine. but reality is it's not. I don't know how many more times i have to say this but UNLESS YOU ARE BLACK YOU ARE NOT GOING TO KNOW!! I am black you are not. I don't expect you to understand. The only thing that makes me wonder is. This is the most diverse country on the planet and the most racist at the same time. How does that happen? They want you to believe that this is the greatest country on earth. hah not by a long shot. but 90% of the people here don't even have passports so how would they know? well i have a passport and i know. i'm glad you have a happy life free of racism but just because you do don't think that everyone else does as well. but i gotta get to bed catch ya later.

[Rome-By-Ko]

Who are a "a lot of people"? Do they include Mosley, because I haven't heard him complain of being blood-drained? You're just looking for an excuse man. You keep saying that Pacquiao has made valid points, but you have not pointed any out. What are these valid points? Is him being an egomaniac who's turned the drug testing issue into a d*ck measuring contest a valid point or excuse to you? It's mot to me. And Pacquiao never agreed to anything as far as random drug testing is concerned. His team contradicted themselves several times as far as what they would agree to, but they never actually agreed to anything. They walked away from Mayweather to face Clottey.

Pac agreed to the testing with a 24 day cut off.Pac is the P4P king and is a draw himself who does not need Mayweather.Manny ask for the 10mill because May came in over weight for the Marquez fight.Manny has never tested postive for any peds so why should he be subject to May's testing?VALID points bro.Listen I understand you like May I like May too but I'm not gonna ride him and believe every lil thing he say's.He also said he has been calling Mosley out for wild long but yet was not in the WW div.Oh and boxing writers have given alot of reason why Mosley look the way he look.I'm not looking for any excuses Mosley is my favorite fight not once have I made an excuse on this site for why he lost.So check my resume before you talking about excuses HomeBoy.Fact no proof of Manny doing any wrong doing.Fact if May said Manny was a murder you would wanna send him to jail for life.

[Sugar Q]

well of course sugar, you do have him top 5 haha

Damn skippy my dude. Floyd's a bad dude and when he smashes Pac and Martinez even the biggest hater will have to give it up. That's a Top 5 All Time Great and many will say Top 3 cause if the man never loses who could anybody say could beat him.