Has Floyd fought someone as good as Chavez Sr and Leonard?

[Brandish]

He can fight the best fighters of his era in their prime, something he's avoided at all costs.

He's been fighting for 17 years and a ******:*******: says he needs to fight the best?

Name one fighter better than him. This should be interesting.

[Holywarrior]

lets go by what Chavez Sr said I fought everybody in my weight class nothing left for me so I went up to fight Pea when he was still in his prime his words not my the hell with Don King.HE FOUGHT THE GUY WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT KID

Whitaker wasnt prime then lol

[solo20]

Whitaker wasnt prime then lol

your opinion kid

[Sweet Pea 50]

Whitaker wasnt prime then lol

I believe he was fairly close. He had beat McGirt the fight before for a WW strap. The fight was at a catchweight, though.

[TonitosWay]

So the short answer is no.

I honestly don't see how beating a past prime fighter who beat a past prime fighter has to do with anything. These are just fantasy bouts; fun to discuss but holds little weight to backup a concrete argument. Since both were over the hill, the Mosley & De La Hoya wins on Floyd & Manny's resume shouldn't be so heavily leaned on; besides the performance of/comments from those fighters in retrospect to the opponents they've faced throughout their careers.

Besides, Roger & Sr got slaughtered. Floyd is obviously better but the question is how much?

[I Love Jesus!]

his father fought sugar ray leonard and roger mayweather fought julio chavez sr, has floyd fought any one with the status and skill of those 2?

no...............

[I Love Jesus!]

skill wise, imo, mosley, marquez and de la hoya > chavez sr. Not greater, just skill wise.

Leonard? No one, and that's not a fair question because there's no one that has been out there in floyd's era to match srl.

to bad floyd fought them al past prime or well out of their best division if they were even better in the first place which i doubt besides maybe mosley who would have kod floyd in his prime anyway

[I Love Jesus!]

look how good shane is

mosley in his prime would ko gayweather easy

[I Love Jesus!]

you understand that sparring means nothing.

By the sounds of the crowd yelling "taylor!" i'm guessing he's getting ready for his fight with meldrick taylor.

It's chavez sr's job to work only on his weaknesses against that style, and just be comfortable in there with that style.

I've seen tons of sparring footage of guys only working on their weaknesses, and letting the other guy go to town on them.

You'll see tons of sparring sessions where the guy that's getting ready for the fight is only working on certain aspects during a certain sparring match. Like head movement, timing, spacing, foot work, etc. This is probably a case of that.

mosley was washed up vs mayweather anyway

[KingTito]

Floyd's great rival could have been Pacquiao. Other than that, no.