Time to Respect Floyd Mayweather

[Godsfly]

Why does he need to fight Lara to increase his resume?? What is Laras best win and what makes him so great??? and Thurman???lol why???

so you basically think that mayweather is as great as duran with his current resume? lara has been racking up wins at 154 since forever. how wouldn't that add to his legacy.......and thurman would be a 2 for 2. (Thurman alone wouldn't increase his resume by much) but coupled with lara it becomes impressive. that would be canelo, maidana, thurman, lara. (that type of streak, yes. it increases your legacy) if we're talking about comparing it to durans.............

[bklynboy]

no disrespect but tell me one fighter that has never been knocked down and people are in shock when they see him get a bloody nose ( cotto fight).Durant is a young player and he hasn't won a championship so that point is irrelevant.

There haven't been many - but there is the one blemish on Mayweather's career (which is the same for about all in the modern era - post 1980) which is that the best don't fight each other (belt holders don't fight) nor fight often enough. The result is that few fighters clear out there division.

Sports has upsets; and in boxing, as in other sports; style makes the fight. Say the Green Bay Packers didn't play the Jets in Super Bowl III. We all *know* that Green Bay would have won. Right? How about a few years ago between the Giants and Patriots? How could an average Giant team beat an undefeated Patriot team? Same in boxing.

As far as untouched fighters - you're right - that's rare and wonderful and shows that Mayweather is a phenomenal fighter.

[sugarsmosley]

to larry no1 is saying a thurman fight now, but most def in the future it could happen. all thurman needs to do is get a title, like maidana did. too me definitely i dont rate maidana much higher then thurman right now, if at all

thurman beats winner of porter/paulie, then beats another top level guy like devon/broner/ghost then you bet ur ass thurman gets the call

[Fetta]

There haven't been many - but there is the one blemish on Mayweather's career (which is the same for about all in the modern era - post 1980) which is that the best don't fight each other (belt holders don't fight) nor fight often enough. The result is that few fighters clear out there division.

Sports has upsets; and in boxing, as in other sports; style makes the fight. Say the Green Bay Packers didn't play the Jets in Super Bowl III. We all *know* that Green Bay would have won. Right? How about a few years ago between the Giants and Patriots? How could an average Giant team beat an undefeated Patriot team? Same in boxing.

As far as untouched fighters - you're right - that's rare and wonderful and shows that Mayweather is a phenomenal fighter.

They didnt play the Jets. The Colts did.

Was that a typo?

[George Orwell]

mayweather fans are so insecure, good god.

[king4oranges]

There haven't been many - but there is the one blemish on Mayweather's career (which is the same for about all in the modern era - post 1980) which is that the best don't fight each other (belt holders don't fight) nor fight often enough. The result is that few fighters clear out there division.

Sports has upsets; and in boxing, as in other sports; style makes the fight. Say the Green Bay Packers didn't play the Jets in Super Bowl III. We all *know* that Green Bay would have won. Right? How about a few years ago between the Giants and Patriots? How could an average Giant team beat an undefeated Patriot team? Same in boxing.

As far as untouched fighters - you're right - that's rare and wonderful and shows that Mayweather is a phenomenal fighter.

Valid point , well see If Maidana can pull it off

[daggum]

It's not disrespecting Mayweather to say that he isn't the GOAT (or even TOP 10 of all-time). Modern boxing has been around for over 100 years and there have been a lot of great fighters over those years.

Would it be disrespecting Kevin Durant to say that he might not be in the TOP 10 of all time in basketball? No. He's a great player but they've been a lot of other great players. Same with Mayweather. He's great and a first ballot HOF but people like to convince themselves (and then insist to the rest of the world) that he's something like we've never seen and never will see again.

durant at least played against the best of his era: bryant, james, duncan etc...floyd played against the best of the d-league so perhaps he's the best d-league boxer ever? maybe one day he will make it to the big leagues...

[Reginald Ledoux]

I think everyone here respects Floyd's skills; but his opponent selection has been a bit iffy at times.

[SeekDaGreat]

I respect him. Don't root for him. Someone has to be the villain.

[king4oranges]

mayweather fans are so insecure, good god.

Boxing fan first then a fighters fan