Comments Thread For: All Access: Mayweather Wants To Go Down As Best Ever

[ThePrince]

Beating Chino Maidana is the key to earning that title. And if he takes on the great Amir Khan next... might as well just grant him the title of greatest human being ever, period. And a plaque and notarized certificate saying the same.

Should get the Mayor of Munchkin Land to hold a press conference declaring that the third Sunday of April will no longer be Easter. Henceforth it will be known as Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr day. And the lollipop guild should be renamed the Floyd Mayweather benevolent association

[ma51f]

He can never go down as the best ever...

Too many question marks over him especially regarding his constant ducking & fighting guys after their primes...

He is a great fight but no where near the best...(skills wise maybe but record wise no).

[TLC8]

Floyd NEVER Fought The Best In Their Prime As Robinson, Leonard, Hearns, Duran Did

Floyd has made the most money. But he hand picked was very careful and strategic who he fought and when. I don't care if his claim is he fought 17 world champions or 50 world champions. Oscar was the only one he fought in his prime, and most felt Oscar won that night. I don't care if Floyd hand picks his career to 100-0, he'll never go down in history as greater than Robinson, Leonard, Hearns, Duran, Pryor or Arguello. Hell Floyd won't fight Pacquiao. He wouldn't fight Cotto or Mosley in their prime. Floyd would have never gotten in the ring with the legends just mentioned, let alone go up in weight for a challenge and a guy named Hagler.

[thack]

Floyd will be remembered as the guy who took the easier path. Floyd admits it to and says that he has earned the right to carefully select his opponents.

NO champion should have 'earned' the right to pick 'easy' opponents , that's what this boils down to . Floyd has for a long time had this bigger than the game attitude and there's lot's that go with this , which in turn makes a mockery of our very sport.
NOT me , if Ali couldn't achieve this and father time told us he couldn't, then no one can!
I will always be a supporter of Floyds vast skills but as a person he seems very shallow and has no scruples when he flashes the cash and this only cheapens his personalty and one's ability to take him serious.
Floyd who has for so long been good for the game could well turn out to be , if left to his own devices , just the opposite .....I hope not because the boxing haters would love a circus by of all people the circus master!

[ShoulderRoll]

Boxing has a long history and tradition and I've never been the type to compare boxers in different eras. If Mayweather has to call himself the best ever to keep himself motivated more power to him. He's the one that has to get in the ring.

Agreed, there's too much boxing history and tradition for him to be called the best ever. What he is , though, is an all time great and would have been successful in any era.

lol @ the Pac tards..."he ducking Porter doe." This forum was so much better when they had all left and abandoned ship after KO6.

[Spoon23]

Agreed, there's too much boxing history and tradition for him to be called the best ever. What he is , though, is an all time great and would have been successful in any era.

lol @ the Pac tards..."he ducking Porter doe." This forum was so much better when they had all left and abandoned ship after KO6.

Nope. Not yet his ducked too many good fights to be an Atg. Top 100 maybe.

[lefthook2daliva]

But he's not the best boxer ever at this time nor prior to it and as he is now on the backside of his developmental arc, this is no more than delusional hyperbole.

Pablum for fanbois.

[PAKYO]

hahahahaa oh floyd, the best broiled duck ever!

[radioraheem]

Boxing has a long history and tradition and I've never been the type to compare boxers in different eras. If Mayweather has to call himself the best ever to keep himself motivated more power to him. He's the one that has to get in the ring.

The thing though is that he wasn't even saying he wants to be the best boxer ever. That's not what he said. He actually took it beyond that! He said he wants to be the best ATHLETE ever!

[Outwest Exp 355]

The thing though is that he wasn't even saying he wants to be the best boxer ever. That's not what he said. He actually took it beyond that! He said he wants to be the best ATHLETE ever!

His own opinion. He has the right to that no matter how delusional it might sound.