What does Floyd need to do to become "TBE"

[MrTambourineMan]

He's definitely in the top 5 best fighters in history and maybe in the top 10 when it comes to level of opposition faced, which is greatly not his fault, he came to boxing at a time where promoters were and still are in control of everything in the sport and different promoters don't like to work with one another, the fights the people wanted to see in 2006-2009 were Cotto, Mosley, Margarito and maybe Paul Williams, but if you take a closer look, most of these fighters were with Bob arum and at the time there were a lot of problems between Golden boy and Bob Arum and Floyd Mayweather himself, there were court cases and everything, so imo I don't think it was possible for Floyd to fight Cotto and Margarito at this time.
Mosley turned down a fight with Mayweather in 1999 when they were both undefeated, then in 2006 he wanted to go on "vacation" after his fight with vargas and he clearly wanted no part of Floyd Mayweather, Paul williams was still a contender and he was relatively unknown in 2006-2007 and in 2008 he lost to Carlos Quintana and then fought him again and then moved up in weight shortly after.
There were a couple of fights that could've been made before that though, a fight against Kostya Tzsyu at 140 would've been awesome and joel Casamayor at 135 also. At that time nobody could tell why these fights didn't happen.

[ADP02]

Take the Pac and the Triple G fight, go out and KO them with in 3 rounds.

You know that is not going to happen so he will never be the TBE, he shouldn't had not retired when his division got hot and Pac was on top of the world

Even then, not enough. Manny after December 2012 will be a good win but the critics will say the obvious. It should have happened in 2010 ..... even a year or 2 later but in 2015, its the same as the others that Floyd fought 5 years to late.

That is Floyds trend. Fight a name 5 years too late or those that are still wet behind the ears!


GGG would be a very good win but until GGG fights and beats someone like Ward the critics will say "Who did GGG really beat?"

[ADP02]

He's definitely in the top 5 best fighters in history and maybe in the top 10 when it comes to level of opposition faced, which is greatly not his fault, he came to boxing at a time where promoters were and still are in control of everything in the sport and different promoters don't like to work with one another, the fights the people wanted to see in 2006-2009 were Cotto, Mosley, Margarito and maybe Paul Williams, but if you take a closer look, most of these fighters were with Bob arum and at the time there were a lot of problems between Golden boy and Bob Arum and Floyd Mayweather himself, there were court cases and everything, so imo I don't think it was possible for Floyd to fight Cotto and Margarito at this time.
Mosley turned down a fight with Mayweather in 1999 when they were both undefeated, then in 2006 he wanted to go on "vacation" after his fight with vargas and he clearly wanted no part of Floyd Mayweather, Paul williams was still a contender and he was relatively unknown in 2006-2007 and in 2008 he lost to Carlos Quintana and then fought him again and then moved up in weight shortly after.
There were a couple of fights that could've been made before that though, a fight against Kostya Tzsyu at 140 would've been awesome and joel Casamayor at 135 also. At that time nobody could tell why these fights didn't happen.

So in other words, you are saying blame everyone but Floyd.

[MRCHOKEaMF]

Ali called himself the greatest but many consider Ray Robinson the best fighter ever.

Self appointed titles like "The Greatest" and "The Best Ever" are simply promotional tools

Floyd uses it to sell merchandise and grow his brand, It's all part of the image

EXACTLY!!! and its did its job, to put him in the conversation, if he gets the Lineal Middleweight championship he has an argument, if he beats pac, so what? He's not doing anything any other boxer hasn't already done. The same people that claim pac is more than he is are not gonna change their opinion of Mayweather no matter what he does, so why try to entertain or play to people that are gonna hate you regardless. :****you:

[El-blanco]

EXACTLY!!! and its did its job, to put him in the conversation, if he gets the Lineal Middleweight championship he has an argument, if he beats pac, so what? He's not doing anything any other boxer hasn't already done. The same people that claim pac is more than he is are not gonna change their opinion of Mayweather no matter what he does, so why try to entertain or play to people that are gonna hate you regardless. :****you:

What's up champ?

[Monaco Slim]

If he beats Pacquiao, Khan and Golovkin then he's gotta be considered. I'd forgive him for all the ducking if he beat those 3.

[Bardock]

What's up champ?

that sig doe

[-MAKAVELLI-]

Go back in a time machine and beat Cotto, Williams, Margarito and Shane in the years 2008 to 2009. Beat Manny in 2010 and beat Martinez in 2011.


Instead we got
retirement
bloated Marquez
16 month layoff 38 year old Mosley
Ortiz
Guerrero
weight drained Canelo
Maidana 2x.

he needs to go further and beat Kostya and Casamayor to boot

[sugarsmosley]

Floyd's already TBE. you dont get to wear your own TBE hat unless it's true.

[kej718]

Beat Manny convincingly

Rematch Cotto for 160lb title (If he wins 3 titles in 3 weight classes at the same time, how many fighters can say they did that?)

50-0 win 1 more fight and retire, leave while people still remember you at your best.

Become a trainer (a build up the next champ)

Guys like Robinson and Armstrong have so many fights so there really isn't much Floyd could do to pass them.