Comments Thread For: Mayweather Stands Firm, Explains His Comments on Ali

[elishua F]

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Jordan is nowhere near Alis status.. Jordan is great but athletes are also judged for things having nothing to do with their sport.. And Jordan, just like Floyd stood for absolutely nothing.. I put MJ and Floyd on the same boat.. Great athletes but thats where it stops.. Ali was great human being.

[creekrat77]

Jordan is nowhere near Alis status.. Jordan is great but athletes are also judged for things having nothing to do with their sport.. And Jordan, just like Floyd stood for absolutely nothing.. I put MJ and Floyd on the same boat.. Great athletes but thats where it stops.. Ali was great human being.

I think it's more respectable when a athlete is just legendary and great for his performances rather then what the public perception believed they stood for. Don't get me wrong Ali was a huge figure for people of the world, but Jordan was the best in his day, possibly the golden age of NBA

[V.WEBB]

And then we have another great champion in Wlad who says:



You can't buy class.

And this is why Floyd will always be excluded from true greatness.

You guys kill me with these kind of comments.

[Drunk Punch]

I think true greatness is based on the MAN you ARE, not simply a collection of impressive stats.

Ali stood up and stuck it to the man at a time when everything was stacked against him. He made a stand and that elevated him from a gifted boxer to a great man.

You can't buy that kind of class and its something Floyd has never understood.

[CANELOLUJAH]

Mayweather you nothing but a marketing ploy and when you get iced, completely dominated like Rios did to Alvardo and stopped inside of 3 rounds the world will know, you and your family aint nothing but bums, you remebered as a damn blemish on boxing history.

[MASTERBX]

active fighter

Why should the best of this era bow down to the best of another era. Floyd is still an active fighter he would be a fool to down play his achievements on the eve of the biggest fight in boxing history.
The fans will decide who is greater. In the future I believe he will surpass Ali, But For me it will always be Ali for what he did outside of the ring.

[elishua F]

I think it's more respectable when a athlete is just legendary and great for his performances rather then what the public perception believed they stood for. Don't get me wrong Ali was a huge figure for people of the world, but Jordan was the best in his day, possibly the golden age of NBA

People tend to factor in other things besides just games when judging athletes. I didnt make the rules, thats just what people do. . For example people who love Pacman would bring up what he does for his people and how humble he is, wtf this has to do with boxing? Nothing but a lot of people love him jus because of that.

Jordan, just like Floyd..stood for absolutely nothing.. Therefore i put him on the same boat as Floyd.. Now if you put bill russell next to Ali, that makes more sense

[Cinci Champ]

why would a guy nicknamed "money" pick on past famous boxers days before his highest grossing PPV... hmmmmmmmmm

i think floyd is technically superior to ali but really........ who even cares.... floyd is just doing promo work

ali did the same thing lol even talking about other era boxers before his biggest fights and people told him he was crazy for thinking he was better then joe louis and the others

[MASTERBX]

logic

Oddly enough, The same people who hated Ali are same people that hate Mayweather. And when the next Ali-Mayweather comes along they will tell that kid that he can't carry Mayweather's or Ali's jock strap. Hatred has never been logical.

[Joe Beamish]

Lots of negative stuff here. But Floyd DOES stand for hard work, and he says it all the time. Why is that so bad?

Also: We don't KNOW if he's a woman beater. A Christian would point out, "judge not, lest ye be judged." I'm sure other religions have similar wisdom.

As for Ali, many Americans hated him in the 60s for "dodging" the draft. They believed he only stood for himself, and not for his country "right or wrong", or for its values. LATER everyone admired him. But not in the day. The blue collar guys rooted for Frazier to kill Ali in 1970. They hated his guts.