Comments Thread For: Mancini: Mayweather Never Beats Sugar Ray Leonard!

[Lou Cipher]

Why not compare a prime Mayweather vs a prime SRL, not a 38 year old Mayweather to prime SRL?

Neither Mayweather would fight a prime Leonard or anyone else for that matter, so whats the point you Turd?

[Ham Porter]

How about we YouTube Sugar vs. Terry Norris, when Sugar was 35. Would that show us the skill level that Mayweather has at age 38 vs. Pacquiao? It's really hard to compare fighters of different eras, but let's ask ourselves...What was Sugar doing at age 38? What was his record at age 38?

No, because Pacquiao (especially at this stage) is nowhere near the talent that a prime Terry Norris was. Norris was the sort of fighter that Amir Khan thinks he is. The only real weakness that he had was his chin, and even that was difficult to crack when he was in pure boxing mode.

If an ageing Leonard had the sort of talent around him that Mayweather has now, it's very easy to see him maintaining a similar level of dominance. Stumpy, stubby-armed plodders with no jabs, no real know-how in how to properly cut the ring off - there'd be a lot of Duran 3 performances.

[tiliheels]

i'd go with floyd..floyd is a master of range..SRL raves about floyds ability to make u guess the range..ray would have try to leap to find the range getting caught a lot..ray would have went gunshy imo..and waited on floyd to lead so he can throw ineffective but pointing combos..floyd would smother that and win a boring fight after landing his leads...if ray went back to leading he'd find he's being countered again bc he still cant find the range...floyd's jab also does work in this fight..ray had no idea how to get rid of a jab

[Champ Is Here]

you know you're the best when mofos cant name anybody in your era that can beat you so they wanna put you in a time machine and go back 40 yrs to hopefully see you lose

Floyd = TBE

floyd is the only fighter in the history of fighting that has guys from other weight classes, 2-3 weight classes above talking about fighting him

top 5 all-time period

[bronx7]

Brain dead fans

Facts: Floyd best welter of his era. He says best ever. Compare prime fighters not age. Leonard gun shy? Fought hearns,hagler,Duran nuff said.watch film they all beat Floyd. Would never let 15 punches rd fly. Watch Castillo and maidana1 nuff said

[bronx7]

If Castillo and maidana put hands and serious pressure on Floyd you can't imagine Leonard Duran hagler hearns doing way more? Moseley buckled him imagine a hurt Floyd in there with these greats please best of era that's true ever lol we didn't even say Robby

[Mike D]

People pay to (hopefully) see Mayweather lose. And it's a great excuse to throw a party. = why alot of people purchase a Mayweather PPV.

I don't think the vast majority are thinking they are gonna see a great fight, they can't keep fooling themselves. Can they?

I agree that Floyd has benefited insanely dollar wise off people who get his fights just in hopes to see him lose. Of the 5 million plus buys this last PPV notched, it would be fascinating to know what percentage of those viewers (all viewers, whether they actually bought the PPV or just attending a watch party) were actually rooting for Floyd, and what the percentage was of those rooting against him.

I'm also interested to see what his PPV numbers will do in this next fight if it's against a guy unknown to casuals like Danny Garcia or Keith Thurman.

[Sweden2716]

Sugar Ray Leonard would beat Floyd at their best, no doubt, it is a fact Ray was better, so was Hearns and Duran at their best, no doubt, both greater and better.
A prime Duran would make Floyd pee in his pants. Hearns would knock him cold.

[Sweden2716]

Watch Mayweather vs Castillo I, and you tell me with a straight face that Floyd won. Castillo won that fight, no doubt, except for the three blind mice at ringside.

[Redd Foxx]

Even when I was a Mayweather "fan", I still never thought he had much of a chance against Leonard, or Hearns.