Comments Thread For: Daily Bread Mailbag: Cotto, Wilder, Mayweather, More

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The Daily Bread Mailbag is back with another edition, as Stephen 'Breadman' Edwards discussed WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto, WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, WBC/WBA/WBO welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and more.

One of the ******est comments I've read in a while. Loses badly to Pacquiao (ran the second half of the fight), Mayweather, and Trout. Loses to Margarito. And another significant win makes him an all time great? He beat an overrated, washed up Martinez, one eyed Margarito, and over the hill Mosley. Wow. Gift decision against legendary Clottey though
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[RawDawgHasSpokn]

I too have Porter over Broner; Broner is more accurate but Porter does more work. Not interested at all in Malignaggi/Garcia. This fight will be harder for Garcia than it's supposed to be. Good article though.

[PRBOXINGCOTTO]

Martinez over rated lol who ever said that is a complete moron he's better then ggg hyped ass and actually fought the best fighters who were bigger then him. cotto was actually the last person to fight a prime mosley I don't know were you got shot from he was still in his prime. and if mosley is shot he almost knocked Floyd the **** out gave canelo a hard fight and this was all years after cotto beat him at his own game. cotto beat that headbutting cheat clottey he dropped him and put clottey in his shell. cotto is one of the best fighters of this era.

[BoxingTrav]

Breadman is as good as it gets when comes to boxing talk. Floyd is the best I've seen but I completely agree with Bread's idea of what the best ever would be like.

[licketysplityu]

The best ever were Sugar Ray Robinson and Marcel Cerdan. Cerdan was pure chiselled toughness. After that, I'd have to go with Leonard and Hagler. Any one of those four would've beaten Mayweather to a pulp.

[Jc8804]

Paulue would outbox danny and get robbed.

No way haymon lets paulie win on the cards. Fixed

[Toltec77]

martinez over rated lol who ever said that is a complete moron he's better then ggg hyped ass and actually fought the best fighters who were bigger then him. Cotto was actually the last person to fight a prime mosley i don't know were you got shot from he was still in his prime. And if mosley is shot he almost knocked floyd the **** out gave canelo a hard fight and this was all years after cotto beat him at his own game. Cotto beat that headbutting cheat clottey he dropped him and put clottey in his shell. Cotto is one of the best fighters of this era.

mojoncito!!!!

[Johnny2x2x]

Everyone romanticizes the past to some extent. So we wonder about how today's fighters might have fared in eras fro the past, but no one asks about how the fighters from yesteryear might have fared in this era.

Would SRR be as sharp fighting only twice a year? How would he have handled today's better conditioned and stronger fighters? Training has come a long way and today's fighters are most likely stronger and better conditioned than the ones from the past. Sure, SRR would have had the same access to today's superior training methods and better diets, but do we know his body would have responded well to them?

So it's really impossible to compare fighters from different eras, all you can do is compare eras and even that is dubious to an extent. So you are left comparing a fighter in his own era, has there ever been a fighter who was more clearly the best of his era than Mayweather or SRR? I don't think so, they both clearly were the top P4P fighters over a longer period of time than anyone else who ever fought.

It's like comparing modern football players to **** Butkus, were any of today's players as tough? Probably not, but **** Butkus also was barely over 200 lbs and would have been way too small to play MLB today. Today's boxers have made the same physical gains as every other sport's athletes have, it's just common sense.

And Mayweather could easily go 15 rounds, he's almost never looked gassed after a 12 round fight.