Mayweather Lists His Top 5 Ever

[hugh grant]

He tends to rate people who move up in weight divisions higher than people who remain at one.

So when Pac isn't in his top 5, is Floyd just being spiteful you think?
He used to think Pac was on PEDS, as he thought Pac was just too good for his liking. With Ko's Floyd could only dream of. Floyd keeps saying he is going to ko his opponents as he knows that is what is impressive, but he never can.

Floyd worships the ko artists, but he will take the points wins if you give them to him, even unfairly give him the decisions.

[BrometheusBob.]

Wasn't there already a thread for this? Hm maybe it got closed.

[Ahmed_Ismail]

I think this is his top 5 list out of the options that were in front of him, last year he was asked about his top 3 favorite fighters and he said Aaron Pryor, Ricardo Lopez and Larry Holmes, which is a fine list and most of the fighters that he chose on either lists didn't have the same style that he had, only Whitaker and young Ali were defensive fighters and I think he borrowed some moves from Ali

It shows that he also appreciates offensive fighters just like he appreciates defensive fighters and boxer/punchers, which is why he's a complete fighter, he appreciated and studied all styles, a student of the game, I think none of the fighters of today studied one fifth of the fighters who Floyd studied growing up.

[FeFist]

This thread was made before and I made a comment in it. Why was it deleted?

[Ahmed_Ismail]

So when Pac isn't in his top 5, is Floyd just being spiteful you think?
He used to think Pac was on PEDS, as he thought Pac was just too good for his liking. With Ko's Floyd could only dream of. Floyd keeps saying he is going to ko his opponents as he knows that is what is impressive, but he never can.

Floyd worships the ko artists, but he will take the points wins if you give them to him, even unfairly give him the decisions.

Pacquiao had a great career, but his opponent selection is not on an ATG level and you know it especially since his move up to 147, tell me one Pacquiao opponent that was coming off a great win before he fought Pacquiao, Eric Morales the first time was coming off a loss where he got thoroughly outboxed by Raheem, Oscar Larios was coming off a loss, Barrera in the rematch was coming off a loss, Dela Hoya was coming off a loss to Mayweather and he was moving down a whole weight class, Cotto was coming off a KO dragout with B level Clottey and didn't do anything good since he got physically and mentally destroyed a year before he fought Pacquiao at a catchweight, Clottey was fresh off a loss, Margarito had just gotten KTFO by Mosley less than a year eariler and fought Pacquiao for the vacant belt at a 150 lbs catchweight even though Margarito wasn't even top 5 at the time Shane Mosely was coming off the loss to Mayweather and looked like shiet in his next fight, Marquez jumped again 2 weight classes and actually beat Pacquiao, KO loss to Marquez and then Rios fresh off a loss and Bradley who he already beat before, when Mayweather faced the same fighters they were all coming off some of the biggest wins of their careers.

Plus Mayweather introduced random blood and urine testing, Pacquiao will forever go down in history as the first guy to decline drug testing and block a mega fight cuz of it, Pacquiao IS the first guy I know that turned down random blood and urine testing.

The fighters he chose on the list were not KO artists against tough opposition at higher weight classes, Duran actually used his skills to beat the bigger guys, not KO power. Plus a true student of the game studies all styles and appreciates all styles as long as they're effective, the younger version of Mayweather was an excellent offensive fighter and he'd put together some great combinations with good power, but unlike almost all the other ATGs he had some serious hand problems which he inherited from his dad and he adjusted his style accordingly, which is what smart fighters do, u adjust ur style according to ur current attributes and ur opponent, u never fight the same fight twice, u can learn a lot from this guy if u stop paying so much attention to his personality and start focusing on boxing

[New England]

TBE is being too humble. He should've ranked himself higher.

He understands Spanish better than English

winners

[Scipio2009]

Everyone has their own opinion but idk how he has Sweet Pea ahead of Chavez and let alone Ali...guess its a Midwest thing or he just likes Pernell...

Whittaker outclassed every fighter he was put in the ring with, up until he was passed it as a fighter, and that's what Floyd seems to have set his rankings on

[Scipio2009]

He understands Spanish better than English

translator in the ear

[kardsufur]

Has Chavez #3 on the list.

Doesn't have SRR even on the list at all.

Says the reason Chavez is #3 is because he went 80-0.

Meanwhile SRR was like 120-0.

Smh.

[EdWins]

Surprising list.

I would have thought his list would look more like this:

1. Floyd Mayweather
2. Floyd Mayweather
3. Floyd Mayweather
4. Floyd Mayweather
5. Floyd Mayweather