Comments Thread For: Floyd Mayweather: I Completely Changed The Sport

[TrueBoxingFan23]

Oh absolutely, i never meant he ducked anybody. Look at the names on his record, there's not many missing that could be on there.

I just meant in the ring, i found him entertaining because i like the little nuances of the sport, the small details. I just think anyone else trying to use his style but without the brilliance of it will be extremely dull. Even though i'm a fan of him, there's a fine line between brilliant and boring when it comes to that style of fighting. I think those who find him boring don't necessarily understand what he's doing, they can't see it.

Great freaking post! Your a true fan, not just a Floyd fan but a fan of boxing! You see what I see! It's the little things that you don't see from most or any other boxer. Ilove blood and guts and a good brawl too. But its little things like how he can turn and angle his head to make a fighter barely miss! It's crazy! A fan doesn't see that. You have to B a student of the sport!

[TrueBoxingFan23]

Tell me an elite hof fighter floyd fought in his prime? LOL fraud mayweather had to drag marquez out of retirement two weight classes and then cheat on the scales so mayweather paid $$$.

Pac had barrera morales marquez. that resume alone ****s on floyd's resume

LMAO �� Floyd came out of retirement not Marquez! And Barrera and Morales were not prime they were at the end of their career! Marquez arguably beat Pac at least twice before the KO! Now what prime Welters did Pac beat? Not at 144, not at 145 but at 147lbs. I tell you one thing it wasn't Floyd because Floyd got Pac on his resume! LMAO

[Lester Tutor]

I don't think Oscar/GBP was the owner then. Maybe. Even if they were, I have no issue with Pacquiao being Fighter of the Decade although a strong case can be made for Mayweather certainly. But their careers didn't begin or end in that one decade so you look at their complete body of work. Yes, Pacquiao edged Mayweather during that span. Not by much. Overall though, Mayweather has the better resume and will go down as the greater fighter. Already has.

Actually thanks for the reply, but we are both smoking crack. I just realiZed that even though Oscar has never liked Floyd even though he still pretends too, but it was classic Thomas Huaser, the HBO consulting dork affiliate and main member of the BWAA, were the ones that gave it to Pac, the same shıt affiliated goons hating on Floyd his whole life even though Lampley was arrested for hitting on a ***** domestically. Lol

Classic dirty politics. As time passes and new generation fans lurk into boxing they will all watch the tapes forever on YouTube and see Floyds mastery va Pac hitting the canvas gracefully 3 times by KO. Smiling sigh

[TrueBoxingFan23]

Your a fool to believe Mayweather was any bigger in popularity than ANY of his top selling fights opponents. His opponents are what made his fights and Oscar made Jr.

You think people weren't watching the lower weight classes prior to Jr? The only reason there was MORE attention these days is because the heavyweight division blows. There was plenty of attention on them in the past if you by the history of the sport, and the mere fact that there is practically no heavyweight division anymore is why people turned their wallets towards lower weight class PPVs and focused on the fighters down below.

If he's not bigger then why didn't Pac vs Oscar sell more than Floyd vs Oscar? Why did Pac vs Cotto not do as much as Floyd vs Cotto? Why didn't Pac vs Mosley do more than Floyd vs Mosley? What about Hatton vs Pac then Floyd vs Hatton? Why not Cotto vs Canelo than Floyd Canelo? Get the picture? FIND THE COMMON DENOMINATOR!!!!!! Some of you just throw stuff out there with no proof and it's just hate! SMH!!! MEN LIE, WOMEN LIE BUT NUMBERS DONT! FLOYD SAID THAT !!!! LMAO ��

[IMDAZED]

Your a fool to believe Mayweather was any bigger in popularity than ANY of his top selling fights opponents. His opponents are what made his fights and Oscar made Jr.

You think people weren't watching the lower weight classes prior to Jr? The only reason there was MORE attention these days is because the heavyweight division blows. There was plenty of attention on them in the past if you by the history of the sport, and the mere fact that there is practically no heavyweight division anymore is why people turned their wallets towards lower weight class PPVs and focused on the fighters down below.

I agree with the gist of your second paragraph. Idk what Mayweather is talking about when he says he brought attention to the lower divisions. I mean, Oscar De La Hoya was in the lower divisions before him. The list is endless.

But with regard to your first paragraph, Mayweather was definitely one of the biggest name opponents Oscar had fought to that point. Chavez and Pea were bigger, yes. Trinidad was probably bigger and then it's Floyd, who was on the verge of blowing up and had already established himself as a fighter capable of pulling around 400K in PPV with a decent name. More important, he sold his fight against Oscar more than anyone else did, over 1m more PPV's than the Manny fight.

[TrueBoxingFan23]

It's silly to try to pin down someone's resume on one thing. What elite prime HOF fighter did Julio Cesar Chavez beat? Vernon Forrest beat a HOF'er in Mosley while he was at his peak. Is he an all-time great? Better than Floyd?

Second, Morales wasn't in his prime when Pacquiao fought him and it's arguable Pacquiao ever beat Marquez. But I'm not downplaying them, just pointing out a flaw in the argument. Those are great wins and performances for Pacquiao (except the Morales rematches). A fighter is judged by his full body of work.

Why does it seem like only 2 or 3 people in here speak with logic? Boys in here just throwing stuff out there without anything to back it up. Logic I can respect but the hate is crazy.

[IMDAZED]

Why does it seem like only 2 or 3 people in here speak with logic? Boys in here just throwing stuff out there without anything to back it up. Logic I can respect but the hate is crazy.

You can apply that to the world my friend

[ManOfVictory]

Made boxing boring as f.uk....glad he is gone.

[Rath]

Why does it seem like only 2 or 3 people in here speak with logic? Boys in here just throwing stuff out there without anything to back it up. Logic I can respect but the hate is crazy.

genius floyd fans logic are the best logic you can find here on NSB no kidding.

[ruedboy]

95% of the guys were coming off their best performances blah ha ha ha

Hatton was exposed by Collazo
Mitchell had recently been destroyed by Tysu
Judah lost to that bum Baldimor
Baldimor was a bum
Delahoya was long past his best so him beating Mayorga and Stevie Forbes qualifies as hist best performance lmao
Gurrero don't even get me started
Maidana lmao yeah that was a credible fight when everyone voted for a khan fight !
And Berto what great performance did he come off of ? Berto was a bum as well

Are you trying to make these guys better than they were just because Floyd fought them is that it ?

I see it that way too. People like to rewrite history.
Take Maidana, I like Chino but hey he got soundly beat by Alexander, a guy who lost every time he stepped up in class. So when Chino gives FM a tough fight, its not "hey maybe FM is overrated", it's "who knew Chino was an elite fighter"lol