Comments Thread For: Floyd Mayweather: I'm TBE - Not Ali, Marciano or Menayothin!

[Noelanthony]

You ain't a boxer you can't even box
This las vegas born this clown gayweather doesn't desserve a slot in a top100 greatest boxer of all time.

Pac fan detected

[hugh grant]

Pep averaged 9+ fights a year (26 year career)
Pac, 3 (25 years)
May, 2+ (20 years)

A bit misleading your stats. When Floyd was a somebody in boxing he wasn't fighting twice a year lol.
The first 30 fights was against nobodies when Floyd himself was unknown.
When Floyd became man to beat 1 fight every 18 months more like it

[Jab jab boom]

Best fighter of his generation, sure, one of the best ever, yes... Best of all time... Nah

[Noelanthony]

Floyd is in the conversation as one of the greatest and I think people would be more happy to acknowledge it if he wasn’t beating his own drum about TBE after he’s been retired

I always felt after the dust settled from his career and he steps out of the limelight, even those who never liked him would over time start acknowledging what a talent he was.

Instead he comes across as a bit insecure that can’t just let people make their own judgement, which makes people not be objective.

Definitely not my type of person but I’m here to comment on his boxing, not his personality. A great fighter and is in the running to be the fighter that took the least punishment in a 20 year boxing career

[ramses07]

ehhhh u can call yourself TBE as a boxer as much as u want

but it comes from people giving you that title

I mean mike really wasn't that great of a fighter from a tech stand point, but ppl still think hes one of the greats

[vinnieq]

51-0

51-0 if you include his two ex's that he boxed.
what belts did they have?

[thack]

Floyd was excellent a rare talent ,Chin, movement and a defensive master. Unfortunately for Floyd this status is decided by the fans and many it seems including myself disagree.He is up against the likes of Ali,Louis and Suger Ray Robinson.In fact I would pick SRL over him and Duran who skipped light welter would have hammered him out of the ring at light weight where Floyd spent a few years.Floyd sounds like a desperate salesman.It's a shame as he was a great fighter.

[vinnieq]

ya Sugar Ray Leonard was a beast.. Fought everyone in their prime (even sometimes past his own prime).
Sugar Ray Robinson is my pick.. I've never seen that mix of speed, power and intelligence at any weight these days. And i still need to watch a lot more of his fights.

[hitmanjosh]

Mayweather is up their but

He would not be able to shine Sugar Ray Robinson shoes when it comes to natural talent speed and just being able to fight. Floyd deserves credit for all the great fighters he did beat and will go and continue to enter the Hall of Fame. The list of champions he beat is the greatest in boxing history and won’t be broken in my lifetime. Floyd was a hard working brilliant genius in the game with an incredible team, which everyone should aspire to be like.

[Boxingfanatic75]

That out of his prime De la Hoya was huge that night. I suppose he went back into his prime when he fought Pacquiao years later? There is not a fighter on this planet that has not had at least one debatable fight that could have gone either way. Fighters are entitled to a few off nights in a career spanning over 20 years. I do agree with the everything else you wrote. Mayweather makes the top ten Atg list. It’s not just him beating so many World champions it’s the ease in which he beat them which is why he is in my top 10

He isn’t even the top 25 of TBE.
1) SRR
2) Henry Armstrong
3) Willie Pep
4) Ali
5) Joe Louis
6) Dempsey
7) Jack Johnson
8) Duran
9) Sugar Ray Leonard
10) Benny Leonard
11) Harry Greb
12) Joe Gans
13) Gene Tunney
14) Sam Langford
15) Marciano
16) Archie Moore
17) Jimmy Wilde
18) Julio Cesar Chavez
19) Foreman
20) Stanley Ketchel
21) Barney Ross
22) Joe Frazier
23) Tony Canzoneri
24) Hopkins