How good was Floyd?

[VG_Addict]

Did Floyd really cherrypick, or was he just that much better than everyone he fought?

[MUNG]

best of his gen and yes i think he avoided prime pac!

but i also think he would have won, but very close

[naranja111]

Phenomenal

[GrandpaBernard]

Did Floyd really cherrypick, or was he just that much better than everyone he fought?

Floyd dominated fellow ATGs giving them boxing lessons:

Marquez
Mosley
Alvarez
manny

Other great fighters struggled with manny while Floyd made it look easy.

Barrera got ****d

Morales went left and death with him

Marquez needed 3 fights to crack the manny code

How many guys can make a high ranking great like manny easy without a weight advantage on the first try

[GrandpaBernard]

This Mayweather was so good fans of his opponents would run off with a moral victory if their guy made a case for winning only 4 rounds lol

Maidana was honored with a parade for example

[GhostofDempsey]

His greatest talent was knowing when to catch a marquee name opponent when they weren't at their best. Still a big name, but no longer a serious threat.

[GrandpaBernard]

His greatest talent was knowing when to catch a marquee name opponent when they weren't at their best. Still a big name, but no longer a serious threat.

And still beat better versions of most the opponents he shared with the guy who gets praised for his resume

[alexguiness]

Huge talent, clever in that sneaky way that some errrr folks are.

Always in perfect shape and mentally 100% on fight night.

Not a cheat per se, he just worked every situation to his advantage and promoted himself very well.

[Monzon99]

Fraudweather was a fraud. he was good but he needed protection. Arum tried to get him beat up by Margarito. Floyd knew it and ducked Margarito for two years. Arum kept pushing the fight on Floyd and so Floyd left Top Rank and went to Haymon and Goossen. From that point on Haymon rigged Floyd's career and never allowed his franchise fraud to lose. Haymon was able to get long term HBO and Showtime deals, guaranteed money, which was used to buy off every opponent. Then when Floyd and Haymon kept ducking Pacquiao, HBO dumped Floyd. Haymon was able to manipulate Espinoza and Showtime to buy Floyd. Again, Floyd and Haymon intended to duck Pac forever. When Floyd's fake fights started drawing poor numbers, Les Moonves, head of cbs showtime, finally forced floyd to face Pac, and so they rigged the judges. Floyd knew he had to just last 12 and the decision would go to him. Floyd was a boring fake pretender, masquerading himself as the fake best ever, he knew he was protected. His career was boring. But the American establishment needed a black star to sell and Floyd was the hired actor. In the end, Floyd did finally admit he was a coward and he's ok with it, because he's a rich coward now. Floyd is the biggest fraud in history of boxing.

[Monzon99]

Haymon was able to manipulate Greenberg at HBO to spend all their budget on promoting floyd as the pretend counterfeit best, while short shrifting the Klitschkos who were the best at the time. HBO even refused to broadcast some of the Klitschko's hwt title fights! Haymon was behind that. Haymon also rigged the hbo commentators to talk up fraudweather at this magical talent. And not shed light of truth on all his ducks and duck moves to duck cotto, margarito, williams, etc. In the end, the deception worked and dope a roped a lot of ignorant dullards. Floyd screwed up many times and showed his true coward colors with Brian Kenny, two radio interviews which calle dhim on his ducking, when Margarito confronted him. But for the most part, floyd played his script and his handlers were able to protect him from tough media questions.