Is Mayweather's 2007-2015 run of consecutive opponents the best ever?!?!?

[Contra]

Amazing resume. obviously people will chime in and say "they weren't prime" - well i'd imagine it's logistically impossible to fight everyone at their peak.

Not to mention Floyd wasn't exactly prime during most of that run either.

This.

Imo, Floyd's prime ended with the Hatton fight.

Everything after that was just a testament to how his style, his craft, and his dedication to high-level training and conditioning made him one of the best of all time, even after his physical prime was over.

[Spoon23]

lost track of how many times you lied about a fighter being #9 pound for pound



muhammad ali. easily. easily. go from the start of his comeback, or just start at joe frazier

frazier 3x
foreman
norton 3x
holmes

that's three all time greats and a legit badass hall of famer. ali fought all of them not only when they were in their primes, but when he was past his. he really had two careers, spanning two different decades. first major run started when he stopped liston twice. during the 60's muhammad ali was the best HW ever, maybe even the best fighter ever AT ANY WEIGHT



and then you have contenders that he also fought in the 70's.
quarry
ellis
young
lyle
shavers
foster



there are more as well
ray leonard fought prime tommy hearns, prime wilfred benitez, aged but still incredible roberto duran. floyd never fought one fighter on that level [frankly never came close!] never mind three of them within two calendar years.

Well said. Perfection.

[Spoon23]

If you cant see how mayweather cherry picked 95% of his fights post arturo gatti (and even gatti was at the end of his career, but wbc super lw champion) then i donno where you were at

Right Smack at the middle.

Ace!

[dibzvincent143]

oops i meant to say 2006-2015

Im not saying he has the best resume ever. This is just based off of consecutive opponents.

Zab Judah: 147 IBF welterweight champion. Coming off a loss to baldomir so it's not that impressive, but we are only getting started

Baldomir: 147 WBC and Lineal champion. #2 Welterweight

Oscar de la hoya: 154 WBC champion. Hall of famer

Ricky Hatton: #8 P4P. WBA Welterweight champion. IBF and the ring light welterweight champion.

Marquez: #2 P4P (Lightweight doe). hall of famer

Mosley: #3 P4P and 147 WBA champion. Hall of famer

Ortiz: 147 WBC champion # 2 welterweight boxer

Cotto: 154 WBA light middleweight champion. #2 Super welterweight boxer. Hall of famer

Guerrero: #9 P4P and #3 Welterweight boxer. WBC interim champion

Canelo: #9 P4P. 154 WBC and the Ring champion. #1 super welterweight boxer.

Maidana (Twice): 147 WBA champion. Just came off a huge win over #9 P4P little bro

Pacquiao: #2 P4P, 147 WBO champion, #2 welterweight boxer. Hall of famer

Berto: lol

ALL HAIL MR TBE

If you look at it on paper it is really one of the best. But it really differs much in reality and does not tell the entire story. It’s still a great achievement and Floyd clearly engineered his career that way.

Pacquiao on his resume is sure a great big win on paper. But it also happened 6 yrs too late with Pac showing obvious signs of decline and added some losses on his record.

Cotto was already beatin up to a pulp by margarito and pacquiao and was obviously past his best as well. He was a blown up jr middleweight. Had it happened in 2007/2008 floyd gets full credit for that.

Mosley was 36 years old. 4-3 in his last fights. And had a year long layoff since beating margarito.

Maidana already lost to alexander and Khan. And isn’t close to being a hofer

Guerrero is a newbie welter

Oscar was semi retired. Fought him after having 1 fight in 3 years after a year long layoff as well.

Marquez, a lighweight that climbed 2 divisions and he cheated him on the scales.

Canelo fight would’ve gotten him full credit if it was at 154. Damn whyyyy floyd. You could’ve beat him either way buttt whyyy.

Judah coming off a loss and Ortiz was trash.

Full credit to hatton victory

We can do that in everyone else’s resume as well. But no one did it better than Floyd.
No one has solidly engineered his resume as much as Floyd.
He has a case at TBE, but his naysayers will also have a case of being right.

Had he fought them at the time it was all demanded, Floyd might have been the clear cut TBE and greatest ever. But he chose to go the other way, he still has a case..

His greatest wins remain to be Castillo II and Corrales.
Crawford and spences of the world would not come close because they dont have the options to be.

Floyd had, but he did it his own comfortable way.

Like I said he has case.
But the haters have as well.

[sbbigmike]

If you look at it on paper it is really one of the best. But it really differs much in reality and does not tell the entire story. It’s still a great achievement and Floyd clearly engineered his career that way.

Pacquiao on his resume is sure a great big win on paper. But it also happened 6 yrs too late with Pac showing obvious signs of decline and added some losses on his record.

Cotto was already beatin up to a pulp by margarito and pacquiao and was obviously past his best as well. He was a blown up jr middleweight. Had it happened in 2007/2008 floyd gets full credit for that.

Mosley was 36 years old. 4-3 in his last fights. And had a year long layoff since beating margarito.

Maidana already lost to alexander and Khan. And isn’t close to being a hofer

Guerrero is a newbie welter

Oscar was semi retired. Fought him after having 1 fight in 3 years after a year long layoff as well.

Marquez, a lighweight that climbed 2 divisions and he cheated him on the scales.

Canelo fight would’ve gotten him full credit if it was at 154. Damn whyyyy floyd. You could’ve beat him either way buttt whyyy.

Judah coming off a loss and Ortiz was trash.

Full credit to hatton victory

We can do that in everyone else’s resume as well. But no one did it better than Floyd.
No one has solidly engineered his resume as much as Floyd.
He has a case at TBE, but his naysayers will also have a case of being right.

Had he fought them at the time it was all demanded, Floyd might have been the clear cut TBE and greatest ever. But he chose to go the other way, he still has a case..

His greatest wins remain to be Castillo II and Corrales.
Crawford and spences of the world would not come close because they dont have the options to be.

Floyd had, but he did it his own comfortable way.

Like I said he has case.
But the haters have as well.

Floyd can't force people to fight him his biggest threats blatantly ducked him in Mosley, Manny and cotto openly too, do u forget about toothaches, and needles....


Floyd even tried to jump from 140 and face winky at 54 yet he was blamed for that fight falling thru

The Floyd I saw fight, Hof’ers like Barrera, prince, and Morales couldn't mumble his name within pounds of him, is that Floyd fault too

[dibzvincent143]

Floyd can't force people to fight him his biggest threats blatantly ducked him in Mosley, Manny and cotto openly too, do u forget about toothaches, and needles....


Floyd even tried to jump from 140 and face winky at 54 yet he was blamed for that fight falling thru

The Floyd I saw fight, Hof’ers like Barrera, prince, and Morales couldn't mumble his name within pounds of him, is that Floyd fault too

Did he even try making the Cotto fight? Last time I checked he retired when they were at their prime and hotshots at 147.

When Manny’s contract with Arum was briefly over in 2011 he sent Koncz to Floyd’s gym to negotiate for the fight. What happened? 40m deal breaker was offered.
People like to act that Manny didn’t agree to the testing til 2015. He already agreed to it in 2011.

Needles and gyms are all arums excuses.

There are others that are calling out Floyd as well. Williams, Margarito and Sergio.
Don’t you think they would have been better wins esp if he beats them in their prime than the ones he currently have?

Like I sad it’s a really really good resume. But it’s his fault there is something to say about it.

We can say the same for pac.
His best wins would probably be Bradley, barrera and Marquez at 130 only.

Floyd corrales and castillo.
You can add hatton at 147.

[Jblo]

I agree hands down best resume as a whole... 130lbs no competition routinely made tough guys look below average corrales, chavez, gatti,cotto,paqiuoa,del la hoya, mosley n the list goes on.. N they were all a few years older maybe 1 or 2 maybe 3 but mayweather was old too.

[Jblo]

Pac wasnt clean in 2010 he turn blood testing down after the fight

[Illmatic94]

Name any boxer in history and watch me shred his resume to pieces.

you can throw dirt on Floyd all you want but fact is he has the strongest resume seen in the sport since prime Ray Leonard.

[mcdonalds]

Did he even try making the Cotto fight? Last time I checked he retired when they were at their prime and hotshots at 147.

When Manny’s contract with Arum was briefly over in 2011 he sent Koncz to Floyd’s gym to negotiate for the fight. What happened? 40m deal breaker was offered.
People like to act that Manny didn’t agree to the testing til 2015. He already agreed to it in 2011.

Needles and gyms are all arums excuses.

Floyd tried to fight cotto around 05/06 but arum and cotto said no. Manny and arum actually didn't agree to the demands in 2011, they said they didn't want USADA involved lol. So how is that agreeing to the demands when you have a problem USADA, an organization that handles US Olympic sports?

Anyway, this thread isnt about that. Please point out a better run of consecutive opponents. Floyd fought nothing but other champions and P4P fighters in 12 consecutive fights, who else has done that?