Floyds Flawless streak from Age 30 to Age 40 is The Best Ever.

[baya]

floyd is a winner through and through.

dude partied every night leading up to the mcgregor fight ... what a stud

[Graz]

Floyd as he says "is boxing." And he's right. The guy talks the talk and walks the walk. One of the best ever for sure.

[hugh grant]

Ali was getting his **** pushed in by mediocre fighters like Norton and Spinks at Floyd's age. What Floyd did in his in his mid to late 30's is unprecedented.

Ali was mixing with the likes of prime Frazier, Liston, and George fireman so please forgive Ali if he ages a bit faster than Floyd did. He sacrfiuced a lot.
Whilst floyd since his 6 fight contract has fought the likes of Ortiz, maidana, guerero a and berto and Connor., instead of going out on shield like past greats.

[GhostofDempsey]

Name them, the opponents & the time it took. I'll wait....

You can start with this...

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Though I'm certain you will shyt all over those accomplishments.

[Floyd is TBE]

We live in a world where Ali got his **** pushed in by Ken Norton. Pac lost a close decision to Jeff Horn, Tyson got knocked the **** out by Buster Douglas, Rahman KO'd Lennox Lewis. But yeah, anyone could move up five weight classes and run the gauntlet of Hatton, Canelo, Oscar, Pac, JMM, Maidana, and Mosley at Floyd's age. It's a fact. Fighting world champions at the elite level in your late 30's and remaining undefeated is so easy everybody does it.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Yet not one of those opponents he fought from age 30-40 were at their best. .

Too bad. That's not Floyd's fault lol. Boxing is a marathon not a sprint. You're also contradicting yourself. Do you think Floyd was at his best from age 30-40?

[Floyd is TBE]

Ali was mixing with the likes of prime Frazier, Liston, and George fireman so please forgive Ali if he ages a bit faster than Floyd did. He sacrfiuced a lot.
Whilst floyd since his 6 fight contract has fought the likes of Ortiz, maidana, guerero a and berto and Connor., instead of going out on shield like past greats.

See here's the difference between Floyd and Ali, Floyd could beat a Foreman or Fraizer level fighter without suffering extensive brain trauma. Ali couldn't outbox Foreman so his strategy was to let Foreman punch him in the head until he tired himself out. Honestly, if Ali fought Foreman today he would have lost because any sane ref in 2017 would stop the fight when they saw the savage beating Foreman was putting on Ali.

[Lester Tutor]

Floyd's kind of known for not taking risks and not giving advantages away if he could at all help it. He took long breaks and went AWOl when he became man to beat. That also extended career. Yet somehow a thread twists logic to make it seem otherwise.?
What just happened.? Is it reverse phycology or what that just happened?

Floyd deserves to be considered one of skillfullest defensive fighters ever. But what he has actually done isn't more impressive than fighters before him did

Just like Michael Jordan, it took Floyd 2 years to win a title again since JMM, and MJ went on to win another 3 Championships coming back. skills recognize skills...

The Brits feel salty doe, just how they're like the Japanese to ''re-invent'' or perfect what was done before them. The Brits mad cause they didn't invent Jazz

[Johnny2x2x]

We live in a world where Ali got his **** pushed in by Ken Norton. Pac lost a close decision to Jeff Horn, Tyson got knocked the **** out by Buster Douglas, Rahman KO'd Lennox Lewis. But yeah, anyone could move up five weight classes and run the gauntlet of Hatton, Canelo, Oscar, Pac, JMM, Maidana, and Mosley at Floyd's age. It's a fact. Fighting world champions at the elite level in your late 30's and remaining undefeated is so easy everybody does it.

That's why I laugh when people say he carefully chose his opponents. Dude fought more champions than anyone ever, each of those fights was a huge chance to lose.

And when he had a close fight, which was only 2 times, he gave immediate rematches to those 2 fighters. He could have just taken wins vs Castillo and Madaina and moved on to an easier fight, but he gave the hardest possible opponents for him, guys that just almost beat him another shot. Almost no fighters in history do that. You didn't see SRL giving Hagler or Hearns immediate rematches, nor did Pacquaio give immediate rematches to Marquez. Both of those guys took their time after barely winning or drawing or avoided them all together.

Floyd only having 2 close fights in a career of fighting 26 different champions is one of the best achievements in boxing. Giving both those opponents immediate rematches is rare and he never gets enough credit for it. Look throughout history at all the ATGs and you'll see how rare what he did is.

[Tom Cruise]

It is extremely impressive. Especially considering he didnt come through late, he was a young champion as well.

Archie Moore has better wins from 30-40 years old imo, but he took losses as well against the likes of Ezzard Charles, Harold Johnson and Rocky Marciano. But there isnt much shame in that. Floyds consistency has always been astonishing really.

He was probably lucky to not have a fighter coming up behind him who is a future ATG and in their prime. People will say Canelo he was very young. If there were some future greats just coming into his prime as Floyd was ageing, then im sure he would have taken some L's looking at how he looked vs Maidana. Maybe like a current version of Spence vs the May who fought Maidana and Berto. But there wasnt, so he didnt.

Hell of a record.