Everyone seems to hate on Floyd Mayweather

As a self-admitted Floyd fan, I really have no problem with people hating Floyd. When people bash him, their logic and facts are so obviously skewed with bias or ignorance that it is usually not even necessary to rebute them.

Here is the fact: Floyd is one of the greatest fighters of all time. You can go on about how he never did this or that, but think about it: how many guys in the history of the sport can you name that had the total package like him? How many great can you name that had the comination of physical gifts, virtuoso skill, and unbreakable discipline that he had? You have to go back to guys like Sugar Ray Robinson.

As a person, I'm not a huge fan of the guy. But as a fighter, he is one of the greatest of all time, and instead of complaining about how he never did this or that, you should enjoy the guy while he's around (his fights, not his personality) because we may never see a virtuoso like this again.

He doesnt fight the best available fights sometimes, and he's a bitch for not wanting to fight Mosely. I like his skills, but he really needs to fight guys like Cotto, Berto, Clottey instead of just saying he could beat them, prove it...

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Originally Posted by Lyle

Floyd has NEVER unified any weight class he has fought at and he has always left at least one guy in each division who could have challenged him.

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Who could have challenged Floyd at 130?

Who could have challenged Floyrd at 135?

He whether people like ir ot not won the Undisputed Welterweight title, and he beat its former Champion(he beat Judah and then beat Baldomir for the Undisputed Title)

He went up to Junior Middleweight and beat Oscar De La Hoya under Oscar's own terms.

He moved back down and beat the man who was the best at 140 and knocked him out.

Who was left for Mayweather to fight? Margarito has been exposed, Miguel got beat and obviously wasnt ready for someone Mayweather's caliber. So who was left for Mayweather to fight?


If Mayweather had fought Cotto he would have beaten him and then years laters to now people would see how much of a better fighter Cotto is and would say "he never fought Miguel in his prime, he should fight him now"

So who did Mayweather miss out on fighting that would have garnered him any more respect?

And people bash Mayweather for not taking fights against people like Cotto, Berto and Clottey?

Alright why is no one talking crap about Mosley not fighting Clottey and Margarito not rematching Clottey?

How about Berto not fighting Clottey or Margarito?

Because he isnt ready, and if he isnt ready then Mayweather shouldn't be bashed for not fighting him.

Mayweather seems to get hate for who he doesnt fight but no one else in the weight class that doesn't fight that person is left alone.

Mayweather hate is very one sided in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by Puya

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Originally Posted by Lyle

As brilliant as he has been he didn't test himself enough to talk the way he does and to say that he's the greatest of all-time.

Ray Robinson, Ray Leonard, Tommy Hearns, Oscar De la Hoya, Shane Mosley, Tito Trinidad, etc etc all tested themselves as much as they could when they were fighting.

Floyd has NEVER unified any weight class he has fought at and he has always left at least one guy in each division who could have challenged him.

The glaring omissions of Shane Mosley, Miguel Cotto, and others hurts Floyd's legacy

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Let me remind you Floyd called out Mosley 2x and Shane didnt want to know anything, and while Floyd carved up Gatti in front of Hatton and Cotto, there was not even a peep coming from the 2 of them...

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I don't agree with the idea that look what happened to Cotto and Margarito in their last fights, Floyd was right not to fight them. Who's he gonna fight? I'd stil love to see Floyd-Cotto.

Anyway I don't really care, I'm a bit in the middle, I've enjoyed some of his fights but I'm not a big fan. As for any big name fighter there's a lot of reasons to dislike (or like) Floyd, his style of boxing, his act, his fans, etc.

let me put Floyd fans into perspective...

Mayweather fans are apologists and defenders, were as Cotto/Hatton/Pac fans are blatant self promoters.

You judge for yourself about Floyd.. everyone else talks about him and we defend were as the others all talk about their guy and Floyd... You guys bring more attention to him than we do;)

MAJESTY is correct.

Just rememeber what weight this guy started in the game.
Its like roy jones moving up to heavy weight and the other heavyweights are williams and cotto but there natural heavyweights.

Floyd moved up in weight and beat guys that are naturally bigger than him.

Alright why is no one talking crap about Mosley not fighting Clottey and Margarito not rematching Clottey?

How about Berto not fighting Clottey or Margarito?- Majesty

Mosely would fight Clottey, I am sure of it. Margarito probably knows he was lucky that Clottey broke his hand in the first fight. Berto isn't ducking people he's up an coming, a little diffrent than floyd who was clearly in his prime when he "retired"....blah blah ducker!