How good is Mayweather historically?

[babyboNe]

Of late Mayweather has fought big names too...but he's taken on a boatload of criticism for not fighting Hatton or not fighting Margarito...but I encourage you all to take a look of both of those names.

Sit down & compare apples to apples & look at there records beside Mayweathers.

People just love to hate Floyd. It's that simple.

wacko hatton has kosta in his record and hattons undeafeted too everyone floyds beaten kosta already beat or would of...floyd is talented but no where near great...manny stwart laugh at the idea comparing floyd to real great fighters so did I hahha yes floyd will be forgotten fast...sukx but true.

[ICB]

Lyle your list is full of crap, the only person on there who would have chance, and probably owuld beat Mayweather is Hearns... Floyd isn't just extremely talented and skilled he is perhaps the greatest combination of both to EVER fight. He is so fast he doesn't need to set up any of his punches, and his defense is comparable to Whitaker. His offense is like ROy's at LHW, but he doesn't have ROy's power so he can't dominate the fight like Roy however, with his speed and if he had ROys power p4p he would beat any boxer up to 160 IMO he just that much better than a greatly talented crop of fighters at middleweight and below, and he is alot better than WInky, but right now he may be outmuscled by Winky.

no it isnt u dont think living windmills armstrong and pryor who had one of best workrates in the buisness wouldnt have a chance or leonard one of greatest skilled fighters or pep slickest boxer ive ever seen or greatest p4p robinson ?? or duran ?? i think ur talking out ur a** if u only think hearns would have a chance against mayweather

Whittaker, Mosley, De la Hoya Taylor, Chavez, Arguello, Nelson plus all of these like lyle said could beat mayweather or give him very hard nights work

[El Kabong]

Lyle your list is full of crap, the only person on there who would have chance, and probably owuld beat Mayweather is Hearns... Floyd isn't just extremely talented and skilled he is perhaps the greatest combination of both to EVER fight. He is so fast he doesn't need to set up any of his punches, and his defense is comparable to Whitaker. His offense is like ROy's at LHW, but he doesn't have ROy's power so he can't dominate the fight like Roy however, with his speed and if he had ROys power p4p he would beat any boxer up to 160 IMO he just that much better than a greatly talented crop of fighters at middleweight and below, and he is alot better than WInky, but right now he may be outmuscled by Winky.

Show me some clips of Mayweather's combination punching....I'm intrigued

You can SAY my list is crap all you want to but he'll never be better than those fighters....not now, not 20 years from now, not 100 years from now.

He's good but he doesn't have what those fighters had and that is a willingness to PROVE they were the greatest...RJJ didn't have that either so don't feel bad.

[sexydarin]

You would have to go by won/lost record of each opponent. Divisions and belts were way fewer back in the day.