How good was Floyd?

[Ron Swanson]

To give you an idea, people said he was better at the lighter weights, which makes sense. Younger, faster etcetera. But even at 147, coming out of retirement the P4P list had
1-Pac
2-JMM
3-Mosley

He fought them all AFTER COMING OUT OF RETIREMENT. And another fighter that was number 1 P4P for years in Canelo. This is his not as good portion of his career in many minds

To give you a comparison so you can understand how unfairly people look at his career. The great Monster Inoue is looked at as having a sterling CV and his best opponent is (by boxeoguide) number 32 pound for pound.

I can pull up people that absolutely hate him, like Oscar Delahoya for example saying “you have to look at what he’s done, he might be the best ever”.

I’m not saying he is, but Diego Corrales was a killing machine when Floyd fought him, and made him look easy. When doing his “after coming out of retirement” bit I left off HOF fighters! That’s how great he was

He was so good people still talk about a sparring session he lost, his first day back in the gym against a fight ready fighter. A fricking sparring session, 1!