This is just a portion of an article i was reading from 15rounds.com

http://15rounds.com/Columns/mswann/pacquiao-112407.php

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

The article on BBC Sport was titled, “I’m better than Ali--Mayweather.” Well at first I thought that he must be saying that he was a better dancer than Laila, who was in the finals of “Dancing with the Stars” last year, while Floyd was axed early in this year’s competition. But it read that he meant Muhammad Ali, so then I figured that he means that he can take the 65 year old Ali today.

But the article also read that Floyd thinks he is also better than Sugar Ray Robinson and said, “I can quit today and be known as the greatest fighter that ever lived. I respect what Robinson and Ali did for the sport. But I am the greatest, and this is my time.”

First of all, Robinson was even a better dancer than Floyd. He moved up from welterweight to middleweight because he had run out of opponents. Sugar Ray KO’d 108 opponents and won 173 fights. He was a five-time middleweight champ, one of the all time best at 160, and unquestionably the best ever at 147. Robinson fought the best in the game in three decades.

It’s too early to evaluate Floyd in terms of all-time status, but it’s safe to say that at age 30, unless he does something miraculous in his final years of activity, his name will never be spoken in the same breath with Ali and Robinson.

Somehow Floyd seems to have become convinced that his boxing success translates to popularity and respect. Is he just deceiving us, trying to hype the Ricky Hatton fight, or has he been deceiving himself for believing what amounts to boxing heresy?

In all honesty, I was a huge fan of Mayweather's boxing skills and abilities, but cause of this statement, I no longer respect him what-so-ever...