With Both Now "Retired," Who Had The Better Legacy, Oscar or Floyd

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Im gonna try to break this one down. Floyd is an unbelievably talented fighter, but his overall competition doesnt quite stack up to Oscars. Both men have 39 wins. Both were multi-division champions. Yes, Floyd has no loses and Oscar has 6. But I give Oscar a lot of credit for his loses because they were ALL to future HOFers and he did fight them. Floyd hasnt fought 6 Hall of Fame caliber fighters in his career. Oscar did lose those fights but my rational is to take them off his record and put them on a shelf for now.

Now, we have 39 wins per fighters so Im going to select their 15 biggest wins. Again, this is my opinion, but there is not much to argue here and these are in no particular order.

Oscar De La Hoya:
Julio Ceasar Chavez
Pernell Whittaker
Miguel Angel Gonzales
Ike Quartey
Fernando Vargas
Jorge Paez
John John Molina
Rafael Ruelas
Arturo Gatti
Genaro Hernandez
Hector Camacho
Jesse James Lieja
Oba Carr
Ricardo Mayorga
Javier Castillejo

Floyd Mayweather:
Oscar De La Hoya
Ricky Hatton
Diego Corrales
Jose Luis Castillo
Zab Judah
Arturo Gatti
Carlos Manuel Baldomir
Angel Manfredy
Sharmba Mitchell
Jesus Chavez
Carlos Hernandez
Phillip N'dou
Victoriano Sosa
DeMarcus Corley
Genaro Hernandez

Now, going back to Oscars loses. 3 of them are current champions and all top p4p fighters in the world (Hopkins, Pac, Mosley). The two others are Felix Trinidad and Floyd himself.

Floyd has never lost a fight. Is that a testement to his greatness or lack of worthy opposition? You be the judge. Both guys are undeniably among the best of recent times and it will be interesting to see how history remembers them.