Quote Originally Posted by knodaledge View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Kel View Post
Quote Originally Posted by ElTerribleMorales View Post

people will say Manny was too small and that Floyd hasn't fought any big guys cause he's a chicken shit, Floyd could go beat Pacquiao, Mosley, Berto, Williams, Martinez, and Pavlik back to back, and yet they'll find a way not to give him credit
Where you been? People have been saying that for years

As for the rest of that post, Mosley, Berto and Williams should already be on a GREAT fighters resume who has been at 147 the past few years, no?

You know how wrong you are with these silly comments. He has took the easy route for fucking ages and it all goes againsed him when you are talking greatness.
He called out Mosley. There's even video of Mosley avoiding the fight in a post-fight interview. Berto was barely coming up while Mayweather was on top. If he would've took the Berto fight people would've just called Berto green & discredited it. Same with Williams.

Mayweather fought and beat 2 of the top 3 ranked welterweights in the world. In consecutive fights. So the argument that he "never fought a real welterweight" is false.

Then he went up in weight to fight and beat a light middleweight champion.

People are reaching. That's why i'm surprised he even came back. He's never going to get the respect he deserves because some fans treat boxing like its American Idol or something and take "personality" into account when voting for the top dog.
Agreed. I remember 2001 when people were saying "the cocky little bugger won't last against any decent fighter" (and this was when he was at SFW). He proceeds to knock out Corrales, Chavez, Ndou, Corley, Gatti, Mitchell, Hatton and dominates Judah and Marquez... barely gets a scratch his entire career, GREATLY outclasses everyone (yes including DLH) and people still don't want to admit that he's any good. His only questionable win coming from a bout with Castillo, where he undoubtedly won the rematch. Pacquiao has not one, but two questionable fights with Marquez (the second being the worse of the two), doesn't give the poor Mexican the trilogy.. and people put his name in the same breath as Robinson and Ali.

I feel bad for Floyd, although I'm glad that he relishes playing the bad guy. It fuels him to his dominant victories. Pacquiao will be no different. MW was right when he said it was a lose/lose situation for him (except for the $25m ), if he wins, people will discredit the win, if he loses, people will discredit his entire career (which, I guess, is what they're doing anyway). I hope he dominates the little Filipino (as he's done to everyone else) and retires from the sport that hasn't accepted him from day one. If he decides to keep fighting, that would be great too.