Duran : In My Era, Mayweather Would Have Been Ordinary

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Floyd's a very good defensive boxer, but he's not an All-Time Great.

He's certainly elite world-class, I don't think anybody's ever disputed that.
Fighters in the Top 3 rankings are the best-of-the-best.

The problem is he avoided too many of his fellow top prime fighters during the past 9 years since 2002.
Most of his peers fought each other in their primes except Floyd who constantly picked the right time when the opponent was too old, a bit past it, called up in weight, etc.

If you're really that good, why constantly and consistently stack the odds?
Floyd wants to decide the size of the ring, the size of the gloves, the brand of gloves for both him and his opponent, the venue so he can use xylocaine, the weight they'll fight at, he wants to be an athlete superceding the State Athletic Commission when it's their job to regulate boxing and it's not for any athlete to regulate a sport. He wants 70-30 splits. He wants his name to come first on billing, and his opponent to enter first so that he can make them wait on him in the ring. He wants to influence who'll be the ref.
If you're really that good, then why stack the odds to this excessive level? There is gamesmanship and posturing in boxing, but I've never heard of ANY fighter doing this to this extreme.

Those guys in the 80s fought each other during their primes, and they wanted to fight the other guy when the other guy was at his best; they didn't want him to have any excuses.

Yet again, a load of rubbish imho

All this talk on floyd avoiding and will never be an all time great..what are you talking about?!

He already is!

Oscar used to dictate the same stuff!

"The guys in the 80s, the guys in the 80s etc..Get over it!!

Its 2013 and the best fighters fight twice a year!

I hate the fact floyd, ward, froch fight twice a year and i wish they could fight 4-5 times a year but it seems to take that long in this day and age to build a fight like that and more money is involved.

If floyd fought 4 times a year knowing the way he trains and performs in the ring who in this era will beat him at 147?

If floyd, marquez or even manny were fighting in the 80s they would be fighying 15 rounds and fighting more often but whos to say if that would have a positive/negative effect on them.

Please bradlee, tell us all who in this era is perfect in your honest opinion and has fought every single fighter in their prime whilst taking a paycut and not having a day in where the fight is, the gloves, the weight, everything!

Who exactly is this person that measures up to all these qualities that you have stated.?

Just beware, whatever boxer you say, someone will pick holes because guess what..no one is perfect but with undefeated record that sometimes helps towards assessing the criteria.