The "How to beat Floyd Mayweather" thread...

[THE THIRD MAN]

It will take a smart guy to beat him. Mayweather hasn't fought to many guys that are ring smart- the obvious exception being Marquez and the size differential there was huge. He fights a lot of guys that are good at throwing punches, but not so good at figuring out how to hit a guy that doesn't want to get hit, and knows how to avoid it. Another thing, smart fighters don't get hit with a lot of right hands (because you can see them coming forever) but dummies eat them like popcorn; James Toney had a real good run exploiting this same tactic, even as a weeble of a blown up MW.
"Knowing how to fight" is not a prerequisite of becoming a professional fighter; in fact, it is very very rare in this era of boxing. Mayweather controls the distance every time he fights and a guy that knows how to fight would contest that with him. It may not lead to an exciting fight, but that it the beginning of the way to beat him.

Floyd is brilliant in the ring but not only that he's brilliant at implementing his game plan. He can adjust and change his game during a fight like nobody else. Either someone will have to get lucky or just simply outmuscle him and over power him and again I don't see him losing to anyone. Even if there was a prime pressure fighter it would be very difficult for such a fighter to beat Floyd. Floyd is too crafty to be outboxed and too quick and too in shape to wilt under the pressure from another fighter. Floyd could fight 30 rounds if he had too, amazing talent.

The only time he was in any serious trouble was when Mosley hit him in round 2, Floyd immediately adjusted the game plan and made sure that didn't happen again and he never lost another round.
Mayweather is a very smart fighter, he has made the old saying "hit and not be hit" his own. He is the best defensive fighter i have ever seen, Canelo had no answer to him and that was plainly evident as early as round 3, the only person in the world who didn't was CJ Ross...I don't know how you can beat Floyd Mayweather jr.

[X]

Floyd is a magical fighter, and his beaten opponents look like a who's who of two generations of fighters.

I wonder whether someone like Aaron Pryor could have pressured him so much that his technique began to disintegrate, I wonder what would have happened if a young, fast, vicious Terry Norris tagged him or if a long armed intelligent boxer/puncher like Arguello was in front of him.

Ray Leonard v Floyd Mayweather at welterweight would have been fantastic.

The two people he might have struggled with would be Roberto Duran at 140lb, or Tommy Hearns at 147. The fact I'm even mentioning Mayweather in the same breath as some of these names shows how highly I rate him, and always have as a boxer

[KickMuck]

There is only one person that can beat Floyed and that is me.

[THE THIRD MAN]

[FinitoElDinamita]

Vernon Forrest could have beaten him.. If Rigo was the same size, he would beat Floyd.