Quote Originally Posted by Silkeyjoe View Post
No he shouldn't have fought Mosely at all. He shouldn't have fought a 39 year old future hall of gamer who hadn't fought in over a year. I'm not saying he's fighting bums, he's fighting very good fighters consistently, which is more then a lot of other champs do but if you compare him against other greats who u put in the top 10 fighters of all time he falls short for me because he lacks wins against elite fighters in their primes.
That's revisionist history, because I can't remember ANYBODY complaining about Floyd fighting Shane in the lead up to the fight. I challenge you to find a boxing columnist or "expert" who said "this fight is a farce, Shane is too old, ect". Hell, I challenge you to find one Saddoboxing poster who said that.

Shane wasn't too old until he got dominated. Before that, people were excited that finally Floyd was fighting someone with a lot of speed and power. But if you can bring up some of your old posts where you were telling everyone the fight was a farce, I'll give you credit.

Very few of Floyd's opponents get criticized or given no chance going it, with notable exceptions going to Zab Judah for coming off a loss, Baldomir, and JMM for being too small (all legit criticism).

Lacks wins against elite fighters in their primes? Well name your top 10 who you believe fought better overall opposition than Floyd.