Do you agree with Buncies assessement, Floyd lacking a Frazer/Duran to be TBE?

[ono]

TBE is a rubbish phrase.. TBE my ass..

When we talk about ATG fighters such as Duran, Leonard, and Ali, we can't think of any superfights that they missed out on..especially when the timing was perfect, available and ready..

Floyd blatantly ducked two people in Margarito and Pacquiao. He can be forgiven for Margarito whatever but the fact that he refused to face the best fighter of his generation is a fuckin travesty.

Floyd is all business.. fuck his legacy

100% agree with Bincey. As good as Mayweather is he carefully selects his opponents and has neveer beaten a top fighter in their prime. Judging on the performance what odds is Mayweather to fight a genuine top welter (ie Thurman or Porter) in his next couple of fights? He'll take the easy option, Maidana rematch in September and Khan in May 2015. Hes smart, he knows if he loses his 0 his appeal is gone and there goes his 40mil+ paydays.

The easy option being the fighter (Maidana) who a load of people on here think gave him the toughest fight of his career?

[bradlee180]

Well, boxers know their liabilities better than the public does.
In 2002, Jose Luis Castillo showed everyone the blueprint, and only Maidana has followed it.

Jose Luis Castillo
Marcos Maidana


Paul Williams
Antonio Margarito
Kostya Tszyu
Manny Pacquiao

^These guys don't run out of gas. They just keep comin' and comin' with that fast pace, they're tough and have no problem taking shots as long as they get off a few of their own in the exchanges.


Mayweather's shortcoming is to pressure-fighting; it always has been, and he's always known it better than anyone...

[bradlee180]

ref joe cortez stonewalled Hatton's entire gameplan of pressure-fighting.
I think Mayweather would've won that one anyway even without cortez' help though.

And De La Hoya employed a pressure-style with limited success in their stinker of a match.

[Master]

ref joe cortez stonewalled Hatton's entire gameplan of pressure-fighting.
I think Mayweather would've won that one anyway even without cortez' help though.

And De La Hoya employed a pressure-style with limited success in their stinker of a match.

Hatton did have success but may have gassed out anyway but the ref was a cunt.

Floyds fight with Oscar was not too bad.

[bradlee180]

Y'know, a match between Kostya and Mayweather couldn't have happened anyway as one guy was signed with Showtime and the other was with HBO.

[Max Power]

Y'know, a match between Kostya and Mayweather couldn't have happened anyway as one guy was signed with Showtime and the other was with HBO.

It's been done before.