I just have no idea how anyone could justify not having Floyd #1. Floyd worked his way to becoming the highest grossing star boxing has ever seen, he's been fighting for 18 years undefeated (16 of those years as a champion and at a championship level) and at an age where historically most guys are retired or washed up, he's fighting and winning on the highest level.

At some point, and this point may be years or even decades down the road, boxing fans are going to have to acknowledge Floyd as one of the very top greatest fighters of all time, maybe even the #1.

There's only so much verbal gymnastics people can do to whitewash his accomplishments, sooner or later you have to give the devil his due. He's an asshole, a thug, and will never go down as the most exciting/action packed fighter in history, but his talent and genius in the ring eclipses pretty much every boxer who ever lived.

You just can't compare him to a guy who we've seen KTFO a several stages of his career, a guy we've seen outboxed and cleanly beaten. Pac is an ATG warrior, great action fighter, but legacy-wise he falls short of Mayweather in the end.