Who could have beaten Floyd?

[Primo Carnera]

No.

[g3org3]

No not in his prime even now you would need to favour him against everyone at his weight and he's a old man well past his prime

[imp]

Only himself.

Old age..if he carries on and is crazy enough to go to 52 or 53-0 then he will be caught slipping.

Then perhaps if he was silly enough to fight at 160 (nudging 40 years old) with light welterweight power and no KO since Hatton..he would struggle.

I felt maidana caused him issues in the first fight and that awkward style exposed him a bit.

Pac fight was boring and horrible and I pray there's no repeat..

Roy Jones at a fantasy welterweight division straight after James Tony gives Floyd the fight of his life..make it 15 rounds for the hell of it.

Floyd is the best of this era and needs to be careful when selecting number 50..but it would be nice to see the best at 147 get the fight.

[chef97]

I would have liked to have had a chance to see Kostya Tszyu vs. FMJ at 140 back in 2005 before Tszyu fought Ricky Hatton.... Let the record show that Floyd chose to fight Henry Bruseles instead of Tszyu or Hatton @ 140 back in 2005.....

[palmerq]

James stabler would have definently beaten floyd if floyd was brave enough to take the fight !

[X]

At 140, Aaron Pryor/Floyd Mayweather would have been a fight for the ages.

[Ron Swanson]

I would have liked to have had a chance to see Kostya Tszyu vs. FMJ at 140 back in 2005 before Tszyu fought Ricky Hatton.... Let the record show that Floyd chose to fight Henry Bruseles instead of Tszyu or Hatton @ 140 back in 2005.....

The record shows Floyd had great respect for KT and wanted to fight him. They were contractually bound to different networks though. With very little work you can find footage of Floyd both complimenting KT and saying they needed to fight. But then the Hatton fight happened.

As for who could have beat Floyd, it's boxing, many could have beat Floyd. But who would have beat Floyd, that's a whole different question.

Floyd wasn't the most physically gifted, that's Roy Jones. But Floyd was very very highly physically gifted.

And Floyd wasn't the technically most brilliant but he's up there with the best.

And speed, I personally think Floyds speed is greatly exaggerated. What Floyd had was great spacial awareness. If you know what your opponent will do where you are you are already at an advantage. Look through his history and you will see him get caught when people do awkward things. But Floyds speed was great.

His boxing mind was fantastic. Outside the ring he is a fool but inside the ring he knew everything his opponent would do and every way to take that away and turn it to his advantage. KT for example was far to simple for him. Outside a miracle shot it is a mismatch.

Defense, forget about it. There may be 5 better all time. Only may be.

So what do you do? You change levels like Maidana, making Floyd move before you attack. You apply constant pressure like Castillo did. You jab jab jab to open the weaknesses in his defense. But you do each out of rhythm. If you do anything in rhythm Floyd beats you. Castillo could have fought Floyd 100 more times, he never would have won. Each would be more dominant because Floyd would have had him timed better and better. You have to have no fear of being hit and hit flush. You have to have a good jab. You have to have a good mind. And good stamina. And mix it up. And have good footwork. Naming a fighter from his weight classes in his time that has it all is tough.

Or you just have to catch him flush. Maybe KT was the guy. All I know for certain is with his shit footwork Margarito wasn't the guy.

[X]

At 140, Aaron Pryor/Floyd Mayweather would have been a fight for the ages.

I'm not going to mention anyone else, as they may well also die the very next day