Quote Originally Posted by Olympian904
Quote Originally Posted by Pacstraightleft
Fraud Gayweather is overrated, overranked, overhyped, and untested.

He's been ducking Miguel Cotto, Shane Mosley, Antonio Margorito, and even his fellow overrated fighter.. Hatton.

Pac meanwhile has been fighting best of the best. He dropped his taller/bigger opponent lately.

I'm not hatin' y'all. Just stating the truth and being objective.

Pac also has prime losses...Solis was a NOBODY!
As for ducking Cotto,Margo,and Hatton...other than Kostyza they have beaten C+ fighters.Instead of whining and trying to say that he has been ducking them...why dont they step up and make him fight then as did Baldomir.
As for Mosley...Floyd chased him for years...now all of a sudden after he takes a couple of losses and needs his name out there for a big fight...he starts calling Floyd out.
To all the Floyd sycophants I have this to say: I don’t hate Floyd but I think someone with his talent and ability, which is enormous, should fight the best available competition. He got by Judah and Baldomir- 2 very good welters. That’s great - but there are more guys to beat in that division before he can be anointed KING. I believe he avoided Margarito consistently and if the TJ Tornado was such an easy fight why didn’t he roll through him for an easy $8M score? He didn’t do that because he knew Margarito was much too risky a proposition that may have cost him his shot at the Golden Boy. Floyd was a great 130 pounder. He fought the best there. He is an all-time great in that division. At 135, I thought he got a gift against Jose Luis Castillo, and I layed the 4-1 on Floyd in that fight, and he won a close nod in the rematch.

He fought 3 fights at 140 and beat Corley, Bruseles and Gatti, respectively. All good fighters, but certainly not the best in that division. He bypassed Kostya Tszyu and Ricky Hatton at 140 so he declined to prove he was the best there. As I said, he’s beaten some very good welters but has not beaten the very best in that division. My issue with him is that claims to be the very best fighter in the world while he actively avoids certain fights, and clearly hasn’t beaten the best in the welterweight division. If he does eventually beat them, I’ll give him that credit and tip my hat to him. I just think his actions contradict his statements. He finally got the fight he wanted for personal and monetary reasons (which is fine) by getting the fight with De la hoya. If he wins, he’ll rationalize that he’s done it all and will most likely retire. I understand he’s done enough to be a Hall of Famer but, except for De la hoya, I don’t think he’s willing to fight guys that can REALLY test him at this point in time. I don’t respect that in a great fighter, simple as that. He should be willing to test himself against all comers based on his statements - but he doesn’t. But all time great fighters want to fight the very best and not bullshit the unsuspecting (and I’m being kind) public. And as I said, he’s an all time great at 130 but he never proved that he was the best at 140 and has yet to prove he reigns supreme at Welterweight. You can’t just say you are the greatest and not fight the best guys. It’s that simple. I don’t think Manny Pacquiao will be ducking anybody which is why he has passed Floyd as the best in the world.

BTW, between Floyd when was at 130 against today’s PacMan? I got the Pacman winning by big KO on that.