Quote Originally Posted by slk123
I'll use myself as an example here:

When it comes to Floyd Mayweather (for those in the know, I've never capitalized his name and will continue not to henceforth). I love debating over him because all I have to say is that he doesn't impress me. This starts all kinds of crap and it makes me smile.

Never capitalizing his name and saying things about him automatically gets me labeled a "hater". Somewhere in there will be the "you know nothing" post and again, smiles all the way. I've never had to say he was garbage, just....his resume isn't that good. Oh my god I've just torn up a picture of the Pope on national TV, I've just slammed down a PR flag, I've just called the top p4p garbage how could I be so blind. The answer is, I'm not. I'm not blind, I'm not a hater, I AM however a non-believer. I don't believe he has proved what many other fighters (some even better than him) have proved. Guts.

No one, but NO ONE has ever asked or attacked what I feel his skill level is. There is the automatic assumption that I feel he has no skill. It couldn't be further from the truth. I've studied his career and I'm not impressed. I have never sat on the edge of my seat and thought "I can't believe he took this fight, this is gonna be tough". This is the same position I come at him in every post.

All of this doesn't mean I look at him as a bum. In fact, I think he is very gifted. I just want the same feeling out of him that I have received from every other fighter in this sport, including fighters like Ali, Lennox Lewis and Antonio Tarver who I also don't like. They all took those kinds of fights sometimes they won sometimes they didn't.

I do my homework before posting when necessary but sometimes you just got to accept that it's someone's opinion on the very same topic but it's different from yours.

Sometimes the facts are interpreted differently. Not wrong necessarily, just differently. Sometimes, whether we like it or not, disrespecting a particular fighter is part of the antagonism that goes along with part of the debate. I actually find it more offensive when someone disrespects another person on this forum.

Good topic DAXX and my apologies to everyone for the long winded post, it's just stuff that's been on my mind lately.
Not another Mayweather rant change the record.