If Floyd is going to call himself "The Greatest" then he and his fans had best be prepared for Floyd's career to be picked apart and criticized by anybody and everybody. Anybody can SAY they are "The Greatest" but the true greats don't have to say it, they can just say "Look at the resume"....Floyd can't say the latter (for now) and after he beats (if he's able to do that) there will still be fights out there for him and he will HAVE to fight them in order to be considered "The Greatest" by the majority of fans.

Is Floyd skilled as hell? Sure as fuck he is! The only guy I can compare him to (in recent history) is a Prime Roy Jones Jr., that is the guy who could dominate any big name put infront of him with ease....but IMO Roy accomplished more (UNIFICATION at 175) and took more risks with his career than Floyd has with his.

Jose Luis Castillo, Diego Corrales, and Oscar De la Hoya are the biggest risks Floyd has taken. Ricky Hatton would have been a risk had we not seen what he did (or didn't do) vs Collazo...Marquez would have been a risk MAYBE at 135...Baldomir was never a risk, Gatti was on the border, Judah wasn't a risk.

Floyd doesn't have the desire to prove the fans wrong, he only has the desire to make the fans angry and pay to see someone beat him, that is the appeal of Floyd Mayweather right now.

Shane Mosley stepped his game up and fought De la Hoya twice, he fought Vernon Forrest and Winky Wright, he didn't have to but he wanted to prove himself to the fans.

De la Hoya took on Trinidad, Vargas, Hopkins...sure he got a gift vs Sturm but he tried FFS!

Ray Leonard, talk about an asshole, Ray was one cocky motherfucker, but he chased down Duran, Hearns, and Hagler (amongst others) to PROVE he was great it didn't even matter he got beat by Duran or if he got a gift vs Hagler he sought them out to prove himself and by fighting THE BEST he is considered one of the best of all time.

Ray Robinson fought 200 bouts, I don't expect anything like that from Floyd or anyone else, but if you fight 200 times you obviously can't help but fight everyone in and around your weight class...Ray did it and he TOOK CHANCES and sometimes he won and sometimes he lost but he is THE GREATEST.

....Floyd doesn't take risks, he doesn't try and prove himself and he doesn't try and win fans over. If Floyd falls, he's going to fall hard, and the fans will be ready to throw dirt on him as soon as he's down because he has committed one of the worst crimes in boxing...hiding your true skill by not testing yourself, by not taking any chances. Sure it may seem strange that a Klitschko fan has called out someone for not taking chances, but Wlad and Vitali take chances by making the fights, they don't take chances in their strategy and neither does Floyd, I don't ask that he "stand toe to toe" or fight in a manner to put himself at a disadvantage or anything. I think that Floyd has rarely been put under pressure to perform at his best, hopefully one of these days we'll see that. Hopefully some day we'll see someone push Floyd to the breaking point, not so we can see Floyd fail but so we can see who he really is in the ring. Pressure like that can bust pipes or it can create diamonds...no matter what fans may think of Floyd and Floyd's attitude, they all know he's skilled, but they want to see him tested and they want him to prove he's worthy enough to call himself "The Greatest", if he never takes a risk he will never be considered "The Greatest" no matter what he or his fans say about it. Floyd is in the Prime of his career, he may have 3-4 good years left, he can prove a lot in that amount of time, I hope he does, but I doubt he will.