Where will Mayweather be rated all time greatest wise if he beats Pacquaio?

[Gandalf]

People are constantly asking what if Pac beats Mayweather where will he be rated in the greatest of all time ratings and so on but what about Mayweather where will he be rated?

people will say Manny was too small and that Floyd hasn't fought any big guys cause he's a chicken shit, Floyd could go beat Pacquiao, Mosley, Berto, Williams, Martinez, and Pavlik back to back, and yet they'll find a way not to give him credit

Where you been? People have been saying that for years

As for the rest of that post, Mosley, Berto and Williams should already be on a GREAT fighters resume who has been at 147 the past few years, no?

You know how wrong you are with these silly comments. He has took the easy route for fucking ages and it all goes againsed him when you are talking greatness.

I agree with Kel on this. Floyd has had plenty of time to fight the big WW's and he hasn't stepped it up whatsoever. Mayweather took Hatton outside of his prefered weight class, took Marquez two weights up and refused to make weight himself and now finally he is taking on an opponent who hasn't weighed in properly at 147 pounds yet.

Mayweather has had the opportunities to push for greatness, but I feel he has been treading water in recent years with far too many questionable opponents. Pac on the other hand keeps on raising the bar admirably. I do hope the catchweight thing dies a painful death though.

[Taeth]

I think the thing that seperates a lot of guys on the ATG list from guys like SRR, Pacquiao, Duran, Leonard, Ali is quality of opponents.

IMO guys like Prime RJJ, Mayweather, prime Whitaker, if Benitez actually trained are that good, but they just didn't have the right circumstances surrounding them. Cotto proved he was at least competitive with Mosley, and he was competitive with Pacquiao in many ways.

If people are arguing that Pacquiao is too small then its the most dangerous fighter in the welterweight division thats too small for Mayweather.

When Mayweather beat Marquez I felt that was like Whitaker-Chavez, only much less competitive early, and Mayweather didn't impose himself physically the same way WHitaker did on Chavez. Mayweather was able to move forward more on Marquez than normal, but he didn't fight like the bigger man; he fought like the faster, better man. That's how he will beat Pacquiao as well.