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Wilfredo Benitez
Tommy Hearns
Marvin Hagler
Roberto Duran
Yeah but come on Ice most people think he lost to three of them
SRL was a great fighter, but he was never as dominant as Mayweather is now. He never systematically destroyed any one of those guys like he did Mosley tonight. Yeah the second fight he embarrassed Duran, but that was after Duran already beat him. Tommy Hearns was ahead on the cards against SRL, and had that been a 12 round fight, he may have lost to Hearns. In their second fight, it was a draw, but SRL got knocked down twice against Hearns and most people thought Hearns won.

SRL did beat Hagler in a 12 round decision, and it was impressive, but it wasn't as dominant as Floyd looked tonight against Mosley.

It's a great comparison, and both are all-time greats for difference reasons.

What really does put Mayweather ahead of all these fighters is that he's undefeated. Mayweather is undefeated. These other all-time greats were not undefeated. Yeah Mayweather picks his opponents, but Mayweather has fought some of the best guys of this era, like Corrales, DLH, etc.

You gotta put Mayweather up there.

I don't know if Mayweather could beat guys like Williams or Foreman at 154 the way he beat a 38 year old Shane Mosley. PBF is a hall of famer, an all-time great. There's no way around it.

Is he beatable? Sure he is, as Shane showed tonight in the 2nd, but it would take something we haven't seen thus far against him. And you can't just do it one time.

Fighting Mayweather is kind of like facing Mike Tyson in Mike Tyson's Punch Out on the original Nintendo. One jab, hook combo by PBF may not knock you out, but it could deplete half your energy, like it did tonight to Shane in the 3rd and 4th rounds.