Re: Floyds Resume
Originally Posted by
fan johnny
Originally Posted by
piye
I think that Floyd constantly gets discredited for his resume and his accomplishments because he is a bit of a twit; but the reality of it is he has an outstanding resume that easily outmatches that of the majority of his peers! lets have a look.
I count 10 future hall of famers in that resume and other respectable contenders who competes with this resume? lets not look back and discredit legitimate wins because it suits our agenda instead shall we have a objective discussion about the reality of why people discredit his resume.
First I want to say Floyd has a great resume, but people use that statement "Future Hall of Farmers" too loosely! You might want to put some deeper thought into it.
The only fighters I give a real chance is Floyd, Oscar and possibly Hatton because they get the votes in the first year of being eligible. The HOF inductees have been reduced down to three a year and we have politics, politics and more politics. I doubt anyone else has a strong chance. Example: Do you see Naseem Hamead or Thomas Hearns on the list?
1990 - Archie Moore
1990 - Billy Conn
1990 - Bob Foster
1990 - Carlos Monzón
1990 - Carmen Basilio
1990 - Emile Griffith
1990 - Ezzard Charles
1990 - Henry Armstrong
1990 - Jake LaMotta
1990 - Jersey Joe Walcott
1990 - Joe Frazier
1990 - Joe Louis
1990 - José Nápoles
1990 - Kid Gavilán
1990 - Muhammad Ali
1990 - Rocky Marciano
1990 - Sandy Saddler
1990 - Sugar Ray Robinson
1990 - Willie Pep
1990 - Ike Williams
1991 - Beau Jack
1991 - Carlos Ortiz
1991 - Dick Tiger
1991 - Floyd Patterson
1991 - Gene Fullmer
1991 - Marcel Cerdan
1991 - Rocky Graziano
1991 - Rubén Olivares
1991 - Salvador Sánchez
1991 - Sonny Liston
1991 - Tony Zale
1992 - Alexis Argüello
1992 - Billy Graham
1992 - Charley Burley
1992 - Eder Jofre
1992 - Jackie Kid Berg
1992 - Ken Norton
1992 - Max Schmeling
1993 - Flash Elorde
1993 - Harold Johnson
1993 - Joey Giardello
1993 - Marvelous Marvin Hagler
1993 - Fritzie Zivic
1994 - Joey Maxim
1994 - Michael Spinks
1994 - Wilfred Benítez
1994 - Carlos Zárate
1995 - Bob Montgomery
1995 - Fighting Harada
1995 - Pascual Pérez
1995 - Wilfredo Gómez
1996 - Aaron Pryor
1996 - Joe Brown
1996 - Manuel Ortiz
1996 - Nino Benvenuti
1997 - José Torres
1997 - Luis Rodriguez
1997 - Sugar Ray Leonard
1997 - Chalky Wright
1998 - Antonio Cervantes
1998 - Matthew Saad Muhammad
1998 - Miguel Canto
1998 - Sammy Angott
1999 - Eusebio Pedroza
1999 - Jimmy Bivins
1999 - Khaosai Galaxy
1999 - Lew Jenkins
1999 - Vicente Saldivar
2000 - Bobo Olson
2000 - Jeff Chandler
2000 - Jimmy Carter
2000 - Ken Buchanan
2001 - Ismael Laguna
2001 - László Papp
2001 - Randy Turpin
2001 - Sugar Ramos
2001 - Willie Pastrano
2002 - Ingemar Johansson
2002 - Jeff Fenech
2002 - Pipino Cuevas
2002 - Víctor Galíndez
2003 - Curtis Cokes
2003 - Fred Apostoli
2003 - George Foreman
2003 - Mike McCallum
2003 - Nicolino Locche
2004 - Azumah Nelson
2004 - Carlos Palomino
2004 - Dwight Muhammad Qawi
2004 - Daniel Zaragoza
2005 - Barry McGuigan
2005 - Bobby Chacon
2005 - Duilio Loi
2005 - Terry Norris
2006 - Edwin Rosario
2006 - Humberto González
2006 - Michael Carbajal
2007 - Ricardo Lopez
2007 - Roberto Durán
2007 - Pernell Whitaker
2008 - Eddie Perkins
2008 - Larry Holmes
2008 - Holman Williams
2009 - Brian Mitchell
2009 - Lennox Lewis
2009 - Orlando Canizales
2010 - Danny Lopez
2010 - Jung-Koo Chang
2010 - Lloyd Marshall
2011 - Julio César Chávez
2011 - Kostya Tszyu
2011 - Mike Tyson
We could spend a lot of time picking this list apart of fighters that do/do not belong. Floyd will have his place in there for the exceptional job he did all the way up to the De La Hoya fight. Regardless, you could write everything off after that and call it a HOF career.
But, yet again, Miles is correct about earning no kudos for just about anything after his foray into Welter. It's hard to explain why you like boxing when Floyd Mayweather is your posterboy this past decade.
"Floyd needs to inject Xylocaine into his balls to gain the courage to fight Pacquiao."
- and I quote from some random guy on the internet
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