Andre Ward is better than Mayweather
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You are not a boxing man. McGregor was stopped prematurely as @Bandage correctly pointed out. He would have knocked out Mayweather, the ref’s have been protecting Mayweather for years
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McGregor had some power in those punches all the same:
Both of them were huge winners ffs, they were both giddy afterwards at the thought of their final take, could I get to 300m for Mayweather and 100m for McGregor.
Em… Floyd was trying to back himself to win in the tenth hours beforehand
It is a minor outrage – and not one worth bothering a lot about – that Mayweather should stand above Marciano as an unbeaten and retired champion. Rocky did his work in the Sugar Ray era, against many fine heavyweights; Mayweather, too, has beaten a lot of excellent opponents; McGregor, for all his bravery in a strange sport, was not one of them.
A proper boxing match will take place in three weeks. What Mayweather-McGregor did was distract briefly from what should be the fight of the year when Gennady Golovkin and Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez go to the same T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas to decide who can be regarded as the best middleweight in the world.
Mayweather gave Álvarez a boxing lesson across the road at the MGM Grand four years ago, the Mexican’s only setback in a career that began when he was 16, about the age young McGregor had abandoned the gloves to earn a living as a plumber.
As Mayweather’s career wound down, he should have crowned it with a fight against Golovkin, the wondrous Kazak who seemed unbeatable until he flirted with defeat in his 37th bout, against Daniel Jacobs at Madison Square Garden in March. But he denied us that fight. Instead it was McGregor.
Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather the only ones enriched by this fight
cc @Nembo_Kid
Mayweather has just retired at the age of 40. His legacy will have him as an undefeated champion of 50-0-0 and a world champion at five different weight divisions.
History will have Mayweather down as one of the greatest boxers to ever grace the sport and rightly so.
Golovkin really should have had the balls to jump up the weights by now but is pretty happy clearing out a rather average weight division. Canelo has barely fought at 160. There are plenty of decent figthers at 168 but Golovkin hasn’t had the balls to move up.
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Yes that was noted in the piece I quoted above. You missed the substantive point though. Ah well.
Top 30 at best. Not a single victory over a prime hall of famer. No one without that could ever even be considered for top 20.
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Toddle along you crank.
50-0, world champion at five different weight divisions. He beat the best he could have faced in his career with consummate ease. You’d have to be a holocaust denier to question his greatness.
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Top 30 is great. But he’s no better than that. The names beat were old men for the most part. Made him lots of money. But the great fights and great wins aren’t there.
Look at what Ray Leonard did in 22 months between 1979 and 1982. Four fights against prime ATGs and four other fighters with them. More than Floyd did in 20 years.
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Has Sugar Ray Leonard a perfect record?
No.
Has Floyd Mayweather?
Yes.
Mayweather has beaten anybody who was worth beating in his career, he did it with ease. He will quite rightly be regard as one of the greatest boxers to ever grace the sport, whether you like it or not.
Odd that you have such a hard on of hate for Mayweather but continually big up Golovkin for cleaning out an average weight division and refusing to move up.
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FM has beaten 22 world champions.
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Deny conjecture is it?
A 40-year old Mayweather beating McGregor at the top his game trumps anything Sugar Ray Leonard achieved.
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You haven’t a fucking notion.
I know you haven’t.
Make believe top 30 rankings are your forte.
Go along and champion Golovkin, the one weight trash division knock out merchant.