Ok, If Floyd dominates Cotto, Williams, and Mosley the way he did Hatton tonight...........................?

Question

And retires undefeated, do we call him the greatest boxer ever?


Give this some serious thought.

Answer 1

there is talk of mayweather retiring now-and who gave him the fight that retired him win or lose it was an englishman-ricky hatton. mayweather is a great fighter-but his time is gone-hatton will be back. ok so he won-but mayweather knew he had a hard fight with ricky. he wouldn't want to repeat that again quote "ricky is a tremendous fighter i would love to see him fight again" note that it wasn't "i would love to fight him again"-give THAT some serious thought. and only one person has the right to be called "the greatest" and that is cassius clay.

Answer 2

Ok Tony C and GSH, let's put it like this, how about you guys go step in the ring, go and dominate 5 different weight classes, win 6 world championships, defend the sixth one against an aggressive and hungry English fighter and then we can come talk.

Just because Mayweather might not choose to fight Cotto, Williams or Mosley does that make him less of a fighter? You act as if Mosley has never dodged anyone in his career(if I'm wrong about that please correct me),also take into consideration that the WBC title in any division seems like the main title, why should he have to go chase someone for titles(WBA,IBF,WBO) that give a boxer little recognition if any at all? Look at the weight class the man started fighting from...the 130 pound weight class. And he's won everytime(fine maybe 2 gift decisions) but how many people can say that?

Yes he might not be The Greatest like Ali, or Ray Robinson/Leonard or Joe Louis, but in our era if anyone apart from Roy Jones is around he is The Greatest of our ERA. Are you the guys paying his paychecks? He doesn't have to prove anything against those guys. He's already done what probably millions of aspiring boxers would love to do. For someone who's pretty much been around boxing his whole life, to go and put on a show when even his OWN COUNTRYMEN were against him(save the disrespect of the National Anthem, probably the whole country was against him); all the critics were saying "Oh he runs too much, NO OFFENSE",to knock someone out like he did in the tenth round shows how much of a special fighter he is.

He might not be the G.O.A.T but in our ERA he is one if not the G.O.A.T, admit that much.

Answer 3

Floyd didn't dominate - in some of the rounds Hatton destabilised Mayweather

and no, the cocky american (suprisingly!) will never be a legend, he'll just be a reknowned fighter