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What do you think Floyd Mayweather's legacy will be?

He's beat 22 world champions out of 50 fights, he's took the least damage and the most money, he made hall of fame boxers look like amateurs, he is top 10 p4p boxing list, 10-20 years from this date people will realise they were lucky to see a legend like him

SAS won't count this as 50 - 0. But would have counted a loss as 49 - 1. In what world does this make sense?

People say he fought Pacquiao too late, yet Floyd is older than Pacquiao... how does that make sense?

Floyd is the best boxer of my time. Greatest defensive boxer!

Floyd Haters are Sad AF Mayweather is no doubt the Greatest defensive Fighter of all time and has one of the highest Boxing IQ's in history Floyd won multiple titles in different weight classes Always in great shape Never cheated Perfect 50-0 record Has probably the greatest promotion in history I feel honor watching Floyd

Max said it exactly how it is.

Top 5 all time anybody who thinks otherwise is a hater

You say he fought pacquiao out of his prime but he is and was older than pacquiao. These excuses just make me sick

Here's Floyd's legacy. *5 Division World Champion:* Super Featherweight, Lightweight, Junior Welterweight, Welterweight, Super Welterweight *21 Year unbeaten Streak:* 1996-2017 *17 Years he held a world title of some kind:* 1998-2015 *22 World Current or Future World Champions beaten* *14 Current or Future HOFers beaten* *Combined Record of Opposition faced after winning a title in 1998:* 1218 Wins 105 Losses = 86% Win Percentage *Record for longest yearly unbeaten streak by an active boxer of all time:* 21 Years (1996-2017) *50-0* Name another 5 Division Champ that did all that while remaining unbeaten for 21 years... Floyd's legacy is as one of the Greatest of all time as a boxer, and *arguably* the greatest. That's his legacy.

Floyd Mayweather needs a Biopic Movie. 50-0 TBE

He never lost, so that pretty much speaks for itself

Pac fought most of these fighters after floyd ....wth...I dnt get this...and he is older than pac

The only 8 division world champion in history. The only 5 division "Lineal" champion in history. The "Oldest" Welterweight world champion in history. The only elected "Congressman / Senator" and a World Champion in history. 3x Fighter of the Year Fighter of the Decade Defeated 22 World champions (As of July 20, 2019).

I don't take SAS serious anymore.

Anyone who was compared to him he beat convincingly top 3 all time if not the GOAT

Smartest boxer I've seen in a very long time

I'm starting to doubt the friendship of Stephen a and Floyd.

1. Sugar Robinson 2. Ali 3. Joe Louis 4. Mayweather Jr 5. Duran 6. Pep 7. Lennox Lewis 8. Roy Jones Jr 9. Sugar Ray Leonard 10. Connor Mcgregor

Floyd is at minimum top 3 boxers of all time

Pacman is the GOAT, end of conversation.

TBE. The goat. He finessed all the haters to buying his fights😭

50-0

Nobody wanted to fight prime Floyd everyone avoided him. He's beat the most world champions. 5 different weight classes. Never lost. Never been down officially. Changed from an offensive fight to the best defensive fighter mid career. Can throw every kind of shot in the book. Speed accuracy and timing is second to none not to mention his natural reflexes. It's about time ppl give the man the credit he deserves. When it comes to being in that ring there is nobody better. TBE

Floyd is the greatest of all time man.

I'm only 22 so I haven't seen all fighters fight but clearly the best fighter for the past 22 yrs Judah Mosley oscar hatton Marquez corales cotto pacquiao canelo maidana anybody who was put in his path he fought and won and the excuse he never fought fighters in their prime is bullshit stop the hate and appreciate his greatness

One thing about other countries is they support there fighters.

what the fuck is stephen talking about. ive watch every floyd fight to see floyd win.

Stephen a I'm sure you'd give him the L if he lost though.

Huynherful Richardo Lopez is 51-0 who never lost amateur Floyd lost 8 times in his amateur career, Wanheng Menayothin is 53-0 and still going, and Julio Cesar Chavez was 89-0 before his first lost. 50-0 not that special in boxing.

Floyd is wins. Game over. He is the evolving boxer of the boxing industry. The greatest businessman of boxing ever, and a undefeated boxer. Point blank period.

Conor got his ass beat again. No shame in that tho. It's not a fight unless someone gets their ass beat. Conor fought hard. Wasn't good enough tho. Got his ass beat again.

Best fighter of my generation. Skilled in pretty much every facet of boxing. Beat the best fighters in each division and never took a loss. 🐐

Enough with the "carefully selected opponents" nonsense. I'm not the biggest Mayweather fan, but Sugar Ray Leonard said that he wanted the rematch with Duran because he was out of shape. He didn't fight Hagler until the end of his career. Also, Aaron Pryor called him out numerous times and never got the fight. Yet, Sugar Ray is considered one of the best all time. btw, De la hoya waited years before he finally accepted Floyd's challenge. It was good business.

1. Floyd Mayweather 2. Muhammad Ali 3. Sugar Ray Robinson 4. Roy Jones 5. James Toney 6. Haglar, Leanord, Hearns, Holmes. Everyone else can be argued.

One of the best ever. Floyd Mayweather is easily in the GOAT discussion. 50-0 is unreal.

Ray robinson Ali Floyd Roy jones jr Ray leonard My personal top 5

The GOAT PACMAN *8 division world champion! *5x division lineal world champion! *12x world champion! *3x fighter of the year! *1 fighter of the decade! *Oldest welterweight!

Just fucking think about it 50-0 is fucking crazy give credit where is due

Floyd needs to go back and look at all his fights and commentate on what was going on in his mind. I'll buy that series in a hart beat.

My opinion: No one touches Ali as an athlete. Ali is the greatest athlete (in any sport) of all time. Floyd is the most successful athlete (not just boxer) of all time.

50-0! Tell me any boxer in history who ever lived that has that record!!!!?!

Mayweather played his career so smart. He admitted that he knew when to delay and when to pounce. No one in history would remember it, and probably in the future they would not bring it up, but when Pacman was at his prime, Floyd delayed fighting him. He knew when to delay knowing that Pacman's style of speed and power does not age well as compared to his defensive style of boxing. We respect the record, 50-0, but to those who were really observant at that time, on the things that had happened in the past, we can all agree with Floyd in saying that indeed "He was smart" and He knew when to pounce on Pacquiao just at the right time Money wise and Boxing wise. It took him 5 years to fight Pacquiao but no one would remember that, all we would talk about is how he "schooled" pacquiao when they fought.

I got some more respect for mayweather after taking that left uppercut from Mcgregor, maybe it was the gloves, but he took it on the chin and his experience was the ultimate factor. Stay retired though, I don't want to see "TBE" not knock people out.

1. Rocky Marciano. 2. Sugar Ray Leonard 3. Evander Holyfield. 4. Mike Tyson. 5. Ali. 6. Juan manuel marquez 7. GGG. 8. Pacquaio. 9. George Foreman. 10. Ricky Hatton

Floyd has fought the most World Champs in Boxing History, but still people talk shit about him not fighting anyone it's insane man. While Manny was actually the one who was selecting his fights purposely to win them Floyd was fighting Champ after Champ. No doubt he is the best boxer of his generation and top 5 pound for pound no doubt

Stephen A Smith brought up a good point. Floyd stopped knocking out people when he moved up in weight because now he was fighting guys who were his size or bigger. But when Pacquiao moved up weights and stopped knocking out fighters people automatically assumed he was on peds earlier! Wtf! Floyd started his career at super featherweight and jumped up to 4 weight class higher. Now Pacquiao started as a FLYWEIGHT! A Flyweight! And moved up to 8 weight classes and won title in all weight classes. It's like Floyd going upto light heavyweight or cruiserweight and winning titles. How can you expect Pacquiao who is naturally a very small guy to knock out guys at light middleweight and welterweight?! Dude's been fighting bigger guys his entire career.

Can you please stop saying that people hated him because of his materialism? Conor McWhitey does the EXACT SAME THING, and everyone, and by everyone I mean white people, love him. The very same white people who hated Floyd for doing it.

He's the greatest ever

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is top 3 all time, regardless of last Saturday. Floyd is top 3 man, give the man his respect. His way of hitting and not get hit is something nobody had ever seen before and will never be replicated ever again. He played the game of boxing, the sweet science and made it his game to a level that everybody knew regardless whether you liked him or not, you knew he wasn't going to lose.

Not a Floyd fan, but he look at his Papa's and said I don't want to be like that when I am 60 years old. So I understand where he is coming from.

Floyd is top 2 boxers ever and he ain't #2

He might be the smartest athlete ever. sport wise

but he a black man .... so im happy

GOAT never lost made Top ranked boxers look like rookies

I don’t get how they use the cherry-picking argument over Floyd but not Manny Pacquiao when Manny fought the same people Floyd fought but after Floyd fought them

the only knocks people have on mayweather are either he "runs" or something related to his personal life, nobody can flat out deny him being one of the best ever

Max Kellerman won't let go of that bias HBO agenda even when on ESPN smh. Here the guy just downplays Floyd's accomplisments by saying that Floyd just easily turned on a "low risk, high reward button". It wasn't easy for Mayweather to get where he is at. Everyone loves to forget that before Oscar De La Hoya he was a low reward, high risk fighter. For christ sake there's even video of Shane Mosley saying his teeth hurt when asked about fighting Mayweather, even with a lot of fighters ducking him he still managed to build a pretty solid resume with wins over though guys like Chicanito Hernandez, Angel Manfredy, Jose Luis Castillo x2. Diego Corrales, Chop chop Corley, Gatti. Judah etc. Floyd Mayweather Jr was basically begging for a big fight. He let Oscar De La Hoya pick everything for their fight, from ring size to weight and glove size everything was picked by the Golden Boy himself. Floyd still beat him in a great fight. That's when Floyd became the cash cow and all of sudden everyone and their momma wanted to fight him. Now about the Money Mayweather era, you could say he carefully choose his opponents but still, he beat an undefeated Hatton, went toe to toe with Cotto at Junior Middleweight, gave Canelo his first and only loss and basically just made it look easy against elite fighters like Mosley, Marquez, Pacquiao etc...Floyd Mayweather Jr is an ATG and what Max Kellerman says in this video is pure disrespect to a legend. I wish Stephen would of put him on his place

Floyd fought damn near everybody after they came off of big wins

Max knows way more about boxing than SAS

He fought Canelo when he was too young? But Floyd was 21 when he beat Hernandez (who only loss twice to two HoFers) for his first championship.

Floyd is the greatest boxer ever. Perhaps that is what makes him so boring. Fighters just throws calculated punches...Floyd calculated fights. I do hate his style because it was boring but I can't take anything away from a man that is undefeated. He came, he conquer, and he left a champion. He didn't fought anyone, he calculated the defeat of every fighter he met in the boxing arena. He was the world greatest boxer not because power, not because speed, and not because will. He was the greatest because in the heat of battle he was a calm anchor who stuck to the strategy to win. I don't think many can disagree with that.

Max said nothing wrong. Excellent analysis.

Aaaaaand this is why context is important. Max has hated on Floyd for years. That "old" Marquez put Pacquiao to sleep a few years later. Pacquiao couldn't even catch a 40 year old Mosley. Most of you in the comments don't remember the attempted negotiations for any of these fights. You wanted Floyd to lose. He didn't so people get emotional and start making shit up. You can fool these new booties, but I remember all of it. And none of you were around for any of it. You can't act like Floyd was the only one choosing fights. That's how all of boxing has worked since at least the 90s.

Am I only the only one who thinks that Max may be a little too smart for Stephen A’s taste? Unlike Skip, Max makes some very good reasonable points and he delivers his speech very well. Stephen A looks like he’s threatened or uncomfortable with how smart Max is. The reason Stephen A shined was because he used to work with Skip and voice of reason. Now Stephen A is no longer that.

lol fought pacman to late but Canelo to early? lol fucking serious lol even tho b4 he took the Canelo fight everyone was saying he'd be to scared & wont fight a young guy in his prime, but when he beat him easily "oh he was to young" lmaoo Fought Pac to late even tho he's older then Manny. He called out Oscar & Mosley when he was younger but couldn't get the fight because he wasn't a draw at the time lol. Funny I don't hear ppl say that about Pacman who fought Oscar, Hatton, & Mosley after Floyd did aka when they were older lol. Why aint Manny fight Canelo? instead of bums like Brandon rios & Chris Algeri lol.

I think people are harsh on him when they say he was selective. First of all it was probably be logistically impossible to fight everyone at their prime, there's too much crossover in career paths. Take the Manny fight, Floyd is older, his style might have aged better but Manny was still beating good fighters like Bradley and Vargas after the Floyd fight. Cotto was with Top Rank and they wouldn't do business with Floyd then, as soon as Cotto got out of Top Rank, the fight happened. Mosley was ranked no.1 at WW at the time Floyd fought him after Mosley destroyed Margarito, many said Floyd wouldn't fight Mosley but he did and stopped him. Victor Ortiz was coming off a win over an undefeated well regarded Berto at the time and was WBC champ. He got Canelo early, maybe, but it was actually Canelo's team who pursued that fight and even wanted it at 152, yet Floyd gets flack for it. And the list goes on really...those were just ones later in Floyd's career.

IV Infusion He also select place to fight where Judges favor him He loss to Maidana and Castillo

Saying Floyd's last fight didn't count that was in a BOXING ring, is just blasphemous. SAS i'm disappointed in you for that, you're also his friend. I find that kind of disrespectful.

"Don't let the game play you. Play the game."

This man recieves so much hate cuz hes black. Race has everything to do with anything in sports and y'all know it. McGregor said fuck the Mayweathers and he's cocky af and everyone supported him. But if Mayweather did likewise he receives hate and criticism. If Mayweather was white and cocky vs McGregor white and cocky then I guarantee u most Americans would want Mayweather to win. Its sad how he's American and Black so automatically everyone wanted a Ireland man to win. 100% proof of racism

He’s controversial. If you like watching a ring magician who focuses on defense, he’s your guy. If you like watching interesting fights that make you drop your jaw in absolute awe, he and Wlad Klitschko are the last fighters you’d ever wanna watch

Floyd took fights to where he made the most money. I don't think he was ducking anyone. Only argument can be made is for Pacquiao. But other than that, he fought who generated the most money but at the same time he had a great career as well. 50-0, most world titles in boxing history, beat the most world champions, lineal champion in 5 weight classes, top 10 P4P for 16 out of the 19 years he fought and was number 1 7 times. On top of that he dominated over 90% of his fights. Hardly had difficult fights in his career. He is the best of his era and that's all anyone can ask.

Max is right. Ali was hated for a long time.

He's the greatest ever. No one is better

In his prime, Sugar Ray Leonard's record in his first 73 fights was 71-1-1. Willie Pep was 108-1-1 before plane crash. #BoxersGreaterThanFloyd

SAS hates when Max makes better commentary then him.

He fought Pacman too late but Pacman is 3 years younger. Does it make any sense to any of you?

Only bystanders complain of when he fought certain fighters...give him credit...

No one has brought this up, but go back to the part where they are showing may and mcgreg in the dressing rooms....look at the hand wraps on Floyd vs that of Connors. They are literally twice if not 3 times the size of Connors, also look at how his knuckles protrude so far from his actual hand. Then also notice how fast his hand wraps are gone after the fight before the interviews in the ring. I know hand wraps are going to vary according to the corner men, but geez would it vary that badly? Just thought someone woulda picked up on those small details by now.

Never forget Pacquiao turned down a drug test in 2009. Floyd wanted to fight him...

Jordan 6-0 “he’s the goat” Floyd 50-0 “well Mike Tyson Muhammad Ali sugar ray” yeah yeah yeah

top 7 all-time, but never top 3. 1. Sugar ray Robinson, 2 Ali, 3, sugar ray Leonard, 4 manny, 5. Durant, 6. Julio Cesar Chavez, 7. floyd

There's no way the "Biggest Fight of All Time" is just an exhibition

Ali is the greatest boxer ever. Not even up for discussion

"Don't let the game play u, Play the game." In others words SMART CHERRY PICKINGS. Don't climb the tree to get the fruit. Let the fruit go over riped (OLD) and fall to the ground for easy pickings.

Molly from 2020 is a totally different person

1. Floyd 2. Ali 3. Sugar

Prime Sugar Ray Robinson would KO Prime Floyd Mayweather in 4 rounds.

His own legacy was a successfuly convert fighters into a phillyshell businessman

No matter who he fights no matter who he beats there will always be an excuse. Always

he is the ultimate boxing professional inside and outside the ring (minus some controversial lifestyle choices lol) but he is a marketing genius!

Max is the same guy 2009 got in the ring with SugarShane talking hella shit a yr later TBE makes Shane look bad halfway through the fight HBO hate crew was saying oh Shane is over the hill

Max is a great analyst, but how does he not see the bias in his argument. He's saying Canelo was too young, but there's no mention of Floyd's age-Floyd was 36!. If Canelo would have won, would people be saying that Floyd was too old? I doubt it.. Yet when Floyd fights somebody in their 30's they're automatically too old.

In my opinion, Mayweather's Is the greatest of all time. The things he achieved in boxing is nearly impossible to do and no boxer has never came close to do so. And I don't think no boxers will ever achieve what Floyd Achieved, because the game is getting tougher and it takes a lot of disciplines to be like Floyd.

THE GREATEST BOXER OF ALL TIME

He just the greatest defensive fighter thats it top fighters dont duck any fighters

There were so many great fighters guys like rocky Marciano, Ali, joe Louis, Tyson, sugar ray Robinson all can have the title GOAT and now yes Floyd can have the title GOAT we will never know for sure who the greatest ever was but man these come close.

Best defensive fighter of all time

TBE, to never lose at world level we may never see that shit again