Look at the resumes and win streaks. Heavy weights get all of the attention but are almost never the most skilled boxers. Floyd doesn’t care about one punch ability the same way fans do
@@petitpenoit5981 I disagree. I could say the same thing to you but opposite: don’t stop at the win streaks and stats. Are we talking about greatness in numbers or greatness in talent, greatness in how it impacted the sport, Greatness in pure uniqueness.. Tyson would knock out people in a (still to this day) unseen rapidity within the 1st round. He showed his greatness at barely 18 yo and the things he did and how he did them it’s simply unheard of. Let’s not even start talking about Ali.. the actual greatest ever. For different reasons. I’m a boxer myself and I see and know all the people he mentioned and more, believe me nothing compares to Ali’s movements, just inhumane… Not sure if you’re into soccer but if you are you sure we’ll know that the greatest of history is Maradona but not because of what he won (many other great players won way more) but because of how he did things, because of his unmatched talent. So let’s redefine and distinguish greatest in statistics and greatest in what you actually see and perceive.
Sugar Ray took Ls and lost his marbles, Joe Louis took beat downs and extended his career due to financial issues, Ali took too much punishment - not "smart"
@PogChamp mike is jealousMike used to cry like a batch before his fights lol. Not only that, mike was the reason why his 4 year old daughter died 🤦♂️ he was busy high on coke when his daughter died but he's the same hypocrite who talks about floyd not taking his kids to school?🤨🤔 Mike is way stronger than floyd but floyd is stronger mentally. Mike got used by females and the closest ones to him. Mike is iconic and loved by everyone but he's always emotional and has many regrets. Floyd is hated and is seen as a bad role model but he doesn't do cocaine, drink or even smoke. Floyd was way more disciplined and treated his body like a temple. I used to love Mike and till this day I Do but he has to have a good look at himself before downgrading others.
@@ojtiv your opinion was noted and I will have to personally disagree. I sure if you were asked by tyson who was your top 5 in boxing you'd say tyson.....
@@karenflowers8679 let me just name a few better then mike… joe louis, sugar ray robinson, ali, manny pacquiao, rocky marciano, george foreman, henry armstrong, roy jones jr, mike tyson is top 5 heavyweights but hes knowhere near the best boxer of all time
@@ojtiv you crazy asf, niggas can’t talk about top 5 all time w/o mentioning mike, no matter uu like ‘em or not bro. Youngest heavyweight champ til this day, was 37-0 before his first loss, his first 19 pro fights all by way of k/o, 12 of ‘‘em was first rounders. First heavyweight to hold 3 major belts, legendary career record, avenged Ali, Only him, Ali, Holyfield, Foreman, and Witherspoon, the only mfs in boxing history to get another chip after losing it, I could go on and on, and all of those people on your list are greats, imma make dat clear, but uu must be smoking dick to say whatchu jus said😭
@@ojtiv Tyson isn’t a top 5 heavyweight Ali, Louis, Foreman, Lewis, Holmes, Wladimir Klitschko, Jack Johnson, Sam Langford and Joe Frazier are all significantly better. Tyson might just make top 10.
@theothersideofthestory1594 I'd put Mike Tyson there top 5. Mayweather wouldn't be in it, interviewer was just pandering. If Tyson's trainer didn't die and Mike didnt start using drugs, he had more potential to be top 5.
Well no kidding he couldn't describe it probably but really Larry Holmes was one of fhe greatest boxers and undisputed champion. Sure he made to look like fhe villain when he defeated Ali, but he was never too proud of it either
@@hellomate2405 He was a legendary fighter for sure but Floyd's justification for him being on this list is ridiculous. The real reason is that he deliberately left off name like Ali, Tyson, Robinson, Pacquiao cause he doesn't like those guys.
@@stevedavidson5038 what y’all are forgetting is floyd is mentioning his goats these are people he watched and who thinks are greats and FLOYD IS A SMALLER FIGHTER SO OF COURSE HE WILL REPRESENT SMALLER FIGHTERS SIZE WISE
You say that we’re greater than himself I don’t understand because the records show that No other fighter in the world has fought more champions than Floyd Mayweather. I stand for any correction
@@reillyhopf6508 depending on who you ask, jake Paul might be up there ! Anyways, mayweather just feels inferior to both Ali and Tyson, as he’s been constantly compared. You think he actually thinks Larry Holmes is better than Tyson ? Cause he beat an old Ali ?
@Beline Dawska and doesn’t matter what YOU think when ali and Tyson were actually goats of their time. Floyd purposely left them out because he has quarrel with them…
Dont be so harsh man, he cant read. 50 said if he read one page of harry potter he was gonna donate 750k to any charity he wanted but mf STILL CAN'T READ. Which means he cant read statistics.
@@jerk_berk That's an opinion. Many boxers could be called the "best of their time". No one can truly be the greatest, there's only opinions. Sweet pea, Duran, and Pryor are all really great and also could be called one of the "best" of their time. You have your opinion, Floyd has his. Respect it ya casual
1.) Sugar Ray ROBINSON 2.) Roberto Duran 3.) Marvin Hagler 4.) Emanuel Pacquiao 5.) Muhammad Ali Heavyweight boxing is its own sport and I don’t even consider HW’s bc of this. However, Ali’s impact on the sport and the world IS STILL so monumental, and he fought in the best era of HW boxing, it is impossible not to include him. ALI IS BOXING.
@@601JohnnyRingo of course I respect Floyd’s ability and his achievements. That said, Floyd is not a credible source, as he distorts every view through his narcissistic prism. Floyd is a very insecure guy, threatened by everyone in or around his weight classes as he believes recognizing greatness is a zero sum game. In Floyd’s mind, u can not credit Sugar Ray Robinson or Leonard, bc to do so is to discredit Floyd. Notice EVERY boxing related question/discussion/interview evolves metaphorically into Floyd on the back foot, Philly-shelling, shoulder-rolling, straw-manning his achievements, his matchmaking, his purses. It must be exhausting. That’s the bed he made though. The consequences of his 7 yr 🦆 of Pacquiao is this- never having peace, forever defending.
@@darynjackson816 If Floyd can’t read a page from a Harry Potter book why do we care his opinion on anything ? Even his own craft he’s clearly missing too many brain cells
Your comment only got 4 likes sadly. These casuals only know Ali and Tyson etc. The greats like Aaron Pryor, Salvador Sanchez, Sugar Ray Robinson etc. don't exist in their minds.
@Anon So Tyson and Ali are like the poster guys when it comes to boxing. Tyson shouldn’t be top 5 number 1 because he got beat by great guys. He had a phenomenal prime but out of his prime he wasn’t very good. Ali you can make an argument just because of what he was as a heavyweight with the footwork, hand speed, ect. But he fought longer than he should have. When it comes down to it p4p SRR, Floyd, Henry Armstrong, Roberto Duran, Willie Pep, are all probably better p4p than Tyson and Ali. Hope this helps
@@Landon_J07 no one is good after their prime man, it’s why it’s called their prime, prime Muhammad Ali was a killer as was Tyson, in my own opinion other than those two the best boxers are Lennox Lewis, Tyson Fury and Lomachenko
Larry holmes is overrated, he beat a busted up ali that had his condition, he lost to holyfield, oliver mcall, he lost to mike tyson, he lost to mike spinks 2 times, he beat ken norton when norton was close to 40, he beat ossie ocassio and ossie had 13 losses, he beat leroy jones, but leroy jones had a problem with conditioning, some fights leroy weighed 271 pounds and then 220 pounds
@@Qwertyuiop-bt3ut probally not because hes in a higher weight devision, but if everyone was the same weight then yes he would. personally my top 5 would be (sugar ray, ali, joe louis, rocky marciano, henry armstrong) of course most of these guys would lose to mike because they are in a complete different weight devision but if for example sugar ray was a heavyweight he would completely smoke mike.
Floyd named his top 5 fighters. They are his top 5 fighters. People salty why didn't you have Mike Tyson and Ali in your list. Floyd doesn't have to pander to your narrative, he is TBE>
@Extinguish Idiot's you put this sorry ass laughing emoji acting like 8 losses for a long Career is bad, bro you been losing all your life without even stepping in a ring
Floyd's a idiot that can't even read a book about boxing nevermind understand what made Ali great. He is simple minded and only looks at things in terms of money.
"He had the basic fundamentals.. he had the jab...he had the jab.." "He made a great investment" Translation: "I don't know, but I am not gonna say Mike Tyson and Ali because I am a little bitch"
Floyd Mayweather - Defense Salvador Sanchez - Fighting IQ Rocky Mariano - The Dog In Him Terrance Bud Crawford - Controlled Agression Joe Louis - Them Hands, most vicious overhand right I've seen his left hook was clean too..
@@nirogalactoid8398 True goats??? Skill for skill, they don’t even compare to Floyd. All you got is “resume” to say they’re better. And Tyson fought nothing but bums. And every time he stepped up in competition, he lost. He’s not even in the top 10 of all time. Skill for skill, both of them combined aren’t better than Floyd. Man when y’all watch boxing, do y’all even know what you’re looking at?
@@lilsaff21 you an idiot if you think Ali had less skill than maywether. Sure he got hit much more times than Floyd but his defense was his amazing head movement and foot work no heavyweight will ever move like that ever again. It was how good he was for a 6foot 4 heavyweight which makes him special. Floyd fought GREAT fighters in his divisions he rules in don’t get me wrong but he has questionable wins agaisnt manny and EVERYONE knows he lost to Castillo the first fight IDC if Floyd had a Broken arm the point is he lost.
@@nirogalactoid8398 How am I an idiot? Just like I do everyone else, and everyone still couldn’t answer. Tell me a fight Ali fight southpaw. Tell me a fight Ali showed multiple defensive looks. Tell me a fight where Ali fought off the ropes, fought in the pocket, mid range and distance. I’ll just leave it at those for now. There’s many more. We’ll see who the idiot is. I’ll wait and you’re an idiot if you think I’m talking about fights. We’re talking skill for skill. I’ll wait
to be fair though i dont agree with his list not too many people are going to put a boxer over someone who fought their parents. thats the only one i agree in. if you really put yourself in floyd shoes you may aknowledge them gas being great, but you are most likely not going to give them that much credit if they fought your parents and you were close to them.
Tyson doesn’t genuinely call Ali the goat he just had big respect, he actually thinks fighters should get ranked in fighting and says Achilles is the best😭
because he usually gets overshadowed by those 3 in other people's top 5's so I'm sure knowing him that he's a little bitter about it 😏 and decided to shun them. Don't get me wrong, Larry Holmes was a great fighter and I do think he's a bit underrated, but I just don't think he takes top spot over Ali.
You can see he is dillusional. he's amazing boxer . But he is a hater. It's Crazy . He has got more money than Ali,Mike,sugar,roy, and Chavez. But would not mention them. Keep fighting exhibition fights Floyd. You are the true definition of a true hater.!!!!!!
@BIGGIEB471 probably because the boxing history tells the story, in the golden age of boxing we have the best competition ever seen between Duran, Leonard, Hagler and Hearns all top level champions in their own right. Roberto Hands of Stone Duran was a literally boxing boogeyman and Leonard lost to Duran, did some serious soul searching and came back to embarrass Duran in the second fight to the point he quit out of frustration mid fight while standing with the famous words that would forever change his life "no mas" no more. And despite many people including Leonard feeling like Marvelous Marvin Hagler was the best boxer and most athletic of the bunch Leonard even found a way to defeat Hagler with some creative allowance, like a bigger than normal ring so he could constantly stay on his bike during the fight. Leonard is easily one of the best boxers ever, period. Fast, smart, determined, natural, strong, aggressive, defensive, movement, flexible in strategy, avoided no one, funny, charismatic, the man is in a class of his own to many boxing analysts, and even a special human outside of the ring, since Floyd is using literally using investing prowess to rank top 5 boxers of all time, might as well also talk about a person's character as well, more important of a thing than how well your investments did to be frank. Not including Leonard or Ali in a list like this is a hater move for anyone who puts effort into understanding the history of boxing. Even sweet pea who really is amazing is only considered to be one of the best defensive boxers of all time but not the best even in that style that goes to Floyd, so he literally included one of his runner up in the defensive abilities, keep in mind that there are many styles, for instances Deontay Wilder might very well be one of the top 5 offensive boxers of all time and that might still mean he is no where close to a overall all time top 5 list.
"Larry Holmes, because he has a jab and made smart investments." - Floyd Mayweather Sounding like Shannon Briggs promoting Logan Paul: "He has legs". 😭
Mf is out of his damn mind🤣🤣 everytime i see him, i hear "If you can read one full page of a harry potter book nigga, I'll give 750,000 to any charitable organisation you want" 😂😂 scared little bitch
I agree Ali should be on there. Respectfully, I don't think Tyson belongs though. If you look at Ali's record, you just see great after great he beat. Liston, Frazier, Norton, Foreman, Lyle, Shavers. He beat so many great fighters. Tyson beat an 80 year old Larry Holmes and Razor Ruddock. I think I'd go with this list in no particular order. Muhammad Ali Sugar Ray Robinson Julio Caesar Chavez Roy Jones Jr. Joe Louis
1. Floyd Mayweather (he does the description of boxing the best out of anyone I’ve seen “hit and not get hit) 2. Muhammad Ali (despite being out his prime he still beat the best) 3. Sugar Ray Robinson (fought everyone, beat everyone) 4. Joe Louis (longest heavyweight run) 5. George Benton (pioneered a style that is most successful today 70 years ago)
I love Mayweather... But he smoking that butter on his top five! Ali? Tyson? Sugar Ray? Roy Jones? Holyfield? Lennox Lewis? Ray Robinson? Joe Louis? Rocky Marciano?.... The list goes on!
Tyson is out of the question. If you don't beat the greatest competition of your era, you aren't even in the goat conversation- period. Too many of you guys confuse potential greatness with actual realized greatness. Maybe Tyson is a goat in an alternate universe
@@Buggaibale which Floyd? Pretty boi or buy the judges Floyd? Floyd dad was tough. BUY the judges Floyd get hit. He grabbing your arm and hugging. You look google with Ali you see him walking with Millions of people. Floyd can't walk anywhere alone.
@@gregorsamsa1364 you are smoking crack and I think you need to put your pipe down. If Tyson trains and is ready NOBODY can beat him past , present or future, the only reason Tyson lost 6 times is because he did not train and did not want to fight . Did you know that when he fought Douglas he did not train and never slept for 2 days before the fight , Tyson and Bobby Brown was in Japan in a Hotel room with 12 hookers doing cocaine for 2 days , Tyson left Japan on a plane flew to the fight , had not been to sleep I. 2 days and never trained and still beat Douglas but the ref gave Douglas a long count I counted 12 or 13 sec , Tyson still almost beat him . We all know Douglas is a nothing boxer lost the belt a year later and never fought again . Nobody can beat the 1986 Iron Mike, nobody not even Ali and I love Ali . Tyson is a God , if you take Tyson on his best day against every fighter ever on there best day TYSON would crush everyone hands down . You really have no clue , NOBODY CAN BEAT TYSON IF HE IS READY NOBODY
@@karldetroit3452but he just isn't though. He is the greatest showman, the greatest man, but he went through hell to win fights. There are much greater boxers who went whole careers without anyone getting close to them.
How is Ali the goat lol boxing is the only sport that people cannot tell me who the goat is and explain it lol what did Ali accomplish lol pac man and Floyd over him lol stats don't lie
Facts and lets keep it real for anyone who truly knows boxing know the top 5 is 1. Muhammad Ali 2. Roy Jones Jr 3. Prince Naseem Hamed 4. Mike Tyson 5. Manny
@@GNFPoppa Not everyone will agree with you same way you don't agree with Mayweather because those are the people he personally thinks are goats or whatever you call them.
@Gaming Luchador actualy almost everyone who knows boxing I've seen disagree with everyone on this list. here's a better way to put it. almost everyone who knows boxing has there opinion and most unbiased opinions have mayweather top 5 as the best defensive boxer of all time with a perfect record and the best of his generation.
Ali is what Michael Jackson is to music. Ali endured a lot outside the ring even had his title stripped by the authorities im his country .Came back and picked it up again.
Oh I’m sure floyd boxing skills are really bad because he can’t take his kids to school I’m gonna go tell canelo that taking his children to school makes his boxing skills better
Floyd definitely boxed better than Tyson we all seen what happened when Tyson started facing real comp people forget Tyson had the biggest upset in history and he was on drugs
@@brainpink68 finally someone with some boxing knowledge people just hate floyd because of his personality that shouldn’t be the case why should how you act as a person affect how much people respect your ability that’s why I think Mike Tyson stupid for comparing taking your kids to school to being a good fighter😂
@@brainpink68 Their styles are both genius. But I can argue Tyson was better in his Prime with cus. Cus would've found a hole in Mayweather's style. Especially because the shoulder roll and such is hard to counter the peek-a-boo when used to the degree Tyson did. Mayweather is still my top 10s arguably close to 5's no doubt but he isn't that much better.
@@atari_hmb 😂😂 nigga what? Tyson is 100 pounds heavier I’m sure he would have found a way though but mike Tyson is not a top 5 heavyweight let alone top 5 all time
Bro I know it’s his opinion but same. He leaves out Sugar Ray Robinson???? The man won 40 fights straight lost came back and won over 150 before he lost again.
@@elliot3236 come on son. go get that history. and as I said thats Floyds opinion and im cool with that however Ray Robinson cant be over looked based on record amount of fights and business success during and after his career in that era.. a lot of guys of this day wouldn’t make it in business back then and these boxers today for sure dont fight as often...lol 50 fight career is nothing to Ray Robinson he fought damn near every week
Floyd has no respect for the warrior spirit of the sport. For guys like Robinson and Ali that were willing to die for it. It's something that Mayweather can't understand.
@@Ryan-by8vj the fact that they are willing to die shows that they are not greater than floyd because, when you master the art of boxing like floyd you dont have to be worrying about dying.
@@colt2128 its facts tho you goofy🤣🤣 if you master the art of defence and the art of boxing like no other, you are much safer in the sport and can last longer. Do you forget floyds favourite quote his father told him? " the less you get it hit, the longer you last in the sport" 🤷♂️🤷♂️ floyd took that seriously and dominated the sport for over 20 years and left with all his faculties. But I can't stay the same for some other legendary champions in the past. Also Have you noticed that most of the boxers in the past that we call Warriors, are the same boxers who brawl it out with barely skill?
