re: Best boxer in the last 30 years?

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Floyd made Hatton look bad but its still not a very good win considering Hatton was an average sized 140 moving up to welterweight.

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He moved up one division. They could've made Mayweather fight at 135 and with 20 ounce gloves and it wouldn't have mattered.

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Floyd didn't make Cotto look bad, everyone knew Cotto was well past it just look at the guys he has fought since getting obliterated by Pacquiao.

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You can keep saying Cotto is past his prime till you're blue in the face. It doesn't mean you're right. He's only 31.

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Mosley was a 38 year old who was coming off 16 months of inactivity and has looked like absolute crap in every fight since.

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Mosley should have stopped fighting years ago. I agree with this.

Didn't Pacquiao also fight Mosley? Can you check on that for me?

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De La Hoya was a part time fighter at best who had one meaningless fight in 3 years leading up to fighting Floyd. I don't blame Floyd at all for fighting Oscar its the reason Floyd became a star.

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So that means you must give even less credit to Pacquiao's win over Oscar, yes? Considering it came a year later and Oscar fought Mayweather at 154, but then moved down to fight Pac.

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Same goes for Judah, Baldomir, Ndou, Chop Chop Corley, and every one of Floyd's opponents since Castillo. That is the difference between Floyd's opponents and Roy's. Roy's opponents(Hill, Malinga, Johnson) had great wins/performances before and after they fought Roy.

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I'm not saying they're abject scrubs, but you keep talking about Hill, Malinga, and Johnson like they're goddamn Sugar Ray Robinson, Cassius Clay, and Marvelous Marvin Hagler. Let me assure the fine people of this message board that they are far from it.

Virgil Hill was not that goddamn good and he was the best of the three you mentioned. Not only did he lose to a washed up on-his-third-comeback Tommy Hearns, he was coming off a loss when he fought Jones.

Reggie Johnson lost twice in a row to some fatass I had to look up. This guy:




And your boy Malinga was 44-13, but it's cool 'cause only 41 of those wins came against fellow South Africans.

A first ballot hall of famer I've ever seen one.