Floyd mayweather where do you rank him all time?

[jimmyinkedup]

I think he was amazingly gifted. Ultimately it was squandered.

A perfect example of what might have been. Shame.....

[Times Roman]

A perfect example of what might have been. Shame.....

as I look back, I think boxers initially underestimated him due to his short stature (5'11") and the funny way he talked. And with the incredible amount of force he couuld deliver with his fists, he caught everyone by surprise. Once Cus D'Amato died, it changed Mike. He needed to be handled a certain kind of way, as only Cus couuld. But his death, and the feud with Teddy Atlas (rumor has it that Teddy threatened Mike when Teddy suspected "issues" between Mike and Teddy's daughter - I don't know what it is, Teddy refuses to say), slowly drove Mike's performance down hill.

Mike had an achilles heal. It was his ability to easily get frustrated when others would clench him, a common boxing tactic, albeit a chicken sh1t one if you ask me. So when boxers figured this out, and it was only a matter of time, it became his own undoing. Could Cus have calmed him down enough to overcome this? Maybe, but we'll never know. Mike's career really has two elements. And it can be divided up based on when other boxers figured out his achilles heal. Before that, Mike was spectatacular. But after that, it was all down hill.

Mike can never be considered one of the greatest due to such a flaw. "What might have been" is really another way of saying....

"If only the other boxers never found his Achilles heal".