Watch Floyd Mayweather explain why he’s better than Muhammad Ali

SportsGrid grabbed video of Floyd Mayweather explaining to Stephen A. Smith that he’s better than Muhammad Ali. Embrace debate:

Mayweather: No one can ever brainwash me to make me believe that Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad Ali was better than me. No one could ever brainwash me and tell me that. But one thing I will do: I’m going to take my hat off to them and respect those guys because those are the guys. Those are the guys that paved the way for me to be where I’m at today.

Smith: You don’t believe that Muhammad Ali was better than you?

Mayweather: Leon Spinks beat him when he had seven fights. They’d never put a fighter in there with Floyd Mayweather with seven fights. So you gonna tell me that it’s cool and take punishment and let a man tire himself out from beating you? And then he’s basically fatigued, you hit him with a few punches and he go down and quit. And you want to be glorified for that? Absolutely not.

Here is a well-reasoned counterargument: