When Has Mayweather Not Fought the Best Fighter at a Weight Division?

[Code Red]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke4Fne1bRMs

Around the 2:40 mark Shane is asked if he thinks Alvarez and Golovkin will fight. Shane says he doesn't get why they wont fight, maybe its a different era...the Mayweather era where you beat all the small guys first then fight bigger opponents......what the hell is Shane talking about?

When has Floyd ever camped out at a weight class waiting for small guys to move up to challenge him? If I'm not mistaken Floyd was always calling out bigger opponents, challenging them, and telling them he would move up to fight them any time. When has Floyd ever not fought the top fighter at a weight division: He fought Genaro Hernandez the best at 130, Castillo the best at 135, Gatti (who at that time was the best at 140 since Tsyzu retired and Hatton didn't want it). He fought Baldomir and Judah at 147 (The lineal and IBF Champion) He fought Oscar at 154, then went back up for Cotto, and went back up again for Alvarez!!

And even when Floyd was the bigger guy for a change he fought Marquez who was the best at 135 when that fight happened. And though he fought Hatton at 147, Hatton by no means was the smaller man!

And thats not even counting Pacquiao, Diego Corales, or Mosley, fights he just threw in for the hell of it!

I see no way any fighter or person can say that Floyd didn't fight bigger men or that he camped out one weight waiting for smaller guys to move up. Floyd has always been the guy who called other fighters out, the only time I can remember other fighters calling out Floyd was Mosley, Marquez, Hatton and Margarito, the only one he didn't fight was Margarito, the plaster using cheater!! People..fighters even, want to pretend that Floyd just snuck his way to the top....no, what he did was fight all the fights that mattered, all the big and small, and when he got his PPV shot he took the ball and ran with it!

Why people hate on him is ridiculous, the man proved himself in the ring over and over again!

[-PBP-]

Idk what he's talking about. Floyd tried to fight him but he had a toothache.

Dude slurring worse and worse tho. Someone needs to save him from himself.

[Outwest Exp 355]

Just let it go. Both sides are dug in. Your not changing any minds with your argument.

[Code Red]

Idk what he's talking about. Floyd tried to fight him but he had a toothache.

Dude slurring worse and worse tho. Someone needs to save him from himself.

He even tried to fight him before the toothache, when Shane was still at lightweight

[Code Red]

Just let it go. Both sides are dug in. Your not changing any minds with your argument.

I'm not trying to convince that "side" to accept the truth...they prefer fantasy sports in general. I'm just wondering why Shane Mosley, a fighter, is spreading falsehoods. I can recall Hagler camping out a 160 waiting for the smaller men to move up, and Golovkin is doing that right now....but to accuse Floyd of doing that is insane.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Lampley and Roy Jones were saying the fighters Floyd mentioned shouldn't fight him

[Code Red]

Lampley and Roy Jones were saying the fighters Floyd mentioned shouldn't fight him

Truth is right there on film....yet they speak now in retrospect as if Floyd was ducking them, its unbelievable, like the Twilight Zone.

[lopetego]

He's a cherrypicking disgrace whose career is littered with bums who happened to hold a belt at the moment like Baldomir and Ortiz, which he used to duck the real threats of the division, like Margo and Pacquiao.

A clever con man who doesn't hold a single W over a HOF fighter in his prime yet calls himself TBE. He was good in the lower weights but after beating the corpse of DLH he lost his balls and never fought a real challenge again.

Last 10 years of Floyd's career are a joke, fought nothing but tailor made no hopers or big names past their prime, while using all kind of bs shenanigans to give himself more unfair advantage, weight draining them, cheating them on the scales, forcing them to wear pillows, having his own bodyguard referee in the ring, or simply pumping himself full of PEDs with the blessings of corrupt antidoping agencies while making sure his opponents couldnt do the same.

He'll go down in history as a rich coward

[Code Red]

He's a cherrypicking disgrace whose career is littered with bums who happened to hold a belt at the moment like Baldomir and Ortiz, which he used to duck the real threats of the division, like Margo and Pacquiao.

A clever con man who doesn't hold a single W over a HOF fighter in his prime yet calls himself TBE. He was good in the lower weights but after beating the corpse of DLH he lost his balls and never fought a real challenge again.

Last 10 years of Floyd's career are a joke, fought nothing but tailor made no hopers or big names past their prime, while using all kind of bs shenanigans to give himself more unfair advantage, weight draining them, cheating them on the scales, forcing them to wear pillows, having his own bodyguard referee in the ring, or simply pumping himself full of PEDs with the blessings of corrupt antidoping agencies while making sure his opponents couldnt do the same.

He'll go down in history as a rich coward

So Cotto, Mosley, Marquez, Hatton, Alvarez, Pacquiao are all jokes in your opinion, none of them are a real challenge....I think that speaks to just how great Floyd is doesn't it? If these guys pose no challenge then he must be really good hunh?

I want to see what other welterweight can easily beat Cotto, Mosley, Marquez, Hatton, Alvarez, and Pacquiao.

[TheUnbiased]

He's a cherrypicking disgrace whose career is littered with bums who happened to hold a belt at the moment like Baldomir and Ortiz, which he used to duck the real threats of the division, like Margo and Pacquiao.

A clever con man who doesn't hold a single W over a HOF fighter in his prime yet calls himself TBE. He was good in the lower weights but after beating the corpse of DLH he lost his balls and never fought a real challenge again.

Last 10 years of Floyd's career are a joke, fought nothing but tailor made no hopers or big names past their prime, while using all kind of bs she nanigans to give himself more unfair advantage, weight draining them, cheating them on the scales, forcing them to wear pillows, having his own bodyguard referee in the ring, or simply pumping himself full of PEDs with the blessings of corrupt antidoping agencies while making sure his opponents couldnt do the same.

He'll go down in history as a rich coward

He lost to pacquiao