By Keith Idec

The last time Floyd Mayweather Jr. fought at 154 pounds, judge Tom Kaczmarek scored the fight for Oscar De La Hoya.

Mayweather was forced to settle for a split-decision win, despite that he clearly out-boxed De La Hoya in a May 2007 megafight at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the same site where he’ll meet Miguel Cotto on Saturday night (9 p.m. EDT; $59.95 on HBO Pay-Per-View).

And it seems as though there’s at least one disconcerting scorecard submitted at each major fight these days, most recently Luis Rivera’s ridiculous 114-114 score of the Chad Dawson-Bernard Hopkins rematch Saturday night in Atlantic City.

None of this alarms Mayweather (42-0, 26 KOs). The undefeated superstar said he’s not concerned about how his fight against Puerto Rico’s Cotto (37-2, 30 KOs) will be scored by veteran Vegas judges Robert Hoyle, Dave Moretti and Patricia Morse Jarman.

“De La Hoya know he didn’t win,” Mayweather said. “Pacquiao know he didn’t win against Marquez the last time. He know he didn’t win. I didn’t get a chance to see the Brandon Rios fight [against Richard Abril], because I just didn’t get a chance to see it, but I heard it was a bad decision. I don’t know. I’m just saying that I just need to start getting treated fair, I truly believe.”

Interestingly, Moretti scored the third bout between Pacquiao and Marquez for Pacquiao (115-113). Hoyle had it even (114-114). Pacquiao won by majority decision, but the decision was widely considered controversial.

The third judge, Glenn Trowbridge, scored that fight 116-112 for Pacquiao on Nov. 12 in Las Vegas. Trowbridge won’t work the Mayweather-Cotto fight Saturday night, but he has been assigned to judge the co-feature, a 12-round bout between Saul Alvarez (39-0-1, 29 KOs) and Shane Mosley (46-7-1, 39 KOs, 1 NC) for Alvarez’s WBC super welterweight title.

Mayweather, a Las Vegas resident raised in Grand Rapids, Mich., didn’t mention Moretti in discussing Pacquiao-Marquez III or his fight against Cotto. He did, however, make some eyebrow-raising remarks about judging in general.

“You got to realize what I always tell people — this is also a business,” Mayweather, 35, said. “This is also a business. If Pacquiao didn’t get his hand raised, then facing Floyd Mayweather would be down the drain, cause the world billions of dollars, so economic-wise they know what they’re doing. Even like with the Mayweather/De La Hoya fight, we have to make it very, very interesting in saying it’s a split decision. A fighter know when he got his ass kicked.”

Keith Idec covers boxing for The Record and Herald News, of Woodland Park, N.J., and BoxingScene.com.