By Mark Vester

In a recent interview with BoxingScene.com's Jose Aguirre, Floyd Mayweather Sr. took a few swings at undefeated junior welterweight Ricky Hatton. Mayweather Sr. feels that his son, Floyd Mayweather Jr., will have an easy time with Hatton when they fight on Dec. 8 in Las Vegas. He even went as far as to say Arturo Gatti, who was dominated by his son, is a better fighter than Hatton.

"My son fighting Ricky Hatton is just like fighting [Arturo Gatti]. I don't even think he's as good as Gatti. I don't think Ricky Hatton is as good as Gatti. And that's going to be the next Gatti fight. It's going to be a fight just like that," Mayweather Sr. said.

During the interview, Mayweather Sr. was pressed for a response to his son's recent and past comments of calling his opposition "C class fighters," and what that statement reflects on his level of opposition, which has recently been called into question by his critics.

"Little Floyd just beat a 154-pounder and little Floyd is nothing more than a 140-pounder. Floyd is a bad man. All fighters say that. You know he's beating the top fighters out. Forget what he said. He's going to call all of them C class fighters. That's what fighters do. When Shane Mosley was pound-for-pound number one, guess who challenged him? It wasn't me. It wasn't this Floyd. You know when Floyd challenged him, he was only 130-pounds. He challenged Shane and he turned it down, he challenged him again and he turned it down," Mayweather Sr. said.

"Right now, he barely weighs [147] and he challenged De La Hoya. Fighters like to break you down to the lowest, get in your head and that's all Floyd is doing. Floyd talks about everyone, says what he wants and beats them like nothing, like you have never seen them beat. It's all part of the game."

When asked for his thoughts on a possible bout between his son and WBA welterweight champion Miguel Cotto, the man to beat at welterweight, Floyd said that his son will beat him in impressive fashion.

"He's the man to beat now. Floyd will do what he has to do, and that's beat him. Beat him rightly," Mayweather Sr. said.

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