Mayweather vs Gatti made Floyd what he is today

LMAO gatti came off one of the most brutal trilogies in boxing history and a couple more beatings like the de la hoya fight. He was shot to ****. **** Alfonso Gomez destroyed him as bad just 2 fights later. Gatti was arguably on the best run of his whole career when Floyd took him out and was probably the most serious about the sport during that time frame. Alphonso Gomez destroyed the version of Gatti that got busted by Floyd then Baldomir, tough to compare those situations.

LMAO gatti came off one of the most brutal trilogies in boxing history and a couple more beatings like the de la hoya fight. He was shot to ****. **** Alfonso Gomez destroyed him as bad just 2 fights later.

just saw horus fished this thread out from 2009....*sigh*

He didn't just beat the crap out of him he completely blew him out of the water. Much like he did to unbeaten Corrales. he blew him out the water because it was a mismatch. even floyd mayweather said that gatti didn't deserve to be in the ring with him, mayweather saying gatti was at best a C- fighter......... and yes, the chico fight was more of a beating in my eyes because chico was undefeated and considered a real threat to floyd because of his punching power and aggression, chico was just taylor made for floyds style, chico had no defense against a style like floyds, he needed guys to stand and trade, not move and pot shot, which got chico dropped like 5 times in that fight, walking right into left hooks...... chico's biggest nemesis , left hooks......... but gatti and mitchell should've never have been on floyds resume at the times they were, talk about cherry picking........ years before, no controversy.

the f*ck are u talking about? floyd was top 10 p4p before he even moved to junior welterweight u retard

He beat him to badly, it pretty much made him move on from the class which had some decent fights for him. Really why would anyone want to get in the ring with that man right after that fight in that class, especially when they would not be making huge money (good money at that point but not like now). This is what always got me about Floyd ducking people, it is not like people were exactly rushing to face him before he got big time (he was fairly big at the time but not big enough to take the risk).

He didn't just beat the crap out of him he completely blew him out of the water. Much like he did to unbeaten Corrales.

i always wondered why people discredit floyd's win over gatti back in june 2005. that night on the 25th of june floyd's name was catapulted after the way he performed. at that time, many people really didn't know who he was. i'm willing to bet that many people on this forum didn't know who he was until after that fight. i have followed his career since he was an amateur, me being a former fighter myself and would study his style a lot when i was fighting because his style reminded me of how my dad trained me, so i knew of him very well, but the thing that got me about that fight, is that although he had huge victories over fighters like hernandez and coralles and castillo, he wasn't really known that much until after the gatti fight. gatti was at that time known as a blood and gut warrior and of course mayweather played the villian role very good, and with a fight of that magnitude, the press conference and build up to it only enhanced the anticipation. my point being, people can say gatti was a bum, floyd said it himself, but let's ne honest, floyd thinks everybody is a bum who fights him. that's part of his confidence and ego of course, but after that fight, and other circumstances like b hops loss to taylor, floyd became p4p number 1 in ring magazine. so, that fight really solidified his name as the best fighter in the sport and until he retired, he stayed number 1. i don't get how that fight couldn't be looked highly upon, seeing how at this very moment, today, floyd's name is the biggest name in boxing, period. everybody wants to fight him, or at least claim they want to, but would rather have their team and promoters talk for them. pacman, hatton, shane, cotto, margarito, wiliams, i'm sure you could throw in fighters like jmm, maybe vernon forrest, i mean a who's who of names are saying his name. majority of this forum, whether his fans or detractors, post and make countless threads about him in some fashion, whether they are talking about him or another fighter. the post and thread could be about pam anderson's ass and why tommy lee hasn't penetrated it yet, and many people on here would place floyd's name in the equation as if it's his fault for it not happening, claiming well maybe if floyd stops ducking ww, tommy would find the time to hit that ass up or something to that degree. it befuttles me a lot of time. so again, i say, that the gatti/mayweather confrontation and fight made floyd what he is today as far as mainstream appeal, because besides the fact that he has the most pronounced skills the sport has seen in decades, possibly ever, the fact that he played the villian in that fight and made people want to see him lose and then went in there and dominated the living **** out of arturo, increases the total significance of that fight. there's always a foundation on which something great is built, and his skillset, ability to play the bad guy and that fight got him to where he is today. so somebody has to give credit where rightful credit is due and i have no issues being that somebody, face it folks--gatti/mayweather was bigger and greater than you think... :boxing: Threads like these never get any love. Good ****