Has Mayweather ever fought a top10 p4p fighter?

[Wiley Hyena]

Diego Corrales was in ring's top 5 when they fought, right?

How did we get to 5 pages then?

That was according to one list published by Dios, of all people. Who'd of thought that Dios would have been the one to quickly dig thru all his files and find a list to publish?

[Fox McCloud]

That was according to one list published by Dios, of all people. Who'd of thought that Dios would have been the one to quickly dig thru all his files and find a list to publish?

Come now... it was an archive of P4P rankings put out by The Ring, published by boxrec.com. Say what you want about boxrec, but it is hard to **** up reprinting what The Ring already did. (There is a separate section of the site for boxrec's historic ratings)

http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.ph...r_Pound--2000s

1. Shane Mosley
2. Felix Trinidad
3. Roy Jones Jr.
4. Oscar De La Hoya
5. Diego Corrales
6. Naseem Hamed
7. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
8. Lennox Lewis
9. Erik Morales
10. Bernard Hopkins

They fought in 2001, and both were undefeated... I can't imagine much changed in between the end of 2000 and when they fought.

Come on guys, argue all you want about **** that isn't decided yet, but admit when you are wrong about something.

[Wiley Hyena]

Come now... it was an archive of P4P rankings put out by The Ring, published by boxrec.com. Say what you want about boxrec, but it is hard to **** up reprinting what The Ring already did. (There is a separate section of the site for boxrec's historic ratings)

http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.ph...r_Pound--2000s

1. Shane Mosley
2. Felix Trinidad
3. Roy Jones Jr.
4. Oscar De La Hoya
5. Diego Corrales
6. Naseem Hamed
7. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
8. Lennox Lewis
9. Erik Morales
10. Bernard Hopkins

They fought in 2001, and both were undefeated... I can't imagine much changed in between the end of 2000 and when they fought.

Come on guys, argue all you want about **** that isn't decided yet, but admit when you are wrong about something.

I simply noted the list so devotedly published by Dios. The fact that I don't agree with Corrales as being p4p is my opinion. He was still exciting to watch, no doubt. The point is that if Corrales is the only highly regarded p4p that Floyd ever fought, then a valid comment has been made with this thread regarding Floyd's competition. No need to be hostile.

[deuce_drop]

hatton has been an underdog in ONE fight: Tszyu.

He did well. Full props to him. But let's not act like a 40 yr old Cool Vince or 38 yr old Pendleton with 25 losses were supposed to beat hatton.
RH was the favourite to castillo. C'mon.

i wasn't saying all hattons fights, i didn't make myself clear there, i was referring to his big fights, those ones being the ones he was supposed to lose, not all of them, sorry if that seemed a bit bias or ill informed, not the intention. of course hatton has been the favorite in a good majority of his fights, no doubt.

[El Jesus]

Corrales hadn't done anything to deserve a top 5 position, people who are today in the position he was back then aren't even in the top 15, just look at Mikkel Kessler, accomplished ALOT more than Corrales had, yet he's only known for being a Calzaghe opponent.

Maybe a national bias, or maybe boxing has alot more giants today than it did back then.

I really question how long you have been following boxing with a statement like that, if you knew anything about what was going on at the time, everyone thought mayweather would actually be stopped by chico and it was a upset that mayweather beat him down like he did, i actually thought mayweather was going to be KO'ed that fight because i chico was unstoppable at that time, he was like a edwin valero, knocking out people left and right in vicious fashion, man how quickly people forget the past, Chico had fought the best at 130 crushing all opposition until floyd came along.

Your saying people who were in his position x amount of years ago arent even in the top 15, this is just plain ******, the landscape or sports changes, the landscape of life changes, top position in every aspect of life changes all the time, that p4p list was 6 ****ing years ago, 6 years ago, guys who were 31 6 years ago are now 37, thats just rediculous.

Its not national bias or the fact that boxing has more "giants", its just comes down to the fact that your boxing knowledge isnt that expansive and only spans probably the last 2 or 3 years.

[TheBlackWallStreet]

I simply noted the list so devotedly published by Dios. The fact that I don't agree with Corrales as being p4p is my opinion. He was still exciting to watch, no doubt. The point is that if Corrales is the only highly regarded p4p that Floyd ever fought, then a valid comment has been made with this thread regarding Floyd's competition. No need to be hostile.

So you are saying that corrales was not a p4p fighter at the time Floyd fought him plz he had 30 fights 27ko's against good comp that is nothing to sneeze at. Please stop now, Floyd has one of the better resumes in the game to date. No other boxer at Floyds time in boxing at this point has the resume he has period what other fighter does? nobody period. Hatton has been in the same time and his resume aint even close to Floyds. Floyd has taken on the best comp he could have during his time. The only people he didnt take on that he could have was Juan Lazcano and Antonio Margarito that is the only fights you can say he "avoided" other than that you cant say **** about his resume.

EDIT: I take back Margarito as being avoided because Floyd had no obligation to fight him and he took an overall better fight.

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That was according to one list published by Dios, of all people. Who'd of thought that Dios would have been the one to quickly dig thru all his files and find a list to publish?

That list has a link pointing to where it's taken: Boxrec.

Now... do you think that boxrec has a soft spot for Mayweather?

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So you are saying that corrales was not a p4p fighter at the time Floyd fought him plz he had 30 fights 27ko's against good comp that is nothing to sneeze at. Please stop now, Floyd has one of the better resumes in the game to date. No other boxer at Floyds time in boxing at this point has the resume he has period what other fighter does? nobody period. Hatton has been in the same time and his resume aint even close to Floyds. Floyd has taken on the best comp he could have during his time. The only people he didnt take on that he could have was Juan Lazcano and Antonio Margarito that is the only fights you can say he "avoided" other than that you cant say **** about his resume.

Popo and Casa.

And out of all, only Casa i would have been curious to see against Mayweather. He would have won landslides against the other 3.

[TheBlackWallStreet]

Popo and Casa.

And out of all, only Casa i would have been curious to see against Mayweather. He would have won landslides against the other 3.

He didnt avoid either Frietas never wanted the fight Casa didnt want the fight with Floyd till after he got beat by Frietas and Floyd then decided to Move up. He didn't Avoid either man Casa avoided him till he needed him.

edit: Frietas was also with Showtime at the time and that made it hard for Mayweather popo to fight. Floyd was at the Freitas vs Casa fight hoping Casa would win so they could fight but Casa got that L and Floyd Moved up cause Frietas Vs Mayweather wasnt going to happen.

[Fox McCloud]

I simply noted the list so devotedly published by Dios. The fact that I don't agree with Corrales as being p4p is my opinion. He was still exciting to watch, no doubt. The point is that if Corrales is the only highly regarded p4p that Floyd ever fought, then a valid comment has been made with this thread regarding Floyd's competition. No need to be hostile.

Corrales at 130 was a stud... too strong for everyone, and too strong to be hurt by anyone. He hadn't even been on the canvas before he fought Floyd. He was KO'ing everyone he faced... idk, he was a beast at 130.