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Seems pretty relevant if you look at the thread title.
I went through The Ring's annual ratings and found out who was P4P ranked when Mayweather was at each division (or within one division up or down):
(Each year is based on the last year's end of year P4P rankings)
1998 - The Ring didn't put out a list for 1997.
1999 - Naseem Hamed was the only one that was even possible, and Mayweather begged to fight him. (#9)
2000 - He could have moved up to fight Stevie Johnston I guess. (#10)
2001 - Naseem Hamed again (#6) or Diego Corrales (#5) which he fought.
2002 - Kostya Tszyu at 140 (#6), but Floyd had just moved up to 135, so jumping again was probably ill advised.
2003 - (#6) Kostya Tszyu again, same old **** dogg, just a different day.
2004 - Floyd moves up to 140, and really the only fighter within any divison (1 up or 1 down from him, or in his division of course) is Kostya Tszyu (#7). He might have been trying to set a fight up, idk, but he was just starting at 140, trying to win eliminators, etc.
2005 - Tszyu (#5), I guess Tszyu was ready to set something up with Hatton, idk.
2006 - Mayweather moves up to welterweight. (#4) Hatton is down at 140, I've heard both parties didn't want this fight, but idk, someone else can argue that. Castillo (#9) is up at 140, but he has already beaten him twice, what's the point? Mayweather is trying to set up a fight with (#10) Zab Judah.
2007 - Basically just Hatton and Castillo (ranked #8 and #9 respectively at the end of 2006).
Say what you will about Mayweather ducking the elites, but it really does seem, now that I have looked into it, that the people that revisionists are saying Mayweather should have fought, got good after he left the division they were in.
I went through The Ring's annual ratings and found out who was P4P ranked when Mayweather was at each division (or within one division up or down):
(Each year is based on the last year's end of year P4P rankings)
1998 - The Ring didn't put out a list for 1997.
1999 - Naseem Hamed was the only one that was even possible, and Mayweather begged to fight him. (#9)
2000 - He could have moved up to fight Stevie Johnston I guess. (#10)
2001 - Naseem Hamed again (#6) or Diego Corrales (#5) which he fought.
2002 - Kostya Tszyu at 140 (#6), but Floyd had just moved up to 135, so jumping again was probably ill advised.
2003 - (#6) Kostya Tszyu again, same old **** dogg, just a different day.
2004 - Floyd moves up to 140, and really the only fighter within any divison (1 up or 1 down from him, or in his division of course) is Kostya Tszyu (#7). He might have been trying to set a fight up, idk, but he was just starting at 140, trying to win eliminators, etc.
2005 - Tszyu (#5), I guess Tszyu was ready to set something up with Hatton, idk.
2006 - Mayweather moves up to welterweight. (#4) Hatton is down at 140, I've heard both parties didn't want this fight, but idk, someone else can argue that. Castillo (#9) is up at 140, but he has already beaten him twice, what's the point? Mayweather is trying to set up a fight with (#10) Zab Judah.
2007 - Basically just Hatton and Castillo (ranked #8 and #9 respectively at the end of 2006).
Say what you will about Mayweather ducking the elites, but it really does seem, now that I have looked into it, that the people that revisionists are saying Mayweather should have fought, got good after he left the division they were in.
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