I would go with the Corrales fight. That was a classic beatdown. Corrales was undefeated and favored to win. However, I also think his win over Baldomir was very impressive. Baldomir almost handed Zab Judah his head two fights earlier and KO'd Arturo Gatti. Mayweather scored a virtual shutout over a fighter that many (including Larry Merchant before he realized that Floy was shutting him out and started whining about how boring the fight was) thought was too big for Floyd. Two classic performances in fights where Floyd was evenly matched.
Corrales no doubt. You would have thought at the time that it would've been just the beginning but I don't think he was ever able to repeat that kind of a performance.
He did against lesser fighters perhaps but not someone as highly rated as Corrales was when they fought.
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