remember this is the first time floyd is fighting a "prime" fighter in 4 years

[MajorKong]

No one is pretending. You mentioned the "last time" which was the 2nd fight, obviously no?

I didn't realize u were playing word games.

That's not even good trolling man.

[jrosales13]

That's very true.

Even then though, I don't think that Mayweather-Castillo 1 is the robbery that alot of people make it out to be. It's blatently a close fight IMO.

Not a robbery at all. Close fight that could have gone either way.

I personally scored it for Castillo. But, I wasn't upset not even a tad bit when Floyd Jr was announced the winner. I could see how anyone can think Floyd won that fight. It was close.

It all depends on preference and matter of opinion on scoring the swing rounds.

[ADP02]

So when was the last time Pacquiao fought a prime fighter???? Majority of boxing fans, not *******, believe that it was Miguel Cotto

Ricky Hatton - admitted that he no longer had it
Delahoya - drained and said he no longer has it
Clottey - just a pay day and didn't care to fight back
Margarito - not even ranked
Mosley - the SAME guy that Roach, Arum and Pac fans called old when he fought Mayweather and Mora.

Ummm so is Calzaghe, dude only fought OLD and SHOT fighters!! Never faced anyone that was a threat, and not only that he was FLOORED by both old and shot fighters.

.... not sure why you brought this all up as the TS never mentioned it (Calzaghe and Manny) .... BUT

Floyd also fought these guys:
- Hatton - Who was NOT a career WW but Floyd fought him there.
- DelaHoya - Roach, the guy you quoted above said, Oscar was not able to pull the trigger anymore when he fought Floyd.
- Mosley - Was an OLD inactive fighter when he fought Floyd.

By the way, if you don't think much of Calzaghe because an old guy was able to shake him up a bit, go look at Floyd's last fight with OLD rusty Mosley. That 2nd round, he was rocked pretty good himself.

[jrosales13]

I didn't realize u were playing word games.

That's not even good trolling man.

No one is playing or trolling anything.

You made a statement that was absolutely false, no?

[Luilun]

Ricky Hatton was a C- Level prime fighter at best. I'd say it's about 10 years since he fought a primed fighter wasn't the Castillo bout in 2001 ? A bout many thought he lost and barley sqeeked by in winning the rematch 7 rounds to 5 at best

[bMak]

ortiz is about 2 years from his prime

Please elaborate on and share the data you must have collected to come to this conclusion.

[Luilun]

Not a robbery at all. Close fight that could have gone either way.

I personally scored it for Castillo. But, I wasn't upset not even a tad bit when Floyd Jr was announced the winner. I could see how anyone can think Floyd won that fight. It was close.

It all depends on preference and matter of opinion on scoring the swing rounds.

So Castillo landing more jabs, more power punches by at least 100 punches didn't seem to bother you but if it would have been reveresed and Castillo got the decsion I sure it would have bothered you.

[jrosales13]

So Castillo landing more jabs, more power punches by at least 100 punches didn't seem to bother you but if it would have been reveresed and Castillo got the decsion I sure it would have bothered you.

Well since I personally scored it for Castillo, don't see how that would have bothered me either.

[bojangles1987]

I don't get why people say Ortiz is prime. Maybe he is, but it's just as likely he isn't.

[BattleAxePurist]

Mayweather was calling the shots after the first fight and was an hbo fighter. He didn't have to give a rematch but did it because he knew he lost and wanted to erase doubts.

People should give Castillo credit like Floyd did.

Yeah, he won the rematch, so why wasn't there a trilogy?

the fight was close neither won it decisively it really could of went in favor of either fighter depending on how you saw it so they did it again it was just strange to see floyd actually struggle in a fight so it gave the impression maybe he did lose similiar to Jones-Tarver1

reason there wasn't a third fight bcse the 2nd was so boring and floyd clearly won that and by fighting entirely at distance not allowing castillo to get in close given the strategy of win this fight and look good next bout what was the need for a rematch