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Dispelling the myth that Mayweather fought his opponents at the wrong time. The short sightedness of fans is off the charts. One fan says it and All the boxing analyst run with it.
Genaro hernandez. Only lost to delahoya in the mid 90s before Floyd was factor
Angel Manfreddy. Was a feared boxer at the time and hadn't lost in years before Floyd. Lasted two or 3 rounds
Diego corralles. Undefeated and Floyd was considered the underdog.
Castillo went on to beat corralles and Joel Casamayor afterwards.
Chop chop. This was his first fight at jr welter and he went toe to toe with him Chop chop had two losses at the time and one was to Judah. This is notable since in this fight Larry Merchant and the HBO cast said Gatti and sharmba Mitchell would beat Floyd and Floyd would not fight him. 2004(watch it on YouTube to hear, it was a good fight anyway)
Gatti 2005. Only took one fight before this. But By the time this fight started regardless of what was said and forgotten two fights earlier- Floyds now the favorite. Gatti was still on his win streak since Mickey Ward2003. What changed ?
Sharmba. 2005 Coming of lost to Tzu but still everybody said Floyd Couldn't beat him 3 fights earlier and e had already lost to Tzu back in 2003
Judah was coming off loss to Carlos baldomir. This was floyds first fight at welter. Hardly cherry picking when moving up in weight
Baldomir. Had just beaten Judah and Gatti. Had no recent losses. Only the losses he already had prior to beating Judah
Delahoya. Was partially inactive before Mayweather other than a tuneup. Had been fighting at super welter and middle in his fights before being inactive
Ricky Hatton. Was undefeated and had beat the feared kosta tzu
Shane mosely had just beat the breaks of margarito one fight prior to Mayweather.
Cottos only losses were PAC and margarito at the time
Guerrero only had one loss and back then people on this forum thought he was the second coming. Had no recent losses.
Victor Ortiz had beat berto and Nate cambell prior to the fight
Canelo. Was undefeated. Had beaten cintron and mosely
*** never fought TZU who was done after Hatton in 2005. Two years after Floyd entered the jr Welters
*** never fought margarito at 147 who was proven to be a cheater later
*** never fought Vernon Forrest, Quintana, Paul Williams
*** mosely, Trinidad, and Vargas were in the welterweights when Floyd fought corralles at featherweight/lightweight
The only the knock on Floyd is that he didn't fight PAC at the time when PAC destroyed Cotto. But in 2009 Pac was afraid of needles. He faced most of his biggest opponents within 2 fights of people calling them out for him. The real issue is that Floyd had a 13 year prime while most fighters primes only last 5 years.
People just be rattling off names. Here's a realistic list of top guys in his weight classes -- you can go head and pick out who would have beat Floyd. Or how his resume would of been so much stronger. Lol
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Super featherweight -2001
Acelino Freitas, Joel Casamayor, Robert Garcia, Steve Forbes, Jong Kwon Baek, Takanori Hatakeyama, Lavka Sim and Jorge Barrios.
Lightweight 2002-2003
Paul Spadafora, Leonard Dorin, Stevie Johnston, Artur Grigorian, Raul Balbi, Juan Lazcano and Javier Jauregui
Light Welterweight 2004-2005
Kostya Tszyu, Miguel Cotto, Ricky Hatton, Vivian Harris, Carlos Maussa, and Junior Witter
Welterweight 2006
Antonio Margarito, Kermit Cintron and Luis Collazo
Light Middleweight 2007
Cory Spinks, Vernon Forrest, Joachim Alcine, Serhiy Dzinziruk
Welterweight 2007
Paul Williams
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Genaro hernandez. Only lost to delahoya in the mid 90s before Floyd was factor
Angel Manfreddy. Was a feared boxer at the time and hadn't lost in years before Floyd. Lasted two or 3 rounds
Diego corralles. Undefeated and Floyd was considered the underdog.
Castillo went on to beat corralles and Joel Casamayor afterwards.
Chop chop. This was his first fight at jr welter and he went toe to toe with him Chop chop had two losses at the time and one was to Judah. This is notable since in this fight Larry Merchant and the HBO cast said Gatti and sharmba Mitchell would beat Floyd and Floyd would not fight him. 2004(watch it on YouTube to hear, it was a good fight anyway)
Gatti 2005. Only took one fight before this. But By the time this fight started regardless of what was said and forgotten two fights earlier- Floyds now the favorite. Gatti was still on his win streak since Mickey Ward2003. What changed ?
Sharmba. 2005 Coming of lost to Tzu but still everybody said Floyd Couldn't beat him 3 fights earlier and e had already lost to Tzu back in 2003
Judah was coming off loss to Carlos baldomir. This was floyds first fight at welter. Hardly cherry picking when moving up in weight
Baldomir. Had just beaten Judah and Gatti. Had no recent losses. Only the losses he already had prior to beating Judah
Delahoya. Was partially inactive before Mayweather other than a tuneup. Had been fighting at super welter and middle in his fights before being inactive
Ricky Hatton. Was undefeated and had beat the feared kosta tzu
Shane mosely had just beat the breaks of margarito one fight prior to Mayweather.
Cottos only losses were PAC and margarito at the time
Guerrero only had one loss and back then people on this forum thought he was the second coming. Had no recent losses.
Victor Ortiz had beat berto and Nate cambell prior to the fight
Canelo. Was undefeated. Had beaten cintron and mosely
*** never fought TZU who was done after Hatton in 2005. Two years after Floyd entered the jr Welters
*** never fought margarito at 147 who was proven to be a cheater later
*** never fought Vernon Forrest, Quintana, Paul Williams
*** mosely, Trinidad, and Vargas were in the welterweights when Floyd fought corralles at featherweight/lightweight
The only the knock on Floyd is that he didn't fight PAC at the time when PAC destroyed Cotto. But in 2009 Pac was afraid of needles. He faced most of his biggest opponents within 2 fights of people calling them out for him. The real issue is that Floyd had a 13 year prime while most fighters primes only last 5 years.
People just be rattling off names. Here's a realistic list of top guys in his weight classes -- you can go head and pick out who would have beat Floyd. Or how his resume would of been so much stronger. Lol
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Super featherweight -2001
Acelino Freitas, Joel Casamayor, Robert Garcia, Steve Forbes, Jong Kwon Baek, Takanori Hatakeyama, Lavka Sim and Jorge Barrios.
Lightweight 2002-2003
Paul Spadafora, Leonard Dorin, Stevie Johnston, Artur Grigorian, Raul Balbi, Juan Lazcano and Javier Jauregui
Light Welterweight 2004-2005
Kostya Tszyu, Miguel Cotto, Ricky Hatton, Vivian Harris, Carlos Maussa, and Junior Witter
Welterweight 2006
Antonio Margarito, Kermit Cintron and Luis Collazo
Light Middleweight 2007
Cory Spinks, Vernon Forrest, Joachim Alcine, Serhiy Dzinziruk
Welterweight 2007
Paul Williams
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