Floyd Mayweather Jr - Four Possible Opponents in 09

[el malo]

I hope you're wrong, that would lose him a lot of respect.

i hope im wrong too but think about it. he retired before and said there's nothing left to prove. why would he continue to fight if he fights a tuneup and then get pacman? he is in his 30's

[El Dominicano]

Asking him to face both Cotto and Shane is too much to ask, trust me and if he faught either one of them, without both having faced eachother, there will be excuses

[Ch@mpBox@PR]

I know but that's not how the rankings work. Who is the #1 ranked WW right now? It's Mosley. Cotto needs to beat him again to be ranked #1.

Floyd will only fight the #1 guy in the division.

I understand that.

How you know that?(Bold part)

[BoriKua305]

When he fought De La Hoya at Jnr Middleweight, DLH was the WBC Jnr Middleweight champion

When the Mayweather-Judah fight was made, Judah was the the lineal and Ring champion. Judah lost his tune-up for that fight, so Mayweather also fought the guy who beat him, who was the lineal and Ring champion when he fought him.

Come on, there are plenty of valid criticisms that can be made of Floyd, there's no need to make up fictitious ones!

how is it untrue? was judah or dlh rated the number one in their divisions? yes or no?

[{}MATADOR{}]

I understand that.

How you know that?(Bold part)

Because Floyd considers himself the best of the best. He's not going to fight the #2 ranked guy. Its obvious.

[Ch@mpBox@PR]

Asking him to face both Cotto and Shane is too much to ask, trust me and if he faught either one of them, without both having faced eachother, there will be excuses

WHy is too much to ask?

What excuse if they dont fight each other before fighting Floyd? thats ridiculous

He should fight both!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[el malo]

Asking him to face both Cotto and Shane is too much to ask, trust me and if he faught either one of them, without both having faced eachother, there will be excuses

he aint facing either one!!! cotto's name wasn't even mentioned, and he turned down mosley already with that 20 mill nonsense. its tune up, pacman, retire.

[Dave Rado]

Come on Dave, lets look at his resume since moving to 147 a little more closely. He fought and old Sharmba Mitchell his first fight at 147. Thats fine, every fighter should test the waters before jumping in the pool. He then fought a talented but inconsistant fighter who just lost his titles to a journeyman. Next he fought the journeyman who had just beaten the talented but inconsistant fighter. After that he moved up to get his huge money fight against a part time but still somewhat tough fighter. After that he came back to 147 to fight a guy who nearly lost the only other time he fought at 147 and admitted it wasn't the right weight for him. Like I said.....he's developed a pattern of not fighting the best since coming to welterweight.

The talented but inconsistent fighter was the lineal champ when the fight was made.

The journeyman was the lineal champ when they fought each other; and he wasn't generally considered to be a journeyman at that time. Some boxing experts said they thought it would be a pick 'em fight.

The part time but still somewhat tough fighter was the WBC Jnr Middleweight champ at that time, and because Floyd was moving up in weight to fight him, it was considered by many to be a very risky fight for him at the time.

The only fight I would criticise in that list is the Hatton one, and even that would have been okay, IMO, if he'd fought Cotto immediately afterwards.

[El Dominicano]

Not only at Ww. he develop that over his entire career, for what ever reason, he didnt fought Freitas nor Casamayor at 130, he dint fought Tszyu nor hatton at 140, and he didnt fought, Cotto, Mosley nor Margarito at 147, and he didnt fought anybody at 154, so him been a SWW champ is bull****!!!!!!!!!!!

He wanted Hatton at 140 and Hatton said he wasn't ready. Tsyzu was so in and out the sport, ducking him was impossible! Freitas got K.T.F.O by Corrales, plus dude was an F'ING quiter. Casamayor, I give you that. Some people had Casamayor beating JLC, I would have loved to see that one. Casamayor is underated and 154? That was a one time thing, DLH. You pretty much jumped it

[JAB5239]

I don't know, as a fan of Mayweather I don't want no excuses. I don't want to hear but Shane was the man at 147 and believe me, we'll be lucky to see Mayweather fight more then twice. So we're better off with Mayweather fighting winner of Shane vs Cotto II

There will always be Mayweather detractors. Hell, Im one of them.
I just don't like the guy. But I can also be reasonable and talk rationally about skill, talent and a fighters place in history whether I like them or not. Floyd will get his rightful place in history by stepping up to the plate sooner rather than later. Personaly I don't think he loses to any of these guys (I give Cotto the best shot) but that doesn't mean he shouldn't fight them. Doesn't mean he should get a pass because he hasn't been fighting them all along either.