Quote Originally Posted by SweetPea
Quote Originally Posted by The Rookie Fan
I was not expecting two fighters who mostly made their marks at the lower weight classes, one of which has only two fights as a Welterweight against two B fighters at best, make the top two.
I disagree with this though. The biggest wins of Whitaker's career came at 147. His fight against Chavez and his two wins against McGirt were more impressive than anything he did at lightweight. And when he lost at 147, it wasn't because of the weight class, it was because he was old. He would've clearly beaten Oscar and Tito at 147 in his prime.

We'll be saying a similar thing about Mayweather soon too. Say for the sake of argument that he beats Hatton and then beats the winner of Cotto/Mosley. If that were to happen, the most important wins of Floyd's career would be at 147-154.
I agree to a point. Mainly what I meant is that their skills and boxing ability was better showcased at the lower weightclasses. Shurley Mosley was better as a lightweight but his biggest wins also came at 147-154.

I'm just not sure that 147lb Whitaker would have ever beat an elite WW. Chavez was also coming up and McGirt was not exactly elite. Yes I know, most (not me) think he beat DLH while past his prime but if I am not mistaken this was DLH's first fight as a WW and I'm not so shure he would beat 99 DLH or a 99 Tito or a 2000 Mosley. I could be wrong though.

As for Mayweather, as I said before, he still has time to make his mark at 147. That is why I said, at this time he is slightly overrated as a WW. Lets just wait and see.