Floyd has hardly made a career out of bullying smaller men, that's quite an absurd comment really. Marquez(who happens to have looked pretty effective at 147 against Manny) is the only opponent he's fought in eons that he had a functional size or weight advantage over. Hatton is in no way a smaller man than Floyd, he is just built differently and probably wasn't quiiite as effective at welter. Big deal. Floyd is the biggest draw in boxing and those guys desperately wanted to move up and fight him. As Iaminuit aptly posted, there is a HUGE different between moving up 5 or 10 pounds when you are starting out shy of 140, than there is going to middleweight having already risen through those weights gradually, over many years!

People want to see Floyd fight Martinez or Canelo etcbecause they are about the only guys who have any kind of chance to beat him, I get that and would like to see the fights as well. The problem is, the ONLY reason those fights are lucrative is because of the size difference, at what point does it become a sideshow? Floyd is getting up there in years, and started his career fighting at 130 pounds. The fact that he is even being accused of ducking guys who are naturally so much bigger speaks for itself.