For 11 years, he avoided almost all the elite prime fighters in all these weight classes he jumped to.

After the Castillo in 2002, it's all the way to 2007 and Hatton when next he'd fight an elite prime fighter. Then who for the next top prime elite fighter? Victor Ortiz in 2011? Victor with the Heart problem.

So many Great matches could've been made, but then if he fought the very best, he wouldn't be undefeated, not with so many Great talents that was there, and he couldn't accept the possibility of losing so he wouldn't sign for those fights. Not making all those Great matchups and not really rolling the dice is why he's good, but not Great.

Eventually he'll be like Roy Jones, taking loss after loss...