Why wasn't Floyd's win over JMM impressive?

[Rantcatrat]

Because it appeared he was beating up a smaller guy when his other contemporaries were available to fight, like Paul Williams, Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito at 147, and Vernon Forrest and Sergio Martinez at 154.

First, it'll always rub people the wrong way when Floyd contracted to fight him at 145 and then didn't cut down to 145 for the fight.

Second, this was Marquez's first foray above 135. In fact, he had only two fights at 135 before the Floyd fight. Prior to facing Floyd, he faced Juan Diaz at 135. He hadn't even fought at 140 yet. So, Floyd made him jump up two divisions to face the p4p best fighter in the world, who then refused to lose the last two pounds per the contract.

Third, after he fought Floyd, he returned to 135. He then had two fights at 135 before moving back up (Kastidis and Diaz). Clearly, he hadn't grown into welterweight yet, let alone junior welterweight, and still felt more comfortable at 135 than at 147.

Fourth, he had struggled with Juan Diaz at 135 in his previous fight. A guy who struggled with Juan Diaz at lightweight was not going to cause Floyd any problems at 147, especially when Floyd didn't make the contracted weight.

Basically, no one gave Marquez a shot at dethroning Floyd because he he had jumped up two weight divisions to face him, had never fought at 147 before, had struggled in his last fight, and Floyd didn't even bother to make the contracted weight for the fight.

I hope that explains why the win wasn't very impressive.

With that said, even with the circumstances in which Floyd faced him, it's still impressive to totally shut Marquez down.