Quote Originally Posted by Swashbuckling Gordy
Here's an unbiased view .

Pick one HOT FIGHTER from this lot .

Carlos Baldomir . Decent fighter but a beltholder not a champion exposed at the top level . 12 Losses

Zab Judah , well and truly exposed at the top level . Another fight in which the supposed best fighter in the world SHOWED OUT . coming off a loss .

Sharmba Mittchell , simply washed up destroyed in 3 rounds by Kostya Tszyu and had 1 fight at Welterweight. Knocked out before and after the Floyd fight .

Arturo Gatti , good fighter but completely exposed at the top level a fighter described by Mayweather himself as a C CLASS FIGHTER .

Henry Bruseles, a fighter who in his previous fight had drawn with Ener Julio the same Ener Julio who lost to Jawiad Khaliq

DeMarcus Corley , typical Mayweather fighting another fighter coming off a loss, Corley rocks Mayweather badly against the ropes . Corley since destroyed by Cotto and outbored by Junior Witter

Philip N'dou, a fighter knocked out by Anthony Cambell in 3 rounds and who had prepared for Mayweather by fighting Alex Moon.

Victoriano Sosa , a fight in which Mayweather avoided punches by getting on his bike and almost legging it out the ring . Sosa was then destroyed by Cotto in 4 . A fighter who had lost to Paul Spadofora and prepared for Mayweather with a fight against somebody with an 19-19 record managed a draw against an ancient Lamar Murphy

Jose Luis Castillio 1and2 , these 2 fights exposed Mayweather for what he is a fighter who shows out complains alot when things dont go his own way !! Mayweather won the fight by skating round the ring whilst JCC pursed . Unfortunately JCC didnt have the speed of foot to keep up .

Jesus Chavez , good fighter but slow taylor made for him no real power slow feet and easy to hit .

Carlos Hernandez , busy tough and strong but not world class . Slow easy to hit
It's not fair to claim that Mayweather was "rocked badly" by Corley, and then say that Corley "was destroyed by Cotto" without even mentioning that Cotto was badly hurt by Corley and was almost out on his feet.

As for the claims that Mayweather won by "getting on his bike" or "skating around the ring", that's not why he won, he won because he outboxed them. There's nothing in the rule book as far as I know that says that a fighter needs to stand flatfooted in front of his opponent and trade bombs. Fighters with handspeed and footspeed have been winning fights with their movement for decades. Do you think Willie Pep stood in front of his opponents, or do you think he was constantly on the move and getting out of harm's way?
Mayweather clearly beat Castillo in the second fight, he outboxed him and outworked him. Plain and simple.

Also, the point of your post seems to be that Floyd always fights guys who are on a losing streak or who aren't "hot." Yet by coincidence (or not), you stop your list without mentioning the Corrales fight. Corrales was 33-0, was one of the hottest fighters in the sport, was viewed by many experts as Top 10 PFP at the time, and was picked by many experts to KO Floyd.

This doesn't seem like a very unbiased post to me.