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Quote Originally Posted by Olympian904
His record is overrated?lol...wow
No matter what you say...Floyd has a quality resume.
Now take a look at the other Welters resumes(excluding Mosley)and you wont find anything other than C+ and D fighters on theirs.
Add Mosely to the mix too. Besides his first win against Oscar(the second fight Oscar won), who else has he beat that is so much better than Floyd's opponents. Winky? Forrest? He lost those fights.
This makes me laugh a little. I'm not sure I get the logic. When it comes to competition I guess the point is, at least he did fight those guys. Certainly, it's always better to fight great fighters and win, but often the competition tells us much more. We get to seem them truly challenged, not just fighting safe manitory fights against mediocore guys. Corrales and Chavez? Please, they're good fighters, but are not the world class p4p challenges of a Wright, De La Hoya, Hopkins or Mosley. Mosley, was willing to put it on the line and get in the ring with the likes of Wright and De La Hoya. Yes, De La Hoya was definitely out of his range with Hopkins (and even Sturm for that matter), but he put it on the line and took the challenges. As a result of these fights we know that Oscar has trouble with bigger, stronger men who can wear him down, punish him and turn him into a small fighter. We know that Mosley has trouble with long guys, good boxers with an effective jab. But if they never took those risks, would they be better fighters in reality, or just have been better at hiding what we have eventually learned about them?

Let's remember, we saw Mosley exposed by Wright at 154. We saw De La Hoya exposed by Hopkins at 160. Hardly these fighter's optimum weights. Still, they went up and tried against the best available. They didn't make excuses, they went out there and made it happen.

I'm going to make a similar argument as the one above and say that the local boy scout troop is a better military force then the French Army before WWII. Why, because they never lost to the Nazis, they must be better.

I believe that there is only one impressive name on Floyd's record, and that's Castillo. Floyd had to take him on since he wanted his belt, but I will give Floyd credit for a good win against a good fighter. Other than that, Corrales included, I think Floyd has always played it safe and done only what was necessary to maintain his title and status. Franky, I was surprised when this fight became a reality. I didn't think Floyd had it in him.

In fact, it made me think very hard about this match-up. I kept thinking that there must be something there or Floyd would have never taken it. Oscar has been inactive. He has looked weak with his last few fights, particulary Sturm and Hopkins. Even though he knocked out Mayorga, a brawling clod, at times he did look rusty and vulnerable. He is getting older. All true. Maybe Floyd just thinks that Oscar is weak and that this is his opportunity. Or, maybe Floyd has finally started believing his own hype and arrogance has gotten the better of him. Either it was a very well perceived opportunity or a total miscalculation.

Whichever it turns out to be, it is a gutsy move by Floyd. There is a lot of risk here. Very soon, we'll know which way history will judge it.