Floyd Mayweather is by far the best fighter on the planet but do we maybe make him out to be even better than he is?

Every time a fight with say a Hatton or a Cotto is mentioned you get so many people saying that PBF will "destroy" him, that it will be a Gatti like massacre. Actually it probably won't be.

PBF flat out doesn't do what he did to Gatti to everybody. Was Baldomir destroyed, was Castillo destroyed, was Oscar destroyed, even guys like Sosa weren't destroyed. Judah went the distance, Corley went the distance, it took 8 rounds to finish Bruseles.

Yet you get posts regularly (not really talking just about this thread) in which Hatton and Cotto will be annihalated, tortured for six rounds and stopped brutally in the seventh.

More likely Hatton will be outboxed, it won't be some brutal ass kicking. Look at how Floyd has fought as he's moved up in weight fighting big, strong pressure fighters, for example, Castillo (second fight) and Baldomir. Floyd boxed beautifully but very very conservatively, they were by no means massacres. It could be worse for Hatton because he presses the fight more than those two do, leaving more opportunites to be countered, but at the same time he does a better job of smothering than those two.

It will probably be a UD for Floyd but its not like the fight isn't worth having because its just such a massive mismatch.