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Floyd Mayweather 140 and above.

Gatti - Shot after wars with Ward, a prime Oscar battered him anyway, everyone with a brain knew he would be outboxed.

Mitchell - Kostya battered him twice in and out of his prime, took Floyd twice as long to get an even older version out of there

Zab Judah - Put in his place by world class guys. Tszyu knocked him out in two rounds when in his absolute prime and Cotto took him to bits, he quit againsed Clottey. Even the late, great Baldomir managed to beat him, which is when Floyd decided to fight himTook Floyd the distance....

Baldomir - Should I fucking bother really?

Oscar - Past it and was losing as much as winning (ideal) Floyd hardly won in an impressive fashion either, Forbes gave him a harder fight for fucks sake.

Ricky Hatton - Never looked good at Welter and the Collazo took a lot out of him, the fight showed how beatable he was as many thought he lost the fight againsed Collazo. Floyd decides to fight him two fights later.



Now what? Tell me what is wrong with ANY of that.

I bet you say the media gave them all a chance (like they are supposed to do) or talk about betting odds or some crap. What else can you do or say? Can't wait to find out
I'd just like to say its a mystery to me, when people say Arturo Gatti was shot to pieces. Infact people were saying he never looked better, with his new and improved boxing skills. And he was coming off some very good wins against, Micky Ward 2x, Leonard Dorin, Jesse James Leija, Giancula Branco.

And i think its reaching to try and say Steve Forbes, gave ODLH a tougher fight. He won 3 rounds at max.
It was evident that he struggled badly to make 140 limit. During the Weigh in he looked like a Zombie. Cheek bones protruding like tumours.
He had blew up quite a bit from weight-in to fight night. Looked quite 'Watery'... Never a good sign.

Hence why he moved up in his next fight. (He was a WW a few years beofer but was clearly struggling with the power there)

Weird that. 140 to 147 seems to be the biggest p4p increase

But back to the point, in hindsight Leija was finished as was Dorin, Ward obviously felt he didn't have anything left to give so Gatti utilising boxing abilities against those goes isn't much.