Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
In hindsight, YES Margarito is a cheating turd, but at the time he was very scary challenge for Mayweather.

Think if FLOYD and not Shane had KO'd Margarito like that....not that it would happen, but I sure as hell would have been impressed. And if he had outboxed someone like Cotto or Paul Williams, that would have been spectacular....much more so than beating Ricky Hatton outside of Hatton's natural weight class.
I agree on all of that except for Hatton being outside of his weight-class. Hatton was further from where he started then Floyd, I think the same thing happens at 140, it was only an issue post-fight brought about by a British media desperate to find excuses for 'our Ricky'. Remember, Mayweather was coming down from LMW & Hatton had already won a belt at the weight, it was not seen as a problem by anybody pre-fight. I don't think Margarito was a scary challenge, but he was a high-risk, low-reward fight especially when compared with the similar risk for facing Oscar, but 5x the payday.