Dan Rafael's Welterweight Rankings

[Taeth]

ESPN.com's division-by-division rankings - ESPN

3. Floyd Mayweather (40-0)

The former champ ended a 21-month layoff by whitewashing lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez. All credit to Mayweather's tremendous talent, but it would be nice to see him use it against men his own size.

I can appreciate what Dan is saying here, my only question is why rank Floyd so high if you sincerely believe that? Surely he has full autonomy of his columns, blogs and rankings to write how he personally feels.

Personally I have Floyd ranked #5 for 2 reasons

1) He holds no title

2) All the other guys ahead of him are upper echelon fighters who have a better body of work at Welter

Mosely
Cotto
Berto
Clottey
Mayweather

As welterweight Mayweather beat both the linear lightweight, junior lightweight, and welterweight champion at that 147. He's done way more than Clottey or Berto at WW, and is clearly better than any of the guys up there. I think him being third is just fine.

[Spicoli]

Just cannot rank Berto in the top 5.Too me he looks one tough match up vs.top tier away from a very bad night.