Oh yeah, and Victoriana Sosa, N'Dou, Corley, and Bruseles were so far MORE deserving of shots against Floyd in other weight classes too, huh?
And blown-up NATURAL super-lightweights like Mitchell, Judah, and Hatton are also all far MORE deserving of a shot at the Welterweight title than those other 5 guys too, huh?
Cotto, Margarito, Mosely, Williams, and Cintron are LEGITIMATE 147 pounders.
Don't tell me Mosely's a blown-up lightweight; he left that class because he outgrew it being 18 pounds over the limit his last fight and Mosely couldn't do it anymore. Mosely SKIPPED 140 entirely that time, and went right to 147 where he belongs.
Cotto was killing himself to make 140, and he's much stronger and more resilient at 147 where he belongs.
When Floyd has hand-picked several opponents who were truly UNDESERVING, how can you say 3 of these current TOP 5 Welterweight fighters DON'T deserve a shot at him, Kabuki?
You're usually more on the mark, Kabuki, but I'm calling you on this one.
Explain how between Cotto, Margarito, Mosely, Williams, and Cintron, that 3 of them DON'T deserve a shot at Floyd.
1) Stick to ONE Weight Class. Are we talking about what's going on at Welterweight RIGHT THIS SECOND? Or are we talking about what went on at JLW, LW, and JWW? I'm talking about Welterweight, right this second.
2) Floyd himself is a blown up Junior Lightweight, that's where he started at. So it doesn't matter that anyone else is blown up.
3) Mosley is by definition, NOT a natural Welterweight. Stop selectively using the weight argument. Guys who started out smaller were/are smaller. Shane outgrew the LW class, but he HAD to. Cintron, Williams, and Tony never were that small, that's natural.
4) You don't understand how lineal Championships and Contenders work do you?
When you lose to another top ranked Contender, you lose your shot. That's why I called the fight between Judah and Floyd a fluke when it happened. It was a fluke, and that it was for the IBF strap made it a disgrace. Baldomir was the man, he kicked Zab's ass. Floyd doing the same thing was just a publicity stunt. But Floyd did go on to take the rightful Title from the rightful Champ and re-unify the division before moving up for the DLH fight.
In the meanwhile Shane turned down his chance to fight Floyd for the unified WW Title, so fuck Shane. To top it off he goes on and loses to Cotto. So double-fuck Shane. Tony loses to Williams, and thus makes his claims of Floyd being afraid of him look silly (I scored the fight for Tony, but that doesn't matter). Sure he roared back in killing Johnson, but who the Hell is Johnson?
Kermit has struggled with Estrada after getting killed by Tony, and sure be blasted out Matthyse, but who the Hell was he? Kermit has the least amount of claim to fight Floyd. If he beats Williams in their unification bout, he's got some ground. Then Tony should get a shot at the winner of that considering Paul is carrying around the belt that WAS his, and it was a dubious decision in the eyes of many.
So with Shane (lost), Tony (lost), and Cintron (lost) out of the way, none with significant wins over top 5 ranked opposition aside from Tony dusting Cintron, that leaves only Williams and Cotto.
Cotto has a rightful shot. He's still undefeated, and he beat Shane, the guy Floyd threw an offer at in late 2006 I believe. Williams has a reasonable claim as he beat Tony, the guy Floyd turned down $8 million to fight, but that's his MOST significant win and considering Tony isn't a name, it's not THAT significant.
Pretty cut-and-dry. Believe me dude I don't like it, but that's the truth of the matter. Cotto and Williams have claims, the rest can and should go fuck themselves, or at least beat the shit out of one of the others.
