The welterweight division is often described as boxing's most exciting weight class. Are Pacquiao and Mayweather to thank for that or are they stopping it being even greater? http://wp.me/p252qb-5N
Yes. I would go further and say the Pac-May beef is hampering other divisions, too. Because, certainly in the lower classes, most of the best fighters belong to either GBP or TR. And with them two not doing business together, a lot of fights can never be made.
Floyd is in a position where he can either stay at 147 and fight the young guns or stay at 154 and fight another young gun Canelo or some other notable names in that division. But apart from Canelo who at 154 could sell PPV? Martinez and that's it.
to answer this question, you have to first look at the division and who occupies the upper crust. first of all, you may be in luck if you in fact believe, they do hamper the division, because floyd may make 154 his permanent home. excluding manny and floyd, the only fights that have taken place between fighters in the top 20, are jones-bailey, bradley-alexander (lww), lopez-ortiz, ortiz-berto, bradley-holt(lww), lopez-vargas, and berto-zaveck, with brook-jones(carson) and bailey-alexander on the horizon. top contenders are spread out over the globe. Maybe you can blame floyd and manny for other contenders choosing to pad their records rather than take on noteworthy opponents, in hope of getting a shot against boxing's biggest cash cows somewhere down the line, but it seems like the americans at least, are fighting each other. then again, at it's uppermost level, americans do dominate the division.
