His stint at welterweight, and junior middle, was better than his stint at junior welterweight. At least he fought the linear champ at 147, a contender one find removed from being the linear champ, the linear champ at 140 moving up, and moved up to fight DLH at 154. At 140, he fought a lower-end top 10 guy, a fringe contender, and a badly overmatched trinket-holder. This content is protected = This content is protected
I don't know where you're getting that from. It has no ratings for 91 and 97' but has Trinidad at welterweight from 1993 through 1999. He left WW after the DLH fight in 1999 and is no longer on the WW ratings. http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine%27s_Annual_Ratings:_Welterweight--1990s
Well the older guys generally do. But the guys newer to the sport don't seem to acknowledge that Mayweather had a long and very successful career. He beat a lot of top guys at 135. The same goes for Mosely, I hate to see the credit not given to these guys for there earlier achievements. People seem to forget what propelled them to the upper echelon of the sport.
Mayweather was only at 135 for a short time, but he beat the consensus top lightweight there. Mayweather's 130 lb reign was more impressive as he's one of the best/greatest at that weight class. Mosley's 135 lb. reign is often overrated IMO. Not that he didn't have the ability, but his opposition wasn't too impressive. His opposition was considerably below that of other recent lightweights, such as Jose Luis Castillo.
I'll give you that. But imagine if these guys had stayed in those divisions a bit longer, they would have cleaned house. Both of those guys would have given any lightweight from any era the fight of there lives.