Prime Shane Mosley vs. Miguel Cotto at 147?

Well acb, basically from hearing opinions (which are quite prevalent around here) like that all Mayweather has to do is beat a Cotto and a Williams and he'll be a top 20, in some cases top 10 and some absolutely deluded people say, top 5 all time.

I mean, what have these welterweights (Cotto, Williams and co) actually achieved to be inflating Mayweather's standing like that?

If bouts like Mosley-Cotto don't show exactly where the current crop of welterweights are, historically speaking, then I don't know what will.

Even bouts like Mayweather-DLH (not a welterweight fight of course) should alert people to the level of some of these guys. I mean, you have a 34 year old Oscar pushing Mayweather to the brink. It doesn't take a genius to see what would have happened with a prime DLH, and DLH himself is quite overrated.

 

according to Cotto, he was on the retreat in those last few rounds cause he thought the fight was in the bag, and when i saw the fight live thats what it looked like to me

 

Sweet_scientist, what are your thoughts on a prime Quartey against the current Mayweather?

 

Do you really think Quartey would beat Floyd?

 

i've been watching Cotto vs Mosley the past few days closely and I really don't see where mosley hurt him. and this 'cotto running' thing is kind of overexaggerated because he was moving, not running but still countering effectively.

he also fought toe to toe in the 11th round. it's crazy how that once he starts to move, people assume he must be hurt or something

 

He was clearly hurt in one of the later rounds.

 

Out of all the top welterweights of the late 90's early 00's, Trinidad, Mosley, Whitaker, DLH, Forrest, I think Floyd's best chance of a win comes against Quartey.

Quartey is VERY strong and Floyd will struggle to stand up to him, but he's also quite one dimensional. If Floyd is willing to get in range and outfight Quartey with his superior skills he might pull off the win. It will take guts to do that, because he'll get hit back hard. But if he takes the easy option and runs around looking to potshot with one shot at a time, Quartey will just continue to throw jabs that offset Mayweather and run him out of the ring whilst winning a stinker.

 

Mosley 116-112.