Welterweight Unification?

You'd better hope that Hatton does not win the WBC title then. There's no way he fights Mosley or Cotto.

 

hatton should stay at 140 after mayweather. i dont think he has a chance against Cotto, cintron, margarito, pwil, clottey, mosely, or mayweather, but the fight with mayweather will juse be a nice payday for him. would hate to see hatton become another gatti. i know he is a lot better than gatti, but who knows after repeated beatings?

 

Its funny the same guys that talk about all of these ABC belts are the same screaming for unification. Always entertaining.

 

Anyone else here thinks that a PBF-Williams fight may stylistically follow the pattern of Leonard-Hearns 1?

 

Williams will punch a lot more than Hearns and put less power in his shots. Floyd will not be looking for the KO punch like SRL was. But, in a very, very superficial sense, yeah they might be a bit similar.

 

**** this unification ****. floyd is the undisputed champ in that class. all roads lead to him regardless of what those fraud belts mean. belts are meaningless. All the fighters know they have to beat him to be the man, otherwise, they are just second place. hes not pound for pound for nothing.

 

If we are lucky we get a huge spring showdown with Mosley-Mayweather for the belts(they are my picks)around that time Cintron-Williams will have just unified in February so its possible.

 

If Hatton wins, there's a 100% chance that there's a Hatton-DLH fight for that belt. No doubt about it. That probably prevents 100% unification, although having the Cotto/Mosley winner face Margarito, and then the winner of that faces the Cintron/Williams winner seems to make a lot of sense. However, since there's a 100% chance that Mayweather beats Hatton, all of that is moot. Mayweather fights the Cotto/Mosley winner, then if Mayweather wins there's probably no more unification, but if Cotto/Mosley wins, then there's probably a unification fight with the Williams/Cintron winner.

 

Definitely. I'm not going to complain. I just don't see Mayweather fighting Cintron or Williams, no matter what. They're just too big for him, and he knows it. He'd probably still win, but Mayweather likes to play it safe and fight guys who are good style matchups for him, and neither of them would be. Cintron would be by far the hardest puncher he's ever faced, and Williams would be by far the tallest guy he's ever faced (and probably the highest workrate guy as well). He could probably potshot his way to victory against either, but each one would be too much of a risk for him to take without there being enough money behind it.

 

True - almost as interesting as Hatton-mayweather is what Mayweather does after the fight.