Sure, I guessed that! It's like a three stooges sketch though, just because you know it's coming doesn't stop it being funny.
You see, I think people seriously overrate Mayweather now because of how pushed he is in people's faces and of course how skilled he is without really analysing his actual performance level post-130, it's not on the Roy Jones Jr. level here my friends and Floyd's resume is a lot softer compared to some of his contemporaries.
Are you seriously going to tell me that you scored Mayweather/Castillo I 8-4 for Castillo? I think we should deal with facts here instead of creating our own realities. I love Hopkins as a fighter and have no problem with people ranking him ahead of Mayweather. However, to act as though his resume is superior to Mayweather's is ridiculous. Regarding your last point, I wouldn't say MW Trinidad was vastly superior to WW Hatton, but I would give him the slight edge. Furthermore, both Hopkins and Mayweather had stylistic advantages over Trinidad and Hatton. However, Hopkins is started his career at MW and was going against a former WW. Floyd started at 130 and fought a guy coming up from 140 at WW. So I say Hopkins' win over Trinidad was on par with Mayweather's win over Hatton.
And who at jr lightweight was a monster that gave MW such credibility ? Regardless if you feel Hopkins fought bums you cannot discredit that accomplishment and its makes Mw's reign compared to Hopkins look like Buster Douglas's HW title reign !
Come on now Sweet Pea, take a look at his hyper-inflated resume and take into consideration that YOU had Castillo and DLH beating him if I do remember correctly. Most people rate him on being undefeated by way of paper results and of course his skill and popularity. But does he really rate so well H2H post-130 to where he can be ranked top 60, when some of his contemporaries, like James Toney, get shafted on what they did? I think we need to address the resume situation more accurately and really rate the fighters they fought by analysing film. I mean come on, it's Castillo, Corrales, a **** version of DLH, Judah, J. Chavez and a bunch of solid B's essentially that we're talking about here. NO A LEVEL FIGHTERS. The rest fought them and beat them.
Chicanito Hernandez, Corrales, Chavez, and Manfredy are easily better than any 4 of Hopkins' middleweight opponents prior to facing Trinidad. The only B-level fighter out of that bunch would be Glen Johnson.
You definitely do not remember correctly, perhaps you're confusing me with sweet_scientist. Toney was the main problem I had with your rankings. What an overrated fighter. If you consider Mayweather limited at 147, how do you not consider Toney limited period? Mayweather was a better fighter between 130-140 than Toney ever was(especially 130), other than in select fights. Such as Dave Tiberi, Drake Thadzi, etc. True, which is why I'm not one of the ones who rates Mayweather incredibly high, but once again, it was your ranking for Toney that didn't work for me. I rank every fighter you mentioned higher than Toney. Hopkins did? I rate he and Floyd in between 40-50 for reasons based more on skill, consistency, and dominance. A guy like Toney falters because of that, though his top wins outstripe theirs.