Why didn't Floyd ever fight Acelino Freitas

2001

Super featherweight 130 lbs Rankings

1. Floyd Mayweather Jnr
2. Diego Corrales
3. Jong-kwon Baek
4. Robert Garcia
5. Lakva Sim
6. Yong Soo Choi
7. Jesus Chavez
8. Acelino Freitas
9. Derrick Gainer
10. Goyo Vargas

Acelino Freitas was fairly dominant for a while after he beat Casamayor in 2002. A fight against Freitas or Casamayor would have been interesting but not box office.

http://www.boxingnews24.com/2014/09/who-has-mayweather-ducked-really/

Mayweather fought the number 2, 7 and 10 contenders on that list.

 

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Isn't that far off though

 

Freitas was scared.

 

This BF starting to look like a "comic relief show" Floyd was head and shoulder above Acelino comparing both speaks loud about your boxing knowledge.

 

A couple of reasons:

Mayweather was fighting on HBO, while Freitas was contracted to Showtime. Also, Freitas and Casamayor kind of took one another out of the mix by fighting to a lack-lustre decision. Neither fighter performed particularly well, and both failed to put themselves in a position where Floyd had to fight them.

Mayweather-Freitas would have been fun, but I suspect Floyd would have taken a clear decision in a hypothetical match-up.

 

Sure :rofl