My point exactly. All due respect dude but you are being a hypocrite... How is it cool and meaningful for Pac to fight the SAME GUYS, AFTER PBF BEAT THEM, and they were meaningless fights for Floyd but relevant for Pac. Shit, why isn't there an outcry for Pac to clean up the division? It doesn't make sense what you are saying. Even though Pac is my favorite fighter at this point, he has fought his share of bums, he moves up and takes the easiest challenge in David Diaz, but he is revered for his win, he fights Oscar and Hatton AFTER Floyd beat them, but he is cool. And, he made Cotto meet him at a catch weight, instead of fighting him at the limit!?!??! But that's cool. If Floyd did those things, we would have 50 threads calling him names and shit! How can a fight be relevant for one fighter and not the other, and BOTH fighters are in the debate for PFP best right now? Help me understand that Dude?
Easy.
Hatton: It was more meaningful for Pac to beat Hatton because he beat Hatton at his BEST WEIGHT where Hatton was champ and he obliterated him there. There's no way you can compare that to Mayweather making Hatton fight him at 147 where Hatton almost got his world rocked by Luis Collazo of all people and subsequently swore he would never go back to 147 because it wasn't the right weight class for him.
De La Hoya It was meaningful for both but for different reasons. However, I was very disappointed with Mayweather's performance. Compare what a young Mosley did to a young DLH with what a young Mayweather did with an old DLH. I thought it was a very crappy performance for someone that is supposedly so skilled.
Also, you pick out Jorge Solis off of boxrec and that's supposed to prove some kind of point. You can pick an unknown boxer off of anybody's resume.
Welterweight is anything over 140 and up to 147. Anything between there can be contractually played with and is still considered welterweight. This is done all the time. Sometimes on ESPN, they'll say "the fight is scheduled for the lightweight division give or take a pound" or something like that. Cotto weighed the same as he had for previous welterweight fights against Pac. That wasn't even an issue.