Paul Williams moving back down to welterweight, hoping to get fights against Mayweather and Pacquiao
June 14th, 2010
By William Mackay: Former welterweight and junior middleweight champion Paul Williams is moving back down to the welterweight division to go after the bigger money fights against Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. Williams is back moving down to welterweight because he’s been unable to get the big money fights he had been hoping to get when he moved up in weight.
And he would have been able to put a lot of pressure on Mayweather and Pacquiao to have to fight him if they wanted to be considered the best in the welterweight division. That doesn’t mean that they necessarily would, because Pacquiao chose to fight David Diaz when he was looking for a title at lightweight instead of the two fighters that were considered the best in the division at the time Nate Campbell and Juan Diaz.
And Pacquiao might go after a rematch against WBA junior middleweight in order to snatch an 8th world title. But Cotto isn’t considered the best at junior middleweight; WBC title holder Sergio Martinez is, and he’s not even being mentioned as a possible opponent for Pacquiao. However, Williams would at least have a good chance of fighting Berto. I seriously doubt that Mosley would want to fight Williams, so that fight is probably not going to happen.
On second thought, I’m not so sure that Berto would be eager to fight Williams either. I can see Berto dodging Williams forever without fighting him unless Williams becomes Berto’s mandatory challenger. In that case, Berto would have no choice but to fight him or risk being stripped. I can see that scenario too, because I think Williams would really mess Berto up with his long arms and high punch volume.
The one question that you have to wonder about Williams is how strong he’ll be in moving back down to welterweight. He’s been fighting at 154 and 160 and looking almost skeletal when having to make the 154 limit. If he now has to boil down even lower at 147, it might be the same as it was when Williams was fighting at welterweight previously. He could be weaker and not as effective. But that also could be a good thing because at least he could get fights from some of these guys.
But honestly, I think there’s zero chance of Mayweather or Pacquiao fighting him. Pacquiao is near retirement and is looking to either fight Mayweather for a big money fight or fight either Cotto or Antonio Margarito. Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum probably isn’t going to even consider putting the 5’6” Pacquiao in with the 6’2” Williams for a fight that might not make any more money that Pacquiao’s fight against Joshua Clottey in March.
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Now we’re criticising Williams for seeking bigger fights? When Pac is talking about Cotto II & Margarito??? LMFAO!!! Sound like a bunch of Bob Arum nut lickers. He keeps feeding you punching bags like Clottey & you fools keep buying into it. Get the “champ” Pac in there with a real welterweight who can punch back.
I think Williams camp is making a bad decision, moving him down in weight.
They say it’s for a ‘big money fight’ but I don’t see Pac or Mayweather showing any interest in a guy that holds no title & outside those two where’s the ‘big money’ at welter?
I’m tired of the ‘most avoided’ label. Make a stand in one division, rematch Cintron & Martinez.
paul williams will dominate the small an vunerable pacman .. manny wont get near paul because of his height and reach i would expect paul to dominate on a points victory
Give up Anonymous. Now it’s reached the stage where NONE of what you write is discernable.
whats happend to sister neverbeen richardson bouie fishers bucket boy he was calling mosely the third sugar man more like the first and last s…t man
anonymous. are you serious that cintron faked injury?? yeah cintron was knocking pwills rump in so he decides to fake injury hahahahaha. pwills is the most overated dude in boxing, hes desending down to w.w to avoid cintron and martinez. he gets his butt whipped down there also lol.
duckweather will probably call out christie martin
williams would destroy fraud but duckweather wont fight him williams young and a natural welter
to the fraud lover name one fighter frauds beaten whos a natural welter oscar started at super feather moselys peak was lightweight hatton junior welter judah junior welter gatti superfeather he wud never fight williams hes 2 big thats why you never saw him go for his plastic 5 world title calling out winky wright wait untill he fights an old man who felix sturm beat easy and bernard hopkins kod fraud lovers you go on about the pac fighting shopworn fighters fraud only beats guys who r old or have been beaten not once but a number of times shamba mitchel he was a legendwasnt he
fraud duckweather wont fight williams hes not 15 years past his best and fraud beats up women fact
His strongest weight is definately 154 because he can maintain his speed w/out being drained. At 147 he could possibly get Berto, Mosely, or Clottey…the two big names will never fight him. If Paul takes Berto’s belt and also beats Shane then you may have a mega fight late 2011 w/ Cotto or Martinez at 154.
To all the pbf Haters. Please name how many fighters he fought that were smaller than him besides marquez.
pbf nor pac is ducking williams. All he has to do is fight at 147 first, then people will call him a ww again but its his fault for not fighting at ww so the big dogs have a legitmate reason. He couldve fought abregu,zaveck, collazo or whoever else just to prove he can make the weight, now I know those arent big$ fights but it would of been a good business move.
Poor Williams he deserves big fights — It seems Williams vs Martinez 2 again cuz no one wants to fight.
dude, forget about moving down in weight, he needs to move down in height! Manny and Floyd are not fighting Paul Bunyan Williams, not happening.
Floyd Mayweather Plan A for Pac
What if Paul Williams was Plan B
Pac would be sent into retirement either way.
why cant the pacman take williams for plan B if the fight with mayweather doest happen?,,,,,,
He should fight EVAN CALDERON first b 4 figthing floyd or pacman .lol.
Williams needs to keep Roy Jones in mind… coming back down and being the same fighter physically is not as easy as you think.
All U so called boxing officinato’s wake up from all this dreaming and stupid predictions, Floyd Mayweather pound for pound is the best fighter, boxer in the world. Like Floyd said it’s about the almighty dollar not belts. Pacman, Williams whoever you put up the cash and there will be a fight. Floyd is boxing Pacman is Manny come lately and Williams is just Williams. Mayweather will prevail no matter who America adopts and build up.
Hearns was a welterweight so why is he too big?
Just be honest, If you put your self on Mayweather or Pacquiao’s situation, Why on earth would you spend time fighting a boxer like Paul Williams who is less of a draw with little fan base? (let’s put Clottey aside since Arum pulled the string matching TRank fighters)
If I was Paul Williams, with his height and reach, I would climb to the heavyweights and chase the Klitschko’s and Haye
Paul is just but a good fighter if only because of his height and reach advantage…he throws in volume as well but really nothing spectacular..He simply wants big money and not challenges. Sad to say but he has not proven anything yet went it comes to the level of opposition he had faced..His lose to Quintana though avenged, his split victory over Martinez which could have gone either way and most recently, his poor performance against Cintron speaks volume as the quality of boxer that he is..
Didn’t realize there was a height limit in boxing now. He should fight wherever he wants to. End of story.
He should fight Cotto at junior middleweight
If Paul can make the weight why not. I am sure that if he had a strong backing, guys would fight him not matter what weight he fights at.
Paul going down to welterweight is purely economical. The big money belongs to the welterweights. This is his last chance to get the biggest payday of career, no one in his weight class can give him a big payday only 2 fighters in the world can secure him over a million dollar payday, Floyd Mayweather jr and Manny Pacquiao. And there is a possibility that both fighters may retire right after their supposed fight to happen. Paul Williams is just too tall for the smaller welterweights. He should stay at light middleweight or think of going up to middleweight or super middleweight. To be honest, Paul Williams is kind of over rated. His fight with Cintron wasn’t all that stellar. He isn’t that dominant but what he does have is his obvious height advantage, super long reach, and being a volume puncher. But when he gets tagged, he will back off the pressure.
maywaether vs williams is better than williams vs pacquiao
If Paul can make the weight is not cheating. It could be an advantage for an opponent as Paul would be drained.
There is a risk if you are weight drained.
I dont like it.,But manipulating the weights has become a habit because ofa few pounds difference.He is a skinny Middleweight.like Hearns he is vers lean and has good endurance.
He should move up to middle/super middle weight.
I bet he dont make 147 easily hes a big lad. But whats at Jr Middle? Nothing much really. Out of the 2 Welters the place to be.
If he can make the weight he can fight. I don’t know what everyones debating about. If Klitchko could make 147, he would fight there too, because it’s where all the money is right now. I think fans of Pacquiao and other fighters at 147, are threatened about the idea of their favorite fighter stepping in the ring with Williams. Relax guys, this is all good for boxing. If Williams can just get one of these guys to fight him so that he can get a payday, I think he’ll be satisfied.
Paul Williams has no business at Welter. It’s not even healthy for someone 6’1 to weigh 147. He should fight Clottey. That’s the only fight I see him getting.
williams is learning from fraud about fighting smaller guys marquez whoop whoop
mayweather aint gonna fight williams 1 becaurse hes young and two he aint a woman ha ha ha
kevy kev who does fraud fight kosta tzuas leftovers bernard hopkins left overs and oscars left overs so get your facts right and get a an education
mayweather aint gonna fight williams one hes not old and two hes not a woman ha ha ha
Sorry guys… My retirement is already planned, 41 fights no loss! my idiot fans will always support me and cover me up!
woooohoooo!
Lmao please stop hyping this kid up please…. You guys are goin to get him hurt lol… Shane Mosley would be scared to fight him??? That’s insulting knowing the fact the Mosley called out Paul on inside the ropes radio o yeah and Clottey said Paul was weak at welter and he said he would love to fight him… So lets end this most feared fighter BS now please… He doesn’t even wanna see PBF he got outboxed by Quitana and he doesn’t do well with boxer 6’2 mean nothing if you don’t fight tall… He’s very undisciplined and he poses maybe the worst Defensive in the weight class bar none… You couldn’t miss him with a beach ball in the swimming pool lol… PBF would dominate him with easy lol and Shane would KO his ass faster than he did Margarito… He loves to brawl and he couldn’t handle Shanes power I’d bet that Shane is the most power boxer puncher anywhere near 147…
paul is a coward why bother fighting this small guys when u can move up and fight the bigger guys!. man up!
floyd gets critisized for so called fighting smaller guys but a guy who fights at 160 pounds comes is over 6’2 fights guys who dont even weight 150 stand around weight and its ok.
here we go again the so called most avoided fighter jumping weights again to avoid a re-match with sergio martinez and kermit cintron. williams is the biggest joke in boxing and peterson the biggest bull****er in boxing. would have been funny to see a fight between williams and calzaghe, over 2000 slaps thrown in 1 fight, rabbit punches galore, ali shuffles by the bucket load… can we get joe back from retirement and get this fight done.
fight at your own weight u fool
Guys I know there is no height limit as far as I know in boxing the main problem with P.Williams is marketability .
Williams fights are mostly dull he slaps his opponents a hundred times(weak voluminous punches)then when he gets tag real good he runs away or clinches..that makes the fight super-boring so who will watch those fights except hard core fans therefore translates to high risk low money for the other shorter fighters, he should move to super middle weight where he belongs then his slapping wont work against the likes of Abraham,Dirrel or Ward.He’ll get knocked out which wont be boring anymore.
His 1 defeat came at welter against Quintana, who’s nowhere near as good as Cotto or Berto let alone Pacquiao or Mayweather. IMO If he’s comfortable at 147 then he has every right to be there just like Hearns was and they’re the same size. Since when did a fighters height restrict them to certain divisions, by that logic at 5’11″ Celestino Cabellero, a s-bantum & Amir Khan, a lightwelter should both jump straight into the light-middle division. I’m not a Williams fan but as far as i can see he just wants to face the best available & that cant be bad for boxing considering the amount of ducking that goes on these days
cintron hurt his ass bad, I’ve seen it, paul was staggering bad and looked like he was somewhere else until cintron magically fell out the ring.
i’m tired of hearing that lame senerio about manny trying 2 get an 8th title sounds dumb especialy fighting bum washed up fighters, manny is the joke of boxing ok, and 4 williams, he’s a weak guy. he knew cintron hit his ass pretty good and cintron later fell out of the ring. P.williams is bigger enough 2 stay at his normal weight division which is LMW and MW. I don’t think p. williams will get a fight with mayweather becuz face it, pac wil never step in that ring against williams ok, and what will mayweather gained if he fought williams. And i also don’t think it’s right 4 the promoters 2 keep their fighters safe until he declares he’s ready 4 tougher opponents especially if that guy is smaller then you. I dont care 4 paul he didn’t make a bigger enough of an impact on the boxing world. Certain people know mayweather will destroy pacquiao, so they’ll try 2 make a fight (p.williams vs pbf) which floyd wont prove nothing and manny will prove that he’s the only joker in boxing going 4 his so called 8th title fighting staged fights.
that’s the american way fight only those who has a lot of disadvantage to you dont worry about the critics the american writers will cover you up..ho.ho.
He Needs a rematch with Kermit Cintron
Sorry guys… My retirement is already planned, 41 fights no loss! my idiot fans will always support me and cover me up!
Seriously fight people your own weight. No one is going to fight paul williams because he is fighting much much smaller guys.
Guy is a joke, he’s massive. He shouldnt be anywhere near welterweight.
Guy is a joke, he’s massive. He shouldnt be anywhere near welterweight.