Now that World Boxing Council welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (39-0, 25 KOs) has gotten by the business of beating to consecutive easy gimme fights, I think it’s high time that he start facing real challenges in his career rather than the same easy set up fights that we’ve been used to seeing from him for most of his career. One fighter out of all the welterweights jumps out at you when one thinks of the welterweight division, and that’s undefeated World Boxing Organization champion Paul Williams (33-0, 24 KOs), who is arguably the best fighter in not only the welterweight division but in all of boxing.
This is the one fighter that Mayweather seems to never mention when discussing opponents that he’d like to face at some point in the future. It seems especially odd, considering the ease with which the 6’1″ Williams has been dominating his opposition in his career. With impressive wins over Antonio Margarito and Sharmba Mitchell, Williams looks to had the talent to dominate the welterweight division for a long time to come, regardless of whether he ever gets a shot at Mayweather or not. At this point, there’s no fighter out there that would seem to have a shot at knocking him off his thrown – not Kermit Cintron, Margarito, or Miguel Cotto, who Mayweather has mentioned as a possible opponent in the future.
However, it seems strange that Mayweather would choose to avoid Williams when all the facts seem clear that Williams is the best in the division. For me, it seems as if Mayweather is out right afraid of facing him, knowing perhaps that he couldn’t deal with Williams huge reach advantage or his high volume punch output, which generates 1000 punches per 12-round fight.
To avoid facing Williams, while at the same time saying that there’s no real challenges in the welterweight division for him, makes Mayweather seem rather disingenuous to the extreme. Though there are more than a few punch drunk fans of his that may believe what he says, but for people who actually know boxing, they realize that he’s just plain afraid of the challenge of facing Williams.
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