By Chris Williams: A very open Floyd Mayweather Jr. (41-0, 25 KO’s) openly admits that he suffered from some ring rustiness when he started training camp recently to get prepared for a September 17th fight against World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Victor Ortiz (29-2-2, 22 KO’s). Mayweather hasn’t fought since beating Shane Mosley by a 12 round decision last May.

It’s understandable then that the 34-year-old Mayweather would have a little rust. After all, he’s only fought three times in the past four years. Normal fighters who make a lot less money than Mayweather generally would be expected to fight 12 to 16 times in the same amount of time. That’s one of the advantages of being Mayweather. He gets so much money each time out that he doesn’t need to fight as often as other fighters. Mayweather doesn’t have to give his promoter a huge cut that some other fighters do, because Mayweather is clever.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Mayweather said “When I first got to the gym, I admit I was not as sharp as I want to be. But everyone says now that I’m as sharp as a razor. I’m feeling fast, and I have some good sparring partners in here. They’re not pushing me around, and I’m getting top notch work.”

That’s not good news for Ortiz. He’s going to have a lot of problems with Mayweather’s supreme boxing ability, and amazing hand speed. If Ortiz thinks he’s going to bulldoze Mayweather the same way he did with Andre Berto in his last fight he’s got another thing coming. Mayweather is going to make Ortiz look worse than Marcos Maidana did when he stopped Ortiz in 2009.