By Chris Williams: With Floyd Mayweather Jr. putting on weight to fight WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto recently and with the size that he put on during his two month jail stint at the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas, Mayweather could find it next to impossible for him to fight at 147 lbs in the future.
This could hurt Mayweather for fights against the likes of Manny Pacquiao, Andre Berto and Amir Khan. Other than those three guys, there’s really no one besides them that are really worth fighting. Mayweather appears to have packed on some muscle during his two months behind bars and he probably did a lot of push ups in his small single man cell.
Those muscles are going to make it difficult for Mayweather to get back down to 147 for his next fight, if that’s the weight that he was planning on fighting at. It would be much better for Mayweather to keep his size and focus on facing WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez in December. Mayweather needs to get that fight out of the way first, and then look to take on Sergio Martinez if he gets past WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on September 15th.
Mayweather likely won’t have much of a chance at fighting Pacquiao next year anyway with the Filipino still wanting parity in terms of the money split. Perhaps another loss for Pacquiao will change his tune about that subject once he faces Juan Manuel Marquez or Tim Bradley again. If Mayweather does get the fight with Pacquiao, he needs to force him to fight at a catchweight of 150 lbs so that Mayweather doesn’t have to drop too much weight to make the fight happen. We don’t want Mayweather to wind up like Oscar De La Hoya did when he tried to drop down from 154 to fight Pacquiao at 147.
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