By Aaron Klein: In watching Oscar De La Hoya (39-5, 30 KOs) completely take apart his opponent Steve Forbes last Saturday night, I saw the blueprint that Oscar had crafted, with the help of Floyd Mayweather Sr – his trainer – to use to beat Floyd Mayweather Jr. in their upcoming September 20th bout in Las Vegas. De La Hoya showed none of the mistakes that cost him in his last May in his split decision loss to Mayweather Jr. Showing an excellent jab, which Oscar kept in Forbes face for the entire fight, De La Hoya chose his moments wisely in which to go after Forbes with sharp attacks.
This strategy effectively conserved De La Hoya’s strength, allowing him to fight hard for the entire fight and keeping him from running out of gas like he often does when going the distance with opponents. De La Hoya didn’t let Forbes encourage him to brawl more than he wanted to, something that Oscar has had a problem with in his fights with opponents like Shane Mosley and Fernando Vargas, both of whom could get De La Hoya to get out of his game plan quite easily just be landing a flurry of shots. Against Forbes, De La Hoya kept his cool, thinking about his game plan and not getting drawn into brawling until he was ready to. This is an important factor for De La Hoya, because it shows that at age 35, he’s still learning.
By Chet Mills: At one time in his career, unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. (39-0, 25 KOs) took on the best in each division he competed in. As a super featherweight, he defeated champion Genaro Hernandez. As a lightweight he defeated Jose Luis Castillo twice, and as a welterweight he defeated Zab Judah. It’s only recently, with his fights with Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton, that Mayweather has gone soft, taking on fighters that are not at the top of their class. In Hatton’s case, he was forced to fight out of his weight class – light welterweight – in order to fight Mayweather at welterweight. 
By Eric Thomas: Based on how his career has evolved, winning championship belts in the super featherweight, lightweight, junior welterweight, welterweight and junior middleweight divisions, should Floyd Mayweather Jr. (39-0, 25 KOs) be considered as an all time great in boxing? Although his career is far from finished at this point, and he still has a lot left to prove before he’s finished, is his credentials good enough to match up with other boxers such as Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammed Ali and Jake Lamotta? There’s the some who would say no, suggesting that Mayweather saw fit to side step around the best in each division, staying away from fighters like Kostya Tszyu, Miguel Cotto, Paul Williams and Antonio Margarito. 
By Chris Stein: In one of the silliest wrestling matches I’ve ever seen, Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeated professional wrestler “Big Show” last night at the Citrus bowl in the WrestleMania XXIV match. Mayweather, not a particularly good actor, looked especially fake in going up against the 7-foot 441 lb Big Show, though he did at least scream and moan in a half-way believable manner. After spending a good deal of the opening moments running from Big Show, and looking a lot like his normal boxing fights, Mayweather finally opened up with a series of jabs that got Big Show to back off from him. 
By Erik Thomas: The first fight was an ugly one-sided affair, with the undersized Ricky Hatton being foiled at his attempted wrestling & fighting on the inside, eventually leading up to a 10th round stoppage by Floyd Mayweather Jr. (39-0, 25 KOs). The only reason I ask is because Mayweather, 30, recently said to Sky Sports News in regards to a rematch with Hatton, “We don’t know what the future holds, anything is possible. Is it possible? Absolutely.” This would seem to suggest that Mayweather is kicking around the idea of fighting Hatton sometime in the future, perhaps not long after Floyd faces Oscar De La Hoya in their September 20th rematch in Las Vegas. 
By Eric Thomas: According to the latest gossip, undefeated WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (39-0, 25 KOs) will be taking part in WWE’s “WrestleMania XXIV” at Citrus Bowl, which takes place on March 20th. For his role in the affair, Mayweather, 30, will be reportedly receiving a payment of twenty million dollars, an almost absurd amount of money for an even that will be more staged play-acting than a true athletic contest. Mayweather will be pitted against the wrestler called “Big Show,” a 7′ foot 399 lb mountain of a wrestler whose real name is Paul Wight. 
By Manuel Perez: Ever since previously unbeaten junior welterweight Ricky Hatton (43-1, 31 KOs) was embarrassed in a 10th round TKO loss to pound-for-pound boxing king Floyd Mayweather (39-0, 25 KOs), last December 8th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada, the 29 year-old Hatton has shown little indication that he’s getting over the humiliation of his one-sided beating from Mayweather. In a recent interview, Hatton had this to say about the Mayweather bout: 
By Eric Schmidt: In the early 90s, Roy Jones Jr. (52-4, 28 KOs) was considered to be arguably the pound-for-pound best boxer in all of boxing. His boxing skills, along with his incredible hand speed, were nothing short of extraordinary. There was one problem, however. Jones wasn’t taking on the harder fights, seeming to avoid potential mega-bout against fighters like Dariusz Michawlzewski, Julian Jackson, Gerald McClellan, and Nigel Benn, to name just a few of the top fighters that he failed to get in the ring with.