DLH Easily!!!!!! He legit won rounds, many argue it should’ve been a draw based on the score going into 12 and how the judges had it with one judge giving rd 12 to Mayweather when it was almost unanimous that 12 was a DLH round. The official result was an actual split decision! (Only split ever vs Mayweather!). And there is a very legit argument to be made that DLH could’ve won the fight. Nobody else has a case they could’ve won had it been scored with a different perspective. DLH actually does!! A vastly ‘under-considered’ fight by the boxing community. DLH arguably beat Mayweather, past DLH prime and in Mayweathers prime no less! This is one of those fights that has me thinking ‘wtf is everyone blind’?? Not to say it was a clear DLH win- but it was clearly, with zero doubt or debate, THE closest fight of Mayweathers career. Cotto?? Lol. Pacquiao??! Lol. Castillo? Yes even Lol there. Anybody that cannot see this should be fucking ashamed.
I agree ODH fought PBF very close and for some reason it gets overlooked and there's a myth PBF easily outboxed him or some shit. But I don't think you're correct that he's the only one to score a split decision. Also, as well as ODH did, it seems hard to argue that he out did Castillo's initi effort. Btw, pretty sure PBF/Castillo II was split decision.
Nope no splits to Castillo and its not even fucking remotely close he did miles better than Castillo’s first try. No legit case even for a Castillo draw.. rewatch if you must...
One thing i don't get is at times when a fight is called "close" people overreact and somehow think that means the decision could be called into question. Fights can have a clear deserved winner and still be close.
Cotto and Pac don't really fit since they weren't close of winning at any point. In fact Mosley was much closer of winning, although in the end the fight was more lopsided. Out of the ones mentioned, Castillo is the first
It's a ranking. "Closest." So "close to winning" is not a criteria. That said, the Pacquiao matchup was indeed close.
Gotcha. I assumed 'giving hard time, close to winning' was a criteria, since looking at the results Floyd vs Cotto was a 9-3 fight, it was a hard fight but not close at all. Both Castillo 2 and Maidana 2 were closer than that, even though neither was particularly hard for Floyd
Don't forget Zab had him rocked, perhaps the MOST rocked he’s been in his career. Team Mayweather had to resort to Ring Assault to make sure Zab got thrown off his game just enough for Floyd to take over the fight. Amazing the fight didn't get called when Zab was literally assaulted in the ring by team Mayweather mid-fight!! They were scared because they knew Zab had the speed and power to put Floyd to sleep and slow down their little man-child cash-cow from sharing the milk.
1) Castillo 1 2) Maidana 1 3) De La Hoya In terms of rounds won, you could say a few of them are at the same level, but the fights played differently. You could make a fair argument that Maidana 1, Oscar, Judah, and Pacquiao all lost 8-4 to Floyd. But the fights played much differently. Except for round 2, all of Judah’s rounds were close. The first round, neither guy did much, Judah probably won by doing a tad more. Round 4 was a close round . Judah landed a loud left hand that got everyone excited, then most of the follow up punches missed. Floyd did some good body work after that, it was a close round. And I gave Zab round 12, but it was close. Neither guy did much. Floyd won his rounds by a wider margin. Oscar did better and Floyd had a tough time really landing on him. Maidana pushed Floyd a lot harder
