June 10, 2008
Last weekend, Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement from boxing. The “Ring” magazine, however, needs to confirm the fact that Mayweather is indeed vacating his position. Nigel Collins, editor of the magazine, believes that the written document will be released in the future.
In retrospect, Mayweather earned his welterweight title after he defeated Zab Judah. He won another welterweight title outright when he won a fight against Carlos Baldomir, who once defeated Judah. Mayweather won a bout against Oscar De La Hoya, a semi-retired boxer in the junior middleweight. But for Mayweather’s first defense of his welterweight title, he invited Ricky Hatton, also a junior welterweight champion. But in this case, being the welterweight champion who never had the opportunity to defend his title in the boxing’s deepest division to a welterweight, there will be no glory for Mayweather for the meantime.
As soon as Collins held the letter that indeed the welterweight division is vacant, there probably was an impact on the division Mayweather ruled especially that he is the consistent wleterwieght champion. He was known to be “the man who beat the man”. He was undefeated ever since he earned the Olympic bronze in Atlanta 1996.
With the vacant title, the boxing world is eventually eyeing Miguel Cotto to earn the next “Ring” welterweight title bout. He is The Rings’ ranked number one welterweight contender.
