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Who will fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. next? Maybe nobody will be able to get "Pretty Boy Floyd." Although there are numerous welterweights skilled and marketable enough to challenge the 30-year-old, he again dropped hints that retirement might be his preferred option. Asked if he would now move on to, say, a unification bout with WBA welterweight champ Miguel Cotto (31-0, 25 KOs), who was at ringside for just such lobbying purposes, Mayweather shrugged. "Cotto's a helluva champion and the welterweight division is the best," he said. "But I've done all I could do in this sport, so I'm not thinking about fighting anybody else. I've accomplished my last goal. "I always wanted to fight in the UK, but because I couldn't, I had the best fighter in the UK come to me." Veteran Mayweather observers aren't necessarily buying into his quit-while-on-top rhetoric. He's likely to bank $20 million for his night's work against Hatton, but there are mansions to maintain and Rolls-Royces to purchase, so don't be surprised if Mayweather hangs around long enough to investigate whether Cotto, WBO champ Paul Williams (33-0, 24 KOs), IBF titlist Kermit Cintron (29-1, 27 KOs) or Antonio Margarito (35-5, 25 KOs) presents a sufficiently profitable excuse to again hit the gym. "You can't make anybody fight anybody," Cotto's promoter, Bob Arum, said when asked if a Mayweather-Cotto bout is doable, if not exactly imminent. "How difficult that is to make, I don't know. But if it can't get done, Miguel has alternatives. He doesn't duck anybody." -- Philadelphia Daily News

With Hatton gone, who's next for Mayweather? | Philadelphia Daily News | 12/10/2007

Mayweather is great and he's done enough for everyone to call him a champion. With that said...if he truly wants to go down as one of ...or even "the best"...he needs to clean up this strong welterweight division. It was a good fight against a 5'6" 140 lb fighter.

If Floyd is a "TRUE" champion...and one of the all time bests...let's see him prove it against the other belt holders. I wonder if he "KNOWS" what I suspect. What is that? I wonder if he knows that his athletic, skilled body simply can't hold up against the bigger bangers at 147. Cintron/ Mayweather...love it! Cotto/Mayweather...love it! Margarito/Mayweather...like it. Williams/Mayweather...like it!

Come on Floyd. You obviously have earned the right to do what you want but if you really think you're going to be remembered as an "all time great"...???

You can solidify your permanent standing as the greatest...by simply cleaning up the welterweight division. Go ahead... beat Cintron, Cotto and Williams and you'll have all 4 belts and can retire as a TRUE CHAMPION. If not, you'll simply be one of the MANY great fighters who have graced the ring! The choice is yours!