Who's the toughest fighter Floyd Mayweather has ever fought?

Question

By Floyd's account, who was his toughest opponent?

Answer 1

Paul Wight

Answer 2

Delahoya according to scorecards but Jose Luis Castillo beat Mayweather the first time and was pretty easy too with Floyd just covering up the whole time ...so much the Public and media wanted a rematch and Floyd never does rematches....Floyd won the second fight easy but he did lose the first tiME to Castillo

Answer 3

Toughest fighter he fought was the one who beat him which is Jose Luis Castillo. I still have that fight recorded, sorry Floyd is a badass fighter but he lost that fight. Help me out by visiting an advertiser sponsor on my ehow page http://www.ehow.com/how_2204887_prevent-...

Answer 4

I would say Jose Luis Castillo the first time they fought but the judges are stupid and De La Hoya did pressure floyd but floyd can handle it

Answer 5

NONE! He fought bums and aging former champions.  Had he fought in the 80's, Ray Leonard would've toyed with him, Hearns would've punished him and Duran would've killed him!

Answer 6

Deigo Corrales (R.I.P.) and Arturo Gatti are/were about as tough as they come, but they lacked the skill level of Floyd.  DeLa Hoya in his younger days was tough, but by the time he got around to Floyd he was showing his age.  Ricky Hatton wasn't a soft man either.

I give the edge to Corrales, Deigo kept getting up no matter how many times Floyd knocked him down and earned everyones respect that night.

Answer 7

By far Castillo, even though the scores in that fight were ridiculous. By Floyd's own account however, I believe he said his toughest fight was against Emanuel Augustus. He actually made Floyd bleed!

Answer 8

De la Hoya is a future hall of famer, the Castillo fight could have went either way so maybe one of those two?

Answer 9

The operant word here is "tough."  I assume you mean a physical take-it-to-you fighter.  The other possible meaning, which I am not using, of "tough" would be "difficult to handle."  With that preface, far and away and without a doubt, Ricky Hatton.  He made PBF rise above himself, for which PBF deserves a lot of credit.  If the ODLH version of PBF had shown up for Hatton, the result would have been quite different.

Answer 10

zab judah i think if he would have kept he's head he woulda beat floyd but oscar de la hoya to be official the only man to be mayweather on any scorecard