By Johnny Ortiz

The fight between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Carlos Baldomir went just the way any knowledgeable fight expert would have expected, Carlos, try as he might, was just to slow and just did not have enough ring savy to be able to cut the ring off on his elusive opponent.

It has always been my contention that Pretty Boy is an exceptionally superb fighter, but I have a little trouble dubbing him the best pound for pound fighter around. Ducking Antonio Margarito for an eight million dollar purse tells me that he wisely picks his spots and wanted no part of Antonio. I would pick Margarito in a heartbeat to beat him.

Against Antonio, he would not get away with the stuff he did against a brave, but totally outclassed Carlos Baldomir. Now that he has signed to fight Oscar De La Hoya on Cinco de Mayo, I would like to take this time to go on record and declare that Oscar will beat Floyd Mayweather, that is if he can catch him. I believe that Oscar over twelve rounds will eventually knock him out.

At 154 pounds, not only will Oscar be too big and too strong for Pretty Boy, but with his vast expierence, he will know how to cut the ring off on Floyd. Oscar first stepped into a ring at the ripe old age of five, Floyd will not be able to show the six-time world champion anything he has not seen before.

The bottom line is that Pretty Boy cannot hurt the Golden Boy, but rest assure, Oscar can definitely hurt Floyd. If you think that Floyd ran from Baldomir, he will leave skid marks getting away from Oscar. I liken this fight to the time that I not only picked Bernard Hopkins to beat a 4-1 favorite Felix Trinidad, but I picked him to knock Tito out.

I feel exactly the same way about this fight. Floyd Mayweather saying that he is the best of all time is laughable, one can only imagine his chances in a welterweight fight with Sugar Ray Robinson, Jose "Mantequilla" Napoles, Sugar Ray Leonard, Tommy Hearns and Roberto Duran just to name a few. Please!!!! No one will ever convince me that Floyd beat Jose Luis Castillo in their first fight, I have eyes.

No question about it, Floyd is a terrific, extremely gifted fighter, but the best...no way! He was smart to take the Oscar De La Hoya fight, with the most popular fighter in the business, he is guaranteed to make a substantial amount of money, without him, forget landing a pay for view fight after his non aggressive fight against Carlos Baldomir.

Floyd is a Pernell Whitaker type, they’re great and like Pernell once did, Floyd keeps on winning, but for the most part, like Pernell, their fights do not excite fight fans, not exactly a prerequisite for pay-per-view.

As a young boy, Oscar beat Pernell, now older, he will beat Floyd. This is just the tip of the iceberg, you can bet I will have a lot more to say and write when the Golden Boy-Pretty Boy fight gets closer.