In his last WBC Junior Lightweight championship bout against Jesus Chavez Mayweather Jnr struggled to make the weight for that fight. The fight against Chavez was to his last championship match and his eighth defense of the WBC junior lightweight title, a title he held for just over three years. In 2002, Floyd Mayweather Jnr decided to moved up to the 135 lb lightweight division. At this weight Floyd Mayweather Jnr fought just four bouts in the lightweight division, and these four bouts were all world championship fights. Mayweather won two bouts for the WBC lightweight belt and also won The Ring lightweight title against José Luis Castillo. In their first bout, José Luis Castillo was successful in cutting off the ring and using his strength to wear down Floyd Mayweather Jnr. With all that effort in the latter stage of the fight, Castillo failed make up for his slow start at the beginning of the bout. Many ring side boxing analyst specialists and even the fight fans felt that Floyd Mayweather should have lost that fight, though the judges was unanimous in their decision in favour of Mayweather.
Floyd Mayweather Jnr: Subjugated The Dominican Victoriano Sosa
In the rematch it was a different story as this time, Mayweather step up a gear with his quick footwork and combination punches to win the fight again by an unquestionable unanimous decision making sure that this time were going to be no incongruity regarding the judges verdict. 19th April 2003, saw Floyd Mayweather Jnr subjugated the Dominican Victoriano Sosa and winning by another unanimous decision. 1st November 2003, Floyd Mayweather Jnr's next fight was take place his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan where he was born for a championship fight against the promising up and coming South African knockout specialist; Phillip N'dou. Phillip N'dou had a boxing record of 31 wins and 1 loss with 30 KOs in front of his name, which made a daunting prospect for Mayweather title . Strangely enough, Floyd according to Mayweather Jnr's character he was quite impertinently oriented from the start of the instant the first bell rang for the fight to begin.
Mayweather's Speedy Right Hand Combination Punches
Round 5 of the fight became one of most action-packed fight witnessed in that year; 2003. during the fight and In the middle of that round, Floyd Mayweather Jnr was hitting Phillip Ndou with some outrageous barrages of skilled power-packed punches. Ndou sensing defeat, began to throw wild punches which forced Mayweather unto the ropes, but Floyd Mayweather Jnr weathered the storm by demonstrating his scientific boxing defensive techniques to let Phillip N'dou burn himself out using similar tactics liken to Muhammad Ali in Rumble of the Jungle fight against George Foreman way back in 1974. In round 6, Phillip Ndou wobbled at the knees. In round 7, three speedy straight right hand combination punches knocked over Phillip N'dou. N'Dou's trainers was mulling over whether to throw in the towel or not, but before they could make up their minds, the referee stopped the fight. The result was a TKO for Floyd Mayweather Jnr.
Floyd Mayweather: Master Technician Of Boxing
In 2004 Floyd Mayweather moved up to the 140 lb junior welterweight division. and his first fight in this division was against southpaw DeMarcus Corley in which Mayweather used his blinding speed to make sure win all the early rounds. In the first minute of round 4, DeMarcus Corley landed a solid left hand shot that forced Floyd Mayweather Jnr unto the ropes, but the master technician of the boxing Mayweather one again weathered the storm as in his last fight against Phillip N'dou by ferociously fighting back. After that round, Mayweather mostly controlled Corley. Mayweather knocked down DeMarcus Corley to the canvas twice, once in rounds 8 and and another another knockdown in round 10, but Corley was as tough they come; he was able to continue fight to the end with Mayweather once again given a unanimous verdict by the ring side judges. That fight was the only boxing match Floyd Mayweather Jnr had in the ring during for the whole year of 2004.
