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Critics blasting Mayweather's first post-Gatti bout

By Dan Rafael
ESPN.com

Friday, November 18, 2005

Floyd Mayweather Jr. came to the post-fight news conference in June dressed in a suit and flashing his pearly white smile. He was soaking in congratulations following a brutally one-sided, sixth-round destruction of junior welterweight titlist Arturo Gatti. Although virtually no one had given Gatti a legitimate chance of defeating the ultra-fast and skilled pound-for-pound king, the fight was still viewed by many as the biggest fight of Mayweather's career because, like Gatti, it was his first ...

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