Paul Williams Would Whoop Both Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao

Former two-time WBO welterweight champion Paul “The Punisher” Williams defeated Kermit “The Killer” Cintron by a controversial technical split decision Saturday night at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif.

After a blasé start to the bout, Williams (39-1, 27 KOs) and Cintron (32-3-1, 28 KOs) finally began to exhibit some of their renowned punching power in the early portion of the fourth round.

Unfortunately, after one exciting exchange, Williams slipped to the canvas and Cintron tripped over “The Punisher’s” left leg and violently tumbled through the ropes and hit his head on both a monitor and table.

Despite Cintron’s pleas to continue, the fight was justifiably halted and “The Killer” was strapped to a stretcher and rushed to the back for an examination.

California rules mandate that a winner must be awarded in a fight if the contest is stopped due to injury after the fourth round.

“It’s a strange way to get a win,” said Williams, 28, an extremely tall southpaw who has long been accurately hailed as “the most avoided fighter in the world.”

“I’ll try to fight better next time,” continued Williams. “I definitely don’t want to see a guy get hurt. I wanted to hurt him with a punch, not by him falling out of the ring. I feel bad. The fans didn’t get their money’s worth.”

Cintron’s promoter, Lou DiBella, was infuriated with the outcome of the contest.

“No one really knew who won that fight,” said DiBella, a graduate of Tufts University and Harvard Law School. “There wasn’t enough fight to be judged. It was three and a half rounds. That’s not a fight. There should be a rematch, and he’s a man’s man. I think he’ll give him a rematch.”

Because Kelly Pavlik (36-2, 32 KOs), “Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather (41-0, 25 KOs), and The Ring magazine’s No. 1 pound-for-pound boxer Manny Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KOs) are all mortified of Williams, there is a chance that a rematch between the two could occur in due time.

“Most fighters don’t enjoy fighting awkward southpaws,” said Mike Cappiello, the owner of Cappiello Brothers Boxing gym in Brockton, Mass. “But money talks.”

Particularly in the corrupted sport of boxing, money absolutely does talk.

Nevertheless, neither Mayweather nor Pacquiao would have even a remote chance to trump Williams.

At a menacing 6'2" in height, Williams has beaten championship pugilists the caliber of Winky Wright (51-5-1, 25 KOs), Sergio Martinez (45-2-2, 24 KOs), and Antonio Margarito (38-6-0-1, 27 KOs) since he made his debut as a prizefighter in May of 2004.

Further impressively, Williams managed to avenge his only loss as a professional when he whooped Carlos Quintana (27-3, 21 KOs) by a devastating first-round TKO in June of '08.

Mayweather and Pacquiao deserve the adulation that they respectively receive because they are both boxers for the ages.

Still, regardless of his lack of fame, Paul Williams is the best boxer in the world, and he would make easy work of them both.