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After live tweeting the Floyd Mayweather vs. Juan Manuel Marquez play-by-play, I got a lot of questions from readers for a boxing Twitter mailbag. But while plenty of questions were about who won the Mayweather-Marquez fight and how (answer: Mayweather by unanimous decision), we'll start with questions about Shane Mosley and HBO boxing announcer Max Kellerman, who made headlines with their actions in the Mayweather post-fight interview.

Fans who saw Mosley call out Mayweather wanted to know whether a Mayweather-Mosley fight is possible, or if Mayweather will next fight Manny Pacquiao or Miguel Cotto. I also answer questions about just how dominant Mayweather was in his victory over Marquez in the new boxing twitter mailbag below.

When Floyd Mayweather retired last year, he did so as the undisputed best pound-for-pound boxer in the world. But now that Mayweather is returning, he's no longer the best. That distinction now goes to Manny Pacquiao, and HBO's Max Kellerman did a great job of explaining exactly why that is: Pacquiao challenges himself against bigger opponents, and goes after them like a warrior.

During last night's boxing live blog I hardly even mentioned the Juan Manuel Lopez-Daniel Ponce de Leon fight, mostly because it was basically over before it began: Lopez knocked Ponce de Leon down twice in the first round, and after the second, it was over.

HBO's Max Kellerman responded to the performance by saying, "A star is born," and he's absolutely right. Lopez is a destructive fighter, with punching power that guys who weigh 121 pounds just aren't supposed to possess: He's 22-0 with 20 knockouts, and in his two fights that went the distance, he dominated so thoroughly that four of the six judges awarded him every round.

The super bantamweight division has been dominated of late by Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez, who fought twice last year and had a rubber match this year. But now there's another super bantamweight force to be reckoned with: Lopez is the real deal.

During last night's Samuel Peter-Oleg Maskaev fight, HBO play-by-play man Jim Lampley mentioned that Lennox Lewis and Rocky Marciano are, in Lampley's words, "the only two heavyweight champions who have defeated every man with whom they were ever in the ring."

Lewis avenged both of his losses, to Oliver McCall and Hasim Rahman, and also won the rematch after his draw with Evander Holyfield. Marciano, of course, is the only heavyweight champ to retire with a perfect record.

But then Lampley's broadcast partner, Max Kellerman, told Lampley that he was forgetting someone: Gene Tunney. Kellerman pointed out that the only man to defeat Tunney was Harry Greb in 1922, and that Tunney had subsequently defeated Greb, so Tunney actually belonged in that class alongside Lewis and Marciano.

Lampley then acceded to Kellerman's superior knowledge of boxing history. And, as anyone who has watched Kellerman knows, everyone should accede to Kellerman's superior knowledge of boxing history. Kellerman's knowledge of boxing history is staggering -- even when it comes to boxers who fought half a century or more before the 34-year-old Kellerman was born.

But there's a problem: In this case, Kellerman was wrong.

When Samuel Peter fought Oleg Maskaev last night in Cancun, something highly unusual happened: The bout used "open scoring," meaning that between rounds, the ring announcer would tell everyone in the crowd how the judges had scored the fight up to that point.

That's very rare in boxing: The judges' scores are always kept secret until they've been tallied at the end of the fight. That's just the way things work.

And the HBO announcers working the fight think that's how the way things have to work. Jim Lampley said during the fight, "open scoring is a dreadful idea," and Max Kellerman added, "It's a terrible idea in practice if not in theory."

But the strange thing is, neither announcer could provide any example at all of how this dreadful, terrible idea was affecting the fight.