By Keith Idec

The only boxer to beat both Canelo Alvarez and Miguel Cotto was among those that thought the official scores of their middleweight title fight Saturday night at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas were way too wide.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. called the scores “f***ing ridiculous” during an interview with fighthype.com that was posted Monday.

“Do I think that Canelo won? Absolutely,” Mayweather told fighthype.com’s Ben Thompson. “Canelo won the fight, but it wasn’t no 119-109. Those crazy scores [119-109 and 118-110] that they had was ridiculous. I think Nevada has the best commission in the world, and I’m not just saying that because I live here. I’m saying that because they are fair with everyone. Not just me – they are very fair with everyone. But I do think the fight was a lot closer than 119-109. That is f***ing ridiculous. In my opinion – I’m not saying this is what happened – but in my opinion, either somebody is handpicking these judges or something is going on that’s not right.”

All three judges – Burt Clements (118-110), Dave Moretti (119-109) and John McKaie (117-111) – scored the 12-round fight for Mexico’s Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) by large margins over Puerto Rico’s Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs). Mayweather thinks Cotto won “at least three or four rounds” in a bout that seemed closer than the scorecards submitted by Clements, who credited Cotto with winning two rounds, and Moretti, who gave Cotto one round.

“You mean to tell me that Cotto didn’t win at least three or four rounds?,” Mayweather said. “If you say seven to five or eight to four, we can say that because a lot of rounds was very, very close in the beginning. What’s so crazy is that it seems like it always happens when Oscar De La Hoya is involved. They said my fight with Oscar De La Hoya was a split decision, which we all know was some bullsh-t. When I faced Canelo, one of the judges scored it a draw. I got a split decision with Oscar, I got a majority decision with Canelo and you seen what just happened Saturday night. I’m just saying.”

C.J. Ross scored the Mayweather-Alvarez fight even (114-114) in September 2013. The two other judges – Moretti (116-112) and Craig Metcalfe (117-111) – scored that fight for Mayweather by comfortable margins.

Ross resigned from her judging position because her Mayweather-Alvarez and Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley scorecards caused so much controversy.

She scored the first Pacquiao-Bradley bout 115-113 for Bradley, despite the Pacquiao clearly won that June 2012 fight at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Mayweather-Alvarez was the last fight she judged.

Six years earlier, Tom Kaczmarek scored De La Hoya, whose company promotes Alvarez, a 115-113 winner over Mayweather, who won a split decision because Chuck Giampa (116-112) and Jerry Roth (115-113) scored that fight for him. The Mayweather-Alvarez and Mayweather-De La Hoya fights took place at MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Keith Idec covers boxing for The Record and Herald News, of Woodland Park, N.J., and BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.