By Mark Vester

During a recent interview with BoxingScene.com's James Blears, promoter Bob Arum took aim at WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. Arum says that Mayweather is a coward, mentally, and he's running scared from having to face Antonio Margarito and WBA welterweight champion Miguel Cotto.

“It’s all about money. It’s all about avoiding anybody who can give him a contest. He and De La Hoya are going to fight again…like anyone cares. He isn’t concerned at all for his legacy, but Cotto and Margarito are! I did most of Mayweather’s fights when he was coming up, and I know his mentality. Mayweather is a coward. Not a physical coward, because no one who goes in the ring is a physical coward. He’s a psychological coward."

"He cannot cope with the possibility of losing. I know that. We dealt with him over the years. Even though we presented opponents to him we figured to beat, he wouldn’t fight them because there was a chance that he could lose.”

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