i notice a lot of people have that quote "margarito thinks he's in line to fight floyd cuz he beat a couple cab drivers, yadda yadda..." thing in their sig.
however, floyd fails to mention that he's done absolute jack shit in the past, what, three years?
fought zab judah, who i heard was recently knocked out by a pregnant heidi klum.
sharmba mitchell. uhhh huh.
what did these two do to deserve a fight with the great floyd mayweather that margarito hasnt? not to mention the fact that he was offered 6 (or was it 8?) million dollars to fight him.
im not a margarito fan, or even a margarito supporter, but i hate excuses, and floyd is the king of them.
I think you all should search youtube.com for "Antonio Margarito confronts Floyd Mayweather". In the video clip, you can clearly hear PBF tell Margie that he WILL get his shot later on and that when he does it will be BIGGER AND BETTER. I don't see how you guys don't see this. Margarito could end up being a huge name next year after a couple quality wins, then PBF will add him to the list of guys he's beaten. Why fight Margarito when he isn't a big name? People know Baldomir because he's beaten big name guys (Judah and Gatti). How do people know Margarito? "He's the guy who beat.....uh, wait, who'd he beat?"
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I think you all should search youtube.com for "Antonio Margarito confronts Floyd Mayweather". In the video clip, you can clearly hear PBF tell Margie that he WILL get his shot later on and that when he does it will be BIGGER AND BETTER. I don't see how you guys don't see this. Margarito could end up being a huge name next year after a couple quality wins, then PBF will add him to the list of guys he's beaten. Why fight Margarito when he isn't a big name? People know Baldomir because he's beaten big name guys (Judah and Gatti). How do people know Margarito? "He's the guy who beat.....uh, wait, who'd he beat?"
i notice a lot of people have that quote "margarito thinks he's in line to fight floyd cuz he beat a couple cab drivers, yadda yadda..." thing in their sig.
however, floyd fails to mention that he's done absolute jack shit in the past, what, three years?
fought zab judah, who i heard was recently knocked out by a pregnant heidi klum.
sharmba mitchell. uhhh huh.
what did these two do to deserve a fight with the great floyd mayweather that margarito hasnt? not to mention the fact that he was offered 6 (or was it 8?) million dollars to fight him.
im not a margarito fan, or even a margarito supporter, but i hate excuses, and floyd is the king of them.
im a margarito fan (sort of) but wat judah has done is at least FOUGHT ppl, even if he lost. he beat spinks, not a great fighter obviously, but margarito hasnt even beaten a mickey ward.
sharmba, same thing. hes fought pretty good fighters i.e. tsyzu and leavander johnson (R.I.P.)
losing to good fighters shouldnt get u big fights, but it does, since it makesu a bigger name.
and it was 8 mil
Margarito hasn't earned the right to fight someone as gifted as Floyd. He hasn't beat any big fighters, and Floyd wants him to so that when they fight Floyd can make a ton of money. Only thing I could fault Floyd for is being greedy.
I still don't get it.
Floyds nobodys are still 100 times better than anyone Margarito has fought to date.
you mentioned Mitchell- 2 time world champion.
You mentioned Gatti-2 Time Worl Champion.
You mentioned judah-2 Time World Champion.
They might be passed thier primes but Margarito hasnt fought anyone accept Santos, and agian to reiterate, HE LOST.
All good 140 pounders, butr mot good WW's. Zab may have held a welterweight championship, but he didn't fight the creme of the crop at welter to get it. He was 1 and 1 against Spinks. 1st time he fought a decent Welter he lost. Sharmba is well past his prime. And Gatti?!?!? Are you kidding?!?! Gatti ain't gonna win any significant fights for the rest of his career. his career defining moment was his trilogy with a journeyman... Nuff said...
I still don't get it.
Floyds nobodys are still 100 times better than anyone Margarito has fought to date.
you mentioned Mitchell- 2 time world champion.
You mentioned Gatti-2 Time Worl Champion.
You mentioned judah-2 Time World Champion.
They might be passed thier primes but Margarito hasnt fought anyone accept Santos, and agian to reiterate, HE LOST.
you mentioned a bunch of bums titles dont mean shit, cintron would kill gatti whipp mitchell, and be even money with judah, the santas fight was stopped by a cut, and he lsot by a point in santos home town
I really don't think it matters what speculation is, because there is one all-prevailing theme behind boxing once a boxer is a "name": Business. Floyd is 36-0, which is super-marketable. If he's looking for the 8 figure payday (and he is, he admitted as much) he has to keep his marketability intact. So what THAT means is that he is going to protect his record until he can GET that payday. When he gets it, win or lose, a lot of us will see the fights we wan't, because it'll work like this (assuming the "big fight" is DLH like we suspect):
Win vs. DLH - record doesn't matter anymore because he's going to retire with megaloads of cash, so he'll spread out his fights like DLH did the past 2 years.
Loss vs. DLH - He'll praise DLH and downplay his own "trash talking" and line up some seriously tough fights to prove he's still "marketable."
Patience for the payday, thats all we need to have.
hey, if he whacks baldy and proceeds to take down some big names, you wont see me talkin shit about floyd anymore.
fact is, he's saying marg aint done anything, when in actuality, floyd himself has barely done shit at welter, or even jr.
I still don't get it.
Floyds nobodys are still 100 times better than anyone Margarito has fought to date.
you mentioned Mitchell- 2 time world champion.
You mentioned Gatti-2 Time Worl Champion.
You mentioned judah-2 Time World Champion.
They might be passed thier primes but Margarito hasnt fought anyone accept Santos, and agian to reiterate, HE LOST.
hey, if he whacks baldy and proceeds to take down some big names, you wont see me talkin shit about floyd anymore.
fact is, he's saying marg aint done anything, when in actuality, floyd himself has barely done shit at welter, or even jr.
people are offering to fight him some very good fighters
rivera for one has said he would fight him, thats the hardest fight for him out there available
you can say he beat a faded gatti an decisioned judah but then we can say margarito beat a green cintron coming off his longest inactive spell and had just had hand surgery, and then you could say, the best fighter margarito has fought he got beat by in daniel santos
hey, youre not gonna see me try and talk about margarito like he's a god...my first post i said im not even a fan.
my problem is floyd saying margarito hasnt earned a shot when floyd himself hasnt even done anything notable above 135.
floyd rejected the fight with marg before baldy beat gatti.
what big fights
i seem to remember hatton's dad sayin he turned him down, mosley sayin he aint ready, Bob Arum saying cotto isnt ready,De La HOya saying he isnt ready
The Baldomir fight is a bigger fight he earned his fight in the ring not with his promoter talkin him up
baldy is ok in my book, no doubt, but he knocked out a faded arturo gatti and barely decisioned a bitch-ass zab judah.
i bet margarito wouldve done more if SOMEONE would sign on to fight him.
Floyd aint gonna fight no one, cause boxing is pushing a huge fight with DLH, which all DLH fights suck cause he sucks, so we'll going to miss another bunch of great fights. Expect more "what if" threads in years to come...
how does DLH suck?