Did Mayweather Duck Margarito? (flashback)

[Welter_Skelter]

This is a PM I sent a mate asking me why I would think Vitali ducked Rahman.. Esp since I am Big fan of Both Kiltschkos..
Here is my answer..

Allow me to postition myself before I begin to explain..
I am so convinced Vitali would beat Rahman I would bet my left arm on it..

This is where the perpelxtion starts.. I am sure Vitali knew He had little to nothing to fear From Rock either..

I also want to POINT out that ducking does not equal fear.. Or at least fear of the person being ducked..
For example you might be 100% sure you could beat your Sister's husband to a bloody pulp with your left hand while your right hands cooks dinner and you still wont spill or burn a thing..
But for many reasons.. Even though the little **** is calling you out.. If you were to beat him silly..The Pandoras Box that would be opened is not worth the grief you might encounter..
So you Duck Him.. Its justifiable ducking.. but a duck is a duck..

On that note Yes I think Vitali ducked Rahman.. I do not think Vitali Feared Rahman..
But for some reason he refused to fight Rahman..

I do not believe he was injured.. the whole time he was Signed to Fight Rahman he consistently tried to make fights with Other guys Including Lamon Brewster and Oleg Maskaev.. and did so publicly..

Why he ducked Rahman is the BIG question. It defies logic..

Simple Guess Don Kings Involvment???

I also got from an interveiw the feeling that Vitali Had so little respect for Rahman.. that he felt it would somehow lessen him to fight Rock...

Only Vitali Knows for sure WHY.. But he ducked Rahman

[IchiBonDj]

If I was Mayweather I'd duck Margarito too, the risk aint worth the reward. Besides Oscar is more dangerous of an opponent anyways. I'm glad he ducked Margarito who IMO is still uproven. Oscar is a proven warrior and anyone who disagrees is just a hater, im unbias I like both Oscar and Floyd.

Its at a point in both De La Hoya and Mayweather's careers that this fight needs to happen and it would have been a shame (again IMO) if it was spoiled because of Margarito.

There has also been talks about the winner of Mayweather/De La Hoya to face the winner of Cotto/Judah. Well I guess because Margarito ducked Cotto he's now gonna have to get through Paul Williams to earn the right to fight the winner of the winners fight.

[Tysonisgod]

shane says he wouldnt turn down 8 million to fight Tony, how much did he turn down for a 3rd oscar fight again? like 12 maybe? something like that.... nah floyd didnt duck him, cos wat would it hav ment if floyd out boxed the **** out of this guy who has NEVER fought a really good/great fighter, or has been named anywhere near a top ten list in his life

[Tysonisgod]

I LOVE oscar, but i hope floyd beats him, cotto beats zab hopefully(only because no1 wants to see floyd vs zab the beatdown part2) then it would be great to see either cotto fight paul williams or tony, it would be great if tony knocked him out, that would make him look great, (cos he beat another not great fighter and another unproven one) then floyd could go on and tax his ass to

[Guest]

tell me one fighter who hasnt struggled against Clottey.

dont worry... i'll wait......

I can't even name anyone he's fought aside from Baldomir, Margarito, and now Corrales...

[Guest]

Putting words into someone's else mouth is a hollow way to escape a real debate.

You are putting up strawmen to attack in order to make yourself look good and everyone else look irrational.

Well, please tell me and everyone else all the great fighters that Rodney Jones has beaten in his career that makes you think he was a much better fighter than he is today...

I'm sure you won't be able to come up with anyone. Margarito lost to him because he is a one dimensional fighter who will lose to even average slick fighters and southpaws. Collazo would give him the fight of his life and we all saw what Mosley did to him...

[El Jesus]

well then why din't floyd take that fight if margarito would be the same as baldomir, win or lose may 5th he should make the fight happen w/margarito and unify.... i think he was offered 8mil. for that fight

Because some people are actually proud to fight for the ring belt and be called a real champion, something even brian kenny couldnt debate.

[El Jesus]

See reading this shows a lot of people still think the ducking started recently......

Floyd was ducking margarito since he stepped up to 147 that includes fighting sharmba instead of margarito for more than 2 times as much money as he did for sharmba.

The fact that it is so hotly disputed back and forth that he did duck margarito, shows that this fight shoulda been made, its one of those fights people arent gonna stfu about until it happens.

Maybe he would have beat margarito easily, maybe he wouldnt have........ we dont know and we are discussing it now because floyd ducked margarito.

Margarito has been in the division 10 years, floyd at the point of the baldomir had been in it for ****ing 1, and has moved to 154. say what you want, when margarito had his shots he didint always capitolize and when you dont do that, and even if your dangerous, when you have nothing to offer, you end up taking the hard road. Thats on margarito. Either way, his hard road paid off, hes taking on williams and if he wins gets to fight cotto, he didint get a shot at the number 1, but hes getting close, soon hell have something to offer if he wins, he likely wont, but hell be gettin paid.

[eazy_mas]

See reading this shows a lot of people still think the ducking started recently......

Floyd was ducking margarito since he stepped up to 147 that includes fighting sharmba instead of margarito for more than 2 times as much money as he did for sharmba.

The fact that it is so hotly disputed back and forth that he did duck margarito, shows that this fight shoulda been made, its one of those fights people arent gonna stfu about until it happens.

Maybe he would have beat margarito easily, maybe he wouldnt have........ we dont know and we are discussing it now because floyd ducked margarito.

well i dont think Arum want to lose Margarito and Mayweather and the hype started when Margarito koed Gomez and then it increase when Arum claimed to offer Mayweather 8 mil and Mayweather was leaving Arum anyway due to bad realtionship

[blockhead]

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