Three reasons why Floyd Mayweather is ducking Miguel Cotto...

[SquareCircle]

I hope your not serious.

Are they selling brains half price where u work ?

I think you should get a refund.

Do you have anything better to do, or are you just going to troll the forum and toss insults my 8 year old nephew would pick on you for using?

[Technical_Skill]

Do you have anything better to do, or are you just going to troll the forum and toss insults my 8 year old nephew would pick on you for using?

I just cant be bothered to answer crap posts to be honest,

Your saying that mayweather studied miguel cotto and planned his retirement around cotto hitting his peak,

or in other words, mayweather thought

"I'll fight for one more year, then retire because this miguel cotto is getting good and i dont want to face him"

lol.

Last time floyd was at 154 a different divison to cotto, he could stay there and aviod cotto rather than flat out retire.

So there's some logic to match your earlier post, which didnt have a shread of boxing knowledge in it.

Take a rest.

[kryo]

Two well placed Cotto lowblows might be enough to stop Mayweather, but nothing else.

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

DIOS DOMINCANO you have made some very solid points. Why your bar is red is unknown to me but I'm going to hit you with good K, regardless of whether or not you agree or disagree with my assessment of Floyd ducking Miguel Cotto. I simply see a replay of Leonard Hagler happening, Floyd will wait a few months or until Miguel has a tough fight that takes the life outta him, then challenge him. Textbook move. Anyways, +K for your contribution. I'll go through and read more replies later,tommarrow...Been on my feet all day, **** RETAIL...

Your generosity is appreciated.

[Lethal]

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/sh...&postcount=141 Is anyone going to address this? ^

[Technical_Skill]

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/sh...&postcount=141 Is anyone going to address this? ^

What's a runnre?

[The Surgeon]

I dont think he's ducking him but i do think he'd lose if they fought

[Double]

Thunder, where did I attack you? I disputed what you SAID.

You claimed that you saw PBF , Arum and Margarito on TV talking about the fight was a done deal.

You never saw that. It did not happen. Floyd did not want the Margarito fight. Floyd wanted the Delahoya fight.

Here is EXACTLY what happened:

In the fall of '05, after the dusting of Sharmba, Floyd was negotiating for a Judah fight. People were excited about that fight. Judah had blown out Cory in a rematch and his career was back on track. The date was set for April 8th 2006. Judah had a mandatory vs Balthazar, Baldomir, something like that. No problem, right? Random tomato can from Argentina?

Then came the seventh round.

Judah loses a close decision, and Floyd-Zab is in jeopardy. That week, Ellerbe and Haymon scramble to find another fight. They call Ray Hatton, and he says that Ricky would need 'tune ups'. Huh? WTF?! He just beat Tszyu and Maussa!! What kind of young, active champion needs "tune ups"? Oh well. Whatever. They begrudgingly call Arum, but Margarito had a late February piece-of-**** PPV scheduled at the Aladdin Hotel in Vegas with ******* Gomez.

Nobody wanted Mayweather-Baldomir, so Team Mayweather moves ahead with Zab anyway. Floyd wins, although his nuts are sore.

Throughout this time, the boards (including THIS one) are abuzz that Floyd is a ducker, and that he "turned down" an $8 million "offer" from Margarito. In truth, Arum was playing a game and offering Floyd money from Floyd's own pockets. Margarito has no fan base, as evidenced by his 30K PPV buys vs. Gomez and the half-sold room at the Aladdin.

Floyd goes to the Delahoya-Mayorga fight the next month hoping that his potential cash cow doesn't get beaten. Thankfully, Oscar looks good and the Oscar-Floyd talk gets started.

Oscar said that he would announce his "Floyd Decision" during the weekend of Hopkins-Tarver in Atlantic City. He was saying that he would either fight Floyd on September 16th, or retire. That was also the weekend of Cotto-Malignaggi. The Hop-*****Lips fight did solid nums, while Cotto's PPV tanked.

Oscar said that he would not fight again that year. His shoulder hurts. So PBF shifted his sights to Mosley. After Mosley knocks Fe-ROID-o Vargas out with that sweet left hook, Merchant asks SSM if he will take the Mayweather fight. Shane says - and I'm not even joking - that he has to take Jin on vacation, and he has to get his tooth checked out. True Story.

Floyd appears ****ed. Gatti is supposed to beat Baldomir, and it's clear that PBF can't go fight Gatti again. Their first meeting wasn't a fight. It was a snuff tape.

WHOA. Baldomir KO's Gatti. SAVED!! So now, PBF has an opponent for the fall. Floyd shows up in pink, hits Baldomir for six rounds, hurts his hands, and dances for the other six. Crowd is restless and boos ring around the arena. Who couldn't see this happening? Cobwebs grow on Baldomir's fists mid-punch. He is Valuev-slow. Will Perdue laughs at Tata's speed.

After the Floyd/Baldo fight, Showtime puts on a dual card with Margie and Cotto. Miguel looks very good. Scary, even. Margie looks ordinary. But Clottey makes most people look bad. This was s'posed to be a showcase to set up a Miguel-Antonio bout. But they forgot about Paul Williams, and his legitimate claim as a mandatory.

During this time period, GBP and Team Mayweather are negotiating. After the new year, the fight is announced and the rest is history.
Sorry for the long recounting of last year's history, but I needed to prove to you that there was NEVER a PBF-AM fight "made". Floyd never "pulled out", because the fight was never done. They didn't even meet with Arum.

Sorry.

Anybody remember things differently?

You make good points, I don't like Mayweather's propmotional persona, but anyone who follows boxing has to give him his due. All the fighters everyone says will beat him give him his respect so their fans should too.

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

You make good points, I don't like Mayweather's propmotional persona, but anyone who follows boxing has to give him his due. All the fighters everyone says will beat him give him his respect so their fans should too.

That is an interesting point. You don't really hear other boxers say that Floyd is garbage. Only the online hater community says that.

In fact, the professional boxers almost unanimously says that Floyd is great.

[BROOKLYN CESAR]

That is an interesting point. You don't really hear other boxers say that Floyd is garbage. Only the online hater community says that.

In fact, the professional boxers almost unanimously says that Floyd is great.

Margarito calls PBF Gayweather But im sure if they did fight Margarito might end up wearing a skirt all night being PBFs *****!!! Margarito is hardly on floyds level!!! He thinks if he bad mouths floyd then everyone will think he is good enough to beat him!!!

Dream on Margarito!!!