Why is Floyd not fighting ANY of the top welters in the division?

[rambov]

Floyd haters make these posts so that they can jerk off while they listen to other floyd haters find fault with a man who is ranked "#1 p4p". the longer these threads last is the more nuts they pop.:wank:

[satori555]

isnt hatton in the top 10 p4p although thats a joke to begin with. ring magazine is a joke they have casamayor as their champ at lightweight lol that guy is one of the worst 10 p4p

[bigneli]

It's very simple, Floyd is scared of Cotto,Williams and Margarito so he took on a smaller Light Welterweight in Ricky Hatton. He thinks he is taking the easy way out against Hatton, but he is dead wrong. Win or lose, Hatton is gonna give Floyd the toughest fight of his life. If Floyd does beat Hatton, he will avoid facing the bigger prime Welterweights and he will try to set up a rematch with Oscar or a fight with the washed up Mosley. Floyd is a known ducker, he avoided Tszyu back in the day because he was too dangerous.

WOW!!! I've never look at it that way, but I must say, I AGREE!!! I think Floyd is definitely picking his opponents very carefully, and avoiding the big names at WW. Hatton is going to give him hell, and he is not even a true WW. I think Floyd has done great things in boxing, but by not fighting the best and calling himself #1, he is insulting everyone's intelligence.

[bigneli]

These *elite* Welterweights as you put it have only recently been in the spotlight for about 1 year and some even less like Paul Williams, like Miguel Cotto, i mean say about 1 year ago Cotto only had wins against mediocre opposition and Williams hadn't beaten anyone worth noting and now that both men have made a name for themselves it just makes the fights even more exciting.

Wasn't Cotto a champion at 140? You say Baldomir was the man at 147, unbeaten streak of 9 years at the weight? Within those 9 years, how can he be the man when in the same weight class, there were at some point: Mosley, Fernando Vargas, Trinidad, DLH, Vernon Forrest, etc... He was not the man, PBF made it look that way. But, he hasn't really beat anyone since he was in the 130's. Old DLH, and no one else.

[Burning Desire]

Wasn't Cotto a champion at 140? You say Baldomir was the man at 147, unbeaten streak of 9 years at the weight? Within those 9 years, how can he be the man when in the same weight class, there were at some point: Mosley, Fernando Vargas, Trinidad, DLH, Vernon Forrest, etc... He was not the man, PBF made it look that way. But, he hasn't really beat anyone since he was in the 130's. Old DLH, and no one else.

Vargas was washed up and wasn't even Welterweight then.

Trinidad was retired and was not even Welterweight then.

Forrest hasn't been Welterweight since the embarrassing back to back losses to Mayorga back in 2003.

[small_warrior]

common when he said that the de la hoya fight was his last everybody begin too hate on him and say he ducked cotto, hatton... now he is fighting hatton who is underfeated, and you are still hating. Ok hatton didn't defeat the great golden johnson, but he is still one of the best P4P

[Ray*]

If you are not the dumbest person to ever post on this site, you are definitely in the top two. Floyd tried three times to secure a fight against Mosley. Mosley said twice that he needed two tuneups before he would be ready for Mayweather. Then he said he had a toothache and couldn't fight him. Bob Arum mentioned two years ago that he was not ready to put Cotto in the ring with Mayweather because Cotto was not ready for Mayweather. He tried to secure a fight against Margarito after Zab Judah lost to Baldomir. Arum already had Margarito scheduled for a "tuneup" in a PPV against some stiff he ended up knocking out in the first round and refused to cancel the fight to fight Mayweather. Mayweather then decided to fight Baldomir, the Ring Magazine champion at 147.

Hatton fought all of his career at 140 except the one fight he fought at 147. Mayweather started his career at 130 and fought two-thirds of his fights at 130 before moving up. He tried to secure a fight against Hatton in his FIRST fight at 140 but Frank Warren refused the fight because he said Hatton wasn't ready! He tried to secure a fight against Kostya Tyszu but Tyszu decided to fight Hatton instead. All of these statements are well-known and documented facts. Considering Mayweather fought two-thirds of his fights at 130, and Hatton fought 98 percent of his at 140, Hatton cannot be considered the smaller fighter in this fight. In fact the only reason Hatton didn't stay at 147 after his first fight at 147 is because of the ass whipping he took against Luis Collazo. ****** *******s like you should check their facts before they make ridiculous statements like this.

You must have been on boxing for long, Because you have just stated fact mate Great post..Frank warren threaten to sue tsyzu if he fight Mayweather and Gatti at the time when Hatton was Tsyzu's mandatory, And Hatton wasnt ready twice according to warren when they offer him the mayweather fight which Chop chop corley end up taking...Margarito was busy knocking out Gomez on PPV(20000) even though he was offered the Mayweather fight after Judah lost to Baldomir..So many fans on here are just Haters..And am a Hatton fan.

[Ray*]

Wasn't Cotto a champion at 140? You say Baldomir was the man at 147, unbeaten streak of 9 years at the weight? Within those 9 years, how can he be the man when in the same weight class, there were at some point: Mosley, Fernando Vargas, Trinidad, DLH, Vernon Forrest, etc... He was not the man, PBF made it look that way. But, he hasn't really beat anyone since he was in the 130's. Old DLH, and no one else.

"Mayweather made it look that way" LOL some of you guys are really sick..How did he make Baldomir look like the man? The same Baldomir that Espn Brian Kinney berate PBF for not fighting after he made the judah fight..Remember? Baldomir beat the man in Judah...Hatton beat the man in Tsyzu..Understand? Paper champion at 147=Cotto(WBA)..Cintron(IBF) they all got it when Baldomir could pay santioning fees.

[Ray Ray]

We can go round and round about this but the bottom line is, that if Floyd wins, he should be fighting Cotto next bottom line. he has already said that he would not be interested in fighting Cotto because there was no money in it but would be willing to fight thwe winner of Cintron vs. Williams. First of all Cotto draws more than the two of them together, so if that is his excuse it's bull****. Secondly Floyd tries to say that Cotto is not worthy yet he is willing to fight either Williams or Cintron, both of there best comnpetition is Margarito, a man that Floyd basically said was a bum. Williams beat margarito and Cintron was knocked out by margarito, how exactly does that make either one of them worthy based on that fact, not to mention there is more money and PPV buys with Cotto than the two of them together?

Why dont you give it time before you start blasting and talking **** about how he wont fight Cotto. If I'm not mistaked he gave Mosley the same treatment and in the long run he wanted to fight him. ONLY IF HE BEAT COTTO. As much as you hate him you cant dispute the the fact thats he the # 1 WW in the record books. Trust me the fight will happen because now the MONEY is going to play a big part.

[deevel79]

Why dont you give it time before you start blasting and talking **** about how he wont fight Cotto. If I'm not mistaked he gave Mosley the same treatment and in the long run he wanted to fight him. ONLY IF HE BEAT COTTO. As much as you hate him you cant dispute the the fact thats he the # 1 WW in the record books. Trust me the fight will happen because now the MONEY is going to play a big part.

How are u accusing someone of "talking ****" over something that came out of Floyds own mouth?