Emanuel Steward talks about Cotto-Mayweather, Gómez

[baya]

If Cotto VS Floyd were to occur...

Every Puerto Rican no the planet would order it...

As well as every African American...

I wouldn't say there is bad blood between us...

But there is always this issue of superiority when it comes to "toughness" and such...

I think Cotto VS Mayweather would break every PPV record based on the fact of how many people want to see Mayweather lose.

You see how many celebrities were in attendance for Hatton/Mayweather?

Imagine that ten fold.

this post gave me a semi.

[PapiShasho]

Listen, I'm as big of a Cotto fan as they come, but let's be honest, Cotto did not fight the best at 140. He never fought Hatton, Witter, Vivian Harris, or Mayweather

No, he only went on to crush the two guys who beat Harris and Witter instead (Maussa and Judah), and is working on fighting Mayweather who crushed Hatton.

[baya]

No, he only went on to crush the two guys who beat Harris and Witter instead (Maussa and Judah), and is working on fighting Mayweather who crushed Hatton.

hi-tru; he only did us one better, efficiency.

[MANGLER]

Steward makes some good points. Of course he's biased cuz one of his guys (Cintron) is a potential PBF opponent, but he speaks factually when he talks about Floyd. He don't diss him for imaginary reasons like Floyd's other haters, he's salty towards him cuz he won't fight top WW contenders.

[Primal Instinx]

He fought and beat the current champs at 140

Torres and Malignaggi are the champs right now at 140 so therefore Manny stating that he fought the best is accurate. Hatton v Cotto was never proposed to either fighter because they were both still on the come up. Let's not get things twisted out of proportion. The person that did not fight the best at 140 was Floyd Mayweather who was already established as the best fighter and he chose to fight sorry ass Demarcus Corley, Henry Bruceles, and Arturo Gatti...now who are the current champs and who are no longer boxing...ok I think we can agree that Floyd chose the easier route at 140 lbs. And this is what Manny is referring to knuckleheads!

[Primal Instinx]

No, he only went on to crush the two guys who beat Harris and Witter instead (Maussa and Judah), and is working on fighting Mayweather who crushed Hatton.

Good points my man, Cotto doesn't get the recognition he deserves because Floyd peeps always want to discredit his achievements and try to back Floyd on his cherry picked fights. It just bothers me that they still have they audacity to state he is the GOAT.

[PRboxingfan]

explain why Floyd cant make the same fighting Cotto as he did Ricky.

Because the PPV numbers in England were ridiculous. You don't think Floyd knew this when he signed the dotted line? Do you really think Cotto has more drawing power, PPV-wise, than Hatton had prior to the Mayweather fight?

Cotto could barely do 200,000 against Judah, and the 400,000 that bought the Mosley card did so mostly for Shane (as he'd had over 420,000 against a washed up Vargas).

I think a Mayweather - Cotto PPV card, if it happened this summer, would probably get 500,000 PPV buys, and that's not enough to pay Floyd even the same money he made against Hatton and DLH ($25Million and $35Million, respectively), mostly because of PPV buys. Mayweather-Hatton sold 850,000 PPVs in the US, and another 650,000 in the UK and around the world. That's 1.5Million PPV buys. There is no way Cotto has that drawing power.

[tredh]

Neither of them fought everybody they could have at 140. Manny flip flops on how he feels about PBF and most of the time Manny spews nothing but hate.

[baya]

Because the PPV numbers in England were ridiculous. You don't think Floyd knew this when he signed the dotted line? Do you really think Cotto has more drawing power, PPV-wise, than Hatton had prior to the Mayweather fight?

Cotto could barely do 200,000 against Judah, and the 400,000 that bought the Mosley card did so mostly for Shane (as he'd had over 420,000 against a washed up Vargas).

I think a Mayweather - Cotto PPV card, if it happened this summer, would probably get 500,000 PPV buys, and that's not enough to pay Floyd even the same money he made against Hatton and DLH ($25Million and $35Million, respectively), mostly because of PPV buys. Mayweather-Hatton sold 850,000 PPVs in the US, and another 650,000 in the UK and around the world. That's 1.5Million PPV buys. There is no way Cotto has that drawing power.

good, solid points. but you don't think that the unifying factor of both fighters constituency would push it past 1million? how does a tito w/ no english and no more exposure than cotto at this time (actually less exposure) do a million buys w/ odlh? i know that odlh's drawing power is ******ed but a cotto / floyd match up would be cultivated to make sure that it's designed to break records.

[-Antonio-]

Malignaggi, Torres, Bailey, Corely, Maussa all former or future Champions.

Tszyu was retired, Hatton and Floyd had other plans. He beat everyone else.