Cornering Mayweather

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yeah, even if he WERENT to meet Cotto, i think he'd still need at least to get 2 great wins against solid comp to earn a shot at PBF. of course, thats thinking as a Boxing FAN. as a boxing BUSINESS fan, Margo still has a long way to go.

AGREED good post

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AGREED good post

i assume you've seen that King cover with Stacy Dash on it right?

[Scott9945]

Damn, I am the biggest Floyd fan ever, but this is a good article. I have to admit that Floyd is starting to piss me off. If he fights Hatton again before fighting the winner of this fight, I would have to say I would not be as big of a fan that i am right now. I got to meet Floyd and go to his hotel, ans was going to go chill in his room, but we got there late and he was already packing to go to Dallas on the promo tour with ODLH. He was really cool and down to earth, but who ever wins on July 26 is THE welterweight champion and Floyd is just a belt holder in my eyes. He must beat one of the guys if not both to be and ATG.

Seems like a Hatton rematch would be the breaking point for a lot of Mayweather fans. It should be.

[AntonTheMeh]

**** floyd.it aint about floyd no more.he maybe ring p4p1 but he has no cred.it's about margo and cotto.if either one of these guys fights him people are gonna see the fighter difference between cotto/margo as opposed to oscar and hatton.floyd aint in for no cake walk,so please let him and oscar count there ****ing money and lets turn our attention to the real fighters.

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i assume you've seen that King cover with Stacy Dash on it right?

yes your righht but i like this one better

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Gatti actively pursued all those fighters except for hatton. i dont really recall anyone asking him to fight any of those dudes ESPECIALLY DLH the way they are with Cotto. no writers, analysts and fans.

WTF are you talking about? You dont think that fans of the sport were asking for Floyd to fight Oscar & Hatton before he fought them? Go take a look at the ammount of PPVs those fight did & then think about what you are saying. BTW Mayweathers fights versus Gatti & Judah did more PPVs than any fight of Cotto's except Mosley.

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WTF are you talking about? You dont think that fans of the sport were asking for Floyd to fight Oscar & Hatton before he fought them? Go take a look at the ammount of PPVs those fight did & then think about what you are saying. BTW Mayweathers fights versus Gatti & Judah did more PPVs than any fight of Cotto's except Mosley.

Floyd had been actively pursuing Oscar for YEARS. He has said that many times in interviews. It wasnt like people had been calling for Oscar to fight Floyd and then Floyd took on Oscar to silence the haters. No one even thought about Hatton/Mayweather untill Hatton talked **** and really it was the British fans making a big deal about it and the majority of people already knew how this movie was gonna play out.

the fact of the matter is that there has been no fighter in Mayweather's career that he's been asked to fight as much as Miguel Cotto. As a matter of fact, the name Floyd Mayweather is now synonymous with the name Miguel Cotto. THIS is the fight the WORLD wants.

I dont really even care anymore to tell you the truth. Im not saying Floyd is ducking Cotto. I've never said that. I've already stopped saying that Floyd SHOULD fight Cotto. Floyd can do what he wants, but this propaganda of claiming that the Fans wanted this fight with this guy and that that everyone said Floyd would lose to every opponent he has faced needs to stop.

The fight happens? dope. Mayweather will most likely win and it would be great compliment to his legacy. It doesnt? oh well, Cotto will make himself into a star and legend as long as he keeps doing what he's doing. Floyd will retire as an All Time Great, certified HOF.

[Thread Stealer]

If someeone keeps talking about Mayweather/Cotto or Mayweather/Margarito they must think that those guys need to fight Floyd in order to validate their careers. Floyd is already HOF. Floyd is already rich & will be richer & have another victory come September. BTW Mayweather already has a fight lined up for September.

Obviously a fight between him & Cotto is not going to happen this year. Mayweather has a history of making big fights. But some of the haters want to sale you a different story. The fact is Mayweather/Delahoya 2 makes more money than Mayweather/Cotto right now. In 2009 that wont be the case thats when Floyd will follow the money like he always does & fight Cotto. If he beats Cotto the haters will scream someone else's name just like they have done after he beat Diego, Castillo twice, Mitchell, Gatti, Judah, Oscar, & Hatton.

I have to give Floyd his props. He is 1 of the best ever at making those who hate him become obsessed with him. It seems like the Floyd haters talk about him more than his fans. Who gives a **** what Mayweather does?

Gatti actively pursued all those fighters except for hatton. i dont really recall anyone asking him to fight any of those dudes ESPECIALLY DLH the way they are with Cotto. no writers, analysts and fans.

Gatti did not "actively pursue" all of those guys. Corrales and Castillo were in lower weight classes so there was little reason. There was not much serious talk of a Judah-Gatti fight.

Gatti's team protected him quite a bit. They allowed him to take a "cash-out" fight against DLH, which was supposed to be HBO's going away gift to Gatti for all the great fights he gave them, and eventually the Mayweather fight.

Jake Donovan knows more of the details behind Main Events protecting Gatti. He could provided some better insight.

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By William Dettloff

Let’s count ourselves lucky that if Floyd Mayweather seems more interested these days in play-fighting than in facing his most serious challengers, Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito are not similarly inclined. As they demonstrated (and not for the first time) on Saturday night in Atlantic City, they are fighters all the way through.

You could make the case that Cotto proved little by bludgeoning poor, outgunned Alfonso Gomez, but he handled him exactly as he was supposed to and thus exhibited the vast gulf that exists between him and a great number of other welterweights. Moreover, no upper-tier fighter doing business today has faced solid competition more consistently than has Cotto. To the extent that Gomez was an easy payday, Cotto earned it in advance.

Margarito’s mugging of Kermit Cintron was no less impressive for its similar inevitability. That he walked through any number of booming right hands to chop Cintron down is testament to his will and to his unshakable confidence in his own toughness.

That taking punches is not Cintron’s strong suit does not diminish his standing as a prodigious puncher whose right hand has pulverized lesser welterweights, but never once discouraged Margarito’s forward progress.

It seems unfair that these two prime, fearless prizefighters should now be required to further prove themselves by fighting one another, while Mayweather plays footsies with professional wrestlers and awaits the big money-grab that is his rematch with an undeserving, 35-year-old Oscar De La Hoya.

Cotto was perfectly deserving of a shot at Mayweather (maybe a little too perfectly) even before his win over Shane Mosley last November. And certainly Margarito’s performance against Cintron qualifies him as well. A fight between them eliminates a worthy challenger.

Of course, Mayweather hasn’t said a word about meeting the winner of Cotto-Margarito, which is scheduled now for July 26. And we shouldn’t complain that Cotto and Margarito are facing off—there’s not a better fight to be made in boxing.

But in a fairer world, they wouldn’t have to face one another in order to corner Mayweather into a fight.

In a fairer world, he’d have fought them already.

LOL...this is a joke right?

In what way shape for or fashion is it unfair that Mayweather fights DLH again and Cotto fights Margarito? Margarito is not as good as DLH. Margarito beat Cintron twice and Cintron is VERY OVERRATED. In a meritocracy you earn the right to be considered the best. Cotto has earned the distinction of being considered elite. Margarito gets his chance with the Cotto fight. Up until now, he's doing nothing to prove he is elite only that he is solid.

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Gatti did not "actively pursue" all of those guys. Corrales and Castillo were in lower weight classes so there was little reason. There was not much serious talk of a Judah-Gatti fight.

Gatti's team protected him quite a bit. They allowed him to take a "cash-out" fight against DLH, which was supposed to be HBO's going away gift to Gatti for all the great fights he gave them, and eventually the Mayweather fight.

Jake Donovan knows more of the details behind Main Events protecting Gatti. He could provided some better insight.

i meant floyd.