margarito-cotto should be for the ring magazine world championship

[sentido común]

these two men have defeated many of the top 10 fighters in the welterweight division and they have both proven they are at the top of the welterweight class. there fight should be to determine who is the real welterweight champion of the world. i know mayweather has the belt but he dont fight no true welterweights. he has been running scared of all the top welterweight fighters. he has not even defended the title against any fighter ranked in the top 10 of the welterweights. mayweather should be stripped and the winner of margarito-cotto should receive the belt.

[warp1432]

The ring would never do that. NEVER. They would never strip a fighter of his title.

Also to fight for a title you have to be 1 (Cotto) and 2 (Mosley). Margarito is ranked 5th by the ring and rightfully so.

[2501]

if a fighter doesnt want to defend his title and would rather fight it in different weightclasses or against fighters he has already convincingly beat, then he should be stripped. but that wouldnt benefit De La Hoya either.

[sentido común]

The ring would never do that. NEVER. They would never strip a fighter of his title.

Also to fight for a title you have to be 1 (Cotto) and 2 (Mosley). Margarito is ranked 5th by the ring and rightfully so.

you should have to fight at least one top 10 welterweight ever year to hold that belt. what is doing is a slap in the face to boxings history. and margarito should be higher ranked than mosley since mosley ducked him.

[Lazy Liberal]

Had Margarito not been beaten by Williams , I would have said YES emphatically.

[warp1432]

if a fighter doesnt want to defend his title and would rather fight it in different weightclasses or against fighters he has already convincingly beat, then he should be stripped. but that wouldnt benefit De La Hoya either.

THE RING DOES NOT STRIP FIGHTERS. They won't because it's been against their policy forever. Mayweather should vacant it if he doesn't fight Cotto after De La Hoya, but he doesn't have to do anything. The Ring will suggest that he should vacant the belt (they even predicted him to lose it by the end of the year), but they would never strip him.

[sunny31]

you should have to fight at least one top 10 welterweight ever year to hold that belt. what is doing is a slap in the face to boxings history. and margarito should be higher ranked than mosley since mosley ducked him.

Your not the only one who feels this way, it seems everyone gets it apart from floyd fans, dan rafael from espn has even mentioned it and summed it up perfectly

"How goofy is this: Here we have Floyd Mayweather Jr. , the No. 1 boxer in the sport in his prime, refusing to entertain the notion of a match with Miguel Cotto. Mayweather won't even speak the name of the Puerto Rican star, much less consider fighting him. If you bring Cotto up to Mayweather, all you get is a lot of excuses. Yet, Oscar De La Hoya, who is 35 and says he is fighting three more times before retiring (Saturday against Steve Forbes, on Sept. 20 in a rematch with Mayweather and then a finale in December) said recently that he will strongly consider Cotto as his farewell opponent. De La Hoya won't go down as the best fighter ever, but one thing you can never take away from him is that he fought everybody and he seems willing to do that right to the end, even when he doesn't have to.

Mayweather, who says he is already the best fighter ever, can't be serious. Yes, he faced De La Hoya at junior middleweight and junior welterweight champ Ricky Hatton moved up to welterweight to fight him, but Mayweather has not fought the best guys in his own welterweight division, which happens to be the deepest in boxing. Take a look at the ESPN.com divisional rankings that I update each week. Of today's top 10 welterweights (Mayweather is No. 1), he has only faced one of the other nine guys, a win against Zab Judah. No. 2 Cotto, on the other hand, arrived at welterweight a full year after Mayweather but has already beaten three of today's top 10: Shane Mosley, Carlos Quintana and Judah, and he is scheduled to face a fourth, Antonio Margarito, in July."

[Scott9945]

if a fighter doesnt want to defend his title and would rather fight it in different weightclasses or against fighters he has already convincingly beat, then he should be stripped. but that wouldnt benefit De La Hoya either.

Take away Floyd's title before he fights Oscar? Not in this lifetime. That just isn't good business, and Oscar is a good businessman.

[Mr. Ryan]

If they wouldn't strip Paulie Ayala for refusing to fight, period, then why would they strip Mayweather.

[Lazy Liberal]

Your not the only one who feels this way, it seems everyone gets it apart from floyd fans, dan rafael from espn has even mentioned it and summed it up perfectly

"How goofy is this: Here we have Floyd Mayweather Jr. , the No. 1 boxer in the sport in his prime, refusing to entertain the notion of a match with Miguel Cotto. Mayweather won't even speak the name of the Puerto Rican star, much less consider fighting him. If you bring Cotto up to Mayweather, all you get is a lot of excuses. Yet, Oscar De La Hoya, who is 35 and says he is fighting three more times before retiring (Saturday against Steve Forbes, on Sept. 20 in a rematch with Mayweather and then a finale in December) said recently that he will strongly consider Cotto as his farewell opponent. De La Hoya won't go down as the best fighter ever, but one thing you can never take away from him is that he fought everybody and he seems willing to do that right to the end, even when he doesn't have to.

Mayweather, who says he is already the best fighter ever, can't be serious. Yes, he faced De La Hoya at junior middleweight and junior welterweight champ Ricky Hatton moved up to welterweight to fight him, but Mayweather has not fought the best guys in his own welterweight division, which happens to be the deepest in boxing. Take a look at the ESPN.com divisional rankings that I update each week. Of today's top 10 welterweights (Mayweather is No. 1), he has only faced one of the other nine guys, a win against Zab Judah. No. 2 Cotto, on the other hand, arrived at welterweight a full year after Mayweather but has already beaten three of today's top 10: Shane Mosley, Carlos Quintana and Judah, and he is scheduled to face a fourth, Antonio Margarito, in July."

Thanks for the article, that pretty much sums up The Floyd of today vs the Floyd of the 130 division.