Mayweather Jr. Defends Choice of De La Hoya Over Cotto

[edgarg]

both floyd and dlh would've made this money without arum............they are doing it now.......

I don't think you've really thought this out. Bob Arum set BOTH of them on the road to fame and fortune, did it for them and showed them how to do it. How can you even question it??

[RodBarker]

I can think of at least a dozen or more, oh many more, of Robinson's opponents who would have made "minced-meat" of Mayweather.

That is one of biggest bull**** statements Ive read on the board , I dont like the way Floyd is handling things and wish he was a fans fighter , I dont know where Floyd is in history as it aint over yet , Floyd is a great fighter and has a good chance with anyone his weight in history ,, you might beat him with a one punch KO that can happen to anybody at any time , a great one might get a UD , but no welter in history is making mince meat out of Floyd let alone a dozen or more , what a meat head comment .

[edgarg]

floyd came from 130.............the amount of fights guys fought then and now should not factor in judging any fighter.........in the old days, guys fought a week or 2 later........nowadays, it is a bad career move to do that........and you are talking about guys who started at 147........that you think would make mince meat out of floyd.........i doubt that seriously.............

Robinson came from 135....................

[papilucca]

wow

I just read it, and almost puke, that GAYweather, is nothing more than a bum, he is just scared of COTTO, and remember he scored his first PPV with Gatty, after that how many PPV he scored, that are worth, ONLY DLH and HATTON, everything else, is just nothing. HE IS JUST SCARED !!! LOOSER

[Fox McCloud]

Hey Edgarg... do you not count Casamayor's first win over Corralles either, since that was at 130?

He came back and fought at 130 after being in jail.

[Brandish]

...and no, Hatton doesn't count. RING removed him from their top 10 welterweights when he moved back down to 140. It's a no brainer than Cotto has fought better opposition than Mayweather at 147.

Don't use titles such as 'linear' to justify the Baldomir win, or 'top 10 p4p' to justify the Hatton win as being better than the Mosley win. Mosley is an elite fighter at 147.

mosley is not elite at 147. who has he beaten at 147 that baldomir hasn't beaten.

baldomir defeated zab and clottey, who the **** has mosley beaten oh yeah ricky hatton's left overs in collazo

[Brandish]

That is one of biggest bull**** statements Ive read on the board , I dont like the way Floyd is handling things and wish he was a fans fighter

fans, you talking about these **** suckers on this board

[Fox McCloud]

mosley is not elite at 147. who has he beaten at 147 that baldomir hasn't beaten.

baldomir defeated zab and clottey, who the **** has mosley beaten oh yeah ricky hatton's left overs in collazo

Do you want to go into how Baldomir defeated Clottey? I mean, seriously? Are you pointing to the Clottey win to justify how good Baldomir was? Getting a DQ victory when so far down on points, you need a knockout isn't exactly a crowning achievement of a win.

Mosley beat Oscar at 147 by the way, in case you might have forgotten.

[edgarg]

That is one of biggest bull**** statements Ive read on the board , I dont like the way Floyd is handling things and wish he was a fans fighter , I dont know where Floyd is in history as it aint over yet , Floyd is a great fighter and has a good chance with anyone his weight in history ,, you might beat him with a one punch KO that can happen to anybody at any time , a great one might get a UD , but no welter in history is making mince meat out of Floyd let alone a dozen or more , what a meat head comment .

You have a highly exaggerated opinion of your favourite fighter. No one would go to you for objectivity. One must weigh ALL the pros and cons. And one needs to have seen great fighters.

And of course, one needs to know something about boxing............

I don't deal in cow manure my dear sir-except for my tomato plants.

[edgarg]

Hey Edgarg... do you not count Casamayor's first win over Corralles either, since that was at 130?

He came back and fought at 130 after being in jail.

yes I know he did. I think he first fought at welter, then light then at 130. He weighed over 180 when he came out of jail. And it was all fat, having lost his muscle. He said that all the exercise he got there was running up the stairs, and he could only do so much of that.

I recall at the time I was in touch with Butch Gottlieb about it, since he was a very close friend of Corrales, and saw him regularly several times a week.