Miguel Cotto Made Floyd Mayweather Retire, Says Arum

[La Perla]

wess u think floyd is the best ever at 147?

HELL NO!!!!
Thats a ree****yaluss question he is not even in the top 10 greatest welters of all time.He beat Gotti,Baldomir and Oscar(154lbs) and thats it!

[WESS]

wess u think floyd is the best ever at 147?

No I would say more at 130. I didn't really watch that division until he came around. So from what i've seen, yes I would say he is the best.

But I say that as my opinion. He may not be and i'm not trying to convince anyone that he is. But from what i have seen i think he is the best at that division.

I like Mayweather but I'm not a DIE HARD fan that talks non sense about him. I'll be the first to call him a ***** if he does not fight Cotto. As I said before I will not take anything away from his career but i will be pissed if he does not return to face Cotto if he wins this weekend.

[THE REED]

No I would say more at 130. I didn't really watch that division until he came around. So from what i've seen, yes I would say he is the best.

But I say that as my opinion. He may not be and i'm not trying to convince anyone that he is. But from what i have seen i think he is the best at that division.

I like Mayweather but I'm not a DIE HARD fan that talks non sense about him. I'll be the first to call him a ***** if he does not fight Cotto. As I said before I will not take anything away from his career but i will be pissed if he does not return to face Cotto if he wins this weekend.

go watch ray robinson

[steptwome]

Yawwwwwwn, Arum understands that a mayweather fight will pad his pockets well. He is campaining for this event relentlessly. Mayweather has stated he will not fight Cotto as long as he has to deal with Arum. Irregardless to the naysayers and haters, a Mayweather/ Cotto bout will eclipse the revenue of the upcoming Margarito/ Cotto bout and Arum knows this.

[Sithis]

this is a very typical way to try and make a fighter come out of retirement.

[Mazukan]

The Boxing world would go nuts if this fight ever happens.

I would LOVE to see Floyd get in the face of Cotto at a presser like he did with DLH. Cotto has that "dont **** with me" look so I think it would be very interesting to see how Floyd would act

[Bobby Shaw]

During the final press conference for Saturday's battle between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito, promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank took plenty of shots at the recently retired Floyd Mayweather Jr. Arum feels that the pending pressure from fans and media to face Cotto, forced Mayweather to call it quits. He said Mayweather will return to the sport, but not against Cotto or Margarito. [details]

Warped reasoning,sometimes Arum speaks form his ass.Floyd was mearnt to fight Oscar,why would he turn down at least $35m payday.He would have had that fight at least then retired.

Cotto is just to slow for Floyd.Cotto isnt even going to win come Saturday,he wont be able to stand up after getting flattened by Margarito

[WESS]

go watch ray robinson

He is good, but it goes back to comparing old guys to new. I was trying to stick to current fighters but then again we were talking about the best EVER... So yeah SRR was a great. But again I was thinking more modern. and didn't even think to go back that far. So you are right, I am wrong. Just don't mistake me for one of the crazy PBF fans, because i'm not. I just enjoy his style and I have a lot of respect for him.

[Sin City]

now if Cotto loses Saturday night...does that theory still hold true? Come on Bob, quit talking outta the side of your NECK

It does still hold true since Cotto is a legitimate threat and was the biggest threat to Mayweather when he retired.

[WESS]

go watch ray robinson

its funny you mention that, there is a thread asking who is better May or SRR... I thought it was kind of funny how we came across the topic ourselves...