Mayweather Will Duck Marquez, Says Oscar De La Hoya

[RRICAN]

you cant be the best if you dont fight the best.... thats is why i think pac-man is p4p #1 in my list

[Dave Rado]

floyd is looking for more money that is his goal no way you can seat him next to ali,chavez,foreman,leonard,duran and those that always want to figth the best floyd is no best p4p never been his a piece of **** no room for him in the hall of fame that will be an insult

LOL! He'll get in the Hall of Fame whether you like it or not. He's already got into ESPN's "50 greatest boxers of all time" list, at #48.

[GRUSTLER]

Proof that Floyd Mayweather Jr wanted to fight EVERYONE.

The reason Mayweather opted for the buyout rather than waiting for the May 6 result was because the contract had a limited window for the buyout, one that expired before the De La Hoya fight. However, Arum said he would have extended the window if Mayweather had asked. What Arum wouldn't do, he said, was raise the guarantees for other fights outlined in the contract.

Arum said while Mayweather would have taken the $8 million to fight Margarito, he asked for a $10 million guarantee to fight opponents such as Miguel Cotto and Ricky Hatton, when Arum was only willing to guarantee $7 million.

Arum said Mayweather also asked for $20 million to fight De La Hoya, a fight Arum said he wasn't interested in participating in.

"That's not in the cards," Arum said. "He wants $20 million for the De La Hoya fight? It's not there. Sometimes, my man, you gotta know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. We'll talk about things down the road."

Ellerbe said Mayweather opted for the buyout so he could be "more in control of when and who he fights next. It's as simple as that. There is nothing bad between Floyd and Bob."

Arum agreed that the split with Mayweather was not on bad terms like their brief breakup last year. In fact, Arum said, "We intend to be back together. Everything with this was honorable and good. I had offered him numbers [for a multi-fight contract extension] that were livable. His expectations are in the stratosphere. He was entitled to buy me out, and he did. We decided this was the best way to handle it. He is a free agent. We have agreed to work with each other [in the future]."

The split frees Mayweather to make a potential deal with De La Hoya without Arum as part of the promotion. His involvement would have made making a deal almost impossible: The head of Top Rank has openly feuded with De La Hoya, his former superstar, and their companies rarely do business together as a result.

Arum said he was simply not interested in participating in a De La Hoya-Mayweather fight, but not because of his distaste for De La Hoya.

"I don't want to, because if I did that fight, I would be working for such a small percentage, it's not worth it," he said.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2420382

[jbin333]

Mosley wanted to go back down to the welterweight division he once dominated after the first fight, but the rematch kept him at junior middleweight (Fernando Vargas). Now, he intends to go back to 147 pounds.

Waiting for him could be a mega fight against pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. Mayweather would like the fight in November, but Mosley said he doesn't even plan to resume training until November.

"You know Antonio Margarito is out there waiting to fight Floyd," said Mosley, who earned about $4 million plus a percentage of pay-per-view profits. "Those guys should fight each other and we can fight next year. The only thing I know is my tooth is a little lose and I might have to go to the dentist."


Link to whole article:http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/box...ory?id=2498164

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Fantastic, I remember seeing Mosley utter those exact words!!!

[gibo]

PBF will duck who??? That's coming from dlh??? Who ducked TITO, FORRESST, COTTO, MARGARITO, WINKY, HATTON, WILLIAMS, TAYLOR, PAVLIK. BUT CHOSE TO FIGHT PBF, AND PAC-MAN AND GOT HIS A** HANDED TO HIM!!!! goldie IF ANYONE DUCKED A SERIOUS CHALLENGE AND TOOK THE EASY WAY OUT, IT WAS YOU!!! 100X35...

[Xcusemymood]

Not true. What he actually said in June 2005, immediately after the Gatti fight, in the interviews I read at the time was:

"I'd like to fight him next. You have to say that (what he did against Gatti) was absolutely masterful. Gatti's no mug, but that's how Mayweather made him look.

"I've said all along I'm scared of nobody and that's not changed.

"And there is no reason that Mayweather should fear me with performances like that.

"(US lightweight) Diego Corrales has also been mentioned, but I just have to sit down with my team and see what we can work out."

Then in November 2005, after Floyd had already moved to Welterweight to fight Mitchell - and after he had declined an invitation to be ringside at Hatton's fight with Maussa in order to promote a Mayweather-Hatton fight early in the New Year - Hatton called him out again but got no response:

A unification match against Hatton seemed an obvious fight to make, with a classic boxer-versus-fighter class of styles, but more talk now surrounds Mayweather moving on from tonight's non-title fight to challenge Zab Judah, the American who is regarded as the world No1 welterweight, holding the WBC, WBA and IBF belts.

Hatton, 27, dreams of a series of fights similar to the great rivalry of the 80s between Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Tommy Hearns and Roberto Duran. He said: "In the light-welterweight division, the quality in depth is incredible. Mayweather, Miguel Cotto [the Puerto Rican WBO champion] and myself are in most people's top 10 pound-for-pound. And, after I beat Kostya Tszyu, I went to the top of the ladder. If we can get fights on involving these people, you've got a golden era. Who's the best in my division? Me and Floyd Mayweather. Adding the WBA belt will make it easier to make fights against the big names."

The reality suggests Mayweather is looking elsewhere. Tonight the undefeated American should be too fast and accurate for his fellow countryman, Mitchell, 35, who has had only one low- profile victory since being bombed out in three rounds by Tszyu last year in the Australian's final fight before his epic confrontation with Hatton.

"I'll be undisputed world welterweight champion in 2006," said Mayweather in the run-up to tonight's fight. "I'm going to win titles in four divisions [he has previously been a world champion at super-featherweight and lightweight]. Hopefully, Judah will be next."

Four months later, when Mayweather gave up his belt, Mayweather's advisor Ellerbe tried to rewrite history and claimed Hatton didn't want to fight him, but that was simply untrue.

Anyone else notice how all of these "proof" articles are from the UK?

Doesnt matter one bit as Mayweather knocked the living **** out of Hatton when they did fight.

[Xcusemymood]

Hatton said so many things including how he wasnt ready to go over to america without taking a few fights yet before he faces the P4P fighter at the time, He ask us to be patient and that he would fight Mayweather eventually which he did, But he did say he wasnt ready for Mayweather yet.

And when he was ready he took the fight...simple.

Haha and everyone knows Warren wasnt gonna feed his cash cow to the lions...

[Dave Rado]

Anyone else notice how all of these "proof" articles are from the UK?

Doesnt matter one bit as Mayweather knocked the living **** out of Hatton when they did fight.

Where on earth do you expect most interviews with Hatton at that time to have been published? Outer Mongolia? The guy lives in the UK, doesn't he? Of course he gives most of his interviews to UK media. If you were looking for an interview with Mayweather, wouldn't you expect it to be in the US media? Does the fact that an interview with Mayweather was in say The New York Times rather than the BBC somehow make it suspect?

The Guardian and the BBC are, in the UK, equivalent to the New York Times and ABC in the US - they have international reputations for high quality journalism and for fact checking everything. There is nothing biased about the articles, they are just straight interviews with Hatton.

Talk about clutching at straws.

It matters only in the sense that someone accused Hatton of ducking, very unfairly IMO.

But okay, here's one from the US - from CNN, just after the Maussa fight, in November 2005:

Graham added that Hatton now wanted to fight WBC champion Floyd Mayweather (35-0) in the United States.

"He's a great fighter and you've got to go in against the best. The boxing world is screaming out for it."

That's hardly asking to wait two years is it? Happy now?

[solan]

Mayweather ****ing sucks and thats it. That fools to ***** to go ahead to face the best,Cotto,Clottey,Marquez, and who ever else got hands.

[El Dominicano]

If he doesn't fight him, he is ducking and if he beats him, he just beat on a smaller guy


Some bull**** this is, nothing good comes out of it