Floyd turned down $8million to fight margarito in 2006

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Last time I checked Floyd was paid 8 million dollars to fight Baldomir...who was more well known than Margarito...


And I could care less since Margarito and Baldomir aint elite fighters...

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Mayweather rejected an offer of US$8 million to fight Antonio Margarito and split with promoter Bob Arum

Mayweather earned $8 million for the fight, while Baldomir was paid $1.6 million. Both were career highs in earnings for each fighter at the time.

Mayweather says money was the issue for not fighting margarito....it was?

He fought Baldy cause he got 8 mil AND the welterweight title.
Damn you must be slow.

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Tony is too wide...slow..and predictable...to give Floyd anything but a clear runway down the middle to land everything he wanted.

If Tony were good enought to give Floyd hell he would have given Shane's elderly ass a run for his money.

DAVID ESTRADA gave Mosley more trouble than Tony...lol

The issue workin against Mr boat buyer here is his own damn words. If you don't wanna fight a man, don't shake his hand and tell him to his face you gonna fight him. Pretty simple homey.

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turned down $8 million? wow, what a *****

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The issue workin against Mr boat buyer here is his own damn words. If you don't wanna fight a man, don't shake his hand and tell him to his face you gonna fight him. Pretty simple homey.

He said you'll get ur shot...then Margarito goes and gets a boxing lesson from Paul Williams and loses his title...Floyd's supposed to still fight him?

Floyd only fights in Vegas. Margarito isn't a big draw outside of LA...

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mitruth, you're my man 25 grand but if you think there was more demand for Mayorga-Spinks or Judah-Pineda than Margarito you're bugging.

Naw. I ment more in the terms of the Floyd/judah/Baldy triangle that left Tony out in the cold. Tony would have been a better fight for Mayweather but Baldy had just beaten Judah and got TV time again beating Gatti. The chain of events made the fight make sense at the time. A lot of people look back and just say Tony is better than Baldy witch is obvious but I think the climate at the time demanded Floyd to fight Baldy more so than Tony.

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He fought Baldy cause he got 8 mil AND the welterweight title.
Damn you must be slow.

He could have faught Marg and got 8 mill and the WBO welter title as well.

Baldomir - Slow, same sized, unimpressive fighter.

Margarito - Tall, incredible work rate, un-knockoutable beast of a man. Who's record says "your getting ktfo"

Who would you fight for 8 mill and a title?

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i'll admit floyd is a very good businessman and performer but as P4P? Shouldn't you fight the best? Look at a past great welterweights...sugar ray leonard..he fought benitez, duran (three times),hearns (twice) and hagler and camacho.

Look at hearns...he fought cuevas, shields, benitez, duran, hagler, leonard(twice), virgil hill.

floyd?? hmmm....hatton?? oscar? hmmmm

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turned down $8 million? wow, what a *****

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yeah, for 8 million and a shot at the linear title.
Keep things in perspective, kid.

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The issue workin against Mr boat buyer here is his own damn words. If you don't wanna fight a man, don't shake his hand and tell him to his face you gonna fight him. Pretty simple homey.

That's not the whole story m8..

Floyd told Tony to keep winning..then...he'd be GLAD to beat him.

He said that right to tony's face..and all ol' boy could do was grin.


Only a fool would expect Floyd to drop eveything to fight a mofo who was fighting Keyvelos and Lujuan at the time.

If Juan Urango approached Manny and demanded a fight...I bet you wouldn't require Pac to drop everything and fight that mofo.