Floyd turned down $8million to fight margarito in 2006

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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?

so mayweather go the SAME amount of money to fight the lineal welterweight champ?

how is that a bad decision?

[F l i c k e r]

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

Floyd is p4p because he beats bigger dudes. Started super feather went all the way to JMW capturing titles and beating Oscar on Oscar's terms.

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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?

Baldomir had the WBC belt and jus beat Gattin his backyard and Judah in his backyard.

Yea an incredible workrate against cab drivers...he couldn't lay a glove on P. Will for the first 6-7 rounds...and Floyd doesn't need to KO some1 to win

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

That's your final answer 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 welterweight...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

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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?

The WBO is a worthless title (Marg won it when it was vacant) compared to the LINEAR welterweight title. Baldy had just beat Judah, who was a better win than anyone on Marg's resume at that point.

And you are clearly biased, and Marg got the **** kicked out of him by the more wild, older Mosley.
Floyd would have outclassed him with ease and not had the linear title.
Pointless.

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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?

To be fair though Baldy had the most recognized crown and was coming off back to back T.V appearances witch would help the fight sell on PPV. Chain of events helped make it happen. If Zab would have shown up against Baldy it would have been a whole different story.

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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.

I was referring to his whole title run. Margarito had already been champ for almost 5 years when Floyd came into the mix. FIVE YEARS. Ridiculous, right? Margarito has always been in the cold simply because no one wanted to fight him. It didn't make sense for Zab to fight Baldomir - he couldn't even sell out the Garden. But just like Arum is doing by putting his fighters together (and keeping Mosley out in the cold) was the same way Don King wouldn't DARE have one of his fighters (Judah, Mayorga, Spinks, etc) face Margarito. Simple.

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That's your final answer 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 welterweight...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

Margarito aint on the level of any of them guys and Pryor was dying to fight Leonard but Leonard wasn't having that...

Neither Baldomir or Margarito are elite fighters...

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That's your final answer 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 welterweight...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

Antionio Margarito is not, and never was, the "best." His best win at that point was over Cintron. He was a relativly unknown fighter who then lost to Paul Williams shortly after.
Weak argument.

[boojee]

turning down $8 mil is straight up ***** move. what a *****.