Floyd turned down $8million to fight margarito in 2006

[rob6465]

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

how is that a bad decision?

It's not a bad decision, just cannot put him as p4p best, just cannot do it. Leonard? hell yea.

[-EX-]

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.

That's not Floyd's fault that Margarito was not known and left out in the cold. Baldomir had the juicier name at the time and he had a belt as well...

[rob6465]

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.

So is floyd the one of the best? Reasons? PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEE NO HATTON.

[Deja_Vous]

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

And a chance to get away from Bob Arum.

[-EX-]

It's not a bad decision, just cannot put him as p4p best, just cannot do it. Leonard? hell yea.

So beating Margarito(who wasn't in the P4P rankings and still isn't) would have made Floyd the P4P the best in the sport?

[IMDAZED]

That's not Floyd's fault that Margarito was not known and left out in the cold. Baldomir had the juicier name at the time and he had a belt as well...

Did you read what I wrote?

[Deja_Vous]

That's not Floyd's fault that Margarito was not known and left out in the cold. Baldomir had the juicier name at the time and he had a belt as well...

[IMDAZED]

Aww, man - don't try to piggy back, bro. I'm still waiting for you to explain to me how the WBO belt stopped Mayorga-Margarito from coming to fruition.

[Mr.Fantastic]

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?

That's just a bull**** tactic as the 4mil PW offered Margs. There is a catch to everything like that.

[MANGLER]

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.

I didn't blame Mr boat buyer for takin the same $ to fight for the world title. But he coulda faced Marg after that. Or Cotto for that matter, but that's anotha thread. He said right after the Baldo fight he got more $ than he could ever spend. That shoots the $ excuse down right there. But logically, it was still cool for him to face DLH, and even Hatton for the huge $. I didn't diss him for that either. But when that was done, Marg had beaten Cotto, he walked away from the DLH rematch, and he was outta excuses. But he retired. This is why Mr boat buyer gets flak for this homey.