Why did Mayweather turn down 8 million dollars to face off against Margarito?

[vercingetorix3]

Is it possible to cite sources before spewing random facts that we have no way of backing up?

I'll start.

It's because Mayweather was weight-drained and wanted a 99.999/.001 split against a past-his-prime Margarito who admitted to using HGH for an alphabet soup belt at a catchweight of 143.14159 lbs.!

[odogg8121]

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You owned yourself

I said exactly the same thing what Floyd said in 24/7 and you said that I am idiot cuz I said that COTTO ****ed MOSLEY up!

PWNED

NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!

Get your **** right, pick one. Did i say Floyd said it, or did I just disagree with Floyd. I said your dumb if you think Cotto ****ed SSM up, it was a close fight. End of story you been getting you ass handed to you this entire thread, so keep making your self look dumb, only *******s takeyou for real the rest of the site knows your just a wank.

Stop trying to spin stuff to make you look right lol i dealt with this in high school...young man...owned

Im done talking to you boy.

[Franco2012]

Get your **** right, pick one. Did i say Floyd said it, or did I just disagree with Floyd. I said your dumb if you think Cotto ****ed SSM up, it was a close fight. End of story you been getting you ass handed to you this entire thread, so keep making your self look dumb, only *******s takeyou for real the rest of the site knows your just a wank.

Stop trying to spin stuff to make you look right lol i dealt with this in high school...young man...owned

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Floyd Mayweather said "MIGUEL COTTO ****ed MOSLEY up"

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http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/box...ory?id=2420382


Mayweather turns down $8 million to fight Margarito

By Dan Rafael
ESPN.com
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Pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. rejected promoter Bob Arum's $8 million offer to fight welterweight titlist Antonio Margarito, and he instead exercised a provision in his contract to buy Arum out and become a promotional free agent, Arum told ESPN.com on Monday.

According to Arum, Mayweather turned down the career-best purse to meet Margarito on Aug. 12 on HBO Pay-Per-View, instead opting for free agency by buying Arum out of their deal for $750,000.

"I did hear from him," Arum said of Mayweather. "He decided not to fight this summer. I made him a tremendous offer. I think Margarito is the riskiest fight for him of anyone out there."

Mayweather adviser Leonard Ellerbe told ESPN.com that Mayweather passed on the fight not because he is ducking Margarito, but because he couldn't be ready to fight by Aug. 12. Mayweather injured his right hand during a dominating April 8 victory against Zab Judah.

"Floyd is not 100 percent healthy," Ellerbe said. "He has a bruised right hand. His hand is not broken. It's bruised, but it's a bad bruise. He wants to go into any fight 100 percent healthy. If Antonio Margarito happens to be the best available option when he is healthy, so be it.

"We are not turning down Margarito. I want to make that crystal clear. When and if he is the best available option for Floyd's next fight, that's the direction he will move in."

With Aug. 12 no longer set aside for a Mayweather fight, Arum said he will use the date to feature one of his other stars, heavyweight titlist Hasim Rahman, in a mandatory title defense against Oleg Maskaev on HBO PPV.

That bout, a rematch of Maskaev's 1999 knockout victory, took on greater significance last weekend in the wake of Wladimir Klitschko's title-winning knockout of Chris Byrd in Germany.

The reason: Among the four recognized heavyweight title holders, Klitschko became the third from a former Soviet republic to beat an American to win a belt, leaving Rahman as the lone American heavyweight champion and Maskaev poised to give Eastern Europe a sweep of the titles in boxing's marquee division.

Arum said Mayweather preferred to await the outcome of the May 6 Oscar De La Hoya-Ricardo Mayorga fight instead of committing to Margarito because he would prefer to fight De La Hoya.

"We're not sitting waiting on De La Hoya," Ellerbe said. "He's in a tough, tough fight with Mayorga."

Many in the sport believe a De La Hoya-Mayweather fight is the biggest fight on the horizon and the only one capable of generating 1 million-plus buys on pay-per-view.

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.

Instead, Arum is turning his attention to the Rahman-Maskaev fight.

Arum said that he and Maskaev representative Dennis Rappaport are about $300,000 apart on making a deal. If they don't finalize terms, the WBC will hold a purse bid May 1 in Mexico City.

But Arum is confident they will make the deal.

"We're very close," he said. "It will take another day to work it out."

Arum said he is already making arrangements to announce the fight at a news conference in New York on May 10. He added that the fight would take place at either Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J., or at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.

Arum said Margarito could wind up on the Rahman-Maskaev card in the co-feature.

"But it's tentative," Arum said. "If Mayweather decides to fight in September or October, and Margarito could still be a candidate, I want him to be flexible."

Dan Rafael is the boxing writer for ESPN.com.

I be glad when floyd retire. you dudes on floyd d1ck more then his fans.

I AGREE! people "hate Mayweather" but they start a Thread about this dude every 5 ****in minutes on this forum

if you are going to "hate someone" at least bring FACTS to the table don't just make up **** or go by what someone else told you

it would be great for boxing and both Pacman and Mayweather got their ass whooped just to humble their pathetic fans who act like GROUPIES when it comes to their favorite fighter

[odogg8121]

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Floyd Mayweather said "MIGUEL COTTO ****ed MOSLEY up"

your just dumb, who cares what he said I never brought what he said up you did now your trying to make it sound like i did. lol im done responding to you

[M.I.C.]

At the time Margarito was perceived as being no better than Baldomir in most peoples eyes. Baldy was the real welterweight champion at a time when Mayweather wanted to be the real welterweight champion, and that's all that needs to be said.

[Greatness=Floyd]

Only Mexicans care about this haha.

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If you had the option to fight bigger PPV stars at the time of Delahoya who was only the biggest draw in boxing and Hatton who had a way bigger audience than probably everyone not named Oscar, then im pretty sure you wouldve fought the smart fight too. But your same argument can be asked why Margarito didnt want to fight williams for the same amount and williams making half of that amount. Good question but stop being biased. Grow some balls and say your jealous of mayweathers success and no matter what you would like to see him lose. Everyone hates perfection and always wants to see a fighter in a blood and guts war. It was the same for RJJ, Pernell Whitaker and will always be the case for Floyd. Stop being a hater.

[jrosales13]

At the time Margarito was perceived as being no better than Baldomir in most peoples eyes. Baldy was the real welterweight champion at a time when Mayweather wanted to be the real welterweight champion, and that's all that needs to be said.

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Only Mexicans care about this haha.

You might be my favorite alt