Comments Thread For: Ricardo Mayorga is Still Doing The Money Dance

[Dave Rado]

People criticizing young talents like Chavez and Canelo, yet Cotto fights this bum. Mayorga was an OK fighter but not anymore. Cotto is ridiculous.

Cotto has more than earned the right to take some low risk, high reward, stay-busy fights, for the reasons Cliff gave in his article.

Chavez Jr is not a young talent, he's a hype-job living off his father's name, who will be demolished by the first world class opponent he fights. To go 41-0 without fighting a single world class opponent is simply pathetic. To compare that with Cotto's resume is mind-blowingly ridiculous.

Who on earth is Canelo???

[Dave Rado]

Mayorga is heavy handed but he's not a KO puncher. He is not the type who you will always consider dangerous at anytime of the fight. He just not that kind of puncher.

He's heavy handed enough to give Cotto a very tough fight, without having a realistic chance of actually winning. He is likely to make it very entertaining. Given that Cotto wants a stay-busy fight, he's as good an opponent as any.

As Cliff pointed out, all his losses have been against world class opponents, and he gave all of them very tough fights.

He's a bit like Jerry Quarry used to be at Heavyweight. Or Oscar Bonavena. And no one criticised Ali for fighting those two.

And, from what I remember I don't think he won the rematch with Forrest all that convincingly but granted it has been a long time since I seen the rematch. I might have to watch it again.

The rematch was very close, but it was not controversial. And to beat a prime Forrest twice, even if the rematch was very close, is quite an achievement. And Forrest frequently looked intimidated in the rematch. There was one hilarious moment when Mayorga dropped his hands low and stuck out his chin, and gave Forrest a free shot. Forrest landed a punch right on the button, and Mayorga took it like it was a slap from a child, and tore into Forrest, who panicked and ran. I was in hysterics.

[Dave Rado]

By Cliff Rold - It’s hard to begrudge Cotto a Mayorga bout, especially since it isn’t going to be sucking up any of the valuable budget funds at Showtime for free-to-subscriber shows. This will be the rare Showtime pay-per-view. For fans that want to say thank you to Cotto for vivid wars going all the way back to DeMarcus Corley and Ricardo Torres in 2005, the option will be there.

For those who don’t, HBO will have a hell of a double header that night. [Click Here To Read More]

IMO that's one of the things that's wrong with boxing. Why do HBO and Showtime have to split the boxing audience with big fights on the same night? It would be much better for the fans if they had them on consecutive weeks, given that there are so many weeks when there are no big fights on at all.

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By Cliff Rold - Since a December 2003 Welterweight unification defeat, he’s averaged exactly one fight per year. He lost three of them by knockout. Those three losses came at the hands of the three of the biggest names of the last decade at Welterweight and Jr. Middleweight: Oscar De La Hoya, Shane Mosley, and Felix Trinidad......

I got no problem with this fight. I wanna see Miguel start to develop something solid with Manny, and he has earnt the right to be a little more selective.

This fight is a stay-busy, tune-up for Margo, see it for what it is.

Cotto won't be using that win to say he's the GOAT or anything.

Mayorga is the man, how can you not like a guy who smokes while he's training

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Cotto has more than earned the right to take some low risk, high reward, stay-busy fights, for the reasons Cliff gave in his article.

Chavez Jr is not a young talent, he's a hype-job living off his father's name, who will be demolished by the first world class opponent he fights. To go 41-0 without fighting a single world class opponent is simply pathetic. To compare that with Cotto's resume is mind-blowingly ridiculous.

Who on earth is Canelo???

Yep, good point. And even Mayorga would be a big step up for Canelo, he is certainly not ready for Cotto.

[drool]

After getting hammered by a career-destroying loss to Margarito thanks to the plaster, he has every right to get his career back on track via lesser than top 3 p4p.

Everyone's quick to criticize, but don't take into account how critical it is to rebuild a fighter the proper way to restore confidence.

Look at Jermain Taylor - do you think the Super Six was the right move for him?

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After getting hammered by a career-destroying loss to Margarito thanks to the plaster, he has every right to get his career back on track via lesser than top 3 p4p.

Everyone's quick to criticize, but don't take into account how critical it is to rebuild a fighter the proper way to restore confidence.

Look at Jermain Taylor - do you think the Super Six was the right move for him?

good point