Comments Thread For: Mayweather Says No Issue With Gloves For Cotto Bout

[Shona Boy]

Why didnt floyd make any noise about glove sizes for the De La HOya fight on 24-7, why only now.

[Ko King 212]

Why didnt floyd make any noise about glove sizes for the De La HOya fight on 24-7, why only now.

Does this need a answer or are you playing ******?

The HW 10oz are the same in weight but inside has more hand room if I'm not mistaken. E could answer that best.

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I see where your coming from but that Margarito win was fools gold. Plus he had a year and a half layoff after he fought Margarito and stepped into the ring with Floyd. The key is, look after the Mayweather fight. Didn't he struggle with Sergio Mora the contender dude?

When he fought cotto he was as sharp as ever and fought well enough to win the fight. That's the best he had looked since the first de la hoya fight on the big stage.

Against Floyd it was a combination of being neutralized and being old. Floyd took his soul and Mosley lost his confidence and just fought to survive and get paid. But you can't determine whether 2007 shane was better than 2010 Shane based on his fights with Floys and cotto because Floyd would have destroyed 2007 shane just as easily. Cotto is an easier matchup for him.

I agree with you that margarito is a better win for mosley than collazo. But I'd take the younger faster 2007 Mosley any day over the 2010 version with over a year layoff.

Yeah but Floyd was out for a long time too and only fought JMM at 144 before he fought Shane. Technically you can say Floyd was still shaking off some rust and Mosley was/is way stronger than Marquez. Mosley crushed Margarito. Cotto could not do that in the first fight OR when Margarito had his eye all busted it up after his beat down from Pac. Shane/Cotto was a close fight. I think Cotto did enough to win but Shane had Cotto trying to coast through the final rounds to secure a win. Shane was the first guy to show a blue print on how to beat Cotto (pressure) which Margarito capitalized on. Mosley did what no other fighter could do to Margarito..... knock him out. ALSO, Shane didn't want to fight Floyd when he was in his prime. Don't understand why so many disregard this fact.

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suddenly cotto became this huge threat, when over just a month or two ago they were saying he was shot and EVEN at 154 he has no chance against manny, now that floyd is fighting him, somehow pac ducked cotto lolz.... blind sheep

Pac didn't want to fight Cotto at 154 but 147 in the rematch so how could anyone say that Cotto don't stand a chance against Manny even at 154 when Pac didn't want to fight him even at 150 because of how Margarito had him in the fetal position after their fight.

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Why didnt floyd make any noise about glove sizes for the De La HOya fight on 24-7, why only now.

Because Floyd wanted the mega fight with Oscar.

After Mayweather agreed on financial terms -- a purse of at least $10 million that will probably increase to between $15 million and $18 million once the pay-per-view numbers are tallied -- he gave in to De La Hoya on every point just to get him in the ring.

Gloves? De La Hoya wanted Reyes brand, the "puncher's glove." Even though Mayweather always wears Winning brand, which better protects his brittle hands, he agreed.

"I can't wear the gloves I want to wear, but he can wear the gloves he wants to wear, so he said, 'Let's put that in the contract.' So I said, 'OK, no problem.'"

[John Barron]

Yeah but Floyd was out for a long time too and only fought JMM at 144 before he fought Shane. Technically you can say Floyd was still shaking off some rust and Mosley was/is way stronger than Marquez. Mosley crushed Margarito. Cotto could not do that in the first fight OR when Margarito had his eye all busted it up after his beat down from Pac. Shane/Cotto was a close fight. I think Cotto did enough to win but Shane had Cotto trying to coast through the final rounds to secure a win. Shane was the first guy to show a blue print on how to beat Cotto (pressure) which Margarito capitalized on. Mosley did what no other fighter could do to Margarito..... knock him out. ALSO, Shane didn't want to fight Floyd when he was in his prime. Don't understand why so many disregard this fact.

my tooth was loose one time too. i can sympathize with shane.

[ikawpipa]

I guess Xylocaine works well with any glove size.

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my tooth was loose one time too. i can sympathize with shane.

Ha ha ha! Even before that. Floyd moved up to WW wanting a fight with either Shane or Oscar.

With the win (Henry Bruseles), Mayweather sets up a proposed June bout with WBC champion Arturo Gatti, assuming Gatti gets past James Leija next weekend. Mayweather, however, seems to be looking to bigger and better things.

"I'm told that [Shane] Mosley and [Oscar] De La Hoya are going to 147," Mayweather said. "I plan to join them there."

Shane was the one that didn't want the fight.

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Then Floyd just cant step up to the ring with smaller man Pacman? The most annoying & scared boxer of all time.

Listen man. I don't even want to talk about Floyd/Pacquiao anymore so please if you don't have some other kind of talk besides "scared" then please don't reply to me because I like talking and posting to people who talk about the sport in a whole and not just one fight that ain't happening.

[chibomber]

It's not surprising. For those of you who actually believed him in the first place in regards to using 8oz gloves for a 154 fight, I have ocean front property in Idaho to sell you.