Comments Thread For: De La Hoya: Guerrero is Tougher Than Cotto For Floyd Jr.

[Calabis]

Floyd is/was more fresh than Cotto. Margarito made Cotto quit. and Cotto got battered against Pac. you could even say Cotto might have gotten a gift against Clottey. All the while Floyd was in retirement getting his shi*t pushed in by Ellerbe.



Remember your history broseph... Floyd wouldn't fight Cotto cause he was from Puerto Rico...

WTF^^^^^^^Fox Mulder is that you, with u'r XFile theories....please do your history..funny it took two weeks for Floyd to make a fight after Cotto left top rank

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.


Also here is a interview with Bob Arum in 2005 and he is talking about Cotto needing to be built up more....yeah Floyd ducked him(SMH)

http://www.fighthype.com/pages/oldarchive.php?aid=4261

According to Mayweather, the fight was supposed to take place after the Henry Bruseles fight whom he took apart in eight rounds. Bruseles was a “test” fight to see how Mayweather would fare against Cotto. It is also note worthy that Cotto was Bruseles’s lead sparring partner.

[oneon11]

Has anyone notice that Oscar says negative things about Floyd before all his fights. If it's not about how he'll lose, it's about the other guys chances being better than the last guy. Oscar has been wrong every time in his predictions so I really don't hold to much hope for what Oscar says. Oscar might want to stick to wear panty hose & sniffing blow & stay out of the fight predictions court.....