Why did Floyd retire?

[Homervanderjazz]

I wasn't following boxing at that time so don't know the full details, why did Floyd retire?

[Larry the boss]

He fought Oscar and Hatton in the same year and made more money then he had seen in his life....retired had to much fun,had to comeback, grew up and now it seems he takes better care of his money....funny thing is his retirement just made him an even bigger draw

[Larry the boss]

I know most will come in and say he retired to duck the topp ww's..but he fought Cotto and Mosley..Cotto even said he himself did not pursue a Floyd fight before and there is footage of Mosley saying he himself was going on a vacation and didnt want to fight Floyd then....

[rr00676]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHM3rOG4xIY

[Sugar Adam Ali]

I know most will come in and say he retired to duck the topp ww's..but he fought Cotto and Mosley..Cotto even said he himself did not pursue a Floyd fight before and there is footage of Mosley saying he himself was going on a vacation and didnt want to fight Floyd then....

Cotto said that in 2005 when both were at 140, and the shane remarks came in 2006 before floyd was the #1 superstar,,

Floyd became the biggest draw in 2007 with wins over hatton and oscar, everybody wanted to fight floyd including shane, cotto, etc

when floyd and oscar could agree to terms for a rematch, floyd wanted 50/50, oscar did not, Floyd retired

At that time TR and GBP were making alot of fights together like shane-cotto, margs-shane, manny-jmm 2, manny-oscar, manny-hatton etc

[Larry the boss]

Cotto said that in 2005 when both were at 140, and the shane remarks came in 2006 before floyd was the #1 superstar,,

Floyd became the biggest draw in 2007 with wins over hatton and oscar, everybody wanted to fight floyd including shane, cotto, etc

when floyd and oscar could agree to terms for a rematch, floyd wanted 50/50, oscar did not, Floyd retired

At that time TR and GBP were making alot of fights together like shane-cotto, margs-shane, manny-jmm 2, manny-oscar, manny-hatton etc

No Cotto said that in the lead up to their fight in 2012

[BUNGALOWS]

Cotto lives in Puerto Rico. That's too far.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

No Cotto said that in the lead up to their fight in 2012

yeah, when offered the fight pre 2007,,,,

let me guess, cotto would rather fight margs in 08 for less than half the money he would have earned fighting floyd in 08

I totally agree that cotto and his team didnt want the fight 04-07, but once floyd became an actually ppv star, then they were all for it, but floyd was retired

[MrTambourineMan]

He had to avoid multiple threats somehow.

[Kuyukut]

He had to avoid multiple threats somehow.

during that time ww division was stacked with opponents and floyd needs to take a fake retirement (even cried his eyes out) for them to fight each other. came back after the fact that everybody on the division literally almost kill each other with pac taking the head hancho of the division as well as the p4p best.