How is it Cotto/Floyd/Hatton/Tszyu all at 1490 same time but....

[SweetPbfAli]

Floyd and Tszyu were popular in those times. Floyd had called him out but Tszyu literally lost and retired in the same month Floyd beat Gatti in 2005.

Hatton's team was not willing to fight Floyd yet and they were not ready to come to the U.S.

Cotto was getting built up by Arum at the time, no way Arum would have put him in with Hatton or Floyd. Arum had Floyd and Cotto together until 2006 after Judah, yet he decided he wanted to make the fight after Floyd left TR.

And we all know that didn't happen until Cotto left TR.

[TBear]

Cotto didn't want it

When Mayweather called out Cotto, Cotto was 14-0. It was after Mayweather's lightweight defense against Sosa. Cotto fought Joel Perez on the undercard and they got into an argument at the post fight conference. Mayweather called out Cotto and Cotto's people declined stating that after he get's a bit more experience they would be ready. It was in ring magazine and a few fights later Cotto called out Mayweather and Mayweather declined publicly on HBO claiming Cotto was not a big enough star.

[Kagami Taiga]

What?

He's not far off from the truth. That fight abd the Bruseles fight kept both away from Floyd.

[SweetPbfAli]

He's not far off from the truth. That fight abd the Bruseles fight kept both away from Floyd.

I guess. For Cotto's sake, i'm glad it didn't happen when it was first mentioned. I think Floyd would have destroyed Cotto at 140 before he fully reached his potential. Arum was right in not making the fight then from a business perspective.

[daggum]

Floyd and Tszyu were popular in those times. Floyd had called him out but Tszyu literally lost and retired in the same month Floyd beat Gatti in 2005.

Hatton's team was not willing to fight Floyd yet and they were not ready to come to the U.S.

Cotto was getting built up by Arum at the time, no way Arum would have put him in with Hatton or Floyd. Arum had Floyd and Cotto together until 2006 after Judah, yet he decided he wanted to make the fight after Floyd left TR.

he offered floyd a career high payday but i guess that means arum didn't want to make the fight. welcome to illogical world.

[Jack Napier]

Kostya got beat by Hatton and quit
Cotto and Hatton both punked outta fighting Floyd at the time
surprised that Cotto and Hatton never fought each other though
Cotto was looking at a fight with Gatti at some point
Gatti blew that when he lost to Floyd, and then to Baldomir
hatton wasn't feeling WW after the Collazo fight
he dropped his belt and Cotto went up and got it vs Quintana
just weird circumstances halted these fights

[-Kev-]

Cotto never, ever called out Floyd while Floyd was in TR. He would always say talk to my promoter when asked about a Floyd fight.

[daggum]

Kostya got beat by Hatton and quit
Cotto and Hatton both punked outta fighting Floyd at the time
surprised that Cotto and Hatton never fought each other though
Cotto was looking at a fight with Gatti at some point
Gatti blew that when he lost to Floyd, and then to Baldomir
hatton wasn't feeling WW after the Collazo fight
he dropped his belt and Cotto went up and got it vs Quintana
just weird circumstances halted these fights

weird circumstances never come up when the baldomir's of the world are around

[tyger]

Mayweather always liked titles with less risk dispite what his fans say here.

[shade darkar]

its a shame really, would have had some great fights there had they all fought each other. it was the same at 147, lots of great fights could have been made between williams, margarito, mosley, floyd, cotto etc but it seems to have become the norm for boxing these days. the best very rarely fight the best anymore. instead we get glorified sparring sessions like floyd vs chino, and boring rematches like pac vs bradley.