Would defeating Margarito have done anything for Mayweathers legacy in retrospect

[tank17211]

Looking back I just don't see how a win over him would enhance his already considerable resume....the fight was being considered between 2006-2008 and before Mayweather retired, Margarito had already lost to Paul Williams, and Daniel Santos who are no where near floyds league


to add to this only held the WBO title and that's not much incentive when at the time Mayweather had won lineal titles at 3/4 weight classes he competed in.


His biggest win didn't come until Mayweather retired when he beat Cotto



All in all Margarito was never a great fighter, he did notch some good wins but this boogeyman that Floyd avoided isn't what I see.


Just another fighter who gained hype because his promoter kept bring up Mayweather's name


in retrospect, Is a win over Margarito more meaningful than wins over Jose Luis Castillo, Diego Corrales, Shane Mosley, Genaro Hernandez, Canelo Alvarez, Ricky Hatton, Oscar De La Hoya, or Cotto?

Heck yea! At the time Margarito was the most dangerous man in the sport. Floyd wanted no parts of Magarito.

That is a fight I wanted to see. Of course, Floyd has a justification why it didnt happen. Of course

[Wizardsh]

A pretty decent win, but let's be honest, Margarito has never been so good.

Floyd is a diva and far from being a role model, but saying that Margarito would have beaten anybody good, let alone a younger Floyd Mayweather, is pure hatred.

It ain't hatred you fool. Styles makes fight and Margs would beat the crap out of floyd and floyd knows this, thier is a reason why floyd stayed away from high volume,better stamina then himself, iron chin, cut off the ring skills that Margs brought to the table. This fight would have been Floyd best win if he survived the 12rds

[BattlingNelson]

In retrospect it would have been an even greater win than it would seem at the time. Imagine how Floyd and his stans could say that Mayweather beat Antonio Plasterito! A great feat.

[SergioMartinez]

It would have done nothing for Mayweathers legacy.

It would have been Mayweather fighting another "slow plodding forward" fighter.

[Ham Porter]

the guy who if you watched the the face off of his 2nd fight with Cotto and you can see as clear as day that his wraps were cracked(I've been around boxing for 2 decades and gauze don't crack) and its clearly something in the wraps

dude used plaster in his gloves and im sure more than once

Cracked wraps.

[bigjavi973]

Looking back I just don't see how a win over him would enhance his already considerable resume....the fight was being considered between 2006-2008 and before Mayweather retired, Margarito had already lost to Paul Williams, and Daniel Santos who are no where near floyds league


to add to this only held the WBO title and that's not much incentive when at the time Mayweather had won lineal titles at 3/4 weight classes he competed in.


His biggest win didn't come until Mayweather retired when he beat Cotto


All in all Margarito was never a great fighter, he did notch some good wins but this boogeyman that Floyd avoided isn't what I see.


Just another fighter who gained hype because his promoter kept bring up Mayweather's name


in retrospect, Is a win over Margarito more meaningful than wins over Jose Luis Castillo, Diego Corrales, Shane Mosley, Genaro Hernandez, Canelo Alvarez, Ricky Hatton, Oscar De La Hoya, or Cotto?

yes it would have... margarito was undefeated wbo champion for nearly 7 years straight... but floyd went and fought sharmba mitchell because, "no one at welterweight will fight me".

[bigjavi973]

Arum was not putting Cotto in with Mayweather at that time...they were still building him up.



I wouldn't have minded seeing him fight Margarito, but he more than made up for it by winning another lineal title at 154, regaining the lineal title at 147 and added wins over Canelo, Maidana, Mosley, and JMM...I JUST DONT THINK A WIN OVER MARGARITO WOULD HAVE MEANT MUCH IN THE LONG RUN, IT WOULD EVEN BE A TOP 5 WIN FOR MAYWEATHER

so its ok that he ducked him you know, cuz he added those "wins"

only a floyd fan would say its ok... "he ducked cotto bro"
floyd fans: "he beat him at his natural weight 154 doe"
pathetic

[bigjavi973]

ONLY on NSB can beating a fighter that held a trinket mean more for your legacy than Hall of famers like Mosley, Marquez, DLH and others.


Mosley was a two time lineal welterweight champion and hall of famer>perennial contender and trinket holder Margarito

Margarito was a top 5 ww off and on for 3 years

while mosley just won his ww belt from margo.... floyd chose to fight lightweight JMM instead... its a duck... "he fought him doe" yea after a year layoff LMAO

[bigjavi973]

Ask Arum, he made Mayweather vs Gatti aferall; why didn't he make Floyd fight Margarito when they were TR? Why did Arum offered Floyd a fight with Margarito after he left Top Rank, after the lawsuit? He didn't want to make Mayweather-DLH cause he didn't like DLH. He didn't want to make Mayweather-Cotto cause he wanted to let it marinate, he didn't want to make Mayweather-Margarito, when they were in TR. So Floyd left. What did you want him to do, keep fighting the Bruseles's and Mitchell's of the world? Arum was not getting him the fights he wanted, he asked for DLH and Cotto and was rejected by Arum.

hold up... wasn't ya floyd fans saying that floyd "would have", cough cough, fought margo if arum payed him a certain amount of money? LMAO thats called pricing yourself out... and arum wasn't marinating anything, or did you forget what floyd said about cotto:
"he lives too far"... "hes too green. he needs a couple of more tune up fights" then floyd goes and fights cottos old sparring partner bruseles lmao

[bigjavi973]

BTW, Gatti was #1 ranked at 140, WBC champion when Floyd fought him. He also made Boardwalk Hall his home. Margarito never had that effect on fans. Gatti will be engraved in boxing history as an entertaining fighter and a warrior, a Hall of Famer. Margarito will go down as a cheater and nothing else.

Junior Welterweights
Ricky Hatton, Champion
1.Floyd Mayweather Jr.
2.Miguel Cotto
3.Kostya Tszyu
4.Jose Luis Castillo
5.Junior Witter
6.Carlos Maussa
7.Arturo Gatti
8.Vivian Harris
9.DeMarcus Corley
10.Lovemore N'dou

ricky hatton was THE champ at that time... you can try again tho