Stylistically Margarito would of destroyed Mayweather makes so much sense he did not fight him

The problem with bringing up Maidana and Castillo is that he won both rematches convincingly.

Margo has size, was tough as Hell and was relentless. Would have been a very good fight but I don't think Margo has the nuance and ring IQ required to punish Mayweather.

I don't think its an easy day at the office for Mayweather but I can't look past him here.

 

Let's say Floyd faces and beats Margo in 2006. After that things play out as they in fact did: Margo beats Cotto but gets caught cheating with the wraps before his next fight and subsequently beat up by Mosley and later by Pac. How much credit would Floyd get for that win today?

I'd guess hardly any. In the end the story would be that he only did what a washed up Mosley did, but less convincingly.

 

He wouldn't of hit Floyd in the ass with a broom stick.

 

Margarito would have beat that little ***** Mayweather from pillar to post. What a coincidence that scum Floyd retired right when the division was filled with killers like Cotto, Williams and Margo

 

Possibly maybe , but I don’t think so
Tony would give up his height & teach advantages & would get countered all night.
I’d imagine a TKO by money may with a virtuoso performance like he had versus corrales.

Styles make fights & I think this would have been a welter weight version of Mayweather vs corrales.

 

Yeah but his eye though.
Not saying mayweather flat out KOs him.
Hell even Mosley didn’t flat out KO him.

I said likely stops him by TKO.
That eye is hamburger helper.
& money may got the tenderizing target practice.

Sure It would be a hard fight for both.
With a definite edge to Mayweather for skill level.
& yeah if cotto could TKO Margo’s eye.
I think money may does the same only faster.

mayweather has never been stopped & has never lost on the cards
yet you think Margo is the one to do it.

That is the real flawed & foolish thinking, chances are you lose the house.

 

I can certainly see that outcome. Margo one of those guys who looked too slow but yet managed to corner and beat Cotto down, something even Canelo couldn’t do.

But floyd has fast feet and if he has a favourable referee, he just needs to pop, run, wen cornered, bend below the waist and grab Margo, wait to be separated and repeat for 12 rounds.

But this idea of floyd just schooling him like Gatti, lol. He would walk through floyd, ragdoll him, and since he was quite a bit taller, would be punching down.

If anyone has tried the shoulder roll against taller guys, it just doesn’t work as well. Your shoulders is below your head but then punches is coming from above. Which is why Paul Williams would have been a pain in the ass for floyd also.

 

Margo was able to chase down Cotto because Miguel was literally on the run, fighting off his back foot. Steward mentioned this during the fight. Cotto constantly let Margo build up momentum moving forward, instead of employing creative footwork and creating angles to attack from, Miguel literally backpedalled in both fights.

Margo didn't use great footwork to track him down. He was literally able to just run down Cotto because he never had to be concerned with angles or actually cut the ring.

That simply would not work against Floyd or Manny or any other top fighter using great footwork and angles. And Miguel was teeing off on Margo in full retreat. The dude couldn't cut down or get off on Mosley who was in the pocket. Shane just kept turning him.

But he's supposed to beat Mayweather by walking him down and cutting the ring. Sorry, no.

 

Cotto started to backpedal early in in the first fight, but he made more of a point of standing his ground, and occasionally even clinching and walking back Margo to ring center in the rematch. He won a lot of center ring skirmishes against Margo the second time around, and was able to side step away more often than he did the first time around. As a consequence, he was way ahead on the cards in the second fight, and deservedly so.

I think this speaks to your general point, though. Floyd was adept at finding ways to clinch on the inside, gaining head and arm control with one hand while using the other to punch. Then he'd release, potshot, parry, gain head and arm control, and dig inside. He did that a lot against Hatton, who lived on the inside. So, in a hypothetical fight with Margo, he's facing a guy who can clinch and create angles on the inside, plus control the outside with angles and footwork, too.

That more than likely means Floyd wins quite clearly.

 

Floyd isn't doing anywhere near what Mosley did, he's a runner. At most he'd beat him on points doing absolutely no damage whatsoever.

 

I agree. That's why "I wrote In the end the story would be that he only did what a washed up Mosley did, but less convincingly."

 

Only the joyboys and May didn't want that fight
Margarito is criminally underrated he cut the ring off better than anyone at the time cast iron chin not much power but stamina for days and great body work

 

Floyd couldnt bust a wet paper bag. Heck he teed off on a totally defenceless Victor Ortiz with his hardest one two & Victor got up laughing