Did Arum/Cotto ever ask for Mayweather fight?

eliqueiros · May 22, 2008

sthomas said:

The sseds have been planted by Arum and Mayweather. Please correct me if I'm wrong with the following assessment:

Arum is pulling some serious strings:
1) Arum's stable includes: Cotto, Marg., and Clottey.
2) Cotto and Marg. are fighing for huge $$$$$$'s for Cotto's titles and Marg. is giving his up for not taking on his mandatory. I heard Arum is making this happen to Marg.
3) Clottey gets to fight for Marg.'s vacated title. If Clottey wins his title match, Arum will still have all his championship belts that he has now, & he'll still have 2 champs. If Marg. did not have to give up his belt he would only have 1 champ after Cotto vs. Marg.

So Bob's starting to fan the flames with his Mayweather comments. He's got his 2 big guns fighting each other for huge $$$$'s for Arum, and then whoever wins will be in position for serious calling out of Mayweather, and even huger $$$$$$$$$'s. In the mean tiime Clottey, if he wins the championship and looks good, will be ready to make some big bucks.

Then there's Floyd. Pretty much sitting back getting ready for another giant $$$$$$$'s matchup with DLH. Once Floyd beats DLH (he should), then he'll make even bigger $$$$'s fightiing the Cotto/Marg. winner.

So both these guys have their pieces well in place. It woud be very interesting to see if Arum tries to swoop in and have one of his guys fight DLH for big $$$$$$'s before Floyd does, leaving Floyd noone to fight but an Arum guy. I would not be surprised, if this happens, that Floyd goes after another Hatton fight, and then fights the Arum guys.

This is brilliant card playing by these guys.
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Great observation skills. I hadn't even thought of how well Arum could manipulate his other big fighters. I wonder if Hoya is taking notes on this, shows how green around the ears he still is as a promoter.

Lance_Uppercut · May 23, 2008

eze said:

No. Never have they even talked with Floyd about it or Floyds people.
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How exactly do you know that? Do you think everything that happens behind the scenes in boxing gets reported?:nut

eze · May 23, 2008

Lance_Uppercut said:

How exactly do you know that? Do you think everything that happens behind the scenes in boxing gets reported?:nut
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Let me restate that, nothing that's been made public. Although you would think a fight this big some kind of source would be leaked.

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