In fact, I've had enough "Floyd avoided fighting _______" threads. Floyd didn't avoid fighting Margarito any more than he avoided all of the other welterweight fighters that didn't make any sense for him to fight. Did he AVOID Kermit Cintron? Cintron had a paper title just like Margo. Did he AVOID Andre Berto? What about Oktay Urkal? Granted he was offered a great deal of money to fight Margarito, but he decided to fight for the WBC and Lineal Welterweight Title instead for nearly the same money. I wouldn't exactly call that a bone-head move... My point is this. If you plan your career well enough, you get to choose your opponents. When doing so you have to offer fans a fight that is intriguing that is ALSO a fight that people will PAY the most to see. Sugar Ray Leonard got to this point and had one hell of a HOF career. He "avoided" every prime fighter at Middleweight after beating Hagler and only fought Hearns and Duran in big money rematches at Middleweight. Floyd fought a Welterweight warm up against Sharmba Mitchell and then beat the two most recent lineal champs at Welterweight. Moved up in weight to challenge the WBC champ at 154 in the biggest money fight of all time and then moved back down and fought a big money fight against the type of "pressure fighter" that supposedly had the skills to break him down. This is alot more than can be said for Leonards move up to Middleweight. And with regards to Cotto, I have always maintained that Floyd was just waiting for Cotto to gain the kind of notoriety to mainstream fans that would justify him coming out of retirement. If Cotto had beaten Margo and/or Williams and beaten Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd would have fought him FOR SURE. And he would have won FOR SURE. There isn't ANYONE at Welterweight that could beat Floyd Mayweather and he knew it. He was the Champion of boxing's hottest division and nobody he hadn't already beaten was bringing ANYTHING to the table. Remember, after Floyd beats people and makes it look easy, people always downplay his level of competition. He can't fight guys who can just be dismissed as "hype jobs" after he beats them. They have to have either proven fighters, prestigious titleholders, or both. And they have to pull their weight from a fiscal point of view. It's called "prizefighting" for a reason.
But he took 8 million dollars to fight Baldomir who had the lineal title and WBC belt. Not a useless WBO trinket. Thats not avoiding someone.
8 Million Dollars says you are ****ing idiot who didn't read: "Granted he was offered a great deal of money to fight Margarito, but he decided to fight for the WBC and Lineal Welterweight Title instead for nearly the same money. I wouldn't exactly call that a bone-head move..." Jesus Christ! I knew i'd bring out some ******s, but I expected better than that...
LEARN TO READ DIP****: "...but he decided to fight for the WBC and Lineal Welterweight Title instead for nearly the same money." You are going to criticize him for fighting for less money money now? I hope you have a really nice mop and bucket where you work...
he told margarito when confronted he'd do battle when the time was right ...then opted the time was right to retire and hang out with 50 and lil wayne
And if Margo can beat the right people, he probably will. First Margo has to avenge the Williams loss and fight a big name fighter with LOSING.
Im not "Floyd Boy" by any means, this all just seems too silly not to comment on. I bet $100 on Baldomir to beat Floyd. Not something a nuthugger does last time i checked.
all the caps in the world isn't gonna change the fact that floyd retired instead of having to man up to the challanges
Over and over, he said he wasn't in boxing for the money, although he earned at least $8 million to fight Baldomir. http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2650377 He made atleast 8 million fighting Baldomir.
So Floyd is a quitter and coward for retiring, hanging it up so he can enjoy his health, but Cotto is not a quitter for doing the same thing in the ring on Saturday for the exact same reason?
I guess you should change your name to "CottoDaUppercutsDestroyed" then. For the record, I predicted a Cotto victory over Margo, but posted a thread one day before the fight stating that if he lost it would be due to uppercuts.
i didn't say he was a quitter did i? ... i jsut said it's not gonna change the fact that he retired instead of manning up to his challanges ... dont put words in my mouth