Enough "PBF avoided Margarito" Threads!

yeah see heres the thing...when your cotto and you fight the best..eventually your gonna lose ...but if your like mayweather and cherry pick down the line ...you don'thave to worry about loseing

 

wrong. you floyd boys love to rewrite history. arum offered 8m no options. even pbf did noit deny that. when tr got tired of waiting for a response, they signed the clottey fight. at which point pbf tried to make a fight with spinks. when that did not materialize, he signed with goosen for the baldomir fight, for allegedly 8m but goosen got options on pbf next fight dlh.
so don't ghet it twisted. financially the margarito fight was more lucrative for pbf, but simply too much risk.

 

frankly i'm not offended that cotto lost ... i take great pride in the fact that my fighter fought a guy whose been ducked by some of the best fighters of the last 10 years ...the mosleys ..the delahoyas ..mayorgas... mayweathers.. they all ducked him instead of having to risk it ...

cotto went in there and stood toe to toe and went blow for blow with the guy ...something some of you chumps favorite fighters can't say

 

How was the fight more lucrative when Floyd got atleast as much fighting Baldomir? I don't see the logic. Floyd got the lineal title and atleast 8 mil, what is more lucrative than that deal?

 

I agree but he still could have faced Margo.

He was right to fight Baldomir. Baldomir was the lineal champ. Some people who critisize Floyd for fighting Baldomir also have a go at Pac for not fighting Campbell (holds most belts at lightweight) or Casamayor (lightweight lineal champ) which is quite hypocritical in my book.

However, although Margo only held the WBO belt and wasn't well known to the greater public most knowledgable boxing fans and boxer's themselves knew how dangerous Margo was. In an ideal world boxing should be about the best fighting the best. It doesn't matter if that fighter isn't well known to the public. If you know a guy is good you should take the risk and fight him. It's all very well having the public say "he beat this well known boxer. He must be great". But what is more important is that at the end of your career you can look in the mirror and know and feel proud that, in terms of boxing ability, you fought all the top guys out there.

Im fed up of boxer's avoiding certain boxer's because they are 'high risk, low reward'.

However you can't blame Floyd entirely for this. Many fighter's before him have done this and im sure many fighter's after him will do it.

 

I have respect for Cotto, but lets get real, he only wanted to fight Margarito after Paul beat him. I want to know why he ducked Paul.

 

because goosen had options on his next fight ... the margarito fight would have been a win over a guy nobody wanted to face ... it would have met no options just 8 mil straight cash .. no bull attached... it would have met ..meeting his most dangerous opponet yet ...

but instead he got in there and ran from baldi all night

 

Yea how convenient. Margarito has to trash the whole division while CHUMP gets to sit back and say when and where he'll fight him.

**** that. Margarito will make his own money without that coward. Believe it!

 

because floyd gave up money on his next fight.

goosen got a piece of the dlh fight.

 

was the fight with williams ever offered to cotto?..and do you have anything to back this up?

 

Would fighting Margarito give him the lineal title and the recognition as #1 WW. Seems to me that it was worth it. Fighting Margarito would have at best just given him a paper title and he wouldn't be the WW champ.

 

good to see little floyd has some backers. Its just amazing that they can interpret an 8 million turn down (which would have been biggest purse to date) into good business deal. DUCK DUCK DUCKING if you say anything else you are full of ****.

 

\\]yes bedlam the offer was free and clear