Floyd Admits That He Ducked Antonio Margarito Because God/Something Told Him To...

Margarito wasn't that slow, you are exaggerating. He was able to walk down a prime Miguel Cotto, if he was a plodder or unskilled he should have lost badly Cotto.

Margarito threw over 100 punches a round, his activity alone would have given Floyd problems.

 

Personally I'm not even saying Margo wins the only thing I was saying is he's not an easy fight for May and that may ducked him

 

I think by this point in his career Mayweather was all about fighting twice per year at most, he had 10 fights in 6 years from 2009-15. Between the massive PPV revenue and no Bob Arum, he didn't need 20 fights like some other fighters, so there's no way he was going to fight absolutely everybody. I do think he could've done Berto, then an active younger champion like Thurman, Garcia or Brook and retired afterwards but by this point he probably felt he had nothing to prove.

 

Canelo was naive.

He stood off and never pressed Floyd.

He seemed terrified of getting countered.

Although Canelo is obviously a much better fighter than Marg, Marg would never have stood off of him like that, where he'd have shown him that level of respect.

Floyd only fought Canelo and Maidana a year apart, yet look at the contrast between those 2 fights, despite the fact that Canelo was/is a much better fighter than what Maidana was.

Never forget the old adage: 'styles make fights'

It's what makes the sport so beautiful and interesting.

 

Margarito wasnt that skilled. He caused problems for people because his workrate and chin was unbelievable.

His chin was 100 percent pure iron and it was hard to imagine how anybody could have a better chin.

 

That would require a poor performance from Mayweather, I suppose he had a few off nights but generally speaking I'd expect a routine victory.
I don't think he ducked him, this was at the height of his dispute with Bob Arum. Every time Bob was out of the picture or in Pac's case took a backseat, fights were made.

 

Styles make fights. Floyd struggled against Castillo. Pac would finish him in 3 rounds.

 

He walked Cotto down because Cotto has suspect stamina has a shaky chin and doesn't have the defense or footspeed of PBF. Margo was slow as **** and if you think Margo is throwing 100 punches a round against PBF who's not there to be hit then I don't know what else to tell you. No one is throwing 100 punches a round against a prime PBF. If they did they would be missing and getting countered to hell and back and tired as ****.

 

Maidana wasn't a bad night it was a bad style Mach up

 

Margarito likely loses but there was a possibility that he would've just kept coming forward on FlIVd and walked through his shots and did what he did to Sergio and Cotto. It was too dangerous aa fight for FlIVd and we all know he dont like risk.

 

What's interesting though is why he seemed terrified of getting countered. I think Mayweather has enough power to make fighters hesitate, we're making a massive assumption here that Margarito would shrug off the straight and overhand rights he'd be quickly eating if he tried to rush him. The thing about Mayweather is, he makes you think that you'd be able to get in there, walk him down and dish out some punishment but why did it never really work out like that? Even if you somehow managed to land something big, he has an iron chin. Must be soul crushing to fight against.

 

Actually it was a bit of both, the fact that the second fight was easier would suggest that.

 

In the second fight as soon as Maidana got close the ref would throw himself between them and break them never letting Maidana work inside

 

Guys like Margo and Paul Williams both had limitless stamina and threw in excess of 1000+ punches a fight.. None of the top guys in that era wanted to fight them in their primes.. Only when a fighter had nothing to lose was they willing to take that path..

 

I like Ricky so I probably see that fight through a different prism, I actually thought he did some good work in the early part of the fight, enough for it to be engaging to watch anyway.