I met Al Haymon today he is Maywaethers manager and another Advisor

Floyd was looking for a tune-up when he first moved up to Welterweight as he was set to fight Judah after it, a Margarito fight isn't exactly tune-up material.

Also, Arum was planning for Floyd to fight Margarito instead of Baldomir after his fight with Judah since everyone else was already hooked with a fight to replace Judah with.

 

That's definitely a big part of it. Mayweather didn't get to where he is today by making dumb business decisions on his own. If his team and advisor said tomorrow that he should fight Margarito for Welterweight supremacy I have a hunch Floyd would make the fight if the money is right.

 

That's the interview I have downloaded!!, always forgot the name of the show(even though I LOVE it) but mentioned the interview many times here, couldn't get ahold of it because it's on an internal hard-disk within my old computer and I can't be bothered to turn it on. Arum was insisting that he wanted Floyd to fight Margarito instead of others.

That's because Margarito was far too loyal to the WBOgus title and he only started to get the major fights when he dropped it as you can notice now, thanks to Williams helping him drop it of course.

 

That's the difference between effective management and inept management. If Haymon was Margarito's advisor he would never have let him take that fight against Williams when Cotto and stardom was waiting for him around the corner. That loss really took the wind out of his sails and set him back a year when he could have been making big money fights already.

 

I think Margarito was cornered there and had to take that fight or drop his WBO title, that's why they probably had to make that fight even though it was known to be too risky. If they dropped the title and went on fighting someone else, all the "ducking" media-talk will switch from Mayweather to him, they had no other choice but to take it especially when Williams was his mandatory.

 

Floyd already said it on ESPN before his fight with DLH, the smartest move BOTH him and DLH made was leaving Bob Arum and it was proven right there. Some people claim he paid off Arum to leave him was because Margarito was in his nightmares when in reality a possible fight with DLH NOT happening was in his nightmares, that's a fight he seeked ALL his career if anyone followed him early.

Yes boxing was indeed forced on him but proved to be a special fighter, though I do believe he loves boxing otherwise he wouldn't have allowed it to be his life. Just my opinion of course.

 

He was a bit cornered because of all the criticism that was being levelled at Floyd at the time but Arum explicitly told him not fight Williams who was a relatively unknown yet large 6'3" southpaw at the time. Arum is a weasel and Margo was never his #1 fighter but even he could see that Williams was a terrible style matchup for him.

Had Margo checked his ego at the door he could have did wonders for his career by beating Cotto and forcing Mayweather to face him. At the time Cotto was more of a straight forward puncher/stalker and not nearly as polished as he was this year and would have been easy work for Margarito.

By the way, all that ducking talk in the media didn't seem to have any effect on PBF's ability to land megafights. Maybe Margarito's team should take a page out of Mayweather's book for future reference.

 

Good post, can't disagree with anything there.

 

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