First it was Cotto losing to Margo... Though not really a big loss to Top Rank since Margo is also a house fighter and making Margo a bigger star... Next was Pavlik losing to smart veteran B-Hop... Pavlik looked like a small boy schooled by a master teacher.. Cotto, Pavlik and Pacquiao are Top Rank's most exciting fighters (you can add Margo now after the Cotto victory)... Is Pacquiao next to lose?
pac has the lowest odds of the 3 coming into the fight, in fact he is the overwhelming underdog in his fight. cotto and pavlik were the favorites. it's pretty obvious that people expect pacquiao to lose this one while pac and his team doesn't mind since they get the biggest paychecks of their career.
Like I said before Margarito/Cotto - Cotto losing was planned. Contingency or not. Is Cotto worth less now than he was before the loss? NO. Margarito is worth alot more though, ain't he? Cotto/De La Hoya fell through - but De La Hoya didn't come forward until after Margarito/Cotto was already a done deal.
Yeah, I'm the idiot. It isn't douchebags like yourself that still don't get it - and demonstrate loudly how ****ing stupid they are. Margarito isn't a FRANCHISE now. Cotto hasn't been totally UNSCATHED in the marketplace. I didn't lay out all of the business BEFORE IT HAPPENED. Top Rank will see tens of millions of dollars worth of profit, and it was all just an accident. They didn't send the highly breakable Cotto up against the brick wall Margarito thinking that anything would happen to him. :rofl :rofl :rofl This wasn't boxing - it was physics 101. Only a ****ing ******, like yourself, could have missed seeing it coming. Nice work, ******.
I don't buy that. If Cotto won, a Cotto-De La Hoya match would've been all but certain. If Cotto were to win that, he'd be the face up boxing. I think Cotto's loss was bad for Top Rank.
Read it again, SF57. Apparently you weren't following this situation as it was unfolding at the time. De La Hoya didn't come forward and make his offer to fight Cotto (supposedly the "winner") until after Margarito/Cotto was a done deal. Sure, Top Rank may have been hoping that Cotto possibly won AFTER De La Hoya made his offer - but not before. By then the Margarito fight was already happening. The history of this situation goes all the way back to early 2007, it's a long and winding road.
I understand it wasn't a done deal that DLH-Cotto would go through. But I think it's pretty obvious that this would be the best fight for all parties. Cotto, an undefeated young prospect with a very good resume already...DLH, the face of boxing. Arum & Cotto would've taken 30% to fight DLH because a win vs oscar would've done wonders for his career (and make him the face of boxing).
I don't think I follow, SF57... Sure, it would have been the best fight for all parties. Of course. But there wasn't even a hint of a possibility that it would ever happen until De La Hoya randomly came out of nowhere and said he would fight Cotto. This is also after Floyd Mayweather retired out of nowhere, as well, and shocked everyone. Try to keep in mind, before this De La Hoya had ruled out fighting Cotto becuase his "wife didn't want him to fight any more Puerto Ricans." All the information we had said it would never happen. You're using quite a bit of 20-20 hindsight here, mate. Now it looks like it might have been an empty offer anyway seeing as how De La Hoya is fighting a guy who weighed 135 in his last fight, and De La Hoya has proven he will go back on a promise to "fight the winner." If he went back on that; then why would he have fought Cotto after he beat a monster like Margarito? Seems highly unlikely at this point. De La Hoya is full of ****. But that's a different story..
Do you ever make posts on the subject of boxing, troll? At least be entertaining if you're going to play the pest every ****ing day. Go get some material and a personality.
