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Floyd is cornered now, must fight Margarito
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Floyd is Cornered Now, Must Fight Margarito
By Scoop Malinowski
...or the world will know he's The $8 million CHICKEN!
Bob Arum has again stepped up and flashed an $8 million dollar offer to Floyd Mayweather to fight WBO Welterweight king Antonio Margarito in Las Vegas on October 7. For Mayweather the offer is bittersweet - because it would be the biggest purse of his career but also the most viciously dangerous fight of his life, one that could very well leave him knocked out cold in front of the entire world.
Mayweather is stuck in a sticky spot. His aspiration to fight Oscar in a big money business fight fell apart. And with that option/escape hatch no longer available, Mayweather again must deal with a proposition we know he does not want to mess with: Mr. Margarito. I say "we" because virtually every boxing insider in the know - including many astute boxing fans - are all well aware of the truth that Mayweather does not want to step in the ring and compete against the mysterious but very formidable Margarito.
The powers-that-be in the world of boxing want Mayweather vs. Margarito now. They are tired of the same old tired fights of Mayweather easily beating outclassed opposition. The powers, like everyone else, understand Margarito is a hungry, strong and relentless champion who is confident he will destroy Floyd. He has the tools and the mentality to give Floyd not only a real fight, but even a dramatic devastating highlight reel defeat. The powers want to see the marvelous talents of Floyd tested and pushed to the limit. The industry is tired of boring, suspenseless glorified sparring exhibitions from Mayweather.
We are soon about to find out if Floyd has the confidence in himself to take on the challenge of Margarito. Or is Floyd a phony chicken champion who would rather take on faded former champions like Vargas or Mosley, or absolutely anybody but Margarito?
It's a classic case of "the bigger they are, the harder they don't want to fall." Mayweather has cultivated a superstar image to the public, carrying himself like an arrogant, conceited champion who is just too damn good for everyone else. And Floyd has convinced much of the world that he is such an extraordinary champion, so marvelously superior to every other fighter that he will gladly fight whoever brings him the most money, it doesn't matter who it is, Floyd will whoop 'em all.
But the presence of Margarito is cracking that facade. Double talk betrays the truth. Floyd's trainer/uncle Roger said earlier this year Floyd would beat Margarito easy. Floyd himself has claimed not to know who Margarito is, then later revised those ignorant comments to that he'd fight him if the money is right, it makes dollars it makes sense, he's average, slow and would be easy work.
Now the money is right. The timing is right. Everything is right.
Mayweather likes to play it off as if his team (Leonard Ellerbe) calls the out of the ring shots, and then he takes care of everything in the ring. But you have to think a guy with an ego like Floyd calls all his own shots, he only hides behind Ellerbe when it suits the situation. Ellerbe said this week Floyd's next fight will be against the Vargas-Mosley winner, Baldomir (if he beats Gatti), Hatton, Cotto and even dropped Margarito's name in for good measure. Ah, they all do the name dropping bit, just to make it look good.
Everyone knows Floyd is not going to make anywhere near $8 million for any of those fights, only Margarito will bring that kind of bounty. (Only Margarito would accept the small short end of about $1 million vs. Floyd, all those other names will want approximately 50%.)
So Mayweather is in a corner now - cornered by Margarito, Arum, HBO, and a bag of $8 million dollars (and that's just the minimum guarantee! Don't discount the value of the Mexican pay-per-view numbers.). The powers that rule boxing want to make Floyd even more philthy rich, they want to pay him $8 million plus to fight Margarito.
If Floyd runs away from Margarito now, he has been exposed. If he ducks Margarito on October 7th in the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas on HBO pay-per-view, Phloyd's a phony. A phake, phony, phalse, phraudulent, phictitious counterpheit champion who is phearful, phrightened and woephully aphraid of Antonio Margarito.
Nobody likes a liar. If Floyd wants to duck Margarito now, at least he should consider confessing the plain truth to the world, "I am aphraid of Antonio Margarito. He's too big, too strong, too fast, too confident, too talented for me. He deserves to be a boxing superstar like me, I just don't have the courage to give him the same opportunities that were given to me."
Then we will respect Floyd for telling the truth. Because the truth is the most valuable commodity on earth, the rest is all garbage.
We know you were lying to us Floyd when you told us you didn't know who Margarito was and that he was nothing special, just slow and average. We'll forgive you, if you step up and be brave like Jermain Taylor who fought Winky when he didn't have to. Be brave like Bernard Hopkins, who fought Taylor when he didn't have to. Be brave like Wladimir Klitschko, who could have ducked Samuel Peter.
Antonio Margarito has paid his dues. He has been avoided for one reason or another by Mosley, Vargas, Wright, Baldomir. He deserves the big money, big spotlight fight as much as - if not more - than any fighter in the world today.
Mayweather has been blessed with and granted the big fight opportunities which he has capitalized on and made himself a world famous superstar. If he doesn't have the class to give the same opportunity to a deserving fighter like Margarito, Mayweather ought to hang his head in shame, put his tail between his legs and leave the sport. Leave the sport to the real champions, the real warriors who aren't afraid to fight the best.
Because nobody respects a phony.
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Originally Posted by gbrandon
I totally freakin agree
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