Miguel Cotto says Floyd Mayweather Jr will have to Answer

[terrorsid]

At a press conference on Wednesday to help hype Saturday's highly anticipated HBO match up between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito, Promoter Bob Arum was on hand.

At the conference Arum made it clear what he thought of retired boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. Arum blasted Mayweather Jr. for not having anything that could hurt Cotto and assured those in attendance that Cotto is the reason Mayweather Jr. abruptly retired.

In regards to a Cotto vs Mayweather Jr. fight, Arum stated: "Miguel would run him out of the ring." Arum went on to add: "He has nothing to hurt Miguel with. Miguel drove him into retirement."

[SweetPea]

Why does the thread title say "Miguel Cotto says...."??

Looks like Arum was the one doing the talking, as usual.

[RP33]

At a press conference on Wednesday to help hype Saturday's highly anticipated HBO match up between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito, Promoter Bob Arum was on hand.

At the conference Arum made it clear what he thought of retired boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. Arum blasted Mayweather Jr. for not having anything that could hurt Cotto and assured those in attendance that Cotto is the reason Mayweather Jr. abruptly retired.

In regards to a Cotto vs Mayweather Jr. fight, Arum stated: "Miguel would run him out of the ring." Arum went on to add: "He has nothing to hurt Miguel with. Miguel drove him into retirement."

awesome..

any talk of a fight between Cotto/Mayweather makes me happy..

Cotto needs to directly call him out to get Mayweather off of his ass..

[donnydarkoIRL]

But Miguel didn't comment?

[ssss]

Why don't Bob Arum just wait and see if Miguel Cotto actually wins first just a thought ?

[Mar]

Arum and cotto are still talking about beating a "retired' fighter when they have a active fighter that he may or not beat standing right in front of them. If he would have retired before the hatton fight hattons peeps would be claiming he ran him out......geeeeezzz louise for a guy people hate so much they talk about him more than his fans do.....why continuously bring up his name like he is the bar of the sport. A sport he's not even active in at the time.....build your merit on your own name rather than trying to use floyd's. I will be impressed enough if he beats tony.....boxing isn't all floyd mayweather.

[Diane]

Well to be fair Mar, Cotto and Margarito were both asked about Mayweather, so they gave answers. Bob Arum is the only one that brought up Mayweather out of the blue. Everything that was stated in the first post here, came from Arum, not Cotto.

Here is what Margarito and Cotto had to say when asked about Mayweather.



Neither fighter had anything good to say about Floyd Mayweather, Jr., however.

“I have to focus on Saturday night,” said Margarito. “I don’t know what’s going through Mayweather’s mind. I don’t know if he’s playing. It doesn’t matter.

“But do I think he’ll return? . . . I think he’ll be back.”

Cotto had a similar take on Mayweather’s “retirement.”

“I can’t force anybody to face Miguel Cotto,” said Cotto. “I’m here to face the big names.

“But, in ten years, they’ll ask him what the reason was that he did not face Miguel Cotto. Me, I never say never. I don’t know what passes through his mind, but that’s his business. He will probably be back.”

[JT Rock]

Yea Arum just being a dik by the sounds of it... Floyd is retired let him be, just like Mar said forge your own legacy

[SigmaMu]

At a press conference on Wednesday to help hype Saturday's highly anticipated HBO match up between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito, Promoter Bob Arum was on hand.

At the conference Arum made it clear what he thought of retired boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. Arum blasted Mayweather Jr. for not having anything that could hurt Cotto and assured those in attendance that Cotto is the reason Mayweather Jr. abruptly retired.

In regards to a Cotto vs Mayweather Jr. fight, Arum stated: "Miguel would run him out of the ring." Arum went on to add: "He has nothing to hurt Miguel with. Miguel drove him into retirement."

In all honesty, it was Tony Margarito who chased Floyd out of the game. But still PBF did not even want to phuk with Miguel either.

[Kev]

Arum being an idiot as usual.

Why in the world would Floyd retire to avoid a fighter who had to be helped out of the ring after the systematic beatdown that Margarito put on him?

His fighter folded under the pressure and will never be the same fighter again.

I'd love to see Floyd come out and fight Margarito, a real warrior but Cotto will be lucky to get a belt back now after what Margarito did to him.

From now on his career will go the way of Zab Judah and Fernando Vargas. He'll still get the big fights against the top fighters, but he won't be winning many.

[SigmaMu]

Arum being an idiot as usual.

Why in the world would Floyd retire to avoid a fighter who had to be helped out of the ring after the systematic beatdown that Margarito put on him?

His fighter folded under the pressure and will never be the same fighter again.

I'd love to see Floyd come out and fight Margarito, a real warrior but Cotto will be lucky to get a belt back now after what Margarito did to him.

From now on his career will go the way of Zab Judah and Fernando Vargas. He'll still get the big fights against the top fighters, but he won't be winning many.

Arum began saying this before the Margarito fight, not after the Margarito fight you dumb azz dildo

Cotto will be a champ again

[Kev]

Ah my mistake. It wouldn't suprise me at all for Arum to still be going on about it however after all this is the man who with a straight face once said that history would see Ali and George Foreman joined by Hasim Rahman as the three greatest Top Rank heavies of all time.

I actually have nothing bad to say about Cotto though, the guy is willing to face anybody and put his reputation on the line each time so I have nothing but respect for him.

I knew Margarito would beat his ass though

[BoomBoom]

I still think Cotto could beat Mayweather, but by neither guy calling each other out they both missed the boat imo. Maybe it could have happened while they were both undefeated, but either way Margarito desrved the fight more than Mayweather. Mayweather did nothing spectacular at Welterweight. Both Margarito and Cotto are much more accomplished at this weight imo because they fought other prime welterweights.

[Panadzzz]

At a press conference on Wednesday to help hype Saturday's highly anticipated HBO match up between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito, Promoter Bob Arum was on hand.

At the conference Arum made it clear what he thought of retired boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. Arum blasted Mayweather Jr. for not having anything that could hurt Cotto and assured those in attendance that Cotto is the reason Mayweather Jr. abruptly retired.

In regards to a Cotto vs Mayweather Jr. fight, Arum stated: "Miguel would run him out of the ring." Arum went on to add: "He has nothing to hurt Miguel with. Miguel drove him into retirement."

I hope this remark by arum to lure pbf off retirement will spark cotto-pbf: this is one of the biggest matches every boxing fan is dreanming of. If pbf is brave enough to answer arum's challenge to fight cotto and end some critics reaction that pbf is avoiding everybody at the 147 division.. then we will finally get what we always wanted. Hurrah for boxing!

[Plopeater]

Cotto needs a good comeback fight first before even considering this, and why would PBF come out of retirement to fight Cotto, he could get better money now for other fighters