It was Miguel Cotto who drove Floyd Mayweather Jr into Retirement says Famed Promoter

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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."

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I never thought he would say anything of the sort

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You Can Read It On Maxboxing.com

[Mar]

Margarito isn't retired.....that's all that matters, these guys love usiing floyd's name......sad really.

[Markusdarkus]

Miguel Cotto had nothing what so ever to do with Oscar who Floyd was due to fight Sept 20th. If he had fought Oscar then retired maybe but i dont buy it Floyd turned down 20million in a virtual gimmie to retire what Cotto has to do with that is beyond me.

I guess the guy got paid for the interview and had noting intresting to say so made up his own wacko theory.

[El Kabong]

Margarito isn't retired.....that's all that matters, these guys love usiing floyd's name......sad really.

It's nothing new to boxing though

[Julius Rain]

Margarito isn't retired.....that's all that matters, these guys love usiing floyd's name......sad really.

its not like floyds name will do much, they just telling the truth. well atleast the truth they believe.

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

He'll be back to fight the winner of Cotto Margarito... So in other words... He'll be back next year to fight Tony

[rjj tszyu]

Mayweather retired because he is an attention seeker. He retired for attention and he will return for attention.

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Mayweather retired because he is an attention seeker. He retired for attention and he will return for attention.

Agreed

[Puerto Rican Punch]

Floyd was probably the best pound for pound, however, for some reason he by himself is not a big ticket seller, until recently. We all know how De La Hoya and Hatton can sell. I am not saying Floyd does not have fans because he has a lot, but there have been more exciting boxers for which the people was really willing to pay. I think Floyd is just waiting for other big name to raise and take advantage of that opportunity and make the money he did not do during the inactivity period. I think he is looking for a few big fights rather than many smaller ($$$) fights. If Cotto beats Margarito, and his promoters can reach an agreement with De La Hoya for a fight, and Cotto wins again, I think that will be sufficient to make Floyd return to the ring and fight Cotto. However, De La Hoya seems to be looking for "glory" fighting smaller size boxers like Manny that may represent less risks at WW than Cotto.

I believe that De La Hoya would be more willing to fight Ivan Calderon than Cotto