Duran : In My Era, Mayweather Would Have Been Ordinary

[Violent Demise]

There is no need to make up lies. It wasn't De La Hoya he fought in place of Margarito. It was Carlos Baldomir. Big difference in threat level there.

Regardless of how you or anyone else feel about Baldomir as a fighter, he was the #1 of the WW division at the time after upsetting Zab. He was the champion. Margarito had the lightly-regarded WBO WW strap.

Did anyone believe Baldomir was going to beat Floyd? I doubt it. But he was, at that time, the #1 in the division and presented Floyd with more reward than a fight with Margarito would have.

And of course Margarito was dethrowned by Paul Williams shortly after, making a Marg/Floyd showdown irrelelvant

Margarito had been looking for him since 2006. The fight was there to be made. Him and Arum were still on speaking terms. He fights Zab Judah instead. The same Zab Judah who had just lost to Carlos Baldomir. How the fuck can anybody defend that selection?