Floyd Mayweather vs. Antonio Margarito.

[Beanflicker]

Oh well, so we have to debate on woulda/coulda, when he in fact: Didn't want to fight Margarito for whatever reason we like to insert.

Do you know the story behind why the fight didn't happen?

[La Cucaracha]

I had Mayorga beating Spinks would have loved to have seen Mayorga-Margarito

Floyd would have beaten Margarito but it was still a fight I would have liked to see around the time Floyd retired Cotto, Margarito and Williams were the top 3 challengers around the end of 2007 but Floyd had signed for a rematch with De La Hoya instead before retiring those were the dance partners he should have been paired with instead of The Big Show or Karina Smirnoff

[TitoFan]

Pointless, boring match.

Floyd would box circles around the clueless MargaCheato. If you thought the Floyd-Canelo fight was a total whitewash..... it would actually look like the Leonard-Benitez chess match compared to Floyd-MargaCheato.

Floyd would be unable to hurt MargaCheato (MC for short) .... so he would pot shot him, pepper him with combinations..... hell..... he'd probably strike up a conversation with ringsiders, out of pure boredom. It's one of the ATG boxers versus a plodding , one-eyed Neanderthal. What could possibly be interesting about that?? MC is naturally twice as big as Floyd, and has more than a pretty good chin. Hmmm..... on the other hand..... there's always a chance Floyd could do a Mosley on MC. God knows Mosley's annihilation of MC remains one of my favorite fights of all time.

But otherwise, no. Horrible match.

[Beanflicker]

Pointless, boring match.

Floyd would box circles around the clueless MargaCheato. If you thought the Floyd-Canelo fight was a total whitewash..... it would actually look like the Leonard-Benitez chess match compared to Floyd-MargaCheato.

Floyd would be unable to hurt MargaCheato (MC for short) .... so he would pot shot him, pepper him with combinations..... hell..... he'd probably strike up a conversation with ringsiders, out of pure boredom. It's one of the ATG boxers versus a plodding , one-eyed Neanderthal. What could possibly be interesting about that?? MC is naturally twice as big as Floyd, and has more than a pretty good chin. Hmmm..... on the other hand..... there's always a chance Floyd could do a Mosley on MC. God knows Mosley's annihilation of MC remains one of my favorite fights of all time.

But otherwise, no. Horrible match.

Yep, about sums it up.

[SlimTrae]

Oh well, so we have to debate on woulda/coulda, when he in fact: Didn't want to fight Margarito for whatever reason we like to insert.

Do you know the story behind why the fight didn't happen?

Several stories, to which I eventually walked away from.
Peep this:
Ali came up with GOAT
PBF came up with TBE

One of those guys fought the best with no stories to be told why he missed so and so.

Another of those guys has a billions excuses/reasons of why no Margarito, no Paul Williams, no Manny Pacquiao...

[Beanflicker]

Several stories, to which I eventually walked away from.

I've never heard several stories about it, I just know one story - what actually happened and has been verified by all sides involved.

[Max Power]

Oh well, so we have to debate on woulda/coulda, when he in fact: Didn't want to fight Margarito for whatever reason we like to insert.

Do you know the story behind why the fight didn't happen?

Several stories, to which I eventually walked away from.
Peep this:
Ali came up with GOAT
PBF came up with TBE

One of those guys fought the best with no stories to be told why he missed so and so.

Another of those guys has a billions excuses/reasons of why no Margarito, no Paul Williams, no Manny Pacquiao...

Floyd and Ali are both as bad.

Floyd ducked the very best fighters. But dominantly beat most of the ones he did fight.

Ali fought the very best fighters but he was basically gifted farcially through his entire career against too many of them.

[SlimTrae]

Bean & I were discussing why Floyd didn't fight Margarito, not how dominant he was-when he fought others or how farcical Ali was...when facing the best.


Hence, why Bean wrote: Do you know the story behind why the fight didn't happen?

[TitoFan]

That's exactly right..... and the answer was provided about 9 posts ago.

This would've been a "no-win" fight for Floyd. Absolutely nothing to gain, and everything to lose.
They didn't belong in the same boxing stratosphere together, much less share a ring.

But given Cheato's penchant for loading gloves, his huge size (compared to Floyd), and his excellent chin, there was always that infinitesimal chance of Cheato catching Floyd (think the Martinez-Chavez Jr. debacle, only twice as one-sided). It would be like watching a bullfight, on the outside chance the bull might gore the matador.

Bottom line is: Cheato didn't deserve a shot at boxing's best.

[SlimTrae]

That's exactly right..... and the answer was provided about 9 posts ago.

This would've been a "no-win" fight for Floyd. Absolutely nothing to gain, and everything to lose.
They didn't belong in the same boxing stratosphere together, much less share a ring.

But given Cheato's penchant for loading gloves, his huge size (compared to Floyd), and his excellent chin, there was always that infinitesimal chance of Cheato catching Floyd (think the Martinez-Chavez Jr. debacle, only twice as one-sided). It would be like watching a bullfight, on the outside chance the bull might gore the matador.

Bottom line is: Cheato didn't deserve a shot at boxing's best.

Hey, gotta give credit to Bob Arum for beefing up the fight without a cause- Margarito "the most feared" man. with how many losses at that point?

[TitoFan]

That's exactly right..... and the answer was provided about 9 posts ago.

This would've been a "no-win" fight for Floyd. Absolutely nothing to gain, and everything to lose.
They didn't belong in the same boxing stratosphere together, much less share a ring.

But given Cheato's penchant for loading gloves, his huge size (compared to Floyd), and his excellent chin, there was always that infinitesimal chance of Cheato catching Floyd (think the Martinez-Chavez Jr. debacle, only twice as one-sided). It would be like watching a bullfight, on the outside chance the bull might gore the matador.

Bottom line is: Cheato didn't deserve a shot at boxing's best.

Hey, gotta give credit to Bob Arum for beefing up the fight without a cause- Margarito "the most feared" man. with how many losses at that point?

That's why Bob Arum has been a highly successful promoter for so many years.
He could promote a match between a rabid Chihuahua and a 500-lb Bengal tiger, and people would buy the PPV.

[imp]

Oh well, so we have to debate on woulda/coulda, when he in fact: Didn't want to fight Margarito for whatever reason we like to insert.

Do you know the story behind why the fight didn't happen?

Several stories, to which I eventually walked away from.
Peep this:
Ali came up with GOAT
PBF came up with TBE

One of those guys fought the best with no stories to be told why he missed so and so.

Another of those guys has a billions excuses/reasons of why no Margarito, no Paul Williams, no Manny Pacquiao...

Floyd and Ali are both as bad.

Floyd ducked the very best fighters. But dominantly beat most of the ones he did fight.

Ali fought the very best fighters but he was basically gifted farcially through his entire career against too many of them.

Floyd and ali and are just a couple of duckers.

Let's just call rocky balboa the TBE and goat and call it day...thats what the majority want..a guy that takes loads of damage and scrapes a win.