Quote Originally Posted by albsur2006
Quote Originally Posted by OumaFan
Margarito wasn't even relatively a big name till 2000, and he really only broke out after the Cintron fight

De La Hoya left 147 in 2001, the idea that Margarito would have somehow been able to make a fight with ODLH at that time is very very doubtful. Now that he's a bigger name he's been calling out ODLH lately

Trinidad left 147 in 2000. Same as above. Now he's retired, hell he's been at 160 since 2001. But its Margarito's fault that he didn't fight him?

When Mayorga was at 147, Margarito called him out repeatedly, not the other way around

You do know that Mosley's camp turned down a fight with Margarito after the Cintron fight, right?

Spinks The idea that somebody who's willing to fight PBF would have been scared to fight Spinks, whether he was bigger or not, is absurd.


I never said Tony was scared to fight Spinks. I said that he needs to build up his resume by having one or two fights with some names. I know that people are in love with Tony, but let's be honest, THIS IS A BUSINESS!! Tony's gotta get his team to be creative and find a way to build some good buzz, if he has to fight the loser of the De La Hoya - Mayorga fight then so be it. Nobody even knows who Tony is outside of people that follow boxing closely. He's a low reward/high risk type fighter. If PBF wasn't undefeated then maybe he would take the fight. But an undefeated Olympian with a 70% KO ratio and famous pedigree should not be required to fight some guy who only has fought one guy that could be considered dangerous. PBF deserves the right to choose his fights.
I wasn't even responding to your post, I was responding to the original post

And I agree that he's low reward/high risk, my point is he was even lower reward/higher risk when ODLH, and Trinidad were at 147 so its hard to blame him for not making those fights, cause those guys wouldn't have taken it. And he did try to make a fight with both Mayorga and Mosley.

Its a big circle with Margarito, people who like him think no elite fighter has given him a chance, people who don't like him say he hasn't fought anybody elite