Let's no get over excited. It doesn't matter who Margarito had beaten.By consensu,he was number 1 or 2 WW in the world at the time. Who had Hatton beaten at WW to get a shot at the lineal WW title? That's the first point and the second point is,Margarito would have done a lot better than Hatton. You can look at it any way you want.

It doesn't matter who you thought would have won.Floyd was offered $8million for a fight he did not take,yet he fought Judah for less the previous fight and Judah was coming off a loss. Anyone calling Margarito a gate keeper knows nothing about boxing.End of.There's disliking a fighter which I can understand but a gatekeeper/journeymen etc shows a COMPLETE lack of knowledge.

Quote Originally Posted by Floyd_Fears_Cotto
The way I remember this was that Tony called out Floyd and Arum offered Floyd $ 8 Million Dollars. This was way before Baldomir came into the picture. And Floyd peed on himself and he came up with this who is Tony bullshiet and so all of his little fan boys began saying the same thing and yet they all knew who Tony was unless they don't watch boxing at all. Long story short... This would be Floyd's biggest payday and he was afraid. Suddenly the term "If it makes money, it makes sense" was thrown out the window. Everyone wanted to see this fight except those Floyd fans who were afraid to see Floyd lose. (Even his fans were afraid) So Floyd went around contradicting himself back and forth and talking about he was not here to fight the best that he was in it for the money etc. Then Baldo came into the picture and Floyd was all over this fight to face an old Barney Rubble clone of a man. Although Floyd is a risk taker, he is not an idiot risk taker and from the looks of things he never will be which leads me to believe he will not be fighting any of the Welters we want to see him fight.
Although I'll think he'll eventually fight Cotto,I agree with the rest. It's no diss or kick with Foyd. I don't hate Floyd but he did what he did,avoided a career best payday because he knew Tony was a high risk fight. That's fair enough.

Quote Originally Posted by ono
I don't want to get flamed here by Tony fans but he basically has a punchers chance at best.

Maybe has shown that he can deal with a strength and power disadvantage so bang goes Margarito's physical advantages.....

So basically it comes to down to skill and technique

Floyd is pretty much the perfect fighter.

Margarito is far from the perfect fighter.

Therefore....by my reckoning, he has a punchers chance.
That's not the issue. The issue is whether Floyd ducked Tony or not,not who you think would win.