Quote Originally Posted by LeftHookToTheBody
Well, I'm not sure how you can blame De La Hoya for this as if he's ducking someone. I mean, Floyd is still p4p #1 and beat him the first go round, to say nothing of the fact that it would still likely be his biggest money fight. If you want to blame Floyd for covering old ground, fair enough, but this would be just another example of Oscar taking the toughest challenge out there. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to see them fight again, but it would be hard to blame Oscar for this.
Is it really the toughest challenge for him though? A points loss to Mayweather will mean his reputation remains intact, after all he lost to the #1 P4P ranked dude.

A prolonged beating and possible stoppage from Cotto would end his part time career. Oscar and Floyd are both taking the easy route. There is a reason they both lusted after Hatton, he was much smaller without big power which = much less risk to them, but also insanely popular and would get a lot of British PPV buys. No offense to Hatton. I am glad he at least got a piece of the financial pie and he can go back down to 140 and still be a force in that division