Quote Originally Posted by El Gamo
Margarito was the only, I repeat ONLY name WW who had the balls to fight them, and he did so back to back. Oh yeah, and Clottey was a voluntary defence! That's right, VOLUNTARY! I jsut find that amazing. In this day and age, where guys turn down huge sums of $$$$ for one reason or another, Tony,win,lose or draw, is so old school,willing to fight anyone. And remember, there were idiots saying he was ducking Paul...

Cotto(not Cotto himself,but certainly Arum has mentioned EVERYONE bar Williams, even Clottey has been mentioned)

Collazo(who's team didn't turn up at the purse bid for the fight v Clottey and he said Clottey wasn't a big enough fight before taking an untelevised fight last week v a no-name)

Cintron(didn't defend v mandatory Clottey)

And a a few other fighters, have turned down/ducked these fighters. The more they fight, the more Tony deserves credit because, regardless of the outcomes of the fights,he's been willing to fight them when no-one else has.

You're giving Margarito a little more credit than he deserves. Everyone undervalued Clottey before stepping in the ring with Margarito and had Joshua not had whatever issues he was having he would have handily taken Margarito's title. Tony was counting his chickens before they hatched by licking his chops at a potential match-up with Cotto. But he shot himself in the foot with his self-appointed 'most feared' moniker and would have looked yellow if he dumped his belt instead of facing his mandatory in Williams. Let's not forget, as much as some might like to say Mayweather is afraid of him, Margarito was calling out a junior welterweight to get the biggest payday of his career. He could have had that and more in Cotto, but to maintain a certain ideal of himself he had to defend his title.