The Cotto vs. Mayweather saga explained to the haters.

[SigmaMu]

How can anybody say that Mayweather is ducking/not giving a shot/avoiding Miguel Cotto? When you lay out the facts, it's pretty obvious that everything is coming together very nicely.

How so?

We all know that Miguel Cotto is fighting Alfonso Gomez soon and Floyd Mayweather is giving Oscar Delahoya a rematch later this year, a rematch that makes too much sense to pass up.

It makes sense only to Floyd and to ODLH. This makes no sense to the fans since the first fight was not a real fight.
I have seen more action in a backyard brawl free of charge biatch.

Oscar Delahoya gave Mayweather his toughest fight since his first fight with Jose Luis Castillo en route to losing a split decision, while both fighters made more money that they ever had before. Don't forget, that many people (admittedly mostly people that don't really follow boxing) thought that Delahoya was robbed. Meanwhile, Miguel Cotto is fighting the extremely inferior Alfonso Gomez. According to Bob Arum's latest interview on boxingtalk.com, he's got Cotto slated to fight the winner of Cintron vs. Margarito later this year. My question is this.....

I need to burp. (Insert burp here <-----

How is Mayweather avoiding Cotto when Bob Arum has Cotto's schedule wrapped up for the rest of the year??

Last night, Miguel was on Don Francisco. When asked about why ODLH will not fight him, Cotto replied that he does not know
Why ODLH is choosing to take the route that he is taking. He did say that he wanted to unify the division but that he was not going
to sit around and wait for anyone. If you recall, Joy made Margarito wait and wait and wait. Floyd claimed he was retired which was a ploy
to get Tony off his ass. Once Tony moved on, Floyd came right back. Now everyone wants to see Cotto/Mayweather but chicken boy Floyd after the
ODLH fight said he was reitiring, and he said it again after the Hatton fight. He keeps saying he is retiring and this forces Cotto to move on.
Again, it is Floyd who is playing little chicken shit games and trying to avoid the best and REAL welter weight champions. He has you fooled but not me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14WjZb20kZo
This is a little reminder of Floyd making the claims of not wanting to fight any welter weight.
What he really ment was, I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT MIGUEL COTTO, who is right now, THEE best Welter Weight. Did you think Cotto was dumb enough to make the same mistake Tony made? Nope! Fuck Floyd, if the bitch wont fight, Cotto will find some one else with the balls who will.

For those that are new to boxing, allow me to explain how this works.

For those of you who are new to Saddo, Frozen Solid would suck Floyd's stick if Floyd would let him.

Cotto unifies the WBA and IBF belts by beating Cintron/Margarito. Mayweather successfully defends his WBC title against the extremely popular and big $$$ maker Oscar Delahoya.

No one knows if this is a title fight. Sit down. We don't know at what weight these two bitch boys are going to dance at.

In the meantime, Mayweather is doing things to increase his popularity amongst the general population in hopes to make his name a household name, i.e. "Dancing With the Stars," "Wrestlemania," etc. So that people who don't even watch or follow boxing will still shell out $59.95 for a PPV ala Oscar Delahoya.

I don't care what Floyd does, he will never be like ODLH in ticket sales. Oscar can fight any bum and still bring in the bank. Floyd, on the other hand needs someone
popular like ODLH or Ricky Hatton to make a decent event. Fighting Cotto should make sense because EVERYONE wants to see them fight. What don't you and Floyd understand about this. Every boxing site and Forum talks about Cotto/PBF this includes writers, sportscaster, commentators, you name it, they want it.

Then early next year, we will have one of the biggest, most lucrative welterweight unification championships ever when undefeated champion/household name Floyd Mayweather Jr. takes on the fellow undefeated champion/vicious, hungry Miguel Cotto.

You don't even believe this shit. You don't want to see this fight just like you did not want to see PBF vs Margarito. So, why have you been wanting to see
Cotto/Margarito but not the other way around?

Do the haters honestly believe that this fight would be that big of a deal ($$$) if the fight happened 2 months ago, tomorrow, or 4 months from now??

We are tired of talking about it. Make it happen. We know Floyd will not deliver. We know he lies and cheats. This is his M.O.

Of course not. But because boxing is a big money business for the highly successful fighters, this is how it will play out. Bob Arum knows this, Floyd Mayweather knows this, Miguel Cotto knows this, I know this, when is it going to sink in to the haters' heads?

Blah blah blah blah.
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[the wiz]

To all the Floyd lovers that for some reason think Floyd isn't ducking Cotto defend this one, this is in an excerpt from an article.....

Mayweather, 39-0 with 25 knockouts in the boxing ring, stopped England's Ricky Hatton in the 10th round last December to keep his crown but resists the idea to fight rival champions such as undefeated Miguel Cotto, calling him one-dimensional and talking down his promoter, Bob Arum.

"I'm not going to fight those guys and make them big. They fight Floyd Mayweather that makes them big. I'm not going to let no more fighters piggyback on me," Mayweather said.

"If Oscar de la Hoya wants one more chance to get his ass kicked, we can make it happen. If Ricky Hatton wants one more chance to get his ass kicked, we can make it happen."



For one, what fighters have piggybacked Floyd and made themselves big by fighting Floyd, this guy is delusional!!! Nice to see he's ready to fight guys he's already beaten.

Full article below...

AFP: Mayweather to drop uncle as trainer if he stays with Forbes

[Mar]

...every fighter who hasn't already been beaten by floyd will claim he's ducking them, that will never change. He can fight cotto tommorow and the next guy will jump right in his place with the same silly claims the next day, one week it's oscar, the next hatton, now it's cotto geeeez the guy would have to fight every weekend to keep people happy, how badly people want to see him loose (reguardless of who it is) is funny. They build up every so called floyd slayer the same way, and the result is always the same.

[SigmaMu]

...every fighter who hasn't already been beaten by floyd will claim he's ducking them, that will never change.

Floyd has not stood still long enough in any division for anyone to make that claim and it looks as though he will stay somewhere between 147 to 154. He has yet to unify anything other than his two lips on ODLH's nuts. Floyd has ducked a lot of fighters while moving up.

He can fight cotto tommorow

He should but he wont.

and the next guy will jump right in his place with the same silly claims the next day,

When you make claims about how great you are and you also have people who will believe these claims (his little fans) Fighters will try to call him out becuase fighters want to fight the best.

one week it's oscar,

It was never Oscar who wanted to fight PBF. Don't ever get this twisted. Oscar is every fighters dream and their HUGE MEAL ticket. Floyd could not attrack flies if he was covered in shit and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Floyd already faced Oscar, why fight him again? Didn't he beat him? They should have never given floyd the split decision. To be the champ, you have to BEAT the champ and Floyd did not beat Oscar. I know it sounds twisted but the truth is Floyd got another gift like he did against Castillo.

the next hatton, now it's cotto geeeez the guy would have to fight every weekend to keep people happy, how badly people want to see him loose (reguardless of who it is) is funny. They build up every so called floyd slayer the same way, and the result is always the same.

Floyd has a bullseye on his back. Floyd has not faught a slayer in a very long time. Name the slayers Floyd has faced? You will have to go back a few years wont you.?

[bzkfn]

Danny you are relentless...

The thing is though, you do make some great points. There are alot of people on here loving Floyd claiming that this fight doesn't have to happen. I'm not gunna say its ducking yet because I believe that logic will prevail in the end, just like it did with the Hatton fight.

However, Cotto is by far the most dangerous threat to Mayweather and I'm sure that while he has his schedule wrapped up for the rest of the year, he drop everything if Floyd said yes to the fight. There is no real reason for the fight not to happen this year, but its not in the works so I have accepted it for now.

Mar, you have said that fans line people up to beat Floyd and this will always happen. You're right in some sense as I always felt the Margo ducking was a load of crap as Margo had done nothing to make me think the fight would go any other way than a win for Floyd, and I didn't think he deserved the fight. But with Cotto it is very different. He has paid his dues. He is undefeated. He is a natural Welter, a fellow champion and is looking better with every fight. You'll find that this is the most anticipated fight on the planet right now, and opinion to who would win is divided. It would make soooooooooo much money now.

For now though, I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. At the moment I believe what it comes down to is that Floyd cares more about making money than giving the fans the fight they want. If Cotto offers more money than anything else, I think he'll take the fight. It's all about the most money for the least risk.

[SweetPea]

For about the 3 billionth time....

If Floyd and Cotto are both still undefeated at the end of 2008, and Floyd doesn't make Cotto his first opponent of 2009, then criticize Floyd for ducking Cotto all you want. Fill the entire message board with anti-Floyd threads for all I care. You won't hear one bit of complaining from myself and many other Floyd fans, because the criticism will be justified.

But not now. Right now in March 2008, all this stuff is premature.

[Snakey]

Its just hilarious how hatton was definately gonna be the guy to take floyd down and when he got knocked the fuck out, cotto is now the guy. Before then it was margarito and paul williams, gatti and dela hoya. See a pattern?

[SigmaMu]

Its just hilarious how hatton was definately gonna be the guy to take floyd down and when he got knocked the fuck out, cotto is now the guy. Before then it was margarito and paul williams, gatti and dela hoya. See a pattern?

You must live in a different world then the rest of us because those of us who have been paying attention, witnessed what Hatton was capeable of doing as a welter weight and that was SHIT. He got chased back down to the junior welter weight didnt he? And this is before PBF, so what the hell are you talking about?

A couple of things about that fight still stand out. Joe Cortez helping Floyd along, Hatton getting frustrated, all the cheating Floyd had to do to win and the one dimmensional fighter we saw in Hatton. This Hatton we saw against Floyd can be beat by top 10 Welter Weight and now Floyd wants to fight him again? LMAO! I would still rather see a Williams or a Margarito vs PBF than I would see a ODLH or Hatton/PBF again.

Let's not cover this up by not mentioning Cotto. Why did you leave Cotto's name out of this? Interesting.

[Bx730NY]

...every fighter who hasn't already been beaten by floyd will claim he's ducking them, that will never change. He can fight cotto tommorow and the next guy will jump right in his place with the same silly claims the next day, one week it's oscar, the next hatton, now it's cotto geeeez the guy would have to fight every weekend to keep people happy, how badly people want to see him loose (reguardless of who it is) is funny. They build up every so called floyd slayer the same way, and the result is always the same.

You act like floyd is a god or something. Can't believe you guys get fooled so easily by such a transparent act. Cotto would be his toughest challenge to date and would actually have a good chance to beat him come fight night.

It seems that you guys are impressed by his big talk and wins over guys that shouldn't even be in the ring with him.

I've been watching boxing for a long time and never seen such blatant ducking or a guy get so much credit for just talking a good game and not doing anything to really prove it.

I'll give you guys a good example: It's like Notre Dame college football team, they have been such a popular team for such a long time. If they are the 20Th ranked team in the nation and your team beats them, how can your team call themselves national champs regardless of how much money the networks made?

Answer: they can't.

Fight the best and beat the best and then you can start talking about yourself as the best or possibly all time great.

[SweetPea]

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I've been watching boxing for a long time and never seen such blatant ducking or a guy get so much credit for just talking a good game and not doing anything to really prove it.

You must have never followed Prince Hamed's career then.

[Bx730NY]

[QUOTE=SweetPea;484254]

I've been watching boxing for a long time and never seen such blatant ducking or a guy get so much credit for just talking a good game and not doing anything to really prove it.

You must have never followed Prince Hamed's career then.

Good point

[Kel]

To all the Floyd lovers that for some reason think Floyd isn't ducking Cotto defend this one, this is in an excerpt from an article.....

Mayweather, 39-0 with 25 knockouts in the boxing ring, stopped England's Ricky Hatton in the 10th round last December to keep his crown but resists the idea to fight rival champions such as undefeated Miguel Cotto, calling him one-dimensional and talking down his promoter, Bob Arum.

"I'm not going to fight those guys and make them big. They fight Floyd Mayweather that makes them big. I'm not going to let no more fighters piggyback on me," Mayweather said.

"If Oscar de la Hoya wants one more chance to get his ass kicked, we can make it happen. If Ricky Hatton wants one more chance to get his ass kicked, we can make it happen."



For one, what fighters have piggybacked Floyd and made themselves big by fighting Floyd, this guy is delusional!!! Nice to see he's ready to fight guys he's already beaten.

Full article below...

AFP: Mayweather to drop uncle as trainer if he stays with Forbes

Haha it's the total opposite, Floyd is the one fighting popular guys who bring the cash yet he STILL thinks he is the major draw. Loser