The Cotto vs. Mayweather saga explained to the haters.

[Rican]

I give Mayweather the benefit of the doubt that he will fight Cotto in 2009. If not than maybe there is some truth to all this ducking talk.

I'll be the first one to admit it, IF Cotto doesn't lose first.

We remember what happened with the whole "Mayweather is ducking Margarito," nonsense.........
That whole theory lost a lot of credibility after Paul Williams beat Margarito.

And more recently, people were starting up with the "Mayweather is ducking Paul Williams," BS. Funny how we don't hear that too much on this forum these days.

But, I do think that Cotto is the real deal and I don't see him having too much of a problem disposing of Gomez and Margarito/Cintron. I've been wrong before though (Paul Williams)

The reason Cotto's schedule is set for most of this year is because he couldn't get Mayweather to step in the ring with him. Thus, why wait for someone who would rather bore fans with a rematch with Oscar than excite fans with a fight with Cotto? Also, Cotto is fighting the much harder/riskier competition for less money as opposed to Floyd, who is fighting the less riskier, higher reward fights. One Cotto loss by split decision or close unanimous decision would make Floyd and his fans say: "Told You so!" Thank God that Cotto takes his fights seriously and will prepare for every fight so as not to mess up his opportunity against Floyd. One Cotto loss shouldn't ruin his chances against Floyd. I mean, look at all the losses Floyd's last opponents have had. Floyd will use that one loss as an excuse not to get in the ring with Cotto, but he didn't use it against any of his past opponents.