Miguel Cotto says Floyd Mayweather Jr will have to Answer

[El Kabong]

first point when cotto did fight the best he got beat. as for zab i think floyd was punishing him before the low blow but thats just my imo also zab took cotto to the ninth round after rocking cotto a couple times and if we give cotto credit for beating zab and we give baldomir credit for beating zab y doesn't floyd get credit for that and floyd turned around and beat baldomire no credit for that i dont get it. i been saying this for years alot of guys floyd beats he out classes them so its always floyd doesn't fight the best but then some other guy comes along and beats a guy a year later that pbf beat and they say wow he is great some one please make this make sense to me

Cotto has been beaten ONCE but only because he's not afraid to fight the best fighter out there.

Floyd didn't get full credit for beating Judah because Zab didn't deserve the fight as he lost to Baldomir and looked pathetic doing it. That being said the Zab Judah that fought Floyd was more focused and determined....but Cotto KO'd that version and Floyd didn't

. Floyd didn't get the full credit for beating Baldomir as he knew he couldn't hurt Carlos and he outboxed him but not in a manner where he made Baldomir pay for anything....Floyd didn't flurry on him or make him look foolish or anything any other great fighters did in their most uninspired fights. If Roy Jones Jr. couldn't KO someone he was going to do his damnedest to make them look silly in the ring and he did a good job of it, Pernell Whittaker didn't KO many guys but he made plenty of them look stupid. Floyd has the talent to do that but to waste people's time and money to basically just run away from Baldomir for the last half of the fight and then call himself "The best of all-time"....it's ridiculous, it's what makes people dislike him. He's got great talent but you never know if you're going to get to see it.


Everyone knows Floyd is an awesome fighter but it seems like Floyd is more willing to talk himself up to a high level instead of fighting himself up to a high level. Why leave a division and retire from boxing when the division is overflowing with talent?!?!?! It makes no sense and everyone knows it.

[truth32]

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Cotto has been beaten ONCE but only because he's not afraid to fight the best fighter out there.

Floyd didn't get full credit for beating Judah because Zab didn't deserve the fight as he lost to Baldomir and looked pathetic doing it. That being said the Zab Judah that fought Floyd was more focused and determined....but Cotto KO'd that version and Floyd didn't

. Floyd didn't get the full credit for beating Baldomir as he knew he couldn't hurt Carlos and he outboxed him but not in a manner where he made Baldomir pay for anything....Floyd didn't flurry on him or make him look foolish or anything any other great fighters did in their most uninspired fights. If Roy Jones Jr. couldn't KO someone he was going to do his damnedest to make them look silly in the ring and he did a good job of it, Pernell Whittaker didn't KO many guys but he made plenty of them look stupid. Floyd has the talent to do that but to waste people's time and money to basically just run away from Baldomir for the last half of the fight and then call himself "The best of all-time"....it's ridiculous, it's what makes people dislike him. He's got great talent but you never know if you're going to get to see it.


Everyone knows Floyd is an awesome fighter but it seems like Floyd is more willing to talk himself up to a high level instead of fighting himself up to a high level. Why leave a division and retire from boxing when the division is overflowing with talent?!?!?! It makes no sense and everyone knows it.[/quote]

it seems to me your makeing the same point and not really giving me a valid answer to my question. you say cotto lost to the best but mago is not very talented imo. you say floyd faught the focused zab but i still one to me that means he should get more credit if floyd faught the focused zab then cotto faught the unfocused zab coming off of a couple losses. pbf is a proffesional in the ring winning fights the best way he knows how also he hurt his hand in i think the 5th round this is y he stayed away from baldomir. when jones was fighting they always said he wasn't fighting the best and would say his tacticts to make fighters look silly where very unproffesional

[El Kabong]

Well Margarito might not be a polished boxer but he's tough and too tough for anyone to stop at 147 and being tough, being able to take punishment is a talent when you can draw someone into your fighting style. Margarito is more dangerous than anyone Floyd has ever fought.

Zab Judah has been more focused since his loss to Baldomir...he was very ready for Cotto despite having lost vs Baldomir and Floyd.

If Floyd acted professionally then he'd give the fans what they wanted and if he's not able to KO Baldomir (which he wasn't going to do anyway) then he should make him look bad. He doesn't have to gloat or showboat or anything like that but he could have boxed aggressively and made Baldomir swing and miss and counter him with the handspeed we all know Floyd has.....but no, Floyd broke a nail and didn't WANT to throw.....well Gatti didn't WANT to hit Mickey Ward with his broken hand but he did it and low and behold he's the fan favorite.

I don't ask anything from Floyd that I wouldn't ask from any other fighter. Floyd has all the talent in the world but should he be compared to Ray Robinson, Ray Leonard, Tommy Hearns, Roberto Duran, Willie Pep? NO!

[truth32]

im gonna tell you what listening to the fans in boxing gets you more low paying fighst then hudge paydays and your face split open hints cotto who we now see will never be elite he could have faught a couple more average guys and busted them up kept looking good and getting more money once you lose it puts you in a lower price range not saying pbf is scared to fight anyone but he faught who he had to fight to the level he wanted and the money he wanted witch is what you do at your job you make smart buissness moves and for all the fighters who said they could beat pbf and say he put priced himself put the money up take his head of and beat the best if not then u cant complain

[El Kabong]

So you don't think Floyd would make a mint it he fought Cotto? You don't think he'd make money fighting Margarito

So Floyd doesn't want to be the greatest he just wants to be the best paid What a legacy to leave


Miguel Cotto is elite....most fighters lose and most great fighters have lost. But great fighters always push themselves to fight the best....anyone can go out and make money boxing but not everyone can be great and right now Cotto has the respect of fans that Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn't know anything about.

[TitoFan]

So you don't think Floyd would make a mint it he fought Cotto? You don't think he'd make money fighting Margarito

So Floyd doesn't want to be the greatest he just wants to be the best paid What a legacy to leave


Miguel Cotto is elite....most fighters lose and most great fighters have lost. But great fighters always push themselves to fight the best....anyone can go out and make money boxing but not everyone can be great and right now Cotto has the respect of fans that Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn't know anything about.

Very well said. I'm not a Floyd hater (for the record), but some things are plain as day... and only blind fans will continue to deny the undeniable.

[truth32]

So you don't think Floyd would make a mint it he fought Cotto? You don't think he'd make money fighting Margarito

So Floyd doesn't want to be the greatest he just wants to be the best paid What a legacy to leave


Miguel Cotto is elite....most fighters lose and most great fighters have lost. But great fighters always push themselves to fight the best....anyone can go out and make money boxing but not everyone can be great and right now Cotto has the respect of fans that Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn't know anything about.

what i know is pbf came off makeing 20 mill with odlh and probly about 15 with hatton and cotto and margo offered him 8 tell me what you would do even if he faught and beat them both it would only make 16 and if its not about the money to all fighters they would make sure he got the money he wanted since even if pbf has a smaller fan base then both fighter he had more to lose and was more known and more talked about for more years

[truth32]

i also must say that out of 39 fights it only takes 2 that can decide if your the best or not in that case the only 2 fighters he had to be would have been castillo,corrales,margo, and cotto because acording to people like you the only 2 of his fights he deserves propes for are castillo and corrales