Cotto: "Mayweather has not been a real factor in boxing since 2003"

[bruzza]

I see Floyd has you like Charlie Manson had his groupie btches...Working for the Floyd 24/7. Do you chant for Floyd "Floyd is god... Floyd is God..."

All jokes aside Kunta, It was Floyd that was quoted as saying "Cotto is too green." Back when Cotto wanted the fight.

How big of a btch are you to be 1 of 6 fans left for the biggest btch in welterweight history?

Add to that list of reasons why the fight couldn't be made:

"cotto lives in puerto Rico".

[Frank Ducketts]

At least he tried, at three of the fighters in your post Floyd blatantly ducked.

You don't even know what the boxing term "duck means lol... Floyd ducked Arum if anything because he didn't want to do business with Arum. Arum never believed Floyd would be a ppv smash.

[al-Xander]

It's funny how people blew up AM right up until he got knocked out by Shane, then when Floyd beat Shane, PAc's fans said Shane blew his load in round 2, but lasted the full 12 lol...

No matter what you Floyd fans say the question will always
be, "when is Floyd going to fight Pac?" People will always ****
on whoever they fought. That's understandable. Ultimately,
the only way to settle it is for these two to fight each other
as soon as possible.

There's no chance in hell that we'll ever going to see Mayweather
take on Clottey, Margarito and Cotto, let alone Martinez or Williams.
Pacquiao is not going to fight these 2 big guys, either. The same way
Williams and Martinez will never going to call out the Klitschko
brothers.

[Frank Ducketts]

No matter what you Floyd fans say the question will always
be, "when is Floyd going to fight Pac?" People will always ****
on whoever they fought. That's understandable. Ultimately,
the only way to settle it is for these two to fight each other
as soon as possible

Exactly...

[AllEyesOpen]

This coming from a guy who's proud to have taken a title from a one legged journeyman after being destroyed twice at 147.

[Boss Don]

if cotto want it he can get it

[Light_Speed]

what's the point of reading articles if you can't understand them? cotto was fighting on undercards in a lower weight division and floyd wanted double his career high to fight him. that is a fact. margarito was the number 1 ranked welterweight in the world and had been a top welterweight for 5 years.

the popularity of a fighter comes into play more in ppv revenue than it does in guaranteed money. when you have a less popular fighter that a promoter wants you to fight he will usually entice you with more guaranteed money because he knows you won't get as many ppv buys. this is the case here. a cotto-mayweather fight would have generated more money than a margarito-mayweather fight hence he doesn't have to guarantee as much. it's economics and good business.

LOL in 2006 Cotto wasn't fighting on undercards he was headlining HBO cards. Back then he already had more HBO apperances than Margarito.

The popularity of a fighter always comes into play because the more famous the fighter, the more money the networks will pay to broadcast the fight, the more people will buy tickets to see the fight live, the sweeter the deal will be with the casinos. Boxing business 101.

let's try to think logically here. floyd prices himself out of a cotto fight when cotto was at 140. then when cotto moves up to 147 floyd keeps making excuses not to fight him such as he lives too far away, he's not a ppv star, hes not the CEO of his own company etc... add to that he would probably make 20 to 30 million to fight him which is much more than the 10 million he wanted before.

when you use all this evidence you can only come up with one logical explanation. floyd never wanted to fight cotto under any circumstances.

Cotto was a welterweight in 2006. I got a question for you : did Cotto's camp send any offer to Floyd? Maybe they officially sent an offer and I missed it. In that case I would gladly read about it if you can give me a link. In the meantime you should read this :

Arum will always favor Mexican fighters. He's convinced
that Mexicans always pack stadiums plus PPV sales. I don't
know if that is true, but Arum's confidence in Margarito's
marketability definitely showed even months before the
Clottey fight ignoring Marg's hand wrap scandal.

Yeah Arum loves the mexican/puerto rican/filipino market. Floyd was his last african american cash cow.

From about 2000 to 2003.


Mayweather wanted none back then.

FLoyd called out Mosley in 99 but Mosley turned him down to move up and make more money against Oscar. Fact.

[V.WEBB]

FLoyd called out Mosley in 99 but Mosley turned him down to move up and make more money against Oscar. Fact.

Not only that, but Arum offered Shane to fight Floyd at a catchweight because Shane was having trouble making a 135. So he skipped 140 altogether and went to 147 and fought Oscar.

[AP♠]

Floyd went on his first give away vacation when cotto was in his prime and when the division was getting hott.plus cotto lived too far and wasn't yet a "ppv" draw lol.cold hard facts

[Frank Ducketts]

Cotto moonwalks when punches are coming back at him...