Did Floyd dodge Cotto in 2007/2008?

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I knew who Margarito was because I read Maxboxing, whom was always fond of him. They were really the only ones talking about him.

you weren't here yet at that time?

[jreckoning]

you weren't here yet at that time?

I was on aol with Iceman Scully, JAB, Scott and a few others around here now.

I read this site and maxboxing but I didn't join until much later.

I think for a long time it was cuz of the pop-ups. It was annoying as hell on here back then.

[jreckoning]

The topic at hand from the start.

Cotto ducked Floyd for a while. That is true.

Floyd didn't go out of his way to fight Margs and I believe it was to spite Arum more than anything.

Margarito was the guy back then, Floyd made his choice, it's over, we can't change it.

[Frogs!]

I was on aol with Iceman Scully, JAB, Scott and a few others around here now.

I read this site and maxboxing but I didn't join until much later.

I think for a long time it was cuz of the pop-ups. It was annoying as hell on here back then.

lol i remember those pop-ups.

you really had to be into boxing to have dealt with that shieet.

[The Gambler1981]

you weren't here yet at that time?

Maxboxing was the first boxing site I read and branched out, even though I never really agreed with Kim and Dougie. I came here for mostly news, I didn't start checking out the forum until much later which I lurked for a couple years before I started posting.

[Frogs!]

The topic at hand from the start.

Cotto ducked Floyd for a while. That is true.

Floyd didn't go out of his way to fight Margs and I believe it was to spite Arum more than anything.

Margarito was the guy back then, Floyd made his choice, it's over, we can't change it.

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[BoxingGenius27]

2005 Floyd was making sure Sharmba Mitchell was still dead after Kostya Tszyu abused him.

I am talking about 2006 when the fight was hot.

Cool, so we're talking about 2006, after the Judah fight.

As of right now, until Dan gives me more info on the interview he's talking about, according to ESPN, the summer of 2006 was when Arum officially offered the Margarito fight to Floyd. Floyd accepted, but with a guaranteed package deal that Arum couldn't approve.

That's why the Floyd vs margarito fight didn't happen in 2006 and why Floyd went on to fight Baldomir.

Now, if you're talking about 2004 and 2005, Mayweather was still fighting at 140 until he fought Mitchel like you said.

But that's an awful lot to ask Mayweather to fight margarito in his first fight at 147 in 2005 don't you think?

That's far from a duck if you ask me.

[The Gambler1981]

The topic at hand from the start.

Cotto ducked Floyd for a while. That is true.

Floyd didn't go out of his way to fight Margs and I believe it was to spite Arum more than anything.

Margarito was the guy back then, Floyd made his choice, it's over, we can't change it.

I don't know if I would call it spite, but that beef certainly got in the way of a lot of fights people wanted to see. Animosity maybe, but I can't say spite because I don't think it was to hurt Arum he just didn't want anything to do with him. I know Floyd had a legal action against Arum also that would have made it tough that I think is still going on to this day.

The rest is all true.

[jreckoning]

Cool, so we're talking about 2006, after the Judah fight.

As of right now, until Dan gives me more info on the interview he's talking about, according to ESPN, the summer of 2006 was when Arum officially offered the Margarito fight to Floyd. Floyd accepted, but with a guaranteed package deal that Arum couldn't approve.

That's why the Floyd vs margarito fight didn't happen in 2006 and why Floyd went on to fight Baldomir.

Now, if you're talking about 2004 and 2005, Mayweather was still fighting at 140 until he fought Mitchel like you said.

But that's an awful lot to ask Mayweather to fight margarito in his first fight at 147 in 2005 don't you think?

That's far from a duck if you ask me.

Sugar Ray fought Hagler off a 3 year lay off and at 160. Now that's a man.


If we are talking about 2006, Margs was better than Judah and Baldy.

I've heard different stories from both camps on it. What the truth is I don't know.
Arum says they balked, Floyd said they couldn't guarantee. Doesn't matter
I remember being very disappointed because I thought it could come off.

It's old hat anyways. I've spent too much time reliving what happened back then anyways in the champ of the week welterweight division, Margs was the only somewhat constant guy in the mix.

[big_james10]

if you were a boxing fan during that time, you knew who margarito was and well aware that he was a tough out for anyone in his division.

I was a boxing fan at that time and what I remember about Margarito was that he lost to a nobody named Daniel Santos (albeit a technical decision, but still a loss), he was getting his ass whipped by Joshua Clottey until Clottey injured his shoulder and he got ass beat by Paul Williams after his team delayed/rescheduled the Williams fight twice in an attempt to avoid Williams altogether. Margarito deserved a shot at Mayweather back then about as much as Robert Guererro does now.