Mayweather Not Interested In Cotto

In the latest boxing news, World Boxing Council welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (39-0, 25 KOs) said to Franklin McNeil of the New Jersey Star-Ledger, “He (Miguel Cotto) knows he can’t beat me. He knows. Cotto’s remedy to beat me is pressure, pressure, pressure. That’s not the remedy to beat me.” Apparently, Mayweather, 30, is more interested in taking 2008 off to pursue his other interests, such as boxing promotion, music and film.

However, there are people in the boxing community that see Mayweather’s actions - or lack there of - spurred mostly because of his fear of being beaten, and hence risking his reputation as the pound-4-pound number one fighter in boxing. To be sure, Mayweather has carefully selected the vast majority of his opponents since 2003, somehow avoiding the best fighters in the division, yet the public appears none the wiser for his actions. In saying that he’ll be focusing on his other interests, Mayweather has a ready made excuse to avoid Cotto, Antonio Margarito, Paul Williams and Kermit Cintron, the top fighters in the welterweight division and the ones that Mayweather should have been fighting the past couple of years if he was serious about wanting to fight the best.

Instead, we saw Mayweather go up against a faded Oscar De La Hoya, Arturo Gatti, Carlos Baldomir, Zab Judah and now an undersized welterweight, Ricky Hatton. None of those fighters would have much of a chance against Margarito, Cotto, Williams and Cintron, and would likely get stopped in brutal fashion. For this reason, it seems embarrassingly revealing that Mayweather would choose this time to step away from boxing rather than having to take the type of fights he should have been years ago. Without facing the best, Mayweather’s Pound-4-Pound label is meaningless, and basically laughable.

It’s like looking at a shadow boxer and giving him an exalted title, despite the fact that he never stepped in the ring with a live person. Unless I miss my guess, even when Mayweather does come back, it won’t be against Cotto, or any of the other top welterweights. Instead, we’ll likely see Mayweather go up against De La Hoya or Hatton again, while telling the world what a good businessman he is.

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Posted December 19th, 2007 l 367 Views

Tags: Boxing, Floyd Mayweather Jr, Miguel Cotto

Anonymous:

Then when he beats Cotto’s ass, then what are you going to say? “He should fight Williams, etc…” Here’s a guy who’s 39-0, who’s already been in serious mega fights (remember Corales was undefeated and in his prime when Floyd KO’d him… remember De La Hoya OK’d Mayorga, who KO’d Forrest when Floyd beat De La Hoya). Now Cotto is the big threat that Floyd is scared of. Stop hating.

posted December 20th, 2007 at 6:23 pm

anto:

Floyd is very insecure of Himself as a Fighter, he know that he need to hide in something, now he is hiding behind the cover of business. he is very afraid, very afraid of loosing. he already said that he is afraid of cotto, in psicology is call te reverse factor,when he said ” cotto cannot beat me” is a shame that the media call him the best when actually we know he is not, until he face the Real boxers. Cotto,Margarito, cintron. we know that cotto will beat him fast. ali was the greatest because he never hide from anybody. even forman called floyd a chicken, we all know that floyd is not the best, but the media sometimes makes this big mistakes giving names to people that they do not deserve. Floyd be a Figter stop hiding a face reality. sep into the plate with cotto and test yourself as a figter.

posted December 20th, 2007 at 10:39 am

Pat Robinson:

You all need to quit hating on Floyd. Before he fought Oscar, Ricky, Zab & Carlos, you heard all the stuff about how tough they were and how they had a chance at beating Floyd. When Floyd easily demolished them, you want to talk the suff about being a faded fighter, undersized, etc.. Floyd cannot help it that his skill level is far above the rest. Those other fighter you named don’t stand a chance either. Then what are you going say. Let Floyd do him. He has nothing else to prove!!!

posted December 20th, 2007 at 9:07 am

Right on, it’s like the movie “Game of Death”. Bruce Lee couldn’t step to the White man with the cane until he defeated the first three levels. YOU CAN’T STEP TO THE MAN JUST LIKE THAT!

posted December 19th, 2007 at 5:44 pm

Sorry Dude, I think Oscar De La Hoya today beats Margarito, Cotto, Williams and Cintron. You cannot just name the top 4 B-list fighters and say they deserve to fight an A-list fighter. If these B-list fighters were to fight a round-robin… the winner becomes A-list and then deserves a shot at Floyd or Oscar.

posted December 19th, 2007 at 5:16 pm