Floyd Mayweather vs Cotto: why Mayweather is avoiding Manny Pacquiao

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Sports | Posted by:

Floyd Mayweather vs Miguel Cotto was a great fight. But people wonder as to why Mayweather is avoiding Manny Pacquiao

Floyd Mayweather has shown his grit and determination in winning a tough fight against Miguel Cotto. It was a fight that could have gone either as both the fighters were looking equally gifted in the middle of it. Mayweather, following the fight, said that he wanted to make the fight interesting and so he prolonged it till twelfth round.

Though there may be some truth into it, as we accept everything from the champion boxer in our stride, but to be true, in the middle of ring with blood coming out of Mayweather’s face, that looks unlikeliest of assumptions.

The champion boxer has come out with flying colors and tons of cash –he got around $32 million from the fight –and much more in proceeds of the match fee and other charges. Cotto despite losing the fight has also become a lot richer with millions of dollars going into his bank account as well.

But the entity that has made the highest amount of money is none other than HBO that made a killing of sorts by earning more than 90 million dollars from the fight.

Notwithstanding the win and the infusion of huge amount of money in his assets, festivities are not going to be very long in Mayweather camp. From June 1, he is going to begin his prison term in home assault case. Though it is not certain that he will spend the whole one month prison term behind bars, he will have to spend at least a few days inside the high prison walls.

Meanwhile people are still looking forward to a super fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao, one of the best pound for pound boxers in the world right now. Manny doesn’t have any objection to fight Mayweather, but he has come with one excuse after the other. Mayweather wants to keep at least 60 percent proceeds of the fight that is unacceptable to Manny Pacquiao.

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  • ZworK

    what a dumb article! First off the fight wasn’t close enough to have gone either way. Secondly the title of the article suggests that an argument will be put forward as to why Mayweather is avoiding Pacquiao but there’s nothing to substantiate it in the article. This must be an article written by a pactard for pactards. No logic required!

  • miguel

    pacquiao is gunna whoop mayweathers ass

  • Andre

    This is the dumbest article ever.

  • BOXING 101

    Floyd admitted that Cotto(pacquiao’s left over) was the toughest opponent he faced! yet Pac floored Cotto many times, destroyed him in a brutal TKO! rematch? highly unlikely! Pac will destroy Cotto in any weight division anytime anywhere.

    Floyd vs Cotto II? maybe! why? because Floyd’s right face was swollen, bleeding from the nose and face.

    Fraud will never fight Pacquiao! keep dreaming guys!

  • Anthony L.

    I love how most people talk all this stuff saying the fight wasn’t close, that Cotto didn’t do what was expected, that Mayweather did his best performance. People say the numbers don’t lie, that Mayweather won by a landslide according to Compubox. What most people who act like they know about boxing when they don’t is the reality of Compubox. It’s not a system based off the judges numbers, not a system based off one fighter’s numbers…it’s one person with a clicker in each hand tallying the hits thrown by both fighters. To think that the human eye can calculate both landed and blocked punches from two fighters simultaneously is ridiculous. It’s not even reviewed and if someone with a brain thinks that a 36 minutes bout between two fighters throwing 1500+ punches can be reviewed 5 minutes after the fight is over for the Winner only to be announced is proof most of you don’t know about boxing. Granted Cotto threw a lot of punches that contacted Mayweather’s gloves is one thing, yet another is all that connected…no one mentions those. No one said anything about Mayweather throwing 3 punches on a average and only landing one. Then the talks of the 12 round, Mayweather had about 30-40 seconds at the most, control of that round. Earlier rounds went to Maywether, infact the first four…not the second in my opinion. Then again home court advantage just like De La Hoya. I am a Cotto fan, but I’m a fan of boxing first and that fight wasn’t won by that huge of a margin in reality. Also let’s be serious, had the fight happened in the Garden…Cotto would have owned those cards. also let’s not forget the 8 undefeated boxers he dropped from the sport. Not to mention the catch weight fight to a PAC or the incident with plaster boy. Opinions are one thing, facts are another…a rematch at the Garden would show Floyd isn’t unstoppable.

  • ZworK

    Pacquiao fought Cotto at a catchweight when he was without a proper trainer and just came off a brutal loss from a guy that had plaster in his gloves. He was asked to drop 2 pounds below the 147 welterweight limit which left him weight drained and feeling weak.

    When Floyd fought Cotto he was at a weight that he was comfortable at (154 lbs) and which was a step up for Floyd. Not only that but he had a new trainer who he feels has taken him to another level.

    Floyds performance was far more impressive than Pacquiaos because he’s a thinking fighter and didn’t use brute force to overwhelm Cotto he stayed in the pocket and outsmarted him, beating Cotto at his own game. Pacquiao is one dimensional and if he ever fights Floyd it will be a complete mismatch.

  • vhusi abaloyi

    Pacquiao was beaten by Maquez who was easily destroyed by Mayweather.

  • Jason Giolli

    BOXING 101 are u delusional pac-man only fought all the major names at catch weights look at it From De la hoya to shane mosley to cotto to hatton!!! Of course he can beat them they where all drained down for the fights!!! I would love to see Manny fight against cotto at his true walking around weight of 154 and will see what happens to that pac-rat!!!

  • Andrejourdan

    Well you said it pal, you’re a cotto fan hence your biased comment. These are the facts cotto got controlled in the first five rds with relative ease. 6 &8 went to cotto 7&10 were close rds. The rest went to floyd. If u give cotto 4 rds I think thats fair. 2 was a shame, 3 was closer to the truth. Only controlling 40 secs of rd 12? Well, I guess a tired cotto flailing about hitting nothing, trying to throw mayweather out of the ring out of frustration for the second time in the fight, getting rocked twice and almost dropped in that very rd is controlling the last rd then yea sure cotto all the way. Cotto controlled the middle rds….and only when floyd stopped boxing and applying offensive pressure, got tired which is a rarity for him, but he was, so he rested in the middle and turned it back on from the ninth to the end. Its the same fight regardless of where it takes place. Great fight but floyd throwing 380 punches in 6 rds surely made him tired seeing how his average is only 500 in 12 in the last 5 years. This allowed cotto to come back in mid rds and it was great, but give credit whereit is due. Floyd did great, so did cotto, but cotto def lost even if compubox is flawed