What is next for the welterweight division?

by Jeff Bollinger

Cotto vs Margarito Saturday night was the best welterweight fight to come down the pike since Leonard vs Hearns I.

What it means to the welterweight division? A lot. What it means to boxing? A lot more. Antonio Margarito's performance was piss in your pants scary. If he wasn't holding the title, I think he'd have a harder time getting a fight than Sponge Bob has of getting his drivers license. But Antonio has the belt, so they will come.

What makes perfect sense is a rematch with Paul Williams. As we all know too well though is that perfect sense isn't found anywhere near the boxing vocabulary.

The money fight for Margarito is for De La Hoya to fight him in his farewell fight in December. Or better yet, for Mayweather to come out of retirement for a shootin match for all the marbles.

Most likely though, if Mayweather saw the fight Saturday, Carmen Basilio is more likely to come out of retirement than Floyd. If De La Hoya money couldn't get Pretty Boy to put the gloves back on than getting his trailer park caught in the path of the Tijuana Tornado most likely aint gonna happen.

The welterweight division is getting ready to be cleaned up like a dirty floor. But before that happens, I wish Oscar would man up in his last fight and give a guy who truly deserves it, a chance to make some real money. Antonio Margarito.

Comments (6) >>

Swodogg said:

Hahah...

Couldn't agree more. Margo deserves the Cash. Finally the Welter Division is heating up like we fans had hoped for!

27 July, 2008

Barry said:

Amen to that

27 July, 2008

JoeLuis said:

I'll cross my fingers for that. Margarito deserves the big bucks. I trully doubt that De la Hoya has what it takes. (b@ll5) Especially now that there's no doubt who's the new sherif in town in the welterweight division.
$1.5 thats ridiculus! my crappy house is worth more than that. haha
About PBF He'll remain retired until there's someone outhere that he can beat.

27 July, 2008

fundips said:

chingado homies!! que pelea!! big ups to cotto but even more to margo bove all!! so i think money wise oscar should step up to the plate and get serviced, but i think he needs to keep his mind on belts!! take whoever wins this week between judah adn clottey, then punish the punisher in '09!! that rematch would be fkn loco!! im all for it!! as for cotto....come back and take the belt from berto!! i like berto but i think maybe even quintana can give him a ride for a bit!! big ups to cotto!!!

28 July, 2008

Dtown said:

I give props to Antonio. I thought cotto would last all 12. Its time for tha dude to get Paid.

28 July, 2008

Get @ Me...N D.C. said:

Let me tell ya'll Money Mayweather haters something. Yea Margo is crazy in the ring right now but a fight with my man Floyd would look just like a rematch with Diego.Who by the way was supposed to KO floyd with his bang bang style.

Floyd is way too fast and Margo takes too long to warm up. If he waited 6 rounds against Floyd he'd need 2 KO's to win. Not to mention he would never touch Floyds chin with that upper cut.

30 July, 2008

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