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27.07.08, 09:46
LAS VEGAS – You can scratch another prospective opponent from Oscar De La Hoya’s list.
After Antonio Margarito’s brutally efficient performance in an 11th round stoppage of previously unbeaten Miguel Cotto Saturday before a passionate crowd of 10,477, there’s no way that De La Hoya will choose to face Margarito in December in what the Golden Boy says will be his swan song.
After promoter Bob Arum said he watched a freight train roll over one of the greats of the game, he chuckled at the thought of either De La Hoya or the retired Floyd Mayweather Jr. signing to face Margarito.
“I can’t talk for businessmen,” Arum said caustically when he was asked about the possibility of arranging either Margarito-De La Hoya or Margarito-Mayweather. “Businessman talk for themselves. You see how smart of a businessman Floyd was. I offered him $8 million (in 2006) to fight this beast and he turned it down. Floyd showed he was pretty smart.”
Margarito now a star, but don't expect Oscar fight (http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news;_ylt=AlMmCZIKx_Q1jCd5J208tkWUxLYF?slug=ki-margarito072608&prov=yhoo&type=lgns)
After Antonio Margarito’s brutally efficient performance in an 11th round stoppage of previously unbeaten Miguel Cotto Saturday before a passionate crowd of 10,477, there’s no way that De La Hoya will choose to face Margarito in December in what the Golden Boy says will be his swan song.
After promoter Bob Arum said he watched a freight train roll over one of the greats of the game, he chuckled at the thought of either De La Hoya or the retired Floyd Mayweather Jr. signing to face Margarito.
“I can’t talk for businessmen,” Arum said caustically when he was asked about the possibility of arranging either Margarito-De La Hoya or Margarito-Mayweather. “Businessman talk for themselves. You see how smart of a businessman Floyd was. I offered him $8 million (in 2006) to fight this beast and he turned it down. Floyd showed he was pretty smart.”
Margarito now a star, but don't expect Oscar fight (http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news;_ylt=AlMmCZIKx_Q1jCd5J208tkWUxLYF?slug=ki-margarito072608&prov=yhoo&type=lgns)