By Michael Collins: Former WBA lightweight champion Brandon Rios is totally repulsed at the idea of watching Manny Pacquiao fight Miguel Cotto for a second time, and he’d much rather Pacquiao take on some new blood than to see him blast apart Cotto for a second time.
Bob Arum, their mutual promoter, wants to make the Cotto-Pacquiao II rematch despite their first fight being a terribly one-sided bout with Pacquiao battering
Cotto all night until stopping him in the 12th. At the time fight was halted, Cotto’s face was red and swollen and his eyes were slits for him to see out of.
Rios told examiner.com writer Chris Robinson “It kind of sucks. Cotto’s done. I think Cotto is done. He’s looking for another payday before he can get out.”
It sure doesn’t seem like Cotto has been in an awful hurry to fight the other top contenders in the division in the past few years, such as James Kirkland, Alfredo Angulo, Sergiy Dzinziruk, Vanes Martirosyan, Austin Trout and Saul Alvarez.
Cotto’s loyal fans like to say he didn’t ever fight those guys because he knows he could beat them. To that you have to ask, then why did Cotto fight Ricardo Mayorga, Yuri Foreman and Antonio Margarito in his last three fights? It seems that Arum has been keeping Cotto on ice for the past three years since Pacquiao beat him and not matching him with anyone that can beat him again like Margarito and Pacquiao did.
16 Comments
Comment by alex — January 27, 2012 @
6:28 am
What Brandon Rios is so TRUE! of course Cotto is looking for a pay day ! you must be stupid or blind to not see that.
I DON’T WANT TO SEE THAT EITHER .
Comment by teehee3 — January 27, 2012 @
9:58 am
nobody wants to see Cotto fight Pacquiao… a fourth fight with Marquez is better than Cotto or Bradley
Comment by alex — January 27, 2012 @
3:33 pm
for ” teehee3″ aren’t you bored to see same thing all over again like a next fight with Marquez !? then you are a Bob arum fan lol
wtf !? a next fight with marquez !?? no one wants to see that either !
Floyd vs Manny is what we want we are sick of same old fights we want something new !!! and more exciting !
Comment by kilo — January 27, 2012 @
4:24 pm
alex.. of course everyone wants to see pacquiao vs. mayweather… i think he was saying between cotto and marquez… people would probably want to see marquez instead of cotto again.
Comment by kilo — January 27, 2012 @
4:24 pm
Bob Arum: I am offering Mayweather $45 Million under the same terms he offered Pacquiao.
Comment by Jacizzle23 — January 27, 2012 @
8:35 pm
@ Alex.. Fucking exactly!!! Im sure your a Manny fan, but atleast you said something that made sense!! Fuck all of them same old fights!!! True boxing fans want to see new exciting & challenging fights!!(Mayweather,Martinez,Canelo)!! You overly loyal Manny fans need to encourage your “hero” to stop handpicking his fights, & fight 1 of the best out there!! «thanks»
Comment by Jacizzle23 — January 27, 2012 @
8:49 pm
I love to suck Floyd Mayweather off every chance i get… “slurp, slurp slurp”
Comment by Jacizzle23 — January 27, 2012 @
8:50 pm
i luv 2 sux mayweather off… ‘slurp, slurp, slurp’
Comment by paul — January 28, 2012 @
5:21 am
I agree as well,Manny doesn’t need stupid rematches with marquez and cotto Bradley and Peterson r not even a match for Floyd it Manny,the big fight out there is pacquiao vs mayweather,they r both goin 2 make a ton of muny from this and mannys stupid promoter is tryn 2 stop the fight,if I was in the same postion as Manny and was offered $40million dollars is a no brainer for me the fight has 2 happen now,and not November or next year NOW,am sick of looking up news 2 arum sayin 1 thing then Manny and Floyd sayn another and then u get that numpty Richard schafer puttn his bit in 2,get this fight sorted for may because this carry on is bad for boxing fans hav waited years for a fight of this magnitude and now its finally here both camps r scared 2 get it on,grow sum balls both Manny and Floyd and say right the only opponents they want is each other and stop pussying about a fight,and start acting like fighters,
Comment by paul — January 28, 2012 @
5:27 am
And 1 more thing this is Manny pacquiaos website but how come he never answers 2 his fans,if he was on looking at every comment he would b sayin 2 bob arum forget the 4 opponent list I want mayweather,and as for the rumour I heard marquez vs Peterson then pacquiao vs Bradley and the winners fight in November forget that crapmarquez is 0-3 against pac,true 2 fights where debateable but a 4th fight makes no sense,they would have 2 fight a total of 4 times 2 determine a winner,so get the fight the fans want 2 c and that is Manny pacquiao vs Floyd mayweather
Comment by Not always good to portray loyalty when the main person is not loyal to you!!! — January 28, 2012 @
7:06 am
@ Paul
You are correct with your assumptions Paul. Arum will always dictate to Manny because Pacquaio will never be his own man!!! Bob knows that he has an uneducated boxer who will let himself be dictated to.
Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather who were both promoted fighting under Arum left him and made so much money for their families and thereselves. Manny is being loyal to a person who is using the bleep out of him. Why do you think Manny needed or wanted different people to look into his financial affairs? Because in his own heart he knows he is getting shafted!!! Bob Arum is old and greedy and if Manny had anyone being truly loyal to him in his camp; then they would certainly bried him on being smarter about his money and when someone really care about him and not there own interests!!!!
Comment by kilo — January 28, 2012 @
10:56 am
Bob Arum has just offerd FFloyd Mayweather a $45 Million guarantee to fight Manny Pacquiao, with the same conditions that were offered to Pacquiao on the $40 Million deal.
Comment by kilo9 — January 28, 2012 @
10:59 am
Bob Arum has just offered Floyd Mayweather $45 Million guarantee to fight Manny Pacquiao, with the same conditions that were offered to Pacquiao on the $40 million deal.
Shaefer, who works for Floyd Mayweather, says the fight will never happen. “People need to realize and get it in their heads, that the fight will never ever happen. So Move on”



