At the time Margaritos resume was pure garbage and his outings against daniel santos, joshua clottey and shotgun gomez did him zero favors. Beating an overhyped Cintron meant NOTHING in the longrun (other than him knocking out lucas brother aka billy ripken) Margaritos resume in hindsight is a fukking joke. His only real win is against Cotto and its highly questionable.
His loss to paul williams REALLY hurt his stock. At the time you know something crazy? If you watch baldomir vs gatti, you hear steward saying "ill give mayweather alot of credit if he takes on baldomir" and even on fakkit ass boxingscene people were praising mayweather for taking on baldomir who had the superior resume what
@Black_Jesus is saying is revisionist history, it was only after mayweather put on a goddamn clinic and won the desicion against baldomir the margarito shyt started again. Then he fought de la hoya, a far superior fighter even out of his prime.
Margarito was beating 6 heads lewis while mayweather was winning titles in several divisions, the idea that a guy who fought castillo, corralles, hernandez, jesus chavez, and oddly enough augustus (one of his toughest fights) but avoided margarito is pure nonsense.
In the end, baldomir was unified champ (legitimately) and was actually seen as a legitimate threat. Why didint margarito chase vernon forrest (post injury), how about winky wright? how about anyone his own fukking size? Nobody calls him a coward, but yet hes chasing a guy who had barely been a year removed from 140. Yea.
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