After taking a look at Antonio Margarito's recent statements with respect to a welterweight unification bout with Paul Williams, BoxingScene.com was contacted by Williams' manager/trainer George Peterson, who wanted nothing more than to clear the air.
Margarito, and co-manager Sergio Diaz, recently told BoxingScene that after Williams won a unanimous decision over Margarito in July of 2007, Williams turned down their immediate rematch request and they were forced to petition the WBO to place Margarito in mandatory position. I was provided with a copy of the petition letter that was sent to the WBO after Margarito's defeat.
According to Diaz, the WBO turned down their request for an immediate rematch and gave Williams permission to make an optional defense before such a rematch could take place. Margarito says that he waited on the sidelines for months and was forced to take a keep-busy fight against Golden Johnson last November because Williams did not return to the ring until February of this year. Because Margarito feels that he was forced to wait, he now wants to make Williams wait.
Peterson disputes what Margarito and Diaz had to say about last year's events, telling BoxingScene that it was Margarito and his team who turned down an immediate rematch, but he doesn't want to argue about what happened in the past, he wants to focus on making the rematch in the present.
"Who cares who turned down who, or who made who wait - we are ready to fight right now. Rick, we don't want to do this on the internet. They want to do this on the internet. Paul just wants to spank that butt," Peterson said. "If there was one more round in the first fight, Paul would have knocked him out. Paul offered him a rematch and every time Paul fights he asks for Margarito again. We've been asking for Margarito for three-and-a-half years. Margarito never mentions Paul Williams. All he has to do is call Paul's name. He never does that. He avoids that. Paul asks for him all the time. Paul is asking for him right now. "
The history between Margarito and Williams dates back to their infamous sparring sessions from a few years ago. Both fighters have completely different versions of what actually happened, but the gym history was the fuel behind the hype for the first fight. Peterson maintains that Williams was brought in to spar with Margarito for a month, but due to his man-handling of Margarito, he was paid in full and sent home after a week.
"Sergio and [co-manager] Francisco [Espinoza] are great people. They treated us well. Paul was touching him every single day. He couldn't do nothing with Paul. Only one day he was able to touch Paul. They paid him and sent him home after a week because he was beating Margarito up," Peterson said. "They know they can't do anything with Paul Williams and his management knows that too. Why do you think it took so long for the fight to get made the first time? They tried everything to get out of it. Paul was asking for him when nobody under the sun was asking for him. They said he was the most feared welterweight in the world and Paul beat him decisively."
As of late, Margarito has been on a "Golden" hunt, stating his case on why he should land the fight with Oscar De La Hoya on December 6 in Las Vegas. Peterson says Margarito should move on because De La Hoya will never fight him. And, he says Margarito's status at the weight has been built on the shoulders of "eight-round" fighters, which is why he believes that Williams will always give him trouble. Peterson doesn't feel Margarito is able to beat a fighter who can box and doesn't get tired.
"Oscar will never fight him. He needs to get over. It will never happen. Let Oscar go and fight Golden Johnson again. When it comes to a competitive fight, he ain’t going to fight. Paul Williams is a twelve-round fighter. He made Margarito do something that nobody else made him do - back up. Paul ain't no eight-round fighter like [Miguel] Cotto. Cotto is an eight-round fighter. He was fading at the end of the fight with Mosley. But, Cotto was winning the fight with Margarito when he boxed. He was winning until he ran out of gas, and so was [Joshua] Clottey until he got hurt," Peterson said.
"That's what makes him look so dynamic. He fights eight-round fighters and it makes him look like he brings all this pressure. He said he lost the fight with Paul because he started slow, well he started slower with Cotto than he did with Paul. The man is naturally slow. He is slow because he wants to clob people with that wide stance. We wants to put a spanking on him so bad."
A few weeks ago, Williams and his team actually traveled out to Margarito's backyard of California to push for a rematch by holding a press conference event with members of the media. Williams' promoter Dan Goossen offered Margarito a guarantee of $4 million dollars for the rematch, more money than Margarito has made for any of his previous fights.
"Why do you think we went to California? Paul wants to knock him out and his team knows that Paul will knock him out. Margarito has five losses, he's one loss away from being an opponent. One more loss and he's out of the boxing game. He can't take another loss. Paul spanked his butt the first time in the gym, he spanked his butt the second time in the ring and this will be his third whipping," Peterson said.
If Margarito is not able to lure Oscar to the dance, and there is almost no chance of that, he will probably face Clottey in a rematch on November 1. Williams, unless he is able to secure Margarito, will probably fight his mandatory, Michael Jennings. The bad blood between Williams' advisor Al Haymon, and Margarito's promoter Bob Arum, will make the negotiations process very difficult. As they say in the sport of boxing - money fixes everything.
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Promoter Dan Goossen contacted BoxingScene.com this morning to provide additional details into last year's negotiations for a rematch between Antonio Margarito and Paul Williams [promoted by Goossen], and the reason why Williams sat out until February of this year.
After Williams won a decision over Margarito last July, one of the first people to call him out was then IBF champion Kermit Cintron. It wasn't long before Goossen and Main Events [Cintron's promoters at the time], began talks for a potential unification bout. Cintron was originally scheduled to appear on the September 8 undercard to Vargas-Mayorga, taking a tune-up bout before a tentative return on December 1 on Showtime.
After Vargas was diagnosed with anemia, the entire event was postponed until November 23. Cintron won a tougher than expected fight with Jesse Feliciano, injured his hand and pulled out from the agreed upon unification bout with Williams, scheduled for a February date on HBO.
According to Goossen, when he learned that Cintron had pulled out, he contacted Margarito's promoter Bob Arum, who told him that he was not interested in making the rematch. More than likely, Arum at that point was already laying out the plans for a 2008 mid-year showdown between Margarito and Miguel Cotto. Goossen tried to secure other big names, like Zab Judah and Shane Mosley, but Carlos Quintana was the only fighter who agreed to fight Williams.
"Paul wanted to unify the titles. Cintron suffered a hand injury so I reached out to Bob Arum to ask about Margarito and he said 'no.' Eventually it went over to a February date with Quintana, but Paul wanted Margarito. Nobody wanted to step in the ring with Paul, not Margarito, not Zab Judah, Cintron or Shane Mosley," Goossen said.
"We've offered him a lot of money, $4 million dollars guaranteed with an upside. His biggest purse was made with us, $1.6 million for the fight with Paul. He only made $1.5 against Cotto. We are offereing him $4 million and he's probably going to make a quarter of that for a fight with [Joshua] Clottey. They can spin it any way they want, but they are taking a few millions less to fight Clottey. The same with Cintron, he fought Margarito for a few hundred thousand and there was a million on the table to fight Paul."
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Promoter Dan Goossen contacted BoxingScene.com this morning to provide additional details into last year's negotiations for a rematch between Antonio Margarito and Paul Williams [promoted by Goossen], and the reason why Williams sat out until February of this year.
After Williams won a decision over Margarito last July, one of the first people to call him out was then IBF champion Kermit Cintron. It wasn't long before Goossen and Main Events [Cintron's promoters at the time], began talks for a potential unification bout. Cintron was originally scheduled to appear on the September 8 undercard to Vargas-Mayorga, taking a tune-up bout before a tentative return on December 1 on Showtime.
After Vargas was diagnosed with anemia, the entire event was postponed until November 23. Cintron won a tougher than expected fight with Jesse Feliciano, injured his hand and pulled out from the agreed upon unification bout with Williams, scheduled for a February date on HBO.
According to Goossen, when he learned that Cintron had pulled out, he contacted Margarito's promoter Bob Arum, who told him that he was not interested in making the rematch. More than likely, Arum at that point was already laying out the plans for a 2008 mid-year showdown between Margarito and Miguel Cotto. Goossen tried to secure other big names, like Zab Judah and Shane Mosley, but Carlos Quintana was the only fighter who agreed to fight Williams.
"Paul wanted to unify the titles. Cintron suffered a hand injury so I reached out to Bob Arum to ask about Margarito and he said 'no.' Eventually it went over to a February date with Quintana, but Paul wanted Margarito. Nobody wanted to step in the ring with Paul, not Margarito, not Zab Judah, Cintron or Shane Mosley," Goossen said.
"We've offered him a lot of money, $4 million dollars guaranteed with an upside. His biggest purse was made with us, $1.6 million for the fight with Paul. He only made $1.5 against Cotto. We are offereing him $4 million and he's probably going to make a quarter of that for a fight with [Joshua] Clottey. They can spin it any way they want, but they are taking a few millions less to fight Clottey. The same with Cintron, he fought Margarito for a few hundred thousand and there was a million on the table to fight Paul."
Promoter Dan Goossen contacted BoxingScene.com this morning to provide additional details into last year's negotiations for a rematch between Antonio Margarito and Paul Williams [promoted by Goossen], and the reason why Williams sat out until February of this year.
After Williams won a decision over Margarito last July, one of the first people to call him out was then IBF champion Kermit Cintron. It wasn't long before Goossen and Main Events [Cintron's promoters at the time], began talks for a potential unification bout. Cintron was originally scheduled to appear on the September 8 undercard to Vargas-Mayorga, taking a tune-up bout before a tentative return on December 1 on Showtime.
After Vargas was diagnosed with anemia, the entire event was postponed until November 23. Cintron won a tougher than expected fight with Jesse Feliciano, injured his hand and pulled out from the agreed upon unification bout with Williams, scheduled for a February date on HBO.
According to Goossen, when he learned that Cintron had pulled out, he contacted Margarito's promoter Bob Arum, who told him that he was not interested in making the rematch. More than likely, Arum at that point was already laying out the plans for a 2008 mid-year showdown between Margarito and Miguel Cotto. Goossen tried to secure other big names, like Zab Judah and Shane Mosley, but Carlos Quintana was the only fighter who agreed to fight Williams.
"Paul wanted to unify the titles. Cintron suffered a hand injury so I reached out to Bob Arum to ask about Margarito and he said 'no.' Eventually it went over to a February date with Quintana, but Paul wanted Margarito. Nobody wanted to step in the ring with Paul, not Margarito, not Zab Judah, Cintron or Shane Mosley," Goossen said.
"We've offered him a lot of money, $4 million dollars guaranteed with an upside. His biggest purse was made with us, $1.6 million for the fight with Paul. He only made $1.5 against Cotto. We are offereing him $4 million and he's probably going to make a quarter of that for a fight with [Joshua] Clottey. They can spin it any way they want, but they are taking a few millions less to fight Clottey. The same with Cintron, he fought Margarito for a few hundred thousand and there was a million on the table to fight Paul."
All that is coming out of this is blah, blah,blah. I don't want to argue about the past in one sentence then bytching like a little girl in the next. "one more round and Paul would have knocked him out". RIGHT! Paul was getting hit with bigger power shots the Margarito. This fight is going to happen again, it is just a matter of when. Margarito is not all of a sudden going to anounce his retirement.
All that is coming out of this is blah, blah,blah. I don't want to argue about the past in one sentence then bytching like a little girl in the next. "one more round and Paul would have knocked him out". RIGHT! Paul was getting hit with bigger power shots the Margarito. This fight is going to happen again, it is just a matter of when. Margarito is not all of a sudden going to anounce his retirement.
yeap that's ecxatly what I got too much mumblejumbo.....
This fight is going to happen, Williams needs to relax it's not like he's the one lost and can demand a rematch. Margarito is off the back of a superfight with Cotto, while Williams had a one round fight to bring his record with Quintana to 1-1. I still have a feeling DLH will eventually take this fight with Margarito if the Pacquaio deal has completely fallen through. Then after that I'm sure we'll see Margarito-Williams rematch.
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