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[leonthegee]

(Admin note: Thanks for poll! The multiple answer option was selected which would have enabled uses to vote both YES and NO. Which wouldn't make sense for this excellent question. Intent I am sure was to select one response, that Guerrero has done enough OR needs to beat a top five welterweight. The poll answering has been changed to allow only one response.)

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Personally I don't want to see this matchup. However I think if you add Guerreros story plus Floyd's mouth it equals a million PPVs. I think Guerrero could be marketable. As I said before he has a great story, plus he's Mexican American, he speaks perfect English, and is a handsome dude, no homo. You could stick him on ESPN with Skip and Steven A., ala Manny and JMM, and make his story national. I think Floyd would have to play the angry black man but it could work. Your thoughts?

[Franchize]

In my opinion, when you are a top tier fighter, you should never fight guys that leave you in a lose/lose situation. People keep comparing Ortiz and Guerrero because they both beat Berto. Ortiz was marketable not because he beat Berto but HOW he beat Berto. That fight bordered on being a classic. Plus, people believed Ortiz power would give Mayweatehr real problems. I don't think Mayweather stands to gain anything from fighting Guerrero. If he wins, he'll get a modest pay day by his standards and he would have beat a guy that no casual fan believes had a chance anyway. If he loses, he lost to a guy who isn't even a big name. Then the "is he old and rusty" talks start coming out as do the "he never would have beta Manny" talks. Furthermore, a Guerrero fight right now kills a bargaining advantage in the neverending Pac/May negotiations. He would probably hault his streak of topping Manny in PPV buys and a loss would kill his record advantage. Guerrero has to do something worth talking about. I don't really even think there was a buzz after the Berto fight and it's less than a week old. If anything, just people wanna see it again.