This fight reminds me of the Ali vs Foreman fight.
Cotto is always the man at the offensive, always moving in hitting the body then the head etc.
But this fight he did the later years Ali thing were he will run to the ropes take some shots and fight back. I just don’t like that kind of fight, I hate it. Why plant to let the other guy throw punches at you even if your making him miss. Move move for the love of god(of course you need lot of stamina)
Ps: Cotto have shown in almost all his fight to have a damn weak chin. I guess everybod got to have a weakness.
I’m seriously gutted. Depressed. Stabbed through the heart. :sad::sad::sad: To see Cotto go like that, fuck it pains me to see that. Decision loss, fine. Brutally KTFO, I’m ok with that too. But to see him broken down, hunted down, and finally breaking down, and just plain surrendering (quit is too harsh a word and I refuse to use it on Cotto)… fuck I couldn’t sleep last night, seeing my favourite fighter go down like that.
Thats one way of looking at it, I saw a champ who had to much heart and pride to stay down. Cotto is an animal, but Margarito just showed up that night, I don;t think Mike Tyson in his prime could of put hands on him that night
The rivalry between Mexican and Puerto Rican boxers is DEEP!!! I mean it goes down DEEP to the heart pushing thourgh vein after vein until it manifests itself in brutal murderous punches. Cotto was overconfident, he underestimated the Aztec blood BIG time! Margarito mentally and physically destroyed Cotto and made him into the little frog that represents his people…and then STOMPED him!
…, plus Cotto was on his bike most of that fight so he couldn’t plant bombs…QUOTE]
We are kool on this thread and you probably didn’t mean to, but the term " on his bike" just doesn’t sound right to me. " On his bike" on some straight up running away not engaging in any way type shit. Cotto didn’t run, he boxed and fought in spots. He did indeed threw bombs and rocked Margo at times, but Margo’s chin is unbelievable. He shook 'em off and kept on trucking.
The more I think about it, this is probably could be upset of the year based on how broken down Cotto was. It wasn’t a decison win and it didn’t go the distance ( but it damn near). It was a beatdown in that second half. Again, congrats to Margarito and thank the two fighters for making this PPV worth every penny.
no, he decided the fight the guys (de la hoya & hatton) that made him triple the money a fight with margarito or cotto would’ve paid.
people thought he was dodging baldomir and then what happened? he fucked him up something serious. if you think de la hoya would beat margarito i don’t really understand how you’d think margarito would bea floyd, nothing about his style is particularly unique to the point that’d make that a logical conclusion.
the thing about the fight was, you can see that cotto is the better boxer, but margarito’s face is like adamantium. really all margarito did was walk forward and throw punches. cotto actually boxed, but couldn’t take the punches =(
For a fighter in his prime, he did the smart thing by accepting fights that would net him tons more money than what Margarito or Cotto would have…
And they did.
The De La Hoya and Hatton fights had crazy ratings.
For that matter I don’t see anything special in Margarito’s style that Mayweather wouldn’t be able to handle. People always pick Mayweather to lose, then he goes out and rape stomps whomever, then they call the fighter who Mayweather beat up overrated. Not saying you don’t, but some people just don’t give Floyd enough credit.
Hmm that countdown show said that Mayweather was offered 8 mil to fight Margarito, but Mayweather took 5 mil to fight someone else instead. Who to believe now :wonder:.
That’s the big media spin job. From what I remember, Mayweather got 8 million to fight Baldomir. But, in terms of building one’s legacy, Baldomir was the “Linear” champion after beating Zab Judah. A win ( at that time) over Margarito wouldn’t had ment anything. The writers would had said that Margarito was journeyman and such. And after Baldomir, Mayweather chased big money with Oscar. Oscar does more for one’s resume then Margarito would had ( at that time).
you can’t have the mystique of being someone’s kryptonite that you haven’t fought.
and stylistics hit the nail on the head, why fight somebody for $8 mil…when you can fight another guy for $8 mil that has a a belt. also it’s funny how quickly people forget the hype that hatton was getting before floyd beat that ass.
i’m watching the fight now and mayweather/margarito definitely would’ve been an interesting fight, but like i said before margarito isn’t doing anything that hasn’t been seen before.
Even before this loss, I firmly believe Mayweather would have murked Cotto.
Styles make fights, and I don’t think anyone would have been better for Mayweather to fight, and actually look good against. Cotto has a shaky chin, plus he’s a wide, plodding target. At least Ricky Hatton had some speed, but Floyd would be circling around Cotto potshotting him all night.
TKO on cuts and possibly Cotto getting put out on his feet.
Don’t forget the fact that if Floyd had signed a contract with Bob Arum; which would have effectively frozen him out of the biggest fight in boxing - he would’ve gotten drastically less money AND Oscar wasn’t even willing to negotiate with Top Rank at the time. Also a big part of selling the fight with Oscar was getting the WBC belt from Baldomir as well as the linear title so that the promotion could legitimately be billed as the world welterweight championship.
Anyway, the entire point of the whole stupid ass 8 million dollar thing was so that Bob Arum could keep pushing Margarito as the “most feared man on the planet,” even though he was running from Paul Williams at that point. He was talking about how Cotto and Margarito (both of whom he promoted) would make fireworks as far back as 2006. Margarito felt that his integrity was being threatened so he derailed from Arum’s plan (who was openly criticizing Margarito’s decision to the press at the time) but then proceeded to lose to Paul Williams.
I am mystified at how some people still can’t figure this shit out. Like people see that Mayweather and some fighter were active in the same period but didn’t fight at the time it immediately becomes “oh he ducked him,”…the other fighter was probably busy fighting someone else too. Which is pretty stupid because your completely disregarding the fact that the other fighter has a career also.
yeah, thats my point it was all hype. the boxing media are a bunch of cocksuckers that will pull all types of bullshit rather just give a dude props. for an example of what i’m talking about, check emmanuel stewart’s commentary during the mayweather/baldomir fight and larry merchant post fight, niggas are haters.
that said, i wanna see berto step up to big leagues, i’m feeling that philly shell and his last fight was fucking beautiful.
i love all the mayweather haters and doubters. i remember back when people wanted cotto to go after mayweather back in like 2004. that shit would’ve been comedy.
wtf is up with casamayor getting a ppv fight after winning what was probably one of the most rigged judges scores i’ve ever been witness to. well at least there’s the consolation of knowing that marquez will ruin his shit with maximum prejudice.