I agree. I am not taking anything away from Cotto's courage. It speaks for itself. But from what I remember Cotto didn't want to fight Margarito the second time because he felt that Margarito was a cheat and didn't deserve a second fight but Arum pushed that fight through anyway. The same with the Pac/Margarito fight.
:nod How's this for a karmic prime-busting chain: Tatsuyoshi RTD10 Richardson Sahaprom KO6 Tatsuyoshi Hasegawa UD12 Sahaprom (dude had a long prime) Montiel TKO4 Hasegawa Donaire TKO2 Montiel Rigondeaux UD12 Donaire ?? ???? Rigondeaux? :think
Freitas TKO9 Oliveira - light years past his own prime, no less; fattened up to essentially Cruiserweight in retirement, and several weight classes above where he left off in his original campaign. :deal
Yeah, and in turn Montiel's kayo of Hasegawa was no less sudden and brutal. And the pasting Donaire took from Rigondeaux was probably even more psychologically debilitating (not to mention, possibly even more damaging physically as he sustained lots of flush head shots prolonged over a twelve-round period, which is often worse than having your lights switched off really quick with a single blow) than both combined!
I'd rather face a guy with one-punch KO power than a guy with accumulative power. At least with a one-punch KO guy, it's over quickly. A guy with accumulative power just keeps hitting you and hitting you. I think of it as getting shot with a gun compared to getting hit repeatedly with a hammer.
Indeed . I miss Pavlik at times . 2007 Version of Kelly Pavlik in todays MW division would be exciting . Quillin would been battered and destroyed a long time ago .
This is also what I was thinking of before I opened up the thread. Pavlik never looked the same afterwards. He was also beaten up badly by Martinez soon after if I remember correctly. Also Hopkins beat the prime out of Tito Trinidad. I think Tito only fought like 3 or 4 times after that match (I think he went 2-2 afterwards and than retired.)
Hamed didn't exactly take a lot of punishment in the Barrera fight. He was more just embarrassed in the biggest fight of his career in a sport he had fallen out of love with.