The TJ tornado takes this. Judah is not busy enough and will break down mentally and physically under the rock chinned Margarito's pressure. And while Judah is young, he may actually be fading. I thought he looked horrendous in his last fight against a C fighter at best.:smoke :smoke
Margarito is physically bigger & probably as strong or stronger than Cotto. Zab would lose focus or tire in the second half of the fight and get TKO'd
No, it wasn't. It was a Bayamon home-side decision (split decision 86-85, 85-86, 87-84 ) for Santos after 9 rounds and after the PRican head-butted Margarito 15 seconds into the 6th - the fight was stopped when Daniel S. was being hardly pressured against the ropes and taking all sorts of body and head shots - HBO After Dark and Harold Lederman had Margarito ahead 86-85 at the time of the stoppage... Margarito landed 178 out of 639 punches, Santos 148 out of 419. Round 1 - Santos 10-9 surprising Antonio with speedy one-twos and that arm punch left counter Round 2 - Margarito 19-19 simply wailing away on Santos body, completely disrespecting his opponent's firepower Round 3 - Santos 29-28 only round that Santos backed Tony off, outpunching him Round 4 - Margarito 38-38 Margarito stalks him, drives him into the ropes and staggers him with a right hook Round 5 - Margarito 48-47 Home crowd pushes for a brave fighter with his back against the ropes and tagged several times, on the verge of being... Held by the ropes as H.Lederman pointed out Round 6 - Santos 57-57 Santos gets energised by Tony's cut over the right eye as famous ref Luis Pabon ( Cotto-Urkal) doesn't do anything about Daniel running his head into Antonio Round 7 - Margarito 67-66 Stalking and snapping D.S.'s head back several times with hooks out of combination Round 8 - Margarito 77-75 Santos aiming with that speedy left counter at Tony's eye, a couple more of head butts and Tony simply bombing away a lil bit awkward but landing Round 9 - Santos 85-86 Santos shakes Margo's immense pressure with one-twos and lateral movement Fight haulted by referee Luis Pabon and ringside physician at the start of the 10th.