Cotto vs Margarito

I want a rematch between those two sooooo bad.

 

I can NOT wait to see what happens in the rematch.

 

No I actually think he was too aggressive. His gameplan was all bad for Margaritos style. Cotto should have used less energy trying to hurt Margo and more energy moving circles around the middle of the ring. Aggressiveness gets you nowhere with Margarito hes not gonna go down.

 

I actually think Cotto needs to be less aggressive and focus on dodging punches with head movement and less foot movement than the last fight. His running sapped too much energy from him because he was throwing a lot of punches while doing it. He has to figure out a way to conserve his energy while not getting hit by Margarito. But that's the problem with Margarito, that's very hard to do because he makes you have to move a lot to dodge his punches. The bottom line is that he has to be at the best shape of his life.

Backing up is a mistake against Margarito though, IMO because his arms are long enough to eventually reach you when you slow down. Cotto could choose to close the distance and just go in with a balls out body wrecking attack on Margarito in the early rounds, but stamina would be a problem, again, if he chose to do this. At the end of the day, that's the main thing he should concern himself with.

 

I think there's been this ongoing ignorant thought that Cotto was gassed in that fight had didn't have the stamina. The man fought with a bloody ****in' nose. I'm pretty sure none of you have had the sad pleasure of trying to fight without being able to breathe through your nose. When breathing through your mouth you tend to not be able to pace your breathing properly and become exhausted rather quickly. I think the fact that he was able to go 11 rounds with a bloody ass/broken nose since ROUND 2 shows his stamina is better than people give him credit for.

I think overall he just needs to box circles in the center of the ring, stay away from the ****in' ropes, work on his defense with uppercuts (those were the punches that ALWAYS cause trouble for him) clinch when he needs to, and find a way to hit the body more often. He's stated that it was a very risky and impossible task of going to the body.

SOOOO

- Be in better shape
- Come into the fight stronger than before
- Stay in the center of the ring
- Take a page from Pacquiao's book and turn margarito to get him off his rhythm
- Work a body attack strategy
- Clinch when the pressure gets to be overwhelming (much like B-Hop)
- Work on blocking the uppercuts


That sounds like a great deal, but in reality...but it really isn't. I believe Cotto can do it and will make for a much more interesting fight :good

 

cotto needs to do his body work skills more on margo. he'll ko him. Look at the clottey and margo fight, an youll see margo was getting hurt by the left to the ribs, it even gave clottey a chance to stun margo with a right in the seventh

 

noob indeed :good

Did you see his face after the fight?

Do you recall any other fighter he faced doing that to him? :deal

 

It's quite funny too because CLottey actually commented on that. He said that Margarito has absolutely NO defense and that he wasted too much energy dodging him. He said it isn't as hard as he's making it out to be.

SO maybe we'll a more planted Cotto :think

 

cotto needs to box more he is a far better boxer

margarito needs to do the same as always , be super fit, tough , and determined

 

Cotto had the perfect plan. What made him lose is that in the second round his nose started to bleed, and he started breathing from his mouth. He should stay away from those punches and he will win the fight but not from tko or ko.

 

His nose was bleeding since round 2...so I really think it was just the overall accumulation of having to breathe through his nose from round 2 forward...

 

thats what I said:yep