Cotto's left hand to the body (stoppage punch)........

Definitely. It wasn't a crisp landed punch, Foreman got hit on the side of which his bad knee was and went down as a result.

Mercante gave him a chance up until that point.

 

Agreed. Punch was a solid shot but was used as an excuse to end the fight.

Foreman with a good knee would have absorbed that shot and kept fighting.

 

Watch foreman's right elbow after the shot and then come back and say it didn't affect him.

 

It is still a siginificant body shot. Foreman braced for it which includes planting his feet but having an injured knee it gave.

Even without the injury it's pretty safe to say Cotto is going to win it anyway. With a probability of a stoppage.

 

100%.

It was headed that way before the knee injury. Seemed like it was only a matter of time until Miguel caught him.

 

I agree, I think Mercante was just looking for something to stop it ( a knockdown, unanswered punches...anything except a towel being thrown in when nothing is happening). The body shot looked perfect and I'm sure it hurt like hell, but I've seen plenty of Cotto's victims respond far worse than that and attribute that he went down because he didn't really have two legs to stand on to begin with.

 

Considering he got hit, took a few steps on the hurt leg, and then proceeded to go down baring his weight on his other leg there is really no justification to these claims. He was hit, hopped, and then went down on his own accord. There was a thread the other day that had a slow motion GIF that clearly showed his injury (which is only a torn meniscus, a very common injury, and one that most professional athletes play through after sustaining...read here if you don't believe me

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) had no effect on him going down after the body shot.

 

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Thanks. I was hoping you would post it.:good

 

Watched that video cliff, I think Yman is hurt badly by the body shot.