...considering he was deemed small ww not too long ago, been labeled damaged-goods after his loss against margo and now had rebuild his career, fought 2 weight classes above is prime. what do you think?
I don't understand those who are saying it is not a great win. Yes, Sergio was old, coming off an injury, inactive for a year, and the fight was at a 159 pound catchweight. He was still a well respected and acclaimed MW king. I don't see how that isn't a good win... Igarashi picked up a good win over Sonny Boy Jaro despite him being a journeyman before scooping up the Flyweight lineal title. He was the Flyweight king and Igarashi beat him in a close bout. Beating a lineal champion has great meaning for the division of the contest even if the lineal champion is deemed to have just stumbled upon it. Lennox beating Shannon Briggs for the lineal title means more than just Lennox if he had beaten Shannon Briggs at any other point. It just does. Cotto now enters the conversation of his contemporary greats around his weight class in the sense of multi-divisional success. Throughout four divisions, he has reached heights of being ranked in everyone's top 5 at JWW, #1 at WW (even if for a brief time), #1 at JMW (even if for an even more brief time), and now his first claim as lineal champion at MW.
It's an underrated win for Cotto. Mayweather has a lot of great wins that you could argue are better: Hernandes Corrales Castillo dela Hoya Hatton Cotto Marquez
These. + Mosley + Alvarez --- I will say that it is a greater win than any Floyd has that are not listed by ValentinePrince or my two additions. The way some are talking about Cotto vs. lineal Sergio, though, you would think that it is the exact same caliber of a victory as Floyd vs. lineal Baldomir... which is an underrated win in itself, but not the level of defeating Sergio.
Martinez is almost 40, with sleeves on both knees, 14 months layoff with a couple of knee surgeries... for a guy who based his boxing on his athleticism and his legs... If Cotto had fought the 2010 to 2012 version of Martinez it woyld have been a GREAT win. This almost retired version of Martinez is just a shadow IMO. I might be wrong... but it's my opinion.
Anyone with eyes in their head could see Martinez was just a pale shadow of his prime against Cotto. Any top 10 middle would have beaten him easily that night...any top 20 probably too....can't read too much into it.
If any other middleweight fought Martinez that night, win or lose, EVERYONE would be saying it's time for Martinez to hang it up. But since it was Cotto and about 70% expected him to lose, now it's a great win smh. Martinez was crap in his last two fights, just not this bad. Cotto fought well though.
For how poor and fake TheftJr's resume is, Cotto's last win is meaningless, even a 140 pounds Paquiao would have stopped that shell of Martinez, every good middle/welter/light welter would have won that fight.
"Meaningless" is just your asinine opinion. The FACT is that he is The Lineal Middleweight Champion of the world, and won it in impressive fashion. There is no refuting the moment in history. It's etched in stone, so meaningless it is not.
It was a great win, the only win Floyd's resume that I think may be better is DLH and Alvarez. And people keep talking about Serg as if he were the walking dead, yet, it's been a full two weeks and I haven't heard him announce his retirement yet. And I just realized make_the-weight's post, he is right, people would've rode off into the sunset with that win if it were Floyd's.
dela hoya was sd. drainelo got drained to a corpse, in a div they were both champions at. cotto moved up. so, if it was a great win and sergio wasnt a shell of himself, then it would be greater than both wins you mentioned. either it was great win bec of the circumstances of the fight (cotto moving up and tko) or it wasnt bec sergio hasnt really recovered from 2 surgeries. there's no in between, imo.
