Did cotto low blow zab deliberately

No. In the first round Cotto was definitely stunned, but if he truly needed to buy time, he wouldn't have waited nearly 30 seconds to deliberately foul. When he got hurt by Torres and Corley, he went into retreat mode. In this instance, he was still engaging, fighting back off the ropes and never appeared to be glass eyed, wobbled, or did his legs ever leave. This whole thing has been blown out of proportion and wouldn't have even been mentioned had Jim the Drama Queen Lampley not insinuated this during the first round of the fight. I like the way Merchant immediately disagreed with him. And the low blow in the 3rd round was a result of Zab cuffing Cotto behind the head with a right hook while he was going to the body.

If Zab wants to use this as crutch to why he lost, and as motivation to keep fighting against the top cats out there, then hey..more power to him. I say there's still a lot of guys who he could give fits with his power and handspeed.

 

Yes he did.
Zab landed that huge uppercut that dazed him badly, although he did not show it as much, he was ready to be taken out in the first round.
I'm expecting Cotto to start hitting low whenever he's in grave danger of getting KO.

 

Absolutely. He needed to get Judah off of him and it worked.:smoke

 

It was deliberate and really lame. Hopefully, he won't do that against Mosley

 

Cotto is in the top 3 of my favorite fighters and I think he most def. went low on purpose. I half heartedly started to cheer for Zab after those blows.

 

Was re-watching the fight earlier and had to wonder why nobody ever brings up the disgustingly foul shot to the balls Hatton did to Tszyu in thier fight? I guess it was retaliation but Tszyu didn't do it on purpose, and after the warning from the ref and the break Hatton left uppercut to the balls on purpose.

 

Completely agree. 1st lowblow judah walked into it as cotto was throwing his left hook which make contact before arching up into the intended target/liver. Check it in slow motion on youtube.atsch Judah's ass :blurp are funny.

 

Ummn...what I do believe is this. If you find yourself in serious trouble at the 1:41 mark of the round, and need to buy time by fouling, you're sure as hell not gonna wait until the 1:17 mark to bail yourself out. I also believe if someone hits you with a damaging blow to the balls, you're not going to hesitate before feeling the effects. :deal

 

How can you not show you r badly hurt?atsch

 

it's called fighting fire with fire