When one of your favorite fighters isn't just beaten, but they are brutalized for the duration of the fight. Last night, Margarito was brutalized, as was Mijares to a lesser extent against Vic, and on both occasions, I've felt like **** after wards. This isn't just immediately afterwards, but for like a week or so. How much does it bother you to see destruction's like this happen to your favorite fighters?
ive been there but you'll get over it like i said on another forum...im a Jermain Taylor fan...and do you kno how hard that is? lol
Hero worship tends to be a bad idea. Boxers are just mortal men none of whom came down from Mount Olympus. It was just a question of time before Margarito got beat. He is a slugger with few boxing skills and lacks a knockout punch. A lot of his fights win wins on heart, but that isn't a great strategy when you are facing top level opponents. Margarito has many limitations but deserves our respect for going so far with so little. And all this crap about him being a cheater is just that, CRAP!
Hmm...interesting that you were gutted by those two in particular, since they're completely opposite ends of the spectrum stylistically...I'm going to hazard a guess that you're of Mexican heritage, selfkill? :think I was and am still a huge fan of the dynamic counterpuncher Mijares, and was devastated by his loss to Vic. It was actually a similar feeling as Cotto-Margarito, where the much more skilled fighter just fought the wrong fight and got his ass handed to him. Felt more or less the same on both nights; a bit worse in the case of Mijares as I had such big dreams for him in terms of unification and he lost all that momentum...all Cotto lost was his "0", much shorter climb back to the top. I have been a very vocal critic of the simplistic banger Margarito (someone I've long maintained is just a more experienced version of Jesus Soto Karass...a fighter I like but would never try to pass off as an A-level...though he does have the potential to surpass the B-level Margarito and himself become B+) and have even gone over the top in trying to create some balance with all the unreasonable hype on this board, however I couldn't help but feeling a twinge of sympathy between rounds eight and nine last night. Of course that's dwarfed by how proud I was of Mosley (a fighter I've liked quite a bit for a long time) doing what he did at his age, **** at any age, that was just absolute ferocious domination unlike anything I've seen; and by how disgusted I am with the plaster revelation; and by how resentful I still am of the hype/riding Floyd's coattails and nipping his heels to get over, and of being proven wrong in my very confident pick in the Cotto fight. :yep
Man that makes me feel like ****. I love Mosley, and didnt want to see either fighter hurt, but i felt deflated after that fight. I felt like **** after Cotto beat Zab (I didnt like Cotto at one point, love him now), but yeah man I feel you selfkill. How did barerra-pac make u feel?
Ya it never feels good.... it will go away. Doesn't the fact that Margo was cheating and most likely cheated for other fights too bother you? Doesn't it make you lose a lot of respect for him? I know if my favorite fighter was caught doing that, I would never feel the same about him.
I'm riding high off of that Windmill stopping last nite. I guess that iron chin failed him last nite!
he's a brit actually, but who does'nt like peleadores mexicanos:yep. i've felt like that after tyson-lewis and cotto-margarito. especially after tyson was wrecked by lewis, i felt like **** for a few days. cotto-margarito too, as i'm a huge cotto fan and was sure he'd wreck margo to get to floyd. the plaster revelations has left a bad taste in my mouth for margo.