Exposed.

OK, we'll try again with this, though you still haven't read my post on page 2 mentioning Duran-Leonard.

I thought Cotto was a well-rounded boxer approaching the finished article before the Margarito fight.

In the Margarito fight, Cotto was exposed as having little concept of defence, and suspect stamina.

Beforehand, I did not believe either of these things to be the case.

His weaknesses were exposed as being far worse than I believed possible.

But, crucially, Cotto can now work on the areas that were exposed and improve upon them, so to be exposed is not some irretrievable disgrace.


However, there are many examples of losses where a fighter was not exposed, ie that no particular aspects of his game suddenly and dramatically failed to the extent where it lost him the fight.

For instance, Duran-Leonard. Leonard got involved in a brawl with the best brawler of all time. He lost convincingly, but no aspect of his game was exposed, and he showed no weaknesses, he was simply beaten by the better man on the night.

Nah?

 

I disagree. I don't think you grasp my meaning at all. It is far too simplistic and reductive than to say because someone lost they must have been exposed. By that logic, every single fighter in every single weight class is exposed as not being the perfect fighter, ie that they would all be exposed by the single best fighter h2h in their weight class, but this is not what exposed means. Brawling was never Leonard's key strength, that he lost in a brawl to the best brawler ever does not expose anything about him. In actual fact, he fought sensationally well but lost. It isn't a weakness of his that he couldn't adjust to Duran, sometimes the other guy is just too good on a certain night. No, Leonard was not perfect/infallible/unbeatable on the night, but he was not exposed in any way.

 

Yeah, I'd love to learn from Teddy Atlas, learn to be the worst predictor of big fights in history atsch

You don't understand this thread or my point at all, and I can't be bothered going through the whole thing yet again just because you're slow. Read the thread or disappear.

 

I agree. He was not exposed. He was beaten by a superior fighter, but there was no one aspect of his game that collapsed and let him down.

 

Please quit this thread.

 

More good points from you two guys. Of course you can be exposed in victory as well. Thank God you made your way onto this thread!

 

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