Fightstars.tv ICONS 3: Miguel Ángel Cotto Vázquez, Zabdiel Judah & Paul Malignaggi

I don't want to discourage people from watching the full thing, you all should if you have an hour, but here were salient points that stood out to me:

• Cotto being a self-declared "chubby guy" in his youth (165lb at 11 years old!) and that playing as much a part as his brother José's inspiration on his decision to pick up the sport.
• Malignaggi saying he thought Cotto broke his jaw with the first stiff jab he threw. (I told you guys for years Cotto's jab was a ridiculously devastating weapon; it was the culprit of Mayweather's bloody nose when they fought too. )
• Judah admitting that he was ultimately defeated by the alarm clock, saying that he knew dreading now having to get up and do the work mean he was done.
• Cotto listening calmly and impassively to a reiteration of all the old criticisms that he could never reach Tito's popularity among the boricuas, only for his face to light up when Dougie said that some of his matches the day before the P.R. Day parade did come pretty close to matching that electric atmosphere Trinidad brought.
• Malignaggi turning down Judah initially because he was disillusioned with the sport and still wanted to get a rematch with Broner, and didn't want to give the media or promoters ammunition to hang the loser out to dry since he or Judah were facing the proposition of two consecutive losses, with the winner unlikely to get credit since the mentality would be "the other guy is done".
• Judah realizing what an evil genius Arum is when he offered him a contract to fight Cotto and in the same breath invited him to hang out in Vegas for NBA All-Star Weekend (a temptation Judah would have found difficult to say no to, but also presumably would undercut at least the very earliest part of his training camp).
• Cotto throwing a body shot (that Malignaggi blocked with his elbow) with such force that he broke a bone in his hand.
• Malignaggi saying he watched tape on Judah and realized he was never actually good at (or at least wasn't comfortable) fighting going backwards and had only given the impression that he was effective moving in reverse in short spells against others because of his speed and athleticism, and comparing him to Amir Khan in that respect.
• Judah basically conceding that point without any ego about it.
• Cotto lamenting that he missed a lot of time with his family and key dates in his kids' lives during the last few years of his pro career when he maybe could have already packed it in.
• Malignaggi saying he likely did pick up on the nuances of his opponents from necessity because he knew he didn't have as much KO power and needed to rely more on strategy in real-time, and that having these skills from his in-ring career makes him well-suited to live commentary.
• Judah emphasizing the importance of plugging away in the amateurs to rack up tourney wins and build a good record so you can parlay that into a good deal from a respected team when you turn pro...and he was giving this advice as far back as '99 when he was still a young prospect but coaching up even younger guys like Malignaggi.

Lots of name-dropping of guys from the NYC boxing scene of the 90's and early 2000's, if anybody is from there or spent time in those days.