How come Cotto is retiring?

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  1. navigator

    navigator "Billy Graham? He's my man." banned Full Member

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    His family look tortured every time he fights. I'd guess that has something to do with it, aside from it just being the right time to say goodbye.

    I've never been too keen on Cotto as a personality, not to mention that he was horribly overrated between November 2007 and July 2008, but he's earned an eminently winnable swan song and retirement. And I'll be darned if he couldn't cut a ring off with as guileful an economy of footsteps as any in his era.
     
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  2. vargasfan1985

    vargasfan1985 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    16 years is still a long time. Very few go 20+.
     
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  3. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Knee problems
     
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  4. C.J.

    C.J. Boxings Living Legend revered & respected by all Full Member

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    He got em when he knelt in submission to The Tijuana Tornado
     
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  5. Serge

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    :lol:
     
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  6. willcross

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    Cotto knows first hand how quickly knee problems can end a career
     
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