Now before the explosive reaction to Cotto's one sided victory happens...

Yeah that Rocky Dennis business was a sad thing, kid had a lot of potential outside of the disease...

Anyway back to boxing -

I've followed Cotto since early 2004, that's 4 and a half year being a fan, I remember when people were slagging him after the episodes against Corley and Torres and were saying he'd never be anything more than an action TV fighter, despite showing all of those skills and timing.:rofl

A lot of boxing fans are ridiculous, they don't watch what is really happening. Marg is not that great of a fighter and he's going to get absolutely annihilated in one sided fashion here and anybody who's viewing this from an unbiased standpoint see's this. Too sloppy, too open, too slow to catch up to an elite fighter of any kind, much less a guy who damages opponents so badly as Cotto does, which you pointed out.

The accumulative damage that will end up on Marg will be very bad even by the 5th round, he cuts and bruises easily in addition to the damage that Cotto oddly inflicts on opponents consistently. The guy will be smothered and his workrate will be non-existant due to being tagged repeatedly by heavy accurate blows, as has been the case before when people countered and tagged Marg consistently.

This will be a good win on the fact that it will be a one sided brutal beating, but it's not even going to be his best win, much less one to give anything more than the standard praise you give any top fighter for giving an awesome performance over an opponent a level below.

So let's just try to not flip out here and bring level and reality into the perspective.

 

Berto's just too predictable, accurate, but has **** timing and his chin is shaky. A non-factor.

 

No, it's a spot on assessment, Marg is a world contender and nothing more, who matches well with some styles and gets tooled against others.

Do you think I don't understand that blunt and ugly can be effective as hell if given the right set of intangibles and physical abilities? Marg has some top intangibles, workrate, stamina and chin, but lacks TIMING to go with that, something that most of the effective 'blunt' styles had to make it hell on elite's.

Marg's never fought an elite, he's fought a few decent fighters, a few GOOD fighters(two of which made him look his level in Clottey and Williams and 1 who he matched with well and KOed twice)so he hasn't proven he's a formidible opponent for 'anybody', he's proven he's a good, solid world level contender type fighter and nothing more.

This is not an elite, he's a solid B and nothing more.

He also has poor balance, bad timing, poor accuracy and is very slow, with a very leaky defence. His workrate gets cut in half when countered effectively and he looked dumbfounded against Clottey when Clottey pulled a simple stick and move tactic late and couldn't get anything going against Williams until round 8.

On top of it, his power isn't enough to put a dent in anyone unless it's in ACCUMULATION. Accumulation against Cotto(or any top classer) he will not have.

No, he will win in 1 sided, brutal fashion, showing that all of the hype over the years on limited Margarito, who's nothing more than a decent contender level fighter, was absurd and null and void FINALLY.

I just made this thread to warn about the up and coming flip out over Cotto's win and the strive for realism and not ridiculousness.

 

Styles go to Cotto...

Have you seen how Marg looks when he's smothered and backing up? Ineffective, workrate slashed in half, open defence getting tagged.

Cotto will jab his way in with his powershot jab and smother Marg, ripping him with accurate combo's all night...

If that doesn't work well for the odd reason, he's a good enough boxer to box and counter and still land enough vicious combo's to keep a sloppy fighter like Marg at bay.

Styles do not go to Marg. This is a fallacy that's been born through ignorance.

 

So Cotto is not the superior pressure technition and in fighter, despite Marg beind best at mid-range?