One of the best performances in modern ring history: Antonio Margarito v Miguel Cotto

I never suspected Cotto was a closet quitter. Part of me wants to say he was searching for a reprieve of sorts and would have tried to come back stronger after his kneel-downs but then another part of me says if Evangelista didn't send the white towel flying in Cotto would have eventually just chosen to remain down. Very shocked. No shame in getting KO'd . . . TKO'd . . . decisioned (if you actually tried to WIN the fight) but just willingly submitting to the other man?!?! I dunno, it just rubs me the wrong way. Cotto's still a great fighter but now I just look at him a tad bit differently. He's not the same fighter in the face of adversity.

 

No I don't. But if he fights Mayweather, Mayweather will not expect or try to hurt him at all.

He will box and move and do what Cotto did for the first 6 rounds, only get hit less, much less and not gas.

Not that Mayweather would want to take this fight in a million years.

Edit: Miss read your post.

 

I dunno, I guess that's what separates the Cottos from the Chico Corrales'.

 

I agree entirely with this. I think both guys were fantastic. What a fight!

 

Cotto was overrated. He's no Trinidad, thats for sure. And Margarito is owned by Paul Williams.

 

Rilly. Margo capitalized almost every time on his body offensive. People on here seem reluctant to flip back through history and acknowledge very few would have sustained such punishment and made it to the last bell. In reinforcement, ishy more or less put it best in that Margo made the very best of a great opportunity and was obviously poised make it decisive in result.

 

A great performance by Margarito's chin, heart, and size. A great performance by Cotto's hands.

Margarito's chin, heart and size won out Saturday. If I had to pick the rematch, I'd pick Cotto by UD though.

 

But that isn't Cotto's fight. In recent fights, particularly against Mosley, he has showed that he prefers going to the head. As a light wleter and his first couple of welterweight fights, he was still a body puncher. Now though, he seems to prefer going to the head. And against Margarito he had much more success doing so. By throwing straight headshots, he was able to let off combos and move out of the way. Every time he started throwing body punches, Margarito was in range and that was a fight Cotto couldn't win. he needed to keep Margo away from him and the way to do that was by throwing predominantly to the head, which he did.

As for the clinches, when has Cotto ever shown the ability to clinch successfully? Watch him against Torres for proof of that. He just got battered around the ring because he didn't want to spoil the fight. he just doesn't clinch, so, again, that isn't his fight.

I agree with what you're saying though. About how bodypunching should slow Margarito down and clinches would have helped. I just don't think Cotto could have done either.

 

I think you just coined a new phrase

 

He definitely showed how to perfectly execute a pressure fighter plan. Unfortunately, with that style, his career cannot go on that much longer. He's a beast to have gone this far with it... it takes a beast to execute that pressure fighter style. We should enjoy him while we can. I think most people will agree with what plenty of fans have known for a while. Margarito is beatable, but, if he's on his game, there aren't any welters who can beat him without getting beat up pretty good themselves. Margarito is the kind of guy who's going to force his opponent to be the best fighter they can be.

 

Its like I said all along, Margarito is just too tough for him.

 

This is ridiculous. Cotto took a hellacious beating, even worse than the one Corrales was taking from Castillo. He couldn't even hold his hands up to defend himself. He was done and he knew it. The fight should have been stopped after the first knockdown.

Not to dog on Corrales because he was game all the way, but he spit out his mouth piece to regain precious time to recover, which is basically cheating.

Cotto went out on his shiled in my opinion. A few more solid shots from Margarito and Cotto could have been severely injured. His face was ruined and he was completely helpless, so I see no issue with taking a knee.

 

ok this is getting out of hand... as much as i admired margos performance, i was wanting him to win, he got his ass smoked the first 6 rounds, it was A FAR FROM DOMINANT PERFORMANCE...

fact is: margo has an iron chin and cotto is a smallish WW which doomed cotto and margo just walked through his punches..

now if he would have won most all of the rounds and tkod cotto it would have been one thing, but to say it was "one of the greatest performances" without even dominating the match seems odd.. in reality most people who seen the size difference knew that margo was basically going to outlast him like he did....

cotto was knocked down by 140s and one punch away from being kod by torres. if margo could take him deep, it was inevetable that margo would ko him...