Sick of those huge welters

He can make the weight and as far as I'm aware doesn't have to dehydrate as much as you'd expect for a man of his size . He looked pretty fresh at the way in anyway .

Cotto despite his struggle to make Light-Welterweight just isn't that big at Welterweight .

 

Like alot of people said before the fight, Margarito is tall, but not physically bigger than Cotto nescessarily. Cotto was able to beat virtually all of his opponents because he had a natural size and strength advantage and he could hammer them and batter them with pure force. Cotto had to fight a guy as big as him this time - and he barely got past another good sized Welter in Shane Mosley. Size was a big part of Cotto's winning ways. Cotto looked much bigger than I expected against Margarito, and he was clearly extremely powerful, as always.

 

He made the weight! It's not against the rules, so shut the **** up already :|

 

No recent opponent except maybe Golden Johnson was severely outweighed by Margarito. Jesus dude. 5lbs maximum?

Cotto usually enters at jr.middle limit. Margarito was probably middleweight limit. What's the big deal?

He has a height and reach advantage but definately not a huge weight advantage. Thomas Hearns was a 6'1 welter with huge power. Are we going to say he should have been a middleweight too?

 

same day weigh ins for both fighters and i gaurentee you'd see margarito fighting at 160 and cotto fighting at 154 ...

 

Ok, this is starting to feel like excuses. Everybody knew what they were getting into. They're professionals. Margarito just went in there throwing, he wasn't using his height, and both he and Cotto had the same reach according to HBO's 'Tale Of The Tape.'

BTW, you know what I was sick of seeing? Lennox Lewis use his height and reach as an advantage to push off and extend his opponents to a comfortable range for him. Dead serious. Lewis fought extremely tall and cheated with his dimensions, constantly. I couldn't stand it.

 

Good post. But Paul williams is the WORST at abusing the scale system and the purpose of even having divisions!

 

Oh, cry me a river, brotha. Personally I think it's lame, too, but this fight doesn't stand out as something egregious. If the man can make weight, he can fight. Pure and simple. That's part of the game. Is it his height and reach that trouble you? I mean all things considered a guy like Ruiz should be crying foul when he's forced to fight a behemoth like Valuev for the title. More reach. More size. More weight. I mean he's indubitably the bigger man but neither Ruiz or the ESB community ***** about it. Cotto just got his ass shredded by a fierce 147 lb Mexican shredder that never jams up until it faces a Williams and that's that. No more, no less.

 

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