Why all the man love for Miguel Cotto?

Velardez made some comments about Morales' family after beating Erik's brother. Maybe it was disrespectful but the guy may have also deserved a bit of gloating. I'm not sure what was actually said though, so if someone could inform me, that'd be great.

 

So many reasons to love the guy. Remember the face of with Margo, when Margo said he was prepared to die in the ring? And Cotto said that was stupid. How many fighters make these claims they're prepared to die in the ring? Maybe some are, but most are just talking bravado. Not Miguel, he tells it how it is. He just gets in and fights, nothing else.

 

Yep, i have to admit i had tears in eyes when he cried talking about the late Don Miguel Snr. Guy's what a boxer should be!.

 

De La Hoya. 147 was ridiculous.

 

That ****ing staredown at the beginning of fights, probably.

 

I think the whole reason is that Cotto, largely, has just been about the fights. He doesn't manufacture controversy, he's generally kept his private life out of the limelight (other than banging half of PR in between fights), and he doesn't get into ridiculous macho-fests with his opponents. The only real out-of-ring dramas have been with his uncle and with Margarito - and in the second case at least he acted with serious class (putting a brick through your uncle's windshield is a bit silly).

He's softened since his loss to Margarito as a person, smiling more, but in the ring he's implacable. The only time I've seen him looking completely lost in the ring was against Manny, an ATG and with the most clueless corner I've ever witnessed.

I suspect a lot of the most ardent pro-Cotto posters on here are (like me) similar ages with Miguel, so there's that element of growing up with him. He's just a proper man - he believes in family, isn't afraid of his emotions, trains hard for every fight, and stands up for himself.

Outside of that, look at his record. Most of his opposition since winning his first title has been top ten quality in the division. That's impressive in this day and age. He's never whined like Paul Williams, never melted down like Cintron.

If you look at the current welter and light-middle landscape, how many guys would you pick to beat him? Two, and he's faced one of them already and is about to face the other. That's bloody impressive.

How could you not love the guy?

 

You could argue that for everyone else then. It was a silly thing to stipulate. Yeah, Oscar shouldn't have signed, but Roach KNEW Oscar was tight at 154 having trained him. It was pretty shameless, but a very smart business move for Top Rank, Manny and HBO.

I've no issue with it, but it puts a question mark over the win, especially with the two catchweights with Cotto and Margarito. Cotto, meanwhile, has never asked for a catchweight other than the Margarito rematch - and that was understandable given how Tony used an unfair advantage in the first fight.

 

The biggest thing that stands out to me is that Cotto fought Margarito and gave us an epic fight whilst Mayweather "retired".

 

I think Oscar knew what he was doing, money talks and I think Oscar knew he'd struggle in this but that it would open the gateway (for GBP) to make superfights regardless of weightclass. I know there has always been weight-jumping but I think with Manny having fought at SFW not long before this and Oscar at Middlewieght, ........ they kicked down any barriers here and opened the floodgates for possible fights we wouldn't normally take serious all in the name of big bucks.

 

The Pac fight was Oscar's fault. He was meant to rematch Floyd who 'retired'. Then he said he'd fight the winner of Cotto/Margarito but cooled off on that after Margo's performance.

And Pac asking Cotto to fight at 145 wasn't that bad, he weighed 146 against Clottey the fight before.

 

Not bad from a matchup point of view but it shouldn't have been a welterweight title fight. I like Pac but that pissed me off.

 

There was some talk after Floyd announced his 'retirement' but IIRC Oscar (and everyone else) expected Cotto to win and he wasn't that keen on Margo.