From Legandary Trainer : Manny Steward Source : *********ne. "Cotto should win with out a doubt. He is a much better fighter than Margarito in all aspects" , "Cotto has also taken much better care of himself and has not taken the type of punishment that Margarito has in the past two yrs " Discuss ..
I'm glad Steward still has faith in Cotto and is good enough a man to express such sentiments through the media despite their work relationship's abrupt end.
I saw him yesterday at the San Juan airport and he told me basically the same thing. Very accesible and nice person.
I agree, he's still coming to fight and even has a few new tactical elements to his game with Garcia in his corner. I don't want people to discredit Cotto getting his revenge just because a still capable Margarito took a few beatings himself.
Man Garcia is such a great trainer .Makes me not hate Margarito as much for what he did ..But who knows we got two refined fighters with a real grudge match ..The great thing about this fight is you could sucker punch both these guys and slam them and they both will get up and keep fighting!
"Kelly Pavlik will be competitive with Jermain Taylor for about 2 rounds." "He's fadin'. He's fadin' fast! Your conditioning is wearing him out!" Andy Lee will be the middleweight champion by the end of 2008." "Jones is going to go into desperation mode and get to work now." Steward says all kinds of ****!
Dunno about this 'without a doubt' thing... but definitely what helped Margo walk thru Cotto's punches last time is that he had Cotto in retreat and not punching with full authority, and the loaded gloves probably had something to with that.
How can you possibly say Cotto hasn't taken the punishment Margarito has? They both have taken beatings from Pac and one outside of that. Cotto was also in a tough fight with Clottey. Cotto is one of my favorite fighters but I don't think he wins this. He got hit way too much vs Mayorga who has less left than Margarito. I hope Cotto wins but put your money on Margarito.