If Cotto Beats Margarito What Is Next For Him?

[AnimalisticMeth]

Originally Posted by Mr. Fantastic

Kirkland/Angulo or Cintron/Canelo winner.

But knowing Cotto/Arum are all about the $$$(lol), they will most likely have Chavez Jr. vs Cotto.

I really don't think Arum will put Chavez Jr with Cotto he knows the kid will never be ready, he realized that in Chavez last fight and he canceled their fight in September.

[Iceta Lives]

Somebody that is at least decent like Delvin Rodriguez if he doesn't want to fight the guys that are the cream of the crop like Lara, Angulo, or Molina which I presume he doesn't.

[AP♠]

He should take out canelo or fraudvez.I got a feeling its gonna be the winner of wolak/rodriguez fight.His next fight shouldn't matter because both fighters will absorb punishment.

[Hyper Knuckles]

Originally Posted by Clyde Barrow

He's not getting past Margarito unscathed, if he gets past him at all. Whatever world class fight is left in Cotto I expect to be gone after the rematch, even if he does win it. Of course if he was to pull a shocker and run through Margarito quickly or cruise to an easy decision without taking any damage, I'd love to see him take another fight. I just don't think that's going to happen.

I also expect it to get down to the wire, it's going to be a close one. When he had Steward to guide his camp we saw the improvement in his throwing the right hand off successful jab combinations, not only that but his defense looked tighter and seemed to have matured since his last outing with Margarito although uppercuts may raise some concern in this fight. The broken nose didn't help matters for Miguel when it was busted early on come to think of it.

Cotto's problems in the first fight came from gassing/disregarding the body/getting caught up in the ropes. Lets get this clear. Margarito at JMW is a plodding steamroller of a man, tampered wraps or not. Miguel despite slowing down since his welter days, has shown that he can fall back on his technique but even that won't be enough, because Margarito at his core is the type of fighter that will force you to engage. The prospect of how Cotto will train to counteract the pressure Tony brings is intriguing if not admirable. He'll need to get on the inside -load up on his punches then get the hell out of the pocket and breathe. How long he can do this, and stick to a plan of circling Margarito sounds like an arduous task but I'm hoping that Antonio will eventually slow down enough so that Miguel can resort to comfortably outboxing him in mid-late rounds en route to a stoppage or UD if need be.











Unfortunately, Emmanuelle Steward is no longer running his camp.

This battle quickly looks to be Miguels swan song.. it might be the last time we see him climb into a squared circle and even though I'm aware he's willing to go to hell and back against such a threat, can we really place that same trust in his new cornerman? I for one am baffled by Cotto's choice to switch trainers at such a pivotal stage in his career. Somehow the more likely scenario is another war, in which only the fans leave the winners, right and proper. Far as I can judge, Cotto by SD...for now.