Congrats to Margarito, from a Cotto fan; but remember:

In head to head championship fights Puerto Rico is ahead of Mexico 37 to 25. Also, the first championship fight between a Puerto Rican and a Mexican was won by Puerto Rico's Sixto Escobar by 9th round Knockout. Just thought I'd share that with everyone. Ight, I'm just playing around. Its a great feeling to rival with an elite boxing country and come from another elite boxing country, no harsh feelings here. Obviously our fans are very passionate and loud in volume, but what other way would you want? Mexico won, Margarito has done his work against the Boricuas. (hopefully Danny Santos makes a comeback here lol) I was really impressed with Tony's ability to take punches and continue marching forward on the attack. You can't beat a man with such will and determination, it seemed like Margarito didn't care if he won rounds or not, he just wanted Cotto's blood. I mean we all Cotto did his thing and dominated the first 7 rounds, but beyond that point he got slopped and Margarito capitalized on Cotto's mistakes, period. Even error Cotto did, Margarito took advantage and capitalized to his advantage. He deserved the knockout, props. btw, If you watched any sparring videos available, we saw Cotto go to the ropes and work off of it with these large guys coming on top of him and with Margo's, you saw him push back the smaller sparring partners right to the ropes just like he did to Cotto. They even said Margarito had big screen TV's in the gym showing non-stop Cotto fights so he was seeing him every second of his time in that gym. By watching so much tape and coverage of Cotto, Marg took away his body punching and he said he would make Cotto go backward and that's exactly what happened 99% of the time. He did exactly what Margarito was hoping he would do, back into corners where he would trap him and accumulate body punches and hang on the ropes instead of firing and slipping off the ropes and trying to circle or at least attempt to work the middle of the ring. The habit of Cotto resting on the ropes killed him since Margo would fire the damn uppercuts as always up that split guard and abandoning firing jabs, at least trying to double or triple some jabs, keep the guy on the defensive in some manner. Small ring didn't help either. I just wonder who's going to take it to Margarito next because I see Antonio beating Williams in a rematch, and other than that hopefully we'll see a rematch in MSG between Cotto and Margarito. I will guarantee you that Cotto will train harder than he ever has before for each and every fight left in his future. Pain is weakness leaving the body; when Cotto rebuilds, its gonna be a scary sight. Peace.