according to co manager francisco espinoza margarito had a hard time making weight. they are going to talk and check if he will move up to 154 or if he could make the weight to fight cotto in june. margarito is in 45 days suspension
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http://vocero.com/noticia-12474-margarito_pag_el_precio_de_la_fama_segn_espinoza.html
If there's any way that Margarito can stay at 147 he should do so...At 154 he loses a lot of the advantages that make him so dangerous as a welterweight...If he moves up he will no longer have the size and strength edge that he has become accustomed to...Those are the things that seperated him from the rest of the fighters at welterweight...
Tony will run into the same dilema that Ricky Hatton had when he moved up to 147...The fighters will be bigger and stronger, his punches will have less of an effect, and the punches comin at him will be much stronger...
what do you suggest he do sir? Not try to rematch Santos or PW who are currently at 154? geeesh...
Shanes last fight was 154 so..
It's his career, he can do whatever he wants. I'm just saying it's looking like he's damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.
It's like Erik Morales, he was too big to stay at 130 but was going to get his butt handed to him at 135 whenever he moved up anyways. It's just that people with Margarito's style don't often excel against bigger fighters.
I'm not sure what kind of effect being hit by larger men will have on a guy who just suffered a traumatic knockout and with proven defensive deficiencies.
what do you suggest he do sir? Not try to rematch Santos or PW who are currently at 154? geeesh...
Shanes last fight was 154 so..
I'm not sure what kind of effect being hit by larger men will have on a guy who just suffered a traumatic knockout and with proven defensive deficiencies.
according to co manager francisco espinoza margarito had a hard time making weight. they are going to talk and check if he will move up to 154 or if he could make the weight to fight cotto in june. margarito is in 45 days suspension
source
http://vocero.com/noticia-12474-margarito_pag_el_precio_de_la_fama_segn_espinoza.html
I was thinking this was the best move for him at this point.
he def isnt the best WW..Shane and PW proved that to us.
Go to 154, try to fight Santos and pick up a title..