Roach: "with me in his corner, Cotto would’ve beat Margarito in their first match"

Trainer Freddie Roach say Miguel Cotto (38-,4 31Kos) is ready to face and beat Antonio Margarito even with loaded gloves. A few years back, Margarito fought off a tough effort from Cotto to win on a late TKO. Margarito was later exposed to have had plaster of Paris found in his hand wraps which gave him an unfair advantage. But Last Saturday night in Orlando, Cotto returned with Roach in his corner and blasted out Delvin Rodriguez in three rounds. “Miguel is ready to go against Margarito even with plaster of paris in his hands. Hes in the Best shape of his career. He returned to the style he needed to go back to. And as Miguel said last week, if I had been in his corner for the first fight against Margarito he would have won. He would have had no trouble taking blows from a block of cement straight to his face because the advice I would have gave him would have changed the elements of the fight” Roach told Javier Maymi.