No one's brought up Margarito's injury?

[Kid Achilles]

Well looks like Margarito has finally landed the fight with Williams. Now we can see who's right about Margarito. If he beats Williams, he's one of the best welterweights in the world.

[deliveryman]

I give Margarito more than a decent shot against Williams.

Just because of styles. When you put two sluggers who both throw ~100 punches around and have decent power, and who both have some defensive trouble, it's really anyone's game.

Put Margarito in with a good boxer who can counter, and it's over.

[Guest]

Well looks like Margarito has finally landed the fight with Williams. Now we can see who's right about Margarito. If he beats Williams, he's one of the best welterweights in the world.

If Williams looks bad, we can always say "styles make fights," right?

[DiegoFuego]

Oh that's right, I forgot about his twisted ankle. That would explain why every single fight he throws wide, looping punches and couldn't block a basic right hand to save his life! It all makes sense!

[Del Coqui]

Okay, maybe I haven't read through enough threads but I don't think I've seen anyone bring up Margarito's ankle injury that ocurred right before the fight with Clottey. People were worried this fight would be called off yet Margarito fought on and won. I haven't seen the fight but is it possible the ankle hurt his performance? An injured ankle can hurt more than just mobility. Punching power suffers as well.

Probably 'cause Clottey stood in front of him all night and didn't make Margarito chase after him.

[-EX-]

Well looks like Margarito has finally landed the fight with Williams. Now we can see who's right about Margarito. If he beats Williams, he's one of the best welterweights in the world.

Yeah but if I were Arum I wouldn't let him near Miguel Cotto or a slick boxer.

[Kid Achilles]

Why not Cotto? Cotto is not a slick boxer, he fights like a man. Him and Margarito would be a war, one of the better potential matchups around IMO.

[Del Coqui]

Theres a possibility if Cotto beats Urkal and Margo beats Williams for them to face each other on June.

[Easy-E]

This is for "Tha Greatest" who gave me bad k, saying I was "****ing delusional" for saying Tony's injury was a weak excuse.

WBO welterweight champion Antonio Margarito has been itching to get back in the ring.

It has been 10 months since he last fought.

When Margarito (33-4, 24 KOs) twisted his ankle during a training session 10 days ago, he feared his title defense against Joshua Clottey (30-1, 20 KOs) on Dec. 2 in Atlantic City, N.J., on Showtime might be in jeopardy.

"When I twisted the ankle, my first reaction was, 'Oh, no. My fight is gone,'" Margarito said Monday after his open workout at South El Monte Community Center. "But I stayed off it for three straight days. It was pretty swollen that first day, but after icing it for three days the swelling went way down. Now, you can hardly tell that I had hurt it at all."

Margarito sparred six rounds, worked the mitts and bags and showed no ill effects from the ankle injury during his two-hour workout.

Margarito said his entire focus is on Clottey.

"There is no way I will look past Clottey," Margarito said. "It is frustrating when you cannot get the kinds of fights you want. But I am done worrying about it. The fights will come.

"Right now, my total focus and concentration is on Clottey and putting on a great show on Dec. 2."

[Super_Lightweight]

The guys he has beaten have nice looking records on paper, but who have they beat? Who is Sebastian Lujan's biggest win? What was Clottey's biggest win? You could even look up who they've fought on BoxRec and you still wouldn't be able to come up with a good answer. These guys are all C-level fighters for that very reason. And when a guy like Clottey is struggling with an unknown like Richard Gutierrez, you're not gonna convince me that now Richard Gutierrez was a top fighter and that's why Clottey struggled. Cut the BS already...

Get serious. These guys are top fighters at 147. You can't name 10 fighters that are better in that division. Therefore, they are not C-level fighters. If you are top 10 in the world in any weight, you are not C-level. You are an armchair fan and your scope of how boxers are rated is very narrow.