much props to sugar shane.....stood his ground to a young lion and in the championship rounds dug deep and was all balls to the walls.....what a fight.......cotto is a wrecking machine......with this win he def is a p4p entrant.....his next fight is either oscar or floyd......all this talk about margarito come on fellas....he just beat a very old veteran and now people are back to him being the most feared fighter of all time....last time i checked he lost the last title fight he was in....anyways i would love for top rank to make the cotto-margarito just to shut many of u margo lovers....his shots are too wide and cotto will brake him down straight down the middle....guarantee!!
Margarito has great tools and can be really dangerous, and he is a big WW. I'm not saying that he will beat Cotto, but has the tools to do it.
"You're going to have Miguel Cotto for a long time."
Those were the words of the ever-popular WBA welterweight title-holder this morning after his 12-round unanimous decision win over former champion "Sugar" Shane Mosley at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
"My jab was the difference in this fight," Cotto, 31-0, 25 KO's, said at the post-fight press conference. "I felt pretty comfortable after the sixth or seventh round. He reached me with some right hands but I felt pretty good the whole fight."
"I'm ready for anyone," he said.
"The fight was a great fight," Mosley, 44-5, 37 KO's said after a delayed entry into the press conference. Regarding his future in the sport the 36-year old Mosley said he wasn't sure. "I have to watch the film to see what I looked like to determine if I should hang them up or keep them on," he said.
One option for Mosley could be a fight with Antonio Margarito. Margarito, 35-5, 25 KO's, demolished the well-worn Golden Johnson on the under card and appeared eager to get right back into the mix in the welterweight division. "This is the Antonio Margarito you're going to be seeing from now on," he said. "I believe the fans want to see Cotto against Margarito next. The fight I'm looking for is Cotto."
Cotto however, didn't seem too interested.
"He had his chance," Cotto said. "He could've fought me tonight. He could've fought me in June. He decided to fight Paul Williams, now he has to wait his turn."
If a Cotto-Margarito bout can't come to fruition there are still a number of attractive fights for both men. "The combinations are endless," said Cotto promoter Bob Arum.
"When ever you have such a great fight (like Cotto-Mosley) you don't have a loser," said Oscar de la Hoya who promoted the fight with Arum. "These are the types of fights boxing deserves."
A replay of the fight will air next week on HBO at 9:45 PM ET.
Good to see tha Cotto won't let Arum run he's career, Arum wants the Margarito fight, but Cotto shouldn't fight Margo unless the $$$ is right...or at least gets a belt.
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