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by Keith Terceira - An MGM “Grand” event is about to take place in Las Vegas this weekend when WBA welterweight champion Miguel Angel Cotto (32-0 26 KOs) squares off against Antonio Margarito (36-5 26 KOs). The recent rash of bad PPV events will take a backseat when these two step into the ring to settle just who is the giant of the 147 pound division. I’ll leave the promo’s for the fight to HBO and get right into the brass tacks of the fight.
Miguel Cotto brings to Nevada the style that Americans love to watch, that brawling, in your face at all times swarming technique that harkens back to Dempsey, Marciano, and Hagler in a 147 pound package. Just like those fighters though he eats way to many punches for my liking. Defensively Cotto has begun to improve as his level of competition increased but in Antonio Margarito he will face his first welterweight in a light middleweight’s body.
Cotto has thrilled fight fans with his durability, punching power, and in the manner that he seems to get stronger as a fight wears on, but that was against junior welters not true big men of the current division he holds a title in. Shane Mosley is the only true 147-pounder that Cotto has faced and never has Cotto faced a top ranked welterweight fighter over 5’ 9”. Mosley showed us that a real welterweight takes some of the late round surge from the Caguas native but I will touch on that later. [details]
Miguel Cotto brings to Nevada the style that Americans love to watch, that brawling, in your face at all times swarming technique that harkens back to Dempsey, Marciano, and Hagler in a 147 pound package. Just like those fighters though he eats way to many punches for my liking. Defensively Cotto has begun to improve as his level of competition increased but in Antonio Margarito he will face his first welterweight in a light middleweight’s body.
Cotto has thrilled fight fans with his durability, punching power, and in the manner that he seems to get stronger as a fight wears on, but that was against junior welters not true big men of the current division he holds a title in. Shane Mosley is the only true 147-pounder that Cotto has faced and never has Cotto faced a top ranked welterweight fighter over 5’ 9”. Mosley showed us that a real welterweight takes some of the late round surge from the Caguas native but I will touch on that later. [details]
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