When was the last time you saw a Fighter make NO EXCUSES after Losing???

[kayjay]

Remind me again how that is not quitting?

I hate that I find myself siding with Diego and Dios against gringo and Antonio, but I laughed out loud here.

Cotto quitting was a very hard thing to accept. Tragic.


This was Machismo Incarnate; but the next minute he's curling into a ball in the corner. That was sad. You can't write something that sad.

[DiegoFuego]

dude he could probably STILL be Mayweather. Mayweather isnt THAT great of a fighter. Styles make fights and Cottos much smarter agression and stiff jab could definetly make Mayweather-Cotto a great fight.

Lets not forget the absolute brilliance Cotto showed in the first 6 rounds of that fight. he couldnt keep up the pace, but a fight with mayweather wouldnt be close to that type of pace.

A Mayweather-Cotto fight would be a matchup of skills, not a matchup of wills like this fight was.

wow

oh wait, you said Baldomir was going to make it a fight with Floyd too

why do I waste my time

[Kball15]

Remind me again how that is not quitting?

read on dumb ****

[DiegoFuego]

everybody I watched it with was saying he wanted out too. seeing him look to his corner made me sad too like kayjay says. something about it all was very sad at the time. he knew he was finished and he wanted out.

[kayjay]

dude he could probably STILL be Mayweather. Mayweather isnt THAT great of a fighter. Styles make fights and Cottos much smarter agression and stiff jab could definetly make Mayweather-Cotto a great fight.

Lets not forget the absolute brilliance Cotto showed in the first 6 rounds of that fight. he couldnt keep up the pace, but a fight with mayweather wouldnt be close to that type of pace.

A Mayweather-Cotto fight would be a matchup of skills, not a matchup of wills like this fight was.

I still think Cotto is a tougher match for Mayweather than Margarito, Williams, etc. That doesn't mean Cotto can win against Floyd, but only that Marg. was a uniquely bad matchup for Cotto.

[Kball15]

wow

oh wait, you said Baldomir was going to make it a fight with Floyd too

why do I waste my time

dude ur so ****in annoying. Like u think ur the big tuna around here, it cracks me up. U know as little about boxing as most of the dip****s around here, i gotta say.

Anybody who doesnt think Cotto would give Mayweather a very good fight, does not know boxing. Its plain and simple. I've argued it 100 times with you and you have ur opinion. thats fine, just dont state it like its a fact.

I lOOOOOOOOVe how mayweathers fans support his decision to flee boxing rather then fight his greatest threats. what a joke

[oldgringo]

Gringo I tell you I was almost in tears walking down the AC boardwalk after the fight; this isn't Cotto hate. He backed from one corner to the other, taking no punches, and turned into a fetal position. That was the saddest moment I can think of as a sporting fan.

He's still the best fighter in the division in my estimation, but he didn't get counted out like a champ should.

Because his corner stopped it. Champions are only allowed to lose by being brutalized now? What is this with this backward idea today? I'd think that a smart fella like you could realize that Cotto, after taking 200+ power shots from one of the hardest punching Welterweights around, after being seriously hurt in the 11th round of a brutal fight, did not need to take anymore punishment. He had it, his corner saw that, they stopped the fight. In light of Oscar Diaz and Leavander Johnson, I'd think you'd realize that. Brain ijuries are the best way for fighters to go out now though...excellent.

A champion should go out with grace. Cotto certainly did. He went right over to Margarito and embraced him and made no excuses after the fight. He acknowledged he was the lesser man on that night.

[Kball15]

I still think Cotto is a tougher match for Mayweather than Margarito, Williams, etc. That doesn't mean Cotto can win against Floyd, but only that Marg. was a uniquely bad matchup for Cotto.

I could agree with that.

If Mayweather and Cotto signed to fight, i might have picked Mayweather after all the hype and studying and all that good stuff.

Cotto clearly was the greatest threat to Mayweather in the welterweight division. He dfinetly has the ability to compete with a guy like Mayweather. I think Cotto and Castillo are on the same level of fighter.

[Point Blank]

where the **** did cotto said this? didnt see him on any hbo camera nor the post fight press.

[kayjay]

Because his corner stopped it. Champions are only allowed to lose by being brutalized now? What is this with this backward idea today? I'd think that a smart fella like you could realize that Cotto, after taking 200+ power shots from one of the hardest punching Welterweights around, after being seriously hurt in the 11th round of a brutal fight, did not need to take anymore punishment. He had it, his corner saw that, they stopped the fight. In light of Oscar Diaz and Leavander Johnson, I'd think you'd realize that. Brain ijuries are the best way for fighters to go out now though...excellent.

A champion should go out with grace. Cotto certainly did. He went right over to Margarito and embraced him and made no excuses after the fight. He acknowledged he was the lesser man on that night.

There are two questions here:

Did he quit?

Is it acceptable that he quit?

Perhaps I moved from one to the other. He did quit; whether it was a smart move to do so is another issue.


He was only a few punches from being knocked out.