Lampley was awful. And the Compubox stats indicated an even fight.
I second that. It was sickening listening to that. Lampley is getting paid to cheer on and distort fights in favor of the fighter he prefers. What he does is not commentating and he's one of the worst in the business with the crap he pulls.
Lampley was awful. And the Compubox stats indicated an even fight.
Compubox showed Cotto to be landing more and with greater accuracy in the first six rounds. The seventh was a big round for Margarito which was followed by four very close rounds before Margarito ended it in the eleventh. I didn't give Cotto every round in the first half of the fight but he was certainly in control and it appears as though a lot of people were giving all the close rounds in the second half of the fight to Margarito.
my friend pointed out that between rounds they always showed super slow motion replays of cotto landing shots on margarito. they never did for margarito, even if he won the round they'd show more/better cotto highlights.
Compubox showed Cotto to be landing more and with greater accuracy in the first six rounds. The seventh was a big round for Margarito which was followed by four very close rounds before Margarito ended it in the eleventh. I didn't give Cotto every round in the first half of the fight but he was certainly in control and it appears as though a lot of people were giving all the close rounds in the second half of the fight to Margarito.
The judges did. I had it even. Margarito was constantly backing him up which is never a good thing for Cotto, even though he was getting hit on the way in he threw a lot and seemed to hurt Cotto a couple of times in each round.
It depends on where your criteria in scoring lays. You can argue Margo controlled the second half of the fight chasing down Cotto and even jogging towards him in some stretches.
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